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RUHR EVACUATION
NOW IN FULL SWINE
French Withdrawing Forces
Today—“ Sanctions Cities”
to Be Held.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. July IS.—The evacuation
of the Ruhr appeared to be under way
in full swine this morning. The
3’rench were departing from Reckling
hausen. Tomorrow they will leave
Gelsenkirchen and on Monday. Hat
tingen will be evacuated. The “sanc
tions cities" of Duesseldorf, Duisburg
and Ruhrort will be evacuated early
in August.
See Full Evacuation
TARTS, July In (AP).—lt is now taken
for granted in French circles that the
allied evacuation of Duesseldorf, Duis
burg and Ruhrort will be completed
by the end of this rhonth and that the
Ruhr will be entirely evacuated con
siderably before August 16, the date
fixed by the London agreement of 1924,
whi-h put the Dawes plan into effect.
Duesseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort
are called "sanctions cities and the
London agreement made their evacua
tion conditional upon Germany’s ful
fillment of her Dawes plan obligations.
Negotiations regarding the evacua
tion of these cities have been under
way for a month between the govern
ments of Franca, Belgium and Great
Britain. France and Belgium have
agreed upon the evacuation of the
“sanctions cities,” but the British gov
ernment has not yet given a final
answer. Its approval, however, is ex
pected. and there is no doubt here of
the evacuation occurring soon.
(A Brussels dispatch yesterday said
yte British-Frem h Belgium agreement
lor early evacuation of the “sanctions
cities” has already been completed.)
BLANTON LAUNCHES
WAR ON SHERRILL'S
U. S. POLICE POWERS
(Continued from First Page.)
ernment property, treatment of World
War veterans employed on the park
police force and as guards of public
buildings, and concentrated authority
in this one public official, who, he
says, has “too many irons in the fire.”
Throughout, Representative Blanton
repeatedly urges that hearings be held
at which he may question witnesses,
and warning that he will not stand
for any punishment or loss of job in
flicted upon an employe who may be
suspected of having furnished infor
mation that is the basis of the Blan
ton document.
Representative Blanton prefaces his
charges with the statement that he is
spending the entire nine months of
congressional recess “in making a per
sonal study of existing conditions in
our Nation's Capital.” so that he “will
be prepared to make recommendations
when the District committee meets
and be able to act with full knowl
edge and intelligence in helping to
solve its problems."
Sees Czarist Control.
He declares he has “evidence of
great probative conclusiveness” that
“no czar has ever been in more com
plete control” than Col. Sherrill “of
over one-seventh of the District of
Columbia.” He says this evidence in
dicates that Col. Sherrill “arrogantly
and pompously presides as the sole
and exclusive dictator, lawmaker, law
enforcer, contract-letter, concession
grantor, employe-hirer, employe-dis
charger, money-disburser. Judge, jury
and execution, from whose iron decree
there is no way of escape.”
Representative Blanton has found
to his chagrin that in the new traffic
code, which he helped to write, de
signed to create a traffic director and
provide laws for the entire District,
co-extensive with its boundaries, a lit
tle clause crept in on the last page
by which Col. Sherrill is authorized
and empowered to make and enforce
all regulations for the control of ve
hicle and traffic, and limiting the speed
thereof on roads, highways and
bridges within the public grounds of
the District.
He points out that the “voteless,
voiceless, helpless 450,000 people here”
come within eight separate, distinct,
different police systems, each respon
sible to a different head and controled
hv different regulations: The House
Office Building force; the Senate Office
Building force; the police for the Capi
tol Building and Grounds; police for
the Zoological Park; police for the
Agricultural grounds; a separate sys
tem of 33 police for the White House
grounds; a separate system of 61 park
police, and the metropolitan police
force.
Hits Army Interference.
Stressing that West Point training
is to accomplish an objective regard
less of expense, which is ali right
in war. hut not conducive to economy
in peace time. Representative Blanton
advises that “just as the cobbler
should stick to his last, so should
Army officers stick to things mili
tary and not attempt to run all of
our Government’s civilian affairs in
peace time.”
To give this point he enumerates 11
commissions of which Col. Sherrill is
executive and disbursing officer, be
sides which he is director of public
buildings and parks in the National
Capital, and disburse! - of the big ap
propriations for renovating public
buildings, including $50,000 repairs on
the White House and also the SOOO.-
000 for parks turned over the first of
this month, with an authorization
from Congress of $1,100,000 allowable
every year hereafter for parks and
having under control several hundred
guards and other civilians employed
in public buildings.
Mr. Blanton charges that Col. Sher
rill canceled a contract which had
two years to run on which the Gov
ernment would have received $1 ,"00
for the lease of concessions at the
public golf grounds and gave the ex
clusive privilege free gratis for five
years to the same man, who “thus
gets the East Potomac golf course
with the Slot).000 clubhouses, the
private speedway leading down to the
same, the splendid body of Govern
ment land running down to Hains
Point, the West Potomac golf course
with golf house, the colored golf
course with golf house north of the
Lincoln Memorial, with the exclusive
privilege of selling golf clothes, bags,
sticks, balls, paraphernalia, ice cream,
cold drinks, cigars, cigarettes, tobac
co. lunches, permits for playing on
course, motor oils and gasoline and
the exclusive privilege of operating
live busses, all without any competi
tion.
Get Police Protection.
Not only that, hut he quotes a spe
cial order which requires park police
“to give these three golf houses hour
ly police protection throughout the
night.” when the property therein is
all the personal property of the man
who gets these valuable concessions
for five years without paying the
Government one dollar.”
Representative Blanton makes a
similar explanation of conditions at
the tourist camp, where Lhs -couces-
SOPER WILL STUDY
i CANCER GERM FIND
i Head of Society Formed to
War on Sarcoma Starts
for London.
By the Associated Press,
l NEW YORK, July 18.—While
warnings against liopo of an imme
diate cure for cancer continue to be 1
made by New York authorities, never
theless Dr. George A. Soper, managing
director of the American Society for
the Control of Cancer. Is going to Lon
; don to investigate the observation of
- cancer virus by two British experts.
Dr. Soper's chief. Dr. Francis Carter
Wood, acting president of the society,
compares the Gye-Barnard discoveries
, in England with the Einstein theory of
. relativity.
“It will take 10 years at least to
I prove or disprove the conclusions of
. the British scientists,” said Dr. Wood.
“just as it will take years Eo prove or
. di. i rove the Einstein theory. We have
learned nothing here to show that the
. British experiments on the Rous chick
en tumor have any relation'to cancer
. in human 1 icings."
. j Ah ut 15 years ago Dr. Peyton Rous.
. j doing research work in the Rockefeller
| Institute in New York, disco . >red that
j tumors in chickens were due to small
•; organisms.
• i in cautioning the public not to at
| tach undue importance to the work
■ | of the British scientists, Dr. yoper
■ j said:
Much Yet to Be Hone.
; j “It is a long way from seeing, as
Barnard saw, ultra-microscopic parti
cles believed to be capable of causing
1 sarcoma In fowls, to the eradication
of cancer in man.
• “The most significant fact estab
lished experimentally by the British
researchers is that a micro-organism
in combination with a distinctive
liquid extract of a tumor‘is necessary
and sufficient for the production of
that type of tumor in other animals.
“I am going to Europe because the
society is eager to obtain first-hand
knowledge of every useful fact that
can he turned to account in the pre
vention and cure for this scourge.”
Dr. Soper is leaving today on the
Yeendarrx Following the suggestion
of the London Lancet that new meth
ods developed in the recent British
cancer research might cause other
diseases to yield their secrets, comes
from London a forecast of the results
of an inquiry into smallpox conducted
by the Medical Research Council. The
London Daily Mail says the report
elucidates the role of minute microbes.
Dr. William B. Coley of New York, j
whose theory as to the result of can
cer has apparently been proved by
the British development, says the
latest discoveries should result in
greater control of the disease. He
does not believe an early cure is fore
shadowed.
, sion has been given to the Welfare
Service, the receipts to be spent on
public tennis courts and other play
ground facilities. While a big busi
ness is done in the Government tour
ist house, amounting last month to
over $4,000, Representative Blanton
says there is no businesslike check or
: record of these sales and receipts. He
protests that the park police should
not be compelled to give hourly police
1 protection throughout the night for
the goods, wares and merchandise of
the Welfare Service.
Hits Taxi Concession.
Col. Sherrill is also charged by Rep
resentative Blanton with having “for
the past three years, without charge
therefor, granted to the New Taxi
Service Company, operating the red
top cabs, the exclusive right to main
tain cab stands at the Washington
Monument and Hains Point.” Then
he goes on to explain that while "the
general public of Washington and this
Nation inherently own the streets and j
thoroughfares of the District, and in- ]
herently have the right of easement ,
into every public place, yet at the j
Terminal * Station the general public
is forced to ride in Black and White
taxis, to get in and out of the depot,
unless they dodge through them to
an outside post, and a private com
pany sells this franchise which be
longs only to the people.”
Pointing to other exclusive monop
olies sold by hotels for particular taxi
cab companies to occupy the streets
adjacent to those hotels. Representa
■ tive Blanton said: “I am disgusted
with these exclusive monopolies and
I promise you that there is going to
be a man’s fight in the next Congress
to break it up. Taxi fares are higher
I in Washington than in any other
I comparable city in the United States,
, and these growing monopolies cause
. it. The people are entitled to have
fair competition.”
.Scores Guards’ Pay.
Col. Sherrill is also charged by
: Representatives Blanton with issuing
orders “tending to Prussianize” the
i several hundred guards of public
buildings here in Washington. In
one of these, he emphasizes, by the
appointment of 59 of these guards as
special policemen “at SBS per month
you required them to do dangerous
police duty worth about double their
salary.” He calls attention that these
! men do not get one day off in seven
in lieu of Sunday, “which every Gov
ernment employe except yours gets.”
Charges Raises Unfair.
i How Col. Sherrill promoted 36l of
his employes and raised their salaries
for June, in order to consume an un
expended appropriation, is charged by
Representative Blanton, who quotes a
series of orders, carrying SIOO in
creases, retroactive, hut providing
that the pay status of each employe
promoted would revert back on July
i I to that of May 31. He calls atten
tion that of the 361 promotions only
’ 24 were SBS-a-month guards, or those
i receiving as low as $1,020 per year,
i “I have closely watched the pro
l eeedings of Government officials for
I years," wrote Representative Blanton,
1 "and I didn't even dream that an' -
official would exercise such arbitrary
preferment affecting such a great
1 number of employes. I promise you
now that there is going to be a fight
i in Congress against future issuance of
■ retroactive orders eating up unexjiend
- ed balances of appropriations just be
» fore the fiscal year ends.”
‘ I (Hfc* 111“ IIOV.XI JX” * ■*"**• '
Bandits , Bootleggers , Bums , Main Finds
Os Evangelist Seeking a Samaritan
f -
f, ■ ■ -—■
; i By the Associated Press times to the one time that such
, NEWARK, July 18. —Harry W. help was accorded and he was
. Butz, draftsman and itinerant offered six drinks of whisky to
evangelist, who walked from one of coffee,
i Newark to Cincinnati and return His itinernary included Phila
-1 to determine what a penniless delphia, Wilmington. Baltimore,
: Christian wayfarer might expect Washington, Cumberland, Pitts
from his fellowman, has announced burgh, Wheeling and Dayton, re
his findings and asserted that turning byway of Chillicothe and
man's inhumanity to man had not Washington Court House, Ohio;
changed much from the days of Parkersburg, W. Va.; Cumberland,
the good Samaritan. . Baltimore and Philadelphia,
s On his trip, which was con- Twelve different bootleggers of
cluded last night, he said he was sered him employment and he met
» given a lift by one of every 30 437 working men who said they
3 automobiles accosted. He was were driven to tramping for lack
i held up once in every 118 miles, of work.
s but one-third of the holdup men Five times, as an experiment, he
? gave up their own funds to him said, he lay down by the road as
when they learned his mission. if injured. In all 232 automobiles
i Clergymen, church officials, bust- passed him without stopping, an
t ness and professional men apd so- average of nearly 60 before a car
cial agencies refused, assistanqe 2$ slowed down to offer; assistance*^
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925.'
FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF AMUNDSEN ON RETURN FROM POLAR FLIGHT
The six explorers, haggard and unshaven, photographed a few minutes after their arrival at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen. Left to right: Omdahl, Dietrich*
son, Ellsworth, Amundsen, Feucht and Riiser-Larsen.
(Copyright 1025. by North American Newspaper Alliance.)
AWARDED SIO.COO
IN SLANDER SUIT
Leland Gets Verdict in Dam
age Action Against
Church Trustee.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 18. —Damages of
SIO,OOO were awarded by a jury last
night to Albert R. Leland, who asked
for $50,000 in a slander suit against
E. L. Hartig. trustee of the Oak Park
Church, to which Leland formerly be
longed.
Leland charged that Hartig had re
ferred to him as the father of an
illegitimate child, a rubber in a tur
kish bath, guilty of fraud in a finan
cial transaction and a medical prac
titioner, without a license.
The suit was an aftermath of a di
vorce action brought by Leland, In
which the Rev. Carl D. Cace, pastor of
the church, was accused of misconduct
by Leland’s wife, Charlotte. She tes
tified for her husband in the divorce
suit."
Dr. Case intervened to clear his
name and was given a vote of confi
dence by his parishoners. The divorce,
denied by the lower court, was granted
by the Appellate Court and appealed
by Dr. Case to the Supreme Court,
where it is pending.
Leland to Fight On.
The statements attributed to Hartig
! and not denied, by him were made
! during an investigation of the divorce
affair by a church committee of which
Hartig was a member. Leland filed
a similar suit against another church
official, also on the committee.
The charges of the divorce suit
were revived in the trial of the
slander action. Leland testified that
Dr. Case’s wife had told him the min
ister had “confesed all” to her, but
Mrs. Case on the stand later said she
had meant her husband had told her
everything and denied the charges.
Informed of the verdict. Leland de
clared he was “not through lighting.”
“I have been crucified, and/my fam
ily also, by the interests which are
! trying to save the Rev. Carl D. Case,”
he said.
Hartig’s attorneys contended that
as a church official Hartig was privi
leged to Investigate reports concern
ing the minister, and argued that Le
land’s reputation was not injured by
Hartig’s statements, hut by the
scandal in connection with his divorce
case.
PERSIA PLANS MONOPOLY
ON TEA AND SUGAR
Proposed State Control of Staples
Arouses Feeling Among
Bagdad Merchants.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
BAGDAD, June 20. —Decision of the
Persian government to put through
a bill to empower it to take over the
import and sale of tea and sugar in
Persia as a state monopoly has
aroused considerable feeling in com
mercial circles here.
The seriousness of the matter from
the local point of view may be gauged
from the fact that, except for cotton
piece goods, a very large proportin
of the considerable rd-export trade
from this country to Persia consists
of tea and sugar. The buying ar
rangements in Europe and India have
until now remained in the hands of
Bagdad middlemen, Persian merchants
not as a rule buying further afield
than this city. Presumably, the
Persian government intends to make
its own arrangements in Europe, and
to cut out the Bagdad middleman
VAST MASHER ARMY HERE LACKS
NERVE PRESCRIBED BY CAVE MATS
Reporter , Trailing Pretty Policewoman , in Profes
sional Capacity , Tabs Ten Sheiks Who Use Eyes
Instead of Clubs.
■Washington's streets are full of
amateur mashers, but as for hist, bad
men who boldly grab innocent women
bv the arm and drag them into cur
tained limousines or such as that, they
■ are conspicuously absent.
In other words, a respectable worn
l an may walk alone at night on any of
the Capital's downtown thoroughfares
: without fear of being insulted, touch
- ed on the arm, annoyed with persistent
attentions of strange men or kidnaped.
. providing she doesn't carry a chip on
i her shoulder and does mind her own
. business.
At least this is the conclusion
• drawn by a reporter for The Star, who
spent two hours last night trailing
one of Lieut. Mina Van Winkle's most
, comely policewomen in her nightly
r rounds of the theater district.
The reporter frankly was expecting
- to see daring acts committed last
> night. He was prepared to hear shrill
screams of frightened women eeho
, ing adown the narrow canyon of F
. street, to see leering faces of brutal
men lurking in dark hallways, to
I glimpse high-powered motor cars mak-
I ink ofT with their bobbed-haired prey.
Flirts’ Methods Genteel.
But he had to be satisfied, after
long waiting, with tabbing half a doz
, en so-called flirts on foot and four in
| automobiles. Only one of the men
went so far as to venture a remark to
the policewoman, and he made a
, harmless little query as to whether
, she were out for a walk. One young
man. more persistently interested than
the others- followed the policewoman
for five blocks, but suddenly terminat
ed his innocent little chase when a
"wise guy” tapped him on the arm
and whispered, "She's a policewom
j an.”
All set for the excitement, the re
porter began his rounds at Four
teenth and F streets at 8 o'clock.
Keeping a respectful distance behind
the policewoman, he followed her as
. she strolled nonchalantly along F
■ street, pausing now and then to look
in the shop windows. She was dress
ed conservatively, but attractively, in
a small green hat, tan silk dress and
white shoes, and swung a purse care
lessly on her arm.
At Thirteenth street there stood a
, young man. He was evidently "look
. ing 'em oveh” As our police lady
meandered past he straightened his
tie and started after her. For half
a block he kept close behind, slowing
up as she did and continuing his
pursuit when she walked on. Be
, tween Thirteenth and Twelfth streets
I he doubled his speed and passed her,
sneaking a curious glance at her face
as he went by.
Look Is Reassuring.
Apparently reassured, he went ahead
to the corner of Twelfth street and
stopped ever so casually to await her
approach, meantime occupying him
»' self by reading the street sign on the
i I lamp-post as though he never before
, ! had seen one.
! “Aha,” mused the eager reporter, j
i "Something is going to happen.”
But nothing did. The policewoman
kept looking right ahead as she came
abreast of her pursuer, and her in
} different manner seemed to flabber
-1 gast the yoiing man so much that he
1 didn't have the courage to speak, if
1 he intended to do so. He did not let
* this setback long deter him, however.
3 He went through exactly the same
' process again, and then again, and a
; fourth time, never mustering up suffl
f cient nerve to venture a word.
3 Came Ninth street and the "villain”
1 still pursued her. By this time, albeit,
J he was more determined than ever
-! to make a catch, it was noted. The
I j reporter believed he sensed this man's
i feelings. Here was a young woman
' alone on the downtown streets with
j undoubtedly no particular objective
Jj in mind. Her very attitude bespoke
j that. It was most singular. What
j ever had been the young man’s orig
l! inal intentions, his paramount im
i pulse now was to find out just what
j this young woman was doing down
j town alone. Curiosity had taken pos
' session of him. She wouldn't be flirt
ed with, she didn't seem to be going
any place In particular and she ap
peared to be absolutely unafraid and
composed. He was going to find out
what it was all about.
Stranger Is Samaritan.
He started forward with renewed
determination effervescing at every
stride. He had almost caught up with
her, was taking his hat off in his
most polite manner and was on the
verge of blurting out "I beg pardon”
when he felt a tap on the arm. He
looked round quickly and saw a
stranger at his elbow. The reporter
ambled by in time to hear the
stranger say:
"Better lay off, brother. She’s a
policewoman!”
And to hear the startled, curious one
’ exclalmj _ ’
"Gosh! The devil she Is! Thanks,
old man.”
Well, that was that.
Onward the policewoman
toward Seventh street, and thence
south toward the Avenue. A number
of men, old and young, looked at her
intently, hut got not a smile and made
no further advances. Between K and
D a middle-aged man with whiskers
got interested to the point of giving
chase. He passed her and halted to
let her go by. As she walked past he
lifted his hat as though to speak, but,
getting no response, turned the ges
ture into a casual head-scratching
motion.
Autoist Gets Under Way.
About the same time a young man
in an expensive touring car parked
at the curb started his motor and
cruised along beside the lone woman.
The street was virtually deserted. He
tooted his horn once or twice, but the
woman was oblivious of the fact.
The touring car continued on to C
street, turned the corner and pulled
up at the curb between Seventh and
Eighth streets.
As the girl approached, looking in
the store windows with intense in
terest, the driver sounded his signal
again without success. Then he
moved his car ahead and rounded
the corner of Eighth street Just in
time to cause the policewoman to
halt to let him pass. He smiled and
nodded his head at her, the while
tooting his horn, but received no sign
of recognition. He gave it up as a
bad job.
At the corner of Ninth street and
Pennsylvania avenue stood a group
of typical corner loafers. They all
commented among themselves about
the woman as she turned up Ninth
street and the biggest one of the
group, with a wink to his companion,
started after her. He hurried ahead
and stopped at the next corner to
lean lazily against an iron post. As
the stroller came opposite him he
lifted his hat slightly and smilingly
inquired: “Out for a walk?”
She did not appear to hear him
and walked on. The heavy one re
mained leaning against the post for
a while, then shook his head and
returned to his friends.
Man Narrowly Escapes.
"I would have taken him in if he
had spoken again," the policewoman
confided later. "I believe in giving
men the benefit of the doubt. Maybe
he was talking to some one else. But
if. after my rebuff, he had come for
ward again and repeated his question,
I would have felt it my duty to arrest
him. That would have constituted
annoyance in every sense of the word,
and women should not be made to suf
fer annoyance of that kind on Wash
ington's streets.”
As F street was reached again a
shower fell, and the policewoman was
forced to take shelter in a store en- I
trance. No man molested her there.
The rain over, she retraced F street
again. By this time the automobile
I flirts were out in full force, tooting at
strange girls alone, but not going any
further than that if the girls paid no
attention. Tooting is no crime, it was
pointed out. Three drivers tooted at
the policewoman between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets, but she con
tinued on, unmindful.
Thinks Strolling Safe.
“I contend that the woman who, for
one reason or another, wishes to stroll
F street or Ninth street or the Avenue
alone at night may do so in absolute
safety, If she doesn't encourage the
attentions of strange men,” the police
woman declared after her rounds.
"The mere fact that men may look
at her closely and may manifest their
interest In her to the extent of follow
ing her, and perhaps attempting to
speak, does not amount to an Insult.
The woman should feel gratified that
she is attractive enough to Interest
men. Pity those who fail to attract
men! Os course. If a man persists in
his attentions when he knows they
are not wanted, It Is high time he was
hailed into court and fined. He is a
public nuisance.
"I believe there are very few men
in Washington who will, deliberately
force their attentions on strange
women.
“All In all, I think Washington Is
as safe for women as any other city
In the country.”
Italo-Jugoslav Treaties Delayed.
ROME, July 18 (4 s ).—The signing of
32 new treaties between Italy and
Jugoslavia, scheduled for today, has
■ been postponed because the Jugoslav
minister has not yet received authori
zation from his government to sign.
The treaties were concluded at a re
cent conference at Vienna. They
> dealt largely with the local commercial
and boundary, question*,
U. MERMAN POLE
FLIGHT IS OPPOSED
Wilbur Unwilling to Attempt
Joint Flight—Navy Not
Ready, He Says.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 18.—It is
inadvisable at the present time for
the United States to join with Ger
many in a dirigible expedition to the
North Pole next Spring. Secretary of
Navy Curtis D. Wilbur said here yes
terday when informed such a project
had been suggested by Dr. Hugo Eck
ner. the German Zeppelin expert.
The plan, as outlined to Mr. Wil
bur, proposed that each country fly
its own airship, the two keeping in
constant touch with and supplement
ing each other.
"The opinion of Dr. Eckner, who
brought our own naval dirigible Los
Angeles from Germany to the United
States, is entitled to great respect."
‘Secretary Wilbur said, "and there is
no doubt that the use of two dirigi
bles instead of one for such a project
would be very desirable.
Awaits .MacMillan Data.
"However, at the present time the
United States Navy has no intention
of making any commitments toward
a dirigible polar flight. We will first
await the report of the present Mac-
Millan expedition on Arctic condi
tions before considering such a
project.”
"While inflated with helium the
lifting power of the Navy's dirigibles
Is lessened, and consequently the
amount of gasoline carried is 'ess and
the range of action is corresponding
ly decreased," the Secretary said. An
other complication, he pointed out,
was that the accumulation of snow
and ice on the ships would materially
Increase their weight.
"We would not be willing to risk a
polar expedition with a lighter-than
air machine until some of the prob
lems presented have been satisfac
torily solved.” he stated.
# !
CONFESSES MURDER
ON MARYLAND FARM
Prisoner at Salisbury, 22, Held for
Death of James Carey,
Left on Railroad.
By the Associated Press.
SALISBURY, Md., July 18.—James
Baker, 22 years old, has confessed to
Wilmington detectives and Sheriff
Wilmer Purnell of Worcester County
to the murder and robbery of James
Carey, aged well-to-do farmer, whose
! body was found lying along the rail
road tracks east of Willards yesterday
afternoon.
FOUR MEN ARE CONVICTED
IN SALISBURY RUM CASE
Jury Disagrees on Charge Against
Former Police Chief and Acquits
12 of Defendants.
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, July 19.—Four of the 17
defendants in the Salisbury Beach
rum-running case, on trial In Federal
District Court, were convicted by a
jury which reported today after near
ly 19 hours’ deliberation. The Jury dis
agreed in the case of one defendant
and reported verdicts of not guilty in
the cases of 12 others.
The defendants, who include one
woman, were indicted for violation of
the tariff act of 3922. Those convicted
were Herman L. Rich, Newburyport;
Carl Voss, Newburyport; John Scrib
ner. Portsmouth, N. H., and Herbert
E. True, former policeman of Salis
bury. All four were released on their
original bail.
The Jury reported a disagreement
in the case of Harold F. Congdon,
selectman and former police chief of
Salisbury, and he also was admitted
to bail on his former bonds. Those ac
quitted included Mrs. Sarah Congdon,
wife of the former police chief.
CARDINAL BEGIN WORSE.
QUEBEC, July 18 UP). —A turn for
the worse was noted today in the
condition of Cardinal Begin, aged
Catholic primate of Canada, who has
been partly paralyzed since he sus
tained a stroke last Sunday. The
morning bulletin issued by his physi
cians said the cardinal’s condition was
"not so satisfactory” and Indicated
i renewed fears for hi* recovery.
The Cardinal Is 88 years old.
LEGION OPENS WAR
ON 3 U. S. AGENCIES
Will Push Fight for Merger
of Federal Personnel
Bodies.
Determined to wage a finish fight
on the three government agencies
which It holdß to t>e unnecessary to
the conduct of personnel affairs in the
Government service, the veterans’
joint committee of the department of
the District of Columbia and the
American Legion have joined hands
with the National Federation of Fed
eral Employes to consolidate the Bu
reau of Efficiency, the Personnel Clas
sification Board and the United States.
Employes' Compensation Commission I
with the Civil Service Commission.
Claiming that the latter organiza-, ■
tion should have complete supervision I
over personnel and efficiency ratings i
from the time an employe enters the j
service until his discharge or retire
ment, the legjon is planning to carry |
the fight into the annual convention
at Omaha in October, and to bring It
before Congress when that body con-1
venes next December. A meeting of j
the joint committee will be held with- :
in two weeks at the District Build- i
ing to concentrate the thought of all j
veterans' organizations on the pro
posed consolidation and line up the
weight of the several or
ganizations behind the consolidation
movement.
See Saving in Many.
Leaders in the campaign to press
for the consolidation believe such
amalgamation will resu£ in actual
money saving to the Government in j
personnel administration and more
efficient handling of personnel mat
ters. From the viewpoint of the war
veteran the administration of the var
ious veterans' preference acts will he
facilitated and the veteran will re
ceive his just dues under the proposed
consolidation.
Complete authority should be given
the Civil Service Commission under
the program mapped out and by joint
committee to rate employes for effi
ciency, classification and to follow
their Government service up to the
date of discharge, even through the
processes of discharge from injury
and the compensation to be paid them
for injury x-eceived in line of duty.
The Joint committee is headed by Wil
liam H. Carroll, department com
mander of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and a member of the American
Legion.
The fight will be carried into the
Legion convention at Omaha by Har
lan Wood, legal adviser to the joint
committee and elected as a delegate
to the national convention on a plat
form in support of the veterans* pref
erence acts. Mr. Wood holds the opin- !
ion that the executive order issued by
President Ooolidge on June 4. transfer
ring the right of jurisdiction over Fed
eral employes from the bureau and
division chiefs to the Personnel Classi
fication Board, contravenes the vet
erans' preference acts.
Mr. Wood takes the view that a
veteran either is or is not entitled to
the benefits of the veterans’ prefer
ment acts, and that the longevity pro
visions of the executive order of June
4 indirectly keep veterans out of the
benefits accruing to them as a lesult
of the various acts.
The campaign will be begun when
Congress convenes, and will be carried
into the various committees which
have to do with veteran matters.
The National Federation of Federal
Employes, at a meeting earlier in the
year, passed resolutions urging the
consolidation of the various personnel
organizations and recommending that
the Government appoint a personnel
riianager.
REV. W. L. VAN HORN
CLAIMED BY DEATH
: Pastor of Wisconsin Avenue Bap
tist Church Dies After
Short Illness.
Rev. William L. Van Horn, 76 years
old, pastor of Wisconsin Avenue Bap
tist Church, died at the home of hts
friend, J. W. Rogers. Cherrydale. Va.,
yesterday after a short illness. He
had been pastor of the church for the
last two and a half years.
Rev. Mr. Van Horn was a veteran
of the Union Army, and had long been
an active member of the Grand Army
j of the Republic, being a member of the
G. A. R. post of Fargo. N. D. He
was also a thirty-third degree Mason.
He was a member of the John R. Sin
gleton Lodge of Friendship, D. C., and
past patron of Unity Chapter. O. E. S.
Rev. Mr. Van Horn was at one time
an employe of the State Department
here.
Prior to accepting the pastorate of
the local church he was for many
rears pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Fargo. N. Dak., and dur
ing the early part of his career was
pastor of several churches in West
Virginia and Ohio.
Rev. Mr. Van Horn was a native
of Pennsylvania. He is survived by
1 four daughters. Miss Lillian E. Van
,T orn and Mrs. E. C. Flemming of
Fargo, Mrs. D. O. Lofthouse of Bis
mark. N. Dak., and Mrs. O. R. Butler
1 of Dover, N. H., and two sons. Frank
1 E. Van Horn of Fargo and Lieut. C.
W. Van Horn of the United States
Navy.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the Wisconsin Avenue Baptist
Church tomorrow afternoon at 2
o’clock. Interment will be at Fargo,
N. Dak.
MARRIES ROYALTY.
Charles H. Huberich Marries Prin
cess Nina Mdivani Secretly.
LONDON, July 19 OP).—The Daily
Sketch says Charles Henry Huberich
of New York was secretly married
in the registrar’s office at Oxford to
, Princess Nina Mdivani, daughter of
Gen. Prince Zacharias Mdivani, aide
to the late Czar Nicholas.
The engagement of Mr. Huberich
and Princess Nina was announced in
, London in April. He is an interna
• tlonal lawyer of prominence, maintain
ing offices in Berlin and The H^rue,
; as well as New York. He is 48 years
! old and a graduate of Yale, ’99. He
also attended the universities of Ber
lin and Heidelberg. He was formerly
• professor of law at the University
of Texas, Leland Stanford and the
University of Wisconsin.
Princess Nina is 22.
ARMY TRUCK HITS CAR.
Following a collision between a
United States Army truck and a
Washington Railway and Electric
street car on the Union Station Plaza
today, James A. Murray, colored.
• 1311 Corooran street, was arrested by
> police of the sixth precinct on a
I charge of operating a vehicle while
i intoxicated. N
After the collision with the car the
> truck swerved and knocked down an
- electric light pole. An additional
) charge of collision also was placed
1 against the driver. Neither the truck
nor the street car was seriously
damaged.
27 MILES AN HOUR
SPEED LIMIT SEEN
Traffic Director Eldridge Con
sidering Regulations for
Outlying Boulevards.
A speed limit of 27 miles an hour
for the outlying portions of boulevard
streets on which cross-town traffic is
required to stop is being considered by
Traffic Director Eldridge and his
aides.
Although cross-town traffic is now
being required to stop before crossing
or entering Connecticut avenue at
every corner north of S street, the
. general speed limit of 22 miles an
| hour has not been changed and the
vehicles on Connecticut avenue must
! continue to adhere to the 22-mile
| limit until a definite decision is
I reached as to the speed for boulevard
streets.
Plans are now being made to paint
j stop signs at intersections on other
I through traffic lanes, but officials of
the traffic office have indicated that
they will not recommend any increases
j in speed limit on those thoroughfares
until motorists generally become ao
| customer! to the rule i-equiring them
j to stop before crossing or entering a
boulevard street.
When new speed limits are adopted
for the outlying sections of main
arteries the territory in which they
are effective will be marked with
signs.
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THREE TRY TO SAVE
SCOTT FROM ROPE:
BROTHER IS MISSING
(Continued from First Page.i
the Detroit Free Press. He said he
was in the drug store, across the
street from the Chicago City Build
ing, when the Feott brothers entered.
Robert spoke to Maurer and asked
him for money the store owed them.
Maurer denied the debt and heated
words passed. Bail’s story continued.
Maurer ordered them from the store
and raised his hand in a striking po
sition.
"Robert Scott bent forward.” Ball
related. "Several report* rang out.
Maurer crumpled up. Russell, the
eldest brother, was standing with his
hands to his sides and could not have
done it. Robert might have fired from
his coat pocket or with the gun in
his hand.”
Ball did not discover the mistake in
identities between the Scotts until
Thursday, when he saw newspaper
| photographs of the condemned man.
He said his knowledge troubled him
and that after he learned Scott had
been reprieved he telegraphed him in
the death cell, asking Scott to send
his lawyer to Detroit.
The two woman witnesses, Scott's
attorneys said, are prepared to tell
that they were in the drug store on
the night of the killing as companions
of the Scotts at a drinking party,
during which Maurer and Robert
Scott quarreled. The women did not
see the shooting, the attorneys said.
No Sign of Brother.
Meanwhile, Robert Scott, who prom
ised in the message to Gov. Small
that he would surrender, has not put
in an appearance. But other mes
sages, purporting to give information
which would save Scott from hanging
were received by the authorities and
by Scott's relatives.
If the message is a hoax, it is the
second time in Chicago's crime annals
that a telegram has saved the life of
a condemned man. The onl} - other
was in 1870, in the case of Dan Walsh,
who killed his sweetheart.
After the governor had refused a
reprieve of commutation and prepara
tions for the execution were com
plete. a telegram signed with the
governor's name was delivered to the
sheriff, ordering him to stop the execu
tion. The telegram was a hoax. The
governor did not learn of it until alter
the hour set for the execution had
passed. He was forced to commute
Walsh’s sentence and the prisoner
died in the penitentiary after serving
42 years.
EX-ALDERMAN SLAIN.
NEW YORK. July 18 OP).—Fred
erick Smith, a former city alderman,
was shot and fatally wounded in one
of three attempted pay roll robberies
which were staged almost simul
taneously in widely separated districts
of the city yesterday. In none of the
robberies did the bandits succeed in
getting the pay roll they sought, but
in every instance they escaped arrest.
Smith. who was employed as a
salesman by Meier Oelhaf iron
Works, was shot when three armed
unmasked men held his employers'
office while the pay roll was being
made up. He died several hours later
in a hospital.
•
DRASTIC U. S. ACTION
COOLIDGE'S PLAN TO
AVERT COAL CRISIS
(Continued from First Page.i
the President stopped, and. walking
i alone to the rail, bared his head and
stood for several moments in silent
I revery. looking down at the slowly
: moving stream below. He then called
I members of his party to join him at
, the rail and. much to the surprise of
many, he announced that this spot
would make a good setting for a group
photograph.
Talks to Little Girls.
Mrs. Coolidge did not accompaut
' the President yesterday. The party
was made up with Senators Butler
and Gillett of Massachusetts. Secre
■ tary Sanders, Maj. J. F. Coupal. Capt
Adolphus Andrews of the Mayflower
1 and Col. S. A. Cheney, chief mili
, tary aide. Os course the party was
' increased when it reached Devens
; and throughout the review.
Two other incidents of interest yes
terday occurred near the old North
' Bridge. As the President's car came
1 to a stop Pauline Eveleth. S wars,
stepped toward him and asked if she
could give him someining. "Certainly,
my child,” the President replied.
1 Whereupon Pauline with p-etty
: blonde hair, in pig tails, presented a
newly baked cake decorated with two
small American flags. On the other
side of the bridge the President re
ceived a bunch of sweet peas from
Elizabeth Wentworth. 7 years old.
who was so nervous in his presence
that she nearly lost half of the flow
ers in the bouquet. She said after
ward that the President had asked
her name and where she lived and if
she knew all about the Battle of
Lexington and it was because of all
this that she became so nervous.
The President may have had a
great day. but it was a far greater
one for these two little girls.
The fact that the President had
• Senator Butler at his side through
out yesterday's activities and that ha
■ has done the same thing twice be
; fore since coming here, did not pass
I without comment. It has led many
I obsex-vers to feel satisfied that the
senatorial campaign of 1926 has be
gun, that the President in his own
peculiar own way. hag started It.