WEATHER.
(P. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Increasing cloudiness and warmer
tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; cold
er tomorrow night.
Temperature—Highest, <52, at 11.45
a.m. yesterday: lowest. 35, at 5:30 a.m.
today. Full report on page 9.
Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30
V,-. •?!> 1 RJ Entered as second (Mass matter
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STABS KILL YOUTH
AFTER HIS BULLET
BRAZES MUSSOLINI
Shot Rips Duce’s Coat. Cuts
Sash and Enters Sleeve of
> Companion in Auto.
* ENRAGED FASCISTI DRAG
BODY THROUGH CROWD
Premier Calm Amid Excitement of
50.000 Followers—" Nothing Can
Happen to He,” He Says.
By thi* Associated Press,
BOLOGNA. Italy, November 1. —
1 laving escaped assassination lor the
sixth time in the four years he has
y been premier. Benito Mussolini,
whose slogan is "T.lve in Danger.’
was undaunted as ever today as
search was made for accomplices of
a youth who tried to kill ’’ll Duce,”
and then was lynched by Infuriated
Fasclsti yesterday.
As Mussolini was leaving the star
dlum after opening the Congress for
the Advancement of Science, a slen
der. blond youth, about 1H years old,
pressed forward toward his automo
bile and fired an automatic pistol.
As the youth started to fire again
he vyus seized by infuriated black
shirts, who felled him, stabbed him
14 times, choked and beat him and
then dragged the body through a mill
ing mass of humanity. The youth
was slain several minutes after the
pistol shots.
ft The youth was identified today as
Anteo Zamboni, son of a Bologna
printer.
Premier Is Unmoved.
The bullet missed only by a frac
tion of an Inch of imbedding itself in
the premier’s chest. It. tapped both
sides of his coat, cut the sash of the
Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus
across his breast, and entered tin
sleeve of the mayor of Bologna, who
was sitting in the automobile beside j
Mussolini.
Mussolini, as when previous attacks ■
were made upon him. was uuperturb- 1
ed. As crowds gathered in the path |
of his automobile, almost overturn-1
ing it In endeav ors to get close enough i
io ascertain whether he was injured,-
he sat upright, showing not the slight- ;
est sign of nervousness. The incident
greatly excited the 50,000 persons in
the stadium.
Immediately after the shooting Sig
nor Turatl, sec retary general of the ;
Fasclsti, in a proclamation to- -the
Black Shirts Indicated that accom
plices would be vigilantly sought and
punished.
“The first gesture of Justice has
been accomplished,” said the proclama- j
tion. "Now the accomplices must be '■
punished.” ;
Bullet Followed Cheers.
Mussolini had just started to motor .
to his home in Forli when the attack .
was made. As his car entered the ;
Via Indepondenzia crowds standing j
behind litres of carabineers keepings
the route open were sending up roars 1
of “vivas” and cheering.
The attempt on his life delayed the!
»- premier’s trip little. His car soon
resumed its journey toward the rail- j
way station and he sat as calmly as;
if he were reviewing the walls of peo
ple through which he passed. They
were screaming acclamation, such us
“Bong live the Duce!” “Death to the j
enemies of Fascism!” and “Woe to !
him who touches the saviour of Italy!’’ \
When the premier reached home he
received a message of congratulation j
from King Victor Kmmanuel.
In all the large cities there werei
impromtu processions of joy. After ;
Mussolini had left the automobile at!
the raifway station the iTullet fired by j
the youth was found lying on the
floor of the car.
IN VII.NEK \t!BE, UK DECLARES.
“Nothing Can Happen Before Task Is
Hone,” Mussolini Says.
FOIIBI. Italy. November 1 (/P). -
“.Nothing can happen to me before my
task is done.”
This was Mussolini’s assurance to
dav to the Fascist! of all Italy, fo’.-
owing yesterday's attempt against
his life at Bologna. It was contained
in a message sent after his arrival at
his home here t.. Deputy Beandro
Arplnati. chief of the Bologna Fas
cists. The message read
• i wish to renew the sentiments of
my joy and my commendation for the
unforgettable manifestation of yes
terday by the Fascism of Bologna,
known always for the height of its
n traditions ami the gloriousness of the
work it has accomplished for the
future.
“It. with the Fascism of Padua, is
truly the architrave of Italian Fas
cism. 1 shall never forget the
spectacle at the Bittoriale (the sta
dium which the premier inaugurated
a: Bologna with a teview of Fascist
forces*.
Sends Cordon Bullet Pierced.
There w.is never. 1 believe, in tho
h.story of Italy mote perfect adhesion
ween the regime and the people.
There was never a more formidable
gathering of a pt opie in arms. It
ran be said without exaggeration that
there was a forest of guns, and 1 re
oeived the inspiration of an infinite
multitude.
The criminal episode at the last
minute could not obscure the glory of
that marvelous day. 1 am sending
you the Cordon of St. Maurice
(which he wore across his breast i
pierced by the projectile. You will
• onserve it among the souvenirs of
Bologna Fast ism.
“1 thank, through you, the people
of Bologna and the province of
Emilia. and I would say one word of
absolute certainty to all comrades
throughout Italy: ’Nothing can hap
pen to me before my tusk is done.’ I
embrace you.
“MUSSOLINI.”
Escapes Half Dozen Times.
Benito Mussolini, Italy's Fascist
premier, has escaped the hand of the
assassin at least six times since he
marched Into Rome at the head of Hfs
black shirted men four years ago and
, assumed control of the affairs of the
Italian people.
Only so short a time ago as Sep
tember 11 a young Italian stonecutter
threw a bomb at the premier’s auto
mobile In Rome. The missile struck
a window of the limousine, but did
.Continued on Page 2, Column 5.)
! ;
My Impressions of America
By Her Majesty the Queen of Rumania
Written Exclusively for The Star and Other Members of the North
Atneriean Newspaper Alliance.
TIIE WHITE HOUSE DINNER AND BALTIMORE.
Our long hut pleasant day in "Washington ended with the °® c s a )
presidential dinner at the White House. We all put on our most official
■ j clothes. As both my daughter and I wanted to honor the President and
his wife as we would have honored a King, we drove up In separate motors
and were received with the procedure appropriate to the White House.
Important personages, members of the cabinet, their wives, some generals
i and others had been invited to meet me. Among them was Alice Roosevelt
| Bongworth. whom I had always been anxious to meet. I remembered with
j what honors she and her father had been received everywhere in Europe.
• 1 myself had never been lucky enough to make her acquaintance, but I had
always heard about her charm, spirit and Intelligence and I was in no wise
disappointed.
She wore a lovely dress of old red Chinese brocade and I much admired
her delightful, soft, fair hair. I made a short circle among the guests before
the President and his.wife appeared and then wAsoon went in to dinner.
Admired Woodwork of Dining Room.
.' We greatly admired'the beautiful dark brown woodwork of the state
| dining room and the lovely pink roses in golden vases, which were beautifully
lin harmonv with that sober background. The President and his wife sat on
i raised high backed chairs facing each other. I was at tho President’s right
i and my son Nicolas, had taken Mrs. Coolidge in to dinner.
I heard him joking and laughing with her as though they had been old
- time friends. The President himself is more sparing of words, but my
j daughter and 1 between us did our best to see that he should not consider a
i royal visit a trying ordeal. I think lie enjoyed Ileana’s innocent talk, for he
I looked pleased and even amused.
The ladies got up before the gentlemen and Mrs. Coolidg© and I had
some pleasant talk with them beforo the gentlemen joined us. It was during
that moment that I was able to have some really interesting talk with Mrs.
Bongworth, who had met most of my family. I liked the interest she took
in all things and I felt that had we had more time together we might have
1 become firm friends —we had In many ways the same outlook upon life.
Mrs. Coolidge Praised as Hostess.
Official dinners are inevitably a bit stiff, but I must say that Mrs. Coolidge
has a delightful way of putting people at their ease and I seconded her with
all my knowledge of the world.
Unfortunately, I could have very little of what I should call serious
conversation with any of the interesting men Invited to receive me, who
represented some of the best brains in the country.
(Continued on Page 6, Column 2.)
PREACHER SLAYER'
! ASKS TRIAL CHANGE
(
- ■
'
Rev. J. F. Norris Sees “Com
! bination” Against Him in
Texas County.
j By the Associated Press.
FORT WORTH, Tex., November 1.
| —Charges that city officials of Fort
j Worth, members of the Knights of
' Columbus and Roman Catholics in
! general have entered “a combination"
! to prosecute Dr. J. Frank Norris, Bap
‘ tist pastor, were made when Norris'
j trial on a charge of murdering Dex
ter E. Phipps. Fort Worth lumber
man, was called in Judge George
llosey’s court here today.
I The charges were presented in an
j application for change of venue filed
by defense attorneys and read to the'
court by Dayton Moses, leading coun
sel.
The application averred that the
■ fundamentalist pastor cannot obtain
i “a fair and impartial” trial in Tarrant
! or Dallas Counties and asked that the
i case be transferred to some other
! Texas county, “frea from the preju
dices which exist here.”
.State Opposes Change.
j Court recessed until 2 p.m. to per
mit. the prosecution to prepare its
i answer to a request for a venue
change. District Attorney Robert
j Hanger, leading the prosecution, an
‘ nounced the State would resist the
application.
j Rev. Mr. Norris for nearly 20 years
; has been identified with reform move-
I ments of State and national scope.
| With more than 100 witnesses sum
i moned, 06 of whom were to testify
j for the defense, and a special venire
{ of 500 drawn, opposing counsel have
i indicated detailed evidence will be in
! trodueed covering Dr. Norris’ part in
i controversies on evolution, the Ku
Klux Klan, political issues and the
1 prohibition law.
| Defense counsel are expected to base
i their defense on a plea of self-defens,
in conformity to a statement Dr.
Norris issued to the State’s at
"torney, in which he maintained
Chipps threatened him when the lum- ;
I berman called at the study to protest ;
i attacks against the administration of
| Mayor 11. C. Meechum. Criticisms of
! Mayor Meecham appeared in the
, Searchlight, church newspaper.
Deacon to Be Witness.
* H. B. Nutt, a deacon of the church,
jis the principal defense witnes. Nutt
] claims he was in the study during an
‘ argument in which he declares Chipps
| threatened bodily harm. Carl Glaze,
14-year old boy, has signed a statement
; for the prosecution, stating lie saw
Chipps shot to death in an anteroom
leading to the study. State detectives
who investigated the shooting reported
j a pool of blood on the anteroom floor.
| Both Nutt and Norris declare the
shooting occurred in the study, where
| Chipps' body was found.
A native of Alabama. Dr. Norris
i came to Texas in 1907 and first at
tracted attention as editor of the Bap
! tlst Standard at Dallas. He was cred
-1 ited with leading a campaign resulting
, in enactment of a law prohibiting
gambling at Texas race tracks. He
, 1 then turned his attention to evangeli- j
cal work, and, starting with a con
gregation of 13, buiit up a membership
! of nearly 10.000, Including hundreds of
farmers, who travel 30 to 40 miles to
i hear Ills sermons.
i The present trial Is the third in
which Dr. Norris has been defendant.
- In 19' _ his church and home burned
following alleged mysterious attacks
(Continued on Page 4, Column 6.)
| Tuesday’s Election Returns!!
■ |v To Be Broadcast Over WMAL j|
v From the Newsroom of s>
j Sl)c Jatiung plaf |
!|| Authentic Associated Preas bulletins -will be interspersed in
ft the regular program from 7 until 10 o'clock, and from 10 o'clock h
! u until midnight The Star’s election returns will have the air excltt- ft
‘ « sively from that station. <<
\ $ Will P. Kennedy of The Star’s Stall will be the announcer. $
i Stereopticon bulletins will be shown also on screens on the
I || Pennsylvania avenge J^ont^^^h^Even^
Wht Wamim J&faf.
y J l y WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION L/
WASHINGTON, I). MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1926-FORTY-FOUR PAGES. ♦
PRESIDENT LEAVES
TONIGHT TO VOTE
Party Departs for Northamp
ton, Mass., Shortly Before
Midnight—Trip to Be Brief.
BY J. RI'SSELL YOUNG.
President Coolidge is known to have
expressed the hope today that the
clear skies and moderate temperature
of the moment, continue throughout
tomorrow, election day.
Not only is he anxious for good
weather for the trip he and Mrs.
Coolidge are to make to Northhamp
ton, Mass., for the purpose of cast
ing their ballots In the election, but
to make It possible for voters to leave
their homes to go to their respective
election booths. He has not been so
. intimately identified with elections for
the past quarter of a century with
out having long since learned to w-hat
extent the weather contributes to the
size of a vote on election days. He
also knows from experience that it is
in the rural sections that the greatest
havoc is played in the matter of get
ting out the vote if the weather is
had. and, as in his own State, as is
the case in numerous others, the so
called rural population is mostly Re
publican, he is therefore hoping that
his party will be favored with good
weather tomorrow.
President Is Disturbed.
Aside from his desire to see his party
victorious throughout the country to
morrow, at least to the extent of re
taining control of the Senate and
House, the President is extremely
anxious to see a good-sized vote cast
everywhere. He is genuinely dis
turbed over the growing tendency on
the part of the electorate generally to
take less and less Interest in voting.
He is known to be worried because of
what he describes as a widespread dis
regard by so many citizens of the
privilege and duty of voting.
Although he is an out-and-out par
tisan, he does not look upon the gen
eral subject of voting as a partisan
question, but a patriotic one. He sees
a peril in a decline in the voting and
contends that If the representative
i form of this Government is to be main
! tained and if the principle that the
majority shall mile is to be continued,
it is essential that those who are en
titled to vote should do so.
On the eve of tho election two
years ago, when he was the Republi
can candidate for the Presidency,
President Coolidge made a non
partisan appeal over the radio to the
electorate to vote. He did not ask
for votes for himself. He merely
urged his auditors to exercise their
rights of franchise. Several times
since he has had occasion publicly
to remind the Nation of the decline
in voting, and during the current
campaign he has several times urged
the electorate to vote.
Issues Public Message.
With this in mind, the President
in a public message to the people
of the country, today urged them to
go to the polls His mes
sage as made public at the White
House, w r as:
“Bet no voters abdicate their
i sovereign right of self government at
the election on Tuesday by failure
to vote.”
The presidential party will leave
Washington shortly before midnight
tonight and will arrive in Northamp
ton about 9 o'clock. In the party be
sides the President and his wife will
be Edwin T. Clark, personal secretary
to Mr. Coolidge, who is also a voter
in Northampton; Maj. James F.
on Page 4, Column 4.)
BOTH SIDES CLAIM
VICTORY ON EVE OF
VOTING TOMORROW
[Republicans Sure of House,!
I But Democrats See Chance I
! !
to Control Senate.
| COUNTRY GIVES NO SIGN
OF HOW TIDE WILL TURN
No Big National Issue Has Shown
Up—Future of Smith, Ritchie
! and Donahey at Stake.
| I By the Associated Press
j Tlie answer to all the efforts of the
; political leaders and candidates dur*
! Ing weeks of Intensive campaigning
will be furnished tomorrow by the
I voters.
I Sweeping claims of victory con
|t!nued to come today from the rival
camps—Republican and Democratic,
, wet and dry—but the key to the great
biennial election puzzle rested with
the millions who had manifested few
i outward signs of Interest and given
little hint of how they might be ex
pected to vote.
The big prize in the election from
the national party standpoint—the
control of the Seventieth Congress—
was claimed by both sides, with many
Democratic managers confident that
they had better than a fighting chance
to control at least the Senate, and
' with the Republicans apparently
equally as confident that any threat
of such a result had been removed.
State Issues Mixed.
Issues in the State campaigns had
become so badly mixed that national
party managers did not undertake to
make any general estimates.
Interest in such campaigns natu
rally centered in New York, where
Gov. Smith Is waging a fifth battle
for election; in Maryland, where Gov.
< Ritchie's tenure as chief executive is
j at stake, and in Ohio, where another
| Democratic presidential candidate pos
i siblllty might emerge—Gov. Vic J
! Donahey.
j While locking horns in many sena-1
I torial and congressional battles, the
■ j wet and dry leaders had their eyes
i focused on eight States in which the
question of prohibition was to come
to a direct vote on repeal of State
codes or on some other form of the i
wet-and-dry problem. These States!
are New York, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Colorado, California, Nevada, Missouri
and Montana.
, j Behind all of the claims of victory
from the hostile camps there appeared
a certain apprehension resulting from
reports from political canvassers in
various sections describing a state of
public mind concerning the election
that might be interpreted as little
short of apathy.
President Appeals for Vote.
i
| Partisan and non-partisan cam
! paign organizations have joined in
! last-minute drives to get out the vote,
j to which President Coolidge has added
i his voice through an appeal to his
i fellow citizens to exercise their suf
frage, and to stimulate the movement
to the polls Mr. Coolidge will go to
his home town, Northampton, Mass.,
to cast his vote. Hopes of the Demo
. cratic managers to obtain a majority
of the new Senate are pinned to con
tests in 16 States where they have
concentrated the bulk of their effort
in the senatorial campaign. These
I I States are: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho,
I Illinois, Indiana, which is to elect two
' Senators; Kentucky, Maryland, Massa
chusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New
York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah
and Washington.
Seats in dispute in all of these
! States .are held by Republicans, and
> I while the Democrats express eon
il fidence In obtaining the necessary
I > nine to give them control of the
i j Senate, Republican leaders assert
• j that with few exceptions these 16
> | States are normally Republican and
, can be expected to remain so this
year.
To capture the House the Demo
' crats must overturn the Republicans
in 36 districts. Some Democratic
, managers assert this will be done,
• predicting a Democratic landslide, but
i the G. O. P. managers practically dls
; miss this as a rather idle dream
indulged in by their opponents.
In approaching the polls to register
i their final conclusions from the cam
paign the voters have to consider a
, maze of issues—National, State and
local—for out of all of the weeks and
mouths of the battle there has
emerged no great National question
which might be expected to swing
the pendulum to popular decision.
Some of the old National Issues
■ have been reburnished for the cam
' paign, but the real issues have been
local, or at least have been made
! local. Prohibition and the World
Court once gave promise of furnishing
■ real campaign material, but the Na
; tional party leaders have been silent
! on them, for candidates in each party
were split on both questions.
. In some States disclosures before
: the Senate campaign funds committee
' furnished the fighting points. Purity
. in elections became an issue in Penn
-1 sylvanla as a result of the huge
• expenditures on behalf of Senator
. Pepper and William S. Vare.
| Prohibition Important Issue.
Public utilities campaign contribu
tions started a row in Illinois which
j eventually led President Coolidge to
! declare a neutral attitude, but in that
State, as in Pennsylvania, the wet-and
dry issue formed the real basis for the
campaigning.
Prohibition also was a foremost
question in the Massachusetts con
test, in which President Coolidge’s
! personal friend, Senator Butler, whom
he chose to conduct his campaign for
the presidency two years ago, is a
candidate against former Senator
David I. Walsh.
In Indiana, where both Senators
Watson and Robinson are seeking re
election, charges of a corrupt Repub
liean-Ku Klux Ivlan deal and of Klan
control of politics created an e’ev
enth-hotn- ruckus, with charges and
denials flying in almost all directions.
Besides the 32 seats in the new Sen
ate involved In this election, there are
four in the present Senate—one for
Indiana, one for Missouri, one for
Massachusetts and one for lowa.
Senators Robinson, Indiana; Williams,
Missouri, and Butler, Massachusetts,
seek popular approval of their ap
pointment by the governors of their
’States, while David W. Stewart, Re
publican. Is unopposed for the seat
left vacant by tha death of Senator
Alton B. Cummins.
., —, —— —^. i —,—,
YOUNG RULE HELD
IN BARBEE KILLING
|
Witnesses Testify of Fistic
Encounter Preceding Fatal
Shooting in Maryland.
j By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Mil., November 1. —
' After deliberating about 10 minutes
j a coroner’s jury at Rockville today
j ordered Richard Henry Rule, 22, son
| of Henry Rule, editor of the National
j Capital Press, held for the action of
the grand jury on a charge of murder
I in connection with the shooting Satur
i day night of William J. Barbee, jr..
j i;i, 1822 Vernon street, son of a retired
! detective, who was killed during a
j fistic encounter between two groups
back of the Blue Ridge Pleasure Club,
near Sligo, Mil.
Rule had not been admitted to bail
early this afternoon following the
jurv’s decision and was being held
at the Rockville jail. State's Attorney
Cissel announced that he would take
under advisement the question of bail.
The State was represented by At
torney Joseph C. Cissel and Rule was
represented by Attorneys Bernard.
Welsh and Thomas Dawson of Rock-
I ville. Justice of the Peace John Jones
| presided.
Nearly Score Testify.
{ Nearly 20 youths of Washington,
| witnesses of the shooting, were call
led to testify. Their testimony showed
| that a fistic encounter occurred be
tween Rule and Barbee after a mem
ber of the latter’s crowd made a
facetious remark about Rule’s Hal
loween costume, which consisted of
Scottish kilts and a dinner jacket.
While a member of the Barbee party
admitted that he and two others had
had a drink prior to the trip, they
declared none of the group was under
the influence of liquor.
Defense witnesses told the coroner’s
jury that Rule fired the one shot i
which killed Barbee after he had f
been threatened. They also said their
clubhouse had been robbed recently ,
and that they thought the three cars
bearing the Barbee party intended
them harm.
The first witness, James Herbert
Wallace, 21 years old, of 1322 Mon
roe street, Washington, a student,
testified that he and Barbee and about i
a. dozen other young men were on
their way to the Pi Phi fraternity
dance which they understood was to
be held in a barn near the Indian
Spring Club. Losing their way they
stopped at the Blue Ridge Club, Wal
lace said, to inquire their way. Rule,
the manager there, and five or six
others, standing on the porch of the
small two-story club building, hesi
tated in answering.
Declares Dare Was Made.
Samuel F. Perkins of 3832 Thirty
first street, Mount Rainier, Mil., then
shouted, the witness said, “What, ho,
here's the jolly Scotchman.” Wallace
said Rule took offense at the remark
and struck at Perkins and the two
rolled on the ground in a scuffle.
Others separated the two and Rule,
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.)
FRANCE IS SCOURGED
BY ELEMENTS’ RAGE
ft
Yellow Sand Falls With Eain as
Sirocco Blows From Africa.
Rivers May Overflow
. By tl.p Associated Press.
PARIS, November L —Disastrous)
storms of wind, rain and snow' con- j
tinue to ravage southwestern j
Europe and the rapidly rising rivers
i of Belgium and Eastern France
threaten to overflow' their banks.
' No section of F*rance has been
spared by the storm. Even Nice,
where there is supposed to be per
petual sunshine, is deluged. A curious
' phenomenon has been particles of fine
. yellow sand which accompanied the
rain. The sand apparently was
brought across the Mediterranean
from Africa by the sirocco which has
been blowing for the past two days.
| The large freight steamer St. Octave i,
! has been driven aground in St. Anne’s
. Bay, near Cherbourg.
In Belgium the floods are slightly
, worse today than yesterday. The
, Meuse has risen another 18-inches. The
large rolling mills at Chatelet. near
• Charieroi, are flooded. The weather
observers hold out some hope for a
; change in the situation, saying that
• r cold wave Is due in two or three
day.
Norris Sees Vare
Beaten If Honest
Election Is Held
By the Associated Press.
Senator Norris, Republican, Ne
braska, who has just completed a
campaign in Pennsylvania in be
half of the candidacy of William
B. Wilson, Democrat, opposing
William S. Vare, Republican, for
the Senate, declared today that
Wilson would he elected if there Is
“an honest election and a fair,
count.”
“The machine that is behind Mr.
Vare does not expect to elect him
by fair and legal means.” the Ne
braska Senator declared. "They
expect to adopt the same tactics
that they did in the primary. They
have no other means and no other
intention.
"If the people vote their senti
ments and their votes tire counted
and the machine is prevented from
its wholesale election debauchery
there will be a victory against
Vare that will be overwhelming.”
ELBRIDGE ADVISES
NEW MILE AREA
Asks Commissioners for Add
ed Speed on Sixteenth Street
North of Newton.
An Increase in the speed limit on
Sixteenth street between Newton
street and Alaska avenue to 30 miles
an hour was recommended to the
District Commissioners today by Traf
fic Director M. O. Eldridge. The
recommendation will be acted upon at
the semi-weekly meeting of the Board
of Commissioners tomorrow’ morning
and is expected to be approved.
Mr. Eldridge proposes that the
speed be raised in conjunction with
the turning on of the new automatic
traffic lights recently installed on
Sixteenth street from Florida avenue
north to Newton street. The lights
probably will be in operation next
week, and will make Sixteenth street
a synchronized traffic controlled area
the entire distance from I to Newton
streets.
If Mr. Eldrldge’s latest recommenda
tion is approved upper Sixteenth
street will be the fourth arterial high
way where a 30-mlle speed limit is al
lowed. The increased speed already
is permitted on Massachusetts avenue
from Sheridan Circle to the District
line. Bladensburg road from Fifteenth
and II streets northeast to tho District
line and Central avenue northeast
from Kenning road to the District
line. Other hlghw-ays on which Mr.
Eldridge proposes to raise the present
22-mile-an-hour limit include Rhode
Island avenue northeast and Wiscon
sin avenue from Massachusetts ave
nue to the District line.
The 30-mlle limit is not continuous
along these highways, however. In
built-up sections the speed is reduced
to 22 and 15 miles an hour. Signs call
attention to the changes in the speed
limits.
SEVEN HELD IN SLAYING.
Youths Confessed Robbing and
Beating Man to Death, Police Say.
( CHICAGO, November 1 CP).—Seven
! youths who, police said, confessed
i that they robbed and heat Stanley
I Clesiak to death were in custody to-
I day and two others whom they im
plicated were sought.
! Four of the boys, ranging from 17
! to 20 years of age, were arrested an
! hour after Cieslak was slain. They
named the other three, two of whom
are 18 and the other 19.
The youthful robbers obtained S4O
and a gold watch. The youths arrest
ed were Eddie Glassman, Andrew
Kosowski, John Janowicz, Vincent
Welles, Vincent Nadiez, Matthew Bu
cyckl and Walter Wolanin.
DIRIGIBLE COMINgThERE.
LAKEHURST, N. J., November 1
(&). —The Navy dirigible I .os Angeles
l and the non-rigid airship J-3 both took
the air today for training flights in
the vicinity of the air station. The
Los Angeles had three new gas bags
Installed during the past week and
was carrying a crew’ of 48 men.
It was announced that the week’s
plans would include a flight by the
Los Angeles to Washington, D. C. If
weather conditions are favorable, the
trip may be made tomorrow, it was
said.
The only evening paper
in Washington with the
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service.
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CONANT TO BE LAID
TO REST TOMORROW
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Body of Flyer Who Crashed
Near Norfolk Saturday Due
Here in Morning.
Once morn Arlington National Ceme- 1
tery will give sepulcher to a fallen !
pioneer of the airways. Lieut. Frank j
Hersey Conant, 2d, the fourth flying j
officer of the Naval Bureau of Aero
nautics to be killed “in action” in the
last three months, will be laid to rest
tomorrow morning on Dewey Knoll,
close beside others of the Navy Air
Service who preceeded him on the
last "hop-off.”
The body of the youthful officer,
who crashed to his death some time
Saturday in the shallow' waters of
! Winter Bay, will be brought back i
j home early tomorrow morning from
| Norfolk, where it was taken after it
was recovered from the wrecked
plane yesterday. A full detail of
officers and seamen will accompany
it on the journey, which will be made
by boat, and another escort will meet
it at the wharf.
Body to Lie in Stale.
Every honor that the Navy can be-!
Stow' in death will belong to the youth- j
fill aviator tomorrow. His body will [
lie in state in All Souls’ Memorial
Church, Cathedral avenue near Con- !
necticut avenue, until 10 o’clock, when i
the simple rites of the Episcopal I
Church will he recited. The brief
journey to Arlington will be entirely
by automobile, and It is expected that
the service there will begin at 11
o’clock.
As the charger of a cavalryman
walks slowly behind the caisson hear
ing its master to his final resting place,
so the automobile of Lieut. Conant
will lie driven behind his caisson to
morrow. At the south gate of the
cemetery two companies of seamen
from the naval air station at Anaeos
tia and the navy yard will meet the
funeral cortege and escort it to the
grave.
There, close by the graves of the
men who went down with the Shenan
doah and other pioneers of the air
who preceeded Lieut. Conant on their
last long flight, the Navy will pay its
last respects to the latest victim of
its battle to conquer air.
The funeral service will be read by
Capt. Dickens, of the Chaplains’ Corps,
a squad of seamen W'ill lire three vol
leys, Navy bugler will sound taps and
another jnound will have been added
to that valorous colony on Dewey
Knoll.
Lieut Conant’s honorary pallbear
ers have been drawn from the men
who served beside him the last few
years of his life. One of them, Lieut.
George T. Cuddihy, is a member of
the American team that is to compete
at Norfolk for the Schneider Cup in
a few days. That Lieut. Conant. a
member of the same team, lost his life
while prac tising low flying in prepara
tion for that contest, is one of the
theories advanced for his crash. The
other pallbearers are Lieut. Corndr. A
C. Davis and Lleuts. Allan p. Flagg
Laurence V. Curtin, William G. Tom
linson and J. Perry.
The death of Lieut. Conant was a
distinct shock to the Bureau of Navy
Aeronautics personnel. Not only wals
the young officer exceptionally pop
ular, but his passing is the fourth to
occur among the flying officers of the
bureau alone. This is 20 per cent of j
the flying officer personnel to be killed ;
in three months, the other victims 1
being Comdr. John Rodgers of Ha I
wallan flight fame, Lieut. IT. J. Nor- j
i ton and Lieut. 11. F. Cbuncill.
Italians Send Sympathy.
Messages of sympathy were re
ceived both by the Navy and by Mrs.
Evelyn N. Conant, his mother, at her
home in the Dresden Apartments.
One of these was from the Italian
Schneider Cup team and was word
ed as follows: “tV'A have learned with
great regret of the loss of Lieut.
Frank H. Conant. 2d, and wish to
convey to you and through you to
the Navy and his family our most sin
cere sympathy and condolences.”
The death of Lieut. Conant will
cause no change in the program for
the Schneider Cup races. Lieut. C. C.
Champion, w'ho was first alternate for
a place on the team, was selected to
day to fill the vacancy resulting from
the crash of Lieut. Conant. The ap
pointment of Lieut. Champion has
been formally approved by the con
test committee of the National Aero
nautics Association.
FLYER DIED AT CONTROL.
Conant’s Body in Perfect Flying
Position as Plane Is Raised From Bay.
NORFOLK. Va., November I.—ln
death as in life the body of Lieut.
Frank H. Conant, 2d, crack Navy
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TWO CENTS,
SCRIVENER’S BODY
MAY BE EXHUMED
FOR FINGER-PRINT
Failure of Police to Take Left-
Hand Impression Opens
New Angle.
SAY TEST MAY SOLVE \
THUMB MARK ON GUN
Suicide Theorists Hold Tins Hand
Would Have Held Pistol—Right
Clutched Tie.
An unexplored angle of tho iitvestl
Ration of the mysterious death of
Arthur F?. Scrivener came to light
today when it was discovered that
; fingerprints had been taken only of
the dead detective’s right hand In
, stead of both hands, to match with
the blurred mark of a linger on the
pistol found at the death scene.
The. only possibility of repairing
this oversight, it was pointed out
today, would he for District Attorney
Gordon and Coroner Xevltt to ask ev
humation of the body, subject to the
discretion of the Virginia authorities
at Winchester, Va., where Scrivener
was buried.
Whether this would he dona before
the inquest next Monday was proble
inaticai this afternoon, but both the
; district attorney and the coroner
I expressed their complete willingness
i to co-operate with the police and make
their request upon the Virginia an
thorities, who have sole jurisdiction,
in event the police believe exhumation
would facilitate their probe.
Just how it happened that, only
the right hand of the detective was
finger printed is set down to the
hurry and hustle of the hectic in
vestigation by police prior to the
removal of the body from the morgue
to a mortuary chapel to be prepared
l for burial.
Tie in Itiglit Hand.
If will be recalled that Scrivener.-
right hand grasped a necktie, tori*
in the center of the neckband when
his body was discovered. Had lie
} held the pistol, it is believed by in
vestigators, it would have been his
left hand which would have left the
mark, just before his death.
The fingerprint left on the pistol
was a blurred outline of .several
ridges, which were presumed at the
time to he ridges made h.v a tight
thumb Only a sparse amount of
ridge outlines being found, and theso
being compared with the right thumb
i fingerprint of Scrivener without su<
cess, the Investigators pressed on t><
other “leads,” failing to go further
into this angle.
What an exhumation of ihe body
would develop in the way of finger
prints, is admittedly problematical,
but the fact remains to those In
charge of the case at the present,
(time, that this angle of exploration
1 has not been fully covered.
While police continued to refuse to
day’ to make public whether the facts
disclosed by them Saturday night led
to a murder or suicide theory, many
analysts of these facts remained with
open minds regarding the case.
Suicide Theory (|ucstioned.
Some point out that it would >
folly to believe that a detective t i’
the professional ability «>f Arthui
Scrivener would select a pistol, seen
by two of his fellow detectives and
known by them to be in his possession,
to commit suicide. And this same
group point out that a detective «>f
Scrivener’s type would probably not
select such a weapon, and in addition
leave in his locker ammunition sim
ilar to that used in the weapon
point the way back to him, if he were
trying to present a suicide cloaked to
appear as a murder.
Again this group also infers that,
for the same reason cf secrecy.
Scrivener would not select the mate
to a tie known to have been in his
possession to place in his hand, were
he trying to make an unfathomable
mystery of his death.
Against this reasoning, others point
to the physical facts in connection
with the death, asking why Scrive
ner met death without a struggle;
how he could have fallen uphill while
reaching for a necktie; how h>- could
have grasped from the neck of a pre
sumed assailant and broken a necktie,
which, teats indicate, needs 140 pounds
tension per textile unit to part or
(ear.
Taking both schools of theories Into
consideration, the Scrivener death to
day, some IS days after his liody was
found in the alley opposite his home,
remains a mystery—just ns much a
mystery to police, in actuality, as to
the layman who lias never been near
the scene.
DESTROYER TO GUARD
AMERICANS IN CEIBA
Vessel Dispatched From Bluefields
to Honduras Area, Where Con
victs Join Revolutionists.
■ By the AssoelaUil Pn-ee
I An American destroyer has been
I ordered from Uhiefields. Nicaragua, to
1 e>iba, Honduras, to protect American
j lives and property there.
The destroyer was asked for by th
| American consul at Ceiba, who las’
week reported that Inmates of the
penitentiary there had combined with
revolutionists and seized the town,
temporarily ousting the federal forces.
V'idle the trouble in Ceiba has sub
sided since control reverted to federal
hands, the uncertainty of the situa
tion, In the consul’s opinion, made it
desirable to have an American naval
craft there to guarantee protection for
foreigners in the event of revolution
ary uprisings in the near future.
REINDEER MEAT COMING
By the Associated Press.
Although the Agricultural
meat announced today that reindeer
meat would be placed on sale soon, it
was said the killing of the animals
had not included Vixen, Trlxen atid«
the other of Santa Claus' team. Sot
children need have no fear that the
annual Christmas visit will be aban
doned.
One firm in Alaska has Informed
the department that it expected to
export 5,000 carcasses. Much of the
meat Is shipped from Nome, Alaska,
through Seattle.
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