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MAN KILLS WOMAN
AND ENDS OWN LIFE
Mrs. Mary E. Smith and Law
rence Bonausch Found
Dead in Room.
Following a quarrel, Lawrence Bo
rausch, 37 years old. of 1362 Harvard
street last night shot and killed Mrs.
Alary E. Smith, 38, of 509 H street, a
divorcee whom he had been courting
three years, then turned the pistol on
himself and sent a bullet through ills
train, dying instantly.
The shooting took place at the
home of Mrs. Smith, who was a
printer’s assistant at the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing.
Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt, after
viewing the two bodies, Issued a cer
tificate of death by homicide in the
«-ase of Mrs. Smith and death by sui
cide in the case of Bonausch.
Roomer Calls Police.
Kqumers at the 11 street address
tveae unable today to tell poUoo just
what took place prior to the -hooting.
.Miss Harriet Fridley, who has a room
next to that of Mrs. Smith, and Rob
ert R. Ward, 731 S’xth street, who
was visiting Miss Fridley, say that
Bonausch entered th» house about
5:30 o’clock without ringing the door
bell and went direct to his sweet
heart’s room.
It was evident that Bonausch went
to Mrs. Smith's room with the inten
tion of “having it out.” as tie had
locked the door and it was necessary
for Motor Cycle Policeman Claude O.
Rtipe of the sixth precinct to break
it down after he had been summoned
by Miss Fridley. When Rupe entered
he said he found the body of Mrs.
Smith lying by her bed and tha. of
Bonausch stretched out near the d*or.
Had Observed Jealousy.
It was recalled by roomers at the
Jl street address today that during
the period of Bonausch's attentions to
Mrs. Smith he had evidenced intense
.iealousy, and about three weeks ago
is alleged to have threatened her.
Bonausch. police learn, was a pri
vate chauffeur, and had lived at the
Harvard street house fob about two
months. Prior to this he lived on
Columbia road. His parents, in To
ledo, Ohio, have been notified.
Mrs. Smith, according to tiie police,
has been divorced about nine years.
Tim couple were pronounced dead
by Dr. Paul Porten of Emergency,
who declared both had died imme
diately.
FIRST TAX PAYMENT
DUE DURING MONTH!
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Personal Bills Will Be Mailed. But j
Real Estate Bills Must
Be Called For.
The first installment of the real i
estate and personal property tax for
the fiscal year 1926-1927 Is due this
month, it was announced today by
Tax Assessor William P. Richards.
The personal tax bills will be mailed, J
but the real estate tax bills will have j
To be procured at the office of Mr. i
Richards in the District Building. The j
real estate bills will be mailed upon j
request, however, providing the tax-!
paver writes Mr, Richards giving his!
address and the square and lot nurn- !
ber of the property owned.
Preparation of the real estate bills j
numbering approximately 76,000 have j
been completed and they are ready for j
distribution. These bills represent j
about 175.000 pieces of property and j
are based on the new tax rate of j
Si.SO per SIOO of assessed valuation. ;
The personal tax bills number about j
to,oou.
Duo to the higher tax rate Mr. Rich
ards has estimated that the real es
tate taxes for the current year will
y.eld $17,000,000 and the personal
property taxes about $6,000,00').
Revenue derived from the real estate
tax last year amounted to $14,330,000.
and from the personal property tax
£5.446,000.
The new tax bills call attention- To
ihe change In the taxpaying months
irom November and May to Septem
ber ami March. As the law changing
the taxpuving months does not become
effective until December, the lirst in
stallment of the taxes is due tills
fr.omh, but next year it will be in
(September. The second installment
•>f the 1926-1927 taxes will be due in
March.
NEW TRIAL IS GRANTED
IN ELKINS ESTATE SUIT;
j
Court of Appeals Sets Aside Judg
ment Awarding Equitable In
vestment Co. $176,000 Claim.
The District Court of Appeals, in
kn opinion by Chief Justice Martin, I
today reversed the judgment of the !
District Supreme Court and awarded 1
•t new trial to Davis Elkins, S. B. I
Elkins and the Davis Trust Co. of
West Virginia, executors of the estate
> t Richard Elkins, a son of Stephen
i>. Elkins, a former United States Sen
ator from West Virginia.
The executors had been sued on an
nileged promissory note for $150,000
by the Equitable Investment Co. of
Washington, which claimed to have j
jeceived the note by assignment from I
.John Richmond. The verdict, includ
ing interest, was for $176,000, and was
returned March 12, 1924.
Tin* transaction was said to have
taken place in New York April 19,
1921. and the note was said to have,
been given for the assignment by ■
Richmond to Elkins of a partnership
interest in certain gas and oil prop
erties. The executors attacked the j
authenticity of the note, and during I
the examination of Richmond at the !
trial counsel asked him what con-j
sideration was paid him for the as i
algnment of the note to a man named j
De Mesa, from whom the plaintiff oh- j
tained it. On objection of plaintiff’s 1
counsel, the court would not permit ;
the answer. This, the appellate
tribunal holds, was prejudicial error,
and accordingly sejs aside the Judg
ment.
REVELLERS END IN COURT.
Halloween Swells List of Those
Locked Up to 157.
Revelry among Halloween cele
brants added to the usual Police
Court congestion over the week end.
swelling the total of those locked up
to 157- This number, however, fell
short of records of other week ends,
when there was no holiday.
< iollateral lists showed some 250
names, with the majority resulting in
forfeitures.
Arrests for ail offenses during the 48
hours ended at 8 o'clock this morn
ing totaled 682, arrests for intoxica
tion totaling 170. Twenty-two per
sons were arrested for alleged illegal
sale, possession and transportation of
Intoxicants and 185 for alleged traffic
violations.
Character Is not ready made, hut it
Victim of Bullet
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WILLIAM J. BARBEE, JR.
YOUNG RULE IS HELD
FOR GRAND JURY IN
SLAYING OF BARBEE
(Continued from First Page.)
again standing, the witness continued,'
declared if any one cared to step for
ward, he would boat him up. At this
point, according to the witness, Bar- j
bee, ids hands on his hips cried, “Why :
don't you pick on some one j our'
own size,” and took one step forward, j
There was the flash of a gun, one
shot and Barbee fell to the ground, !
the jury was told.
After the shooting, it was recounted.
Rule returned to the clubhouse, and
invited two of Barbee’s friends to
stay with him while the wounded
youth was being taken to Walter Reed
Hospital. Defense Attorney Welsh
emphasized that Rule did not attempt
to escape.
Wallace’s testimony was corrobo- ;
rated in virtually every detail by j
Henry B. Dalby of 2138 California !
street, who was standing beside Bar
bee at the time of the shooting. He
said, in addition, that he, Barbee and
Perkins, before leaving for the Pi Phi
dance had visited the home of a friend |
where they were given a small glass j
of liquor, but he insisted that it was 1
not sufficient to make any of the three |
intoxicated. j
Testifies for Defense.
The first defense witness was .
Donald George Dow, 17, of 555 Ran
dolph street, Washington, a senior at
Central High School. He told the
Jury that he and Rule. Jesse L. Ward.
| Lawrence Garber, and several other
j youths last Spring rented the cottage
, on Burnt Mills road as a sort of club,
j At the time of the shooting Saturday,
j be said, these club members and sev-
I oral other friends, including five girls !
J and their chaperon, were holding a j
| Halloween party at the club,
i Things were pretty dull, he said, '
i so he and two others took weapons !
i which they had at the place and did i
I some practice shooting on a nearby I
j hill. They had Just returned when I
three cars bearing the Barbee party
drew up.
“There's a big gang coming up—
a tough crowd—looks like they’re
j drunk,” Dow declared one of his
] party cried. The girls were taken j
! inside the house and the boys pre- ]
I pared to defend themselves, he de- j
j dared. While he was hunting for
j a club he heard some one shout “stop
• that swearing,” which was followed
| by a shot.
Barbee Funeral Wednesday.
Young Barbee was born in this city,
j He was a member of the Maryland
i National Guard, serving under Capt.
j Clarence Sayer of Kensington. He
j was graduated from Dev’itt Prepara
j torv School last Spring, winning a
j scholarship for his athletic skill, and j
was captain of the Crescent foot ball
team.
It was his ambition to obtain an ap- j
pointment to West Point Military I
Academy, and he already had con- ,
suited numerous influential friends I
with such a purpose in view. He is i
survived by his parents and two sis- j
ters. Misses Olyve and Helen Barbee, •
Funeral services will be conducted !
at the home, 1822 Vernon street, Wed- !
nestlay afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev. j
F. C. Reynolds, pastor of Wesley I
Methodist Episcopal Church and chap-1
lain of the Ist Infantry, Maryland
National Guard, will otfieiate. Inter- j
ment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery, j
Washington.
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D. C. LODGES OBSERVE
“MASONIC SUNDAY’’
j i
Assembled Members of Fraternity j;
!
Hear Sermon by Rev. Dr.
John C. Palmer. i I
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Washington's observation of Ma- j
sonic Sunday was held last night at |'
the Washington Heights Presby- j J
| terian Church, Columbia and Kab ]
orama roads, of which Rev. Dr. John 1 >
C. Palmer is pastor. , 1
Taking as his text, "Set your heart !
and soul to seek the Lord.” Dr.
Palmer declared that God cannot be M
proven by the physical senses. The J
agnostic who declared that he “had '
searched the ends of the earth” with
| out finding God took the wrong
: course, contended the speaker, who :
declared that to find God. one must j
cultivate the spiritual vision.
Masonic Sunday is observed in <
i every city throughout the United
States on the last Sunday in October, ’
that day being decided upon by the
National League of Masonic Clubs.
The Washington Masonic Club select
ed the Washington Heights Presby- .
terian Church for yesterday's ob- i
servanoe, the third annual such cele- j i
bration in Washington.
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OLD CAPITAL RESIDENT
DIES IN BRIEF ILLNESS;'
Edwin L. Fuller, Shipping Board
Statistician, Will Be Buried
Tomorrow From Late Home. 1
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Edwin L. Fuller, 73 years old,
Shipping Board statistician, died Sat- ! <
urday at Homeopathic Hospital after j
a brief illness. He was a native of <
Philadelphia and had lived in Wash
ington for 25 years. Mr. Fuller is
survived by a daughter, Mrs. Marie
Hartley of San Francisco, Calif. 1 1
Funeral services will be conducted j
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at !
his late home, 3404 Seventeenth .
street, by Rev. Robert Johnston of
St. John's Church. Interment will
take place Wednesday at Philadel
phia.
Three-Hour Quake Recorded.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, No
vember 1 UP). —A pronounced earth
quake, lasting more than three hours,;
was recorded here last night at Gon- j
zales Heights observatory. The;
temblor, which began at 5:41 p.m., j
was estimated to be 400 miles distant, |
off the Oregon coast.
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1926.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
CAUSE DEATH OF 2
Mrs. Lucy P. Morrison and
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Mrs. Cornelia Major, Hurt
Recently Expire Today.
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Deaths this morning of two persons
injured in traffic accidents last month
make a total of 11 traffic deaths last
month and 69 during the current year.
Mrs. Lucy P. Morrison. 63 years of
age, 4726 Fifth street, one of the per
sons who died this morning, was in
jured about 8 o’clock the night of Oc
tober 9, when an automobile in which
she was a passenger was in collision
with another machine, and was forced
against the base of a lamppost at Il
linois avenue and Decatur street.
Mrs. Cornelia Major, colored, 65
years of age, 806 Twenty-fourth
, street, also died this morning. She
! was knocked down by a street car
; near Washington Circle shortly before
! 7 o’clock the morning of October 27
I and h?r skull fractured, and she was
", not id< ntified until two days after the
| accident. She died at Emergency Hos
pital.
Mrs. Morrison was riding in an
automobile driven by Stanley D. Pur
: cell, residing in Mrs. Morrison’s home,
when the car of Edward S. Rainey,
j 422 Twelfth street southeast, is re
! ported to have collided with it and
forced it against the lamp post. Her
nose was broken and her face and
, body injured. She died at Garfield
Hospital.
Coroner Nevitt will conduct in
: quests at the morgue tomorrow to
have a jury determine the question
i of responsibility for the deaths.
Persons injured in traffic accidents
over the week end were: Charles
Vermillion, Fourteenth and Emerson
streets; Charles Wengerd, 1319 Park
road; Louis Sullivan, 1207 Thirty-third
street; Burry Jarboe, 413 Second street;
Virginia C. Weiler, 17 years old, 3956
Thirteenth street: Edwin Winslow, 22
years old; Mrs. Rose Mensh, 37 years
i old, 1837 First street; Thomas Isbell,
colored, 65 years old, 1808 New Jersey
; avenue, and Albert Bell, colored, 35
years old, 1543 Ninth street.
COVELL EXAMINES
TELEPHONE AFFAIRS
Studies American Company’s
Holdings in Local Firm With
William McK. Clayton.
A study of the American Telephone
; and Telegraph Co.’s holding in the
| Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
j Co. was started today by Maj. W. E.
I R. Covell, senior Assistant Engineer
Commissioner, and William McK.
I Clayton, newly-appointed temporary
legal adviser to the Public Utilities
Commission.
The investigation will be made in
connection with the probe of
. the North American Co.’s in
; terest in the Washington Rapid
1 Transit Co. and other utility corpo
rations in the District. Maj. Covell
said he does not believe the La Fol
lette anti-merger law, under which
the legality of the status of the bus
company was questioned, is applica
ble in the case of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Co. Congress,
he believes, passed a special act ap
proving the acquisition of the C. & P.
Telephone Co. stock by the A. T. &
T. Co.
FEAST OF CHRIST
CELEBRATED HERE
I
Very Rev. Ignatius Smith in
terprets Humanitarian Work
as Proof of Progress.
Progress in art, science, philosophy
and theology, and the institution of
hospitals, asylums and churches, all
glorified by blood and martyrdom, are
stations in the inarch toward the
Kingdom of Christ, declared Very
Rev. Ignatius Smith, prior of the Do
minican House of Studies, Brookland,
at the joint Holy Name service in the
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
of the Catholic University last night,
in observance of the feast qf Christ
the King.
“This march is continued in our
own country here,” Father Smith de
clared to the 3,000 persons who at
tended the service, arid added: “It
brings happiness to all peoples of all
races and of all times. The Kingdom
of Christ is not of the world, as He
Himself said, but this kingdom is of
Heaven, and the world must conform
itself to His divine command in order
to reach that heavenly kingdom.”
First Observance Here.
The service at which Father Smith
spoke was the first observance here
of the feast of Christ the King, which
was added to the ecclesiastical cal
endar last year by Pope Pius XI, and
it was under ihe auspices of the;
Washington section of the Archdiocese j
Holy Name Societies, representing 40 |
parishes.
In conclusion, Father Smith de-*
dared that the 2,000,000 members of
the Holy Name Society were pledged
to profess constantly their belief In
the divinity of » hrist.
Mgr. P. C. Gavan, spiritual director
of the society, was celebrant of the
vesper service and of the benediction
of the blessed sacrament which fol
lowed.
Service With Candles.
After the benediction each of the
Holy Name members held a lighted
candle while, as a body, they recited
the Holy Name pledge in the darkened
crypt.
Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, rec
tor of Catholic University, presided
over the devotions. Music was fur
nished by a choir of 100 men, stu
dents and priests of the Dominican
House of Studies.
Officers of the Holy Name Societies,
Washington section, who arranged the
service last night, were Cornelius
Ford, president; Harry O’Neill, vice
president: Matthew Noome. secretary;
John Curtin, treasurer, and Capt.
Harry Walsh.
Jamaica May Ban Panamans.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 1
OP). —The legislative council of
Jamaica purposes to retaliate against
Panama on the question of emigra
tion. A bill to provide that no
Panaman having less than SSOO shall
be permitted entry into Jamaica will
be introduced.
Recently the Panaman government
passed a bill prohibiting the landing
in the republic of Jamaican emigrant*.
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TWO LEADS THAT FAILED IN SCRIVENER CASE
k _ .
. fSSHBL
The revolver that ended the life of detective, found shot to death under
mysterious circumstances, and tom tie that was gripped in his hand when
the body was discovered, have thus far added only to the perplexity of police,
who at first looked upon them as valuable clues.
MORE STOPS IN D.C.
FOR SIATE BUSSES
Utilities Commission Hears
Interfederation Plea for
Better Facilities.
Expressing its hearty accord in the
general plan for logical development
of adequate transportation lines into
nearby Maryland and Virginia, to be
embraced in the general Greater
Washington development plans of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, members of the District
Utilities Commission today promised
a liberal attitude in the granting of
downtown stopping privileges to es
tablished bus lines and favorable con
sideration to any proposals that in
sure development of trunk transporta
tion lines from outlying sections along
logical lines.
The executive committee of the In
terfederation Conference, consisting
of President R. E. Plymale of the Ar
lington County Civic Federation;
Jesse C. Suter, president of the Feder
! ation of Citizens’ Associations of the
District of Columbia, and Oliver Owen
Kuhn, president of the Montgomery
County Civic Federation, appeared be
fore the commission, asking that
greater liberality be shown by the Dis
trict commission in granting down
town stopping privileges, in order that
present inadequate transportation
conditions be rectified, and that some
encouragement be given to companies
desiring to operate in the suburban
areas logically to be included in
Greater Washington plans.
Suburban Growth Restricted.
Mr. Kuhn, speaking on behalf of
the Interfederation Conference and
the Montgomery Federation, declared
that the present policy of limiting the
loading and unloading privileges of
already established bus lines and the
knowledge that rights would be re
stricted to new ones, had tended to re
strict the logical growth of Washing
ton’s suburbs and was antagonistic to
the accepted theory of the Greater
Washington plan that adequate
through lines be established from the
suburbs to downtown Washington. At
present, he said, Maryland sections
are restricted in their growth and
people generally inconvenienced by in
adequate transportation facilities.
Should there be granted a large num
ber of stops in downtown sections of
the city and interstate busses be per
mitted to take on and let off passen
gers at a larger number of fixed
points en route these lines naturally
could be expected to not only live, but
render desired service.
Mr. Kuhn declared that the present
move was not in the interest of one or
many carriers, and that if present
existing and operating companies
would extend their facilities to care
for the thickly populated areas outside
the District, this would be satisfac
tory, but that if the established com
panies refused to grant such service,
then the District Utilities Commission
should entertain proposals from new
companies who would insure needed
service. These interstate companies,
he said, should be permitted greater
degree of latitude in the taking on
and letting off of passengers within
the District.
Sees Curb on City Plans.
The chief trouble today, he declared,
was that the number of points within
the District where bus lines could
take on and let off passengers was
so restricted as to place throttling
curbs upon the development of out
lying areas in accord with the greater
Washington plans. This system, he
said, worked to the disinterest of
Washington merchants, to the disin- j
terest of thousands of people residing
in outlying sections but working in
Washington, and was a great draw
back to any company proposing to
remedy the situation.
Commissioner Bell declared there
was no reason why the District Utili
ties Commission should not extend
the number of stops for bus lines
within the District, and in this view
lie was supported by Commissioners
Rudolph and Dougherty.
The commission suggested that the
interfederation committee approach
the traction companies to see if these
could not be persuaded to extend
their activities so as to embrace bus
line systems within the thickly popu
lated area of Montgomery County. In
case existing operating companies re
fuse to give the granted relief and
establish routes in conformance to de
sired ends, then the District Commis
sioners would consider new proposals
from other concerns desiring to tap
the territories affected.
Commission Sympathetic.
The District commission declared
that it might be expected at all times |
that its policies in regard to the es- j
tablishment of adequate transporta
tion lines from suburban Washington,
which in effect must become part and j
parcel of the District of Columbia,
would be sympathetic.
Members of the Interfederation Con- ;
ference executive committee will ar- ;
range conference with the traction j
companies most .interested in the mat
ter of extension of service and deter-:
mlnertheir attitude toward augment- j
ing prevailing facilities. It is expect- |
ed however, that if encouragement is
not received, immediately new com- !
panies will file petitions for charter |
with the service commission of Mary
land and in turn file them with the
District commission and ask certain
rights for loading and unloading pas
sengers within the District of Co
lumbia.
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BAND CONCERTS.
Tomorrow.
By the United States Soldiers’
Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley
Hall, 5:45 o’clock, John S. M. Zlm
mermann. leader; Evil A. Fens tad.
second leader.
SIX BABIES BURNED
FAIALLY IN CRASH
Mother Also Dies, as 2 Trucks
Catch Fire After One
Hits Trolley.
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By the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio, November I.— A
mother and six babies are dead of
burns suffered in the wreckage of a
truck when an automobile collided
with an interurban car and another
truck early today. Six persons were
Injured, three possibly fatally.
The deud: Mrs. Rose Mary Capozzi,
37, and her four children, William Ca
pozzi, 5; Tony Capozzi, 4; Georgia Ca
pozzi, 3, and Joseph Capozzi, jr., 1.
Grace Alio, 3.
Bernard Alio, Infant.
Critically injured are: Mrs. Frances
Alio, Joseph Capozzi, 39, husband of
the dead woman and driver of one of
the trucks.
The accident happened when Jo
seph Capozzi, bis entire family and
Mrs. Frances Alio and her three
children were returning home. Ca
pozzi was driving a truck, and ahead
was Sam Tripoli, taking his mother
in-law, Mrs. Rosa Vitrano, home in
another truck. Witnesses said that
as the two trucks crossed a bridge,
Capozzi attempted to pass Tripoli
and drove his machine head-on into
an interurban car.
Almost immediately, witnesses de
clared, the truck driven by Capozzi
burst into flames, and the one occu
pied only by Tripoli and Mrs. Vi
trano, caught fire.
Three of. the dead were riding in
the closed cab of the Capozzi truck.
Tony and Joseph, jr., were dead
when they arrived at the hospital,
and Mrs. Capozzi, William and
Georgia Capozzi and Bernard and
Grace Alio died later.
STABS KILL YOUTH
AFTER HIS BULLET
GRAZES MUSSOLINI
(Continued from First Rage.)
not explode until it had fallen to the
ground. Mussolini escaped unharmed.
His assailant at that time was seized
by a threatening crowd, but was pro
tected from mob vengeance by the
police. Four passersby were wounded
by the bomb.
On April 7 previously, just before
Mussolini’s departure for Tripoli, Miss
Violet Gibson, an Englishwoman, fired
a shot which caused a slight injury to
the tip of his nose. The attack was
made when the premier was leaving
a session of the Congress of Surgeons
in Rome. Miss Gibson has since been
declared insane by medical experts
testifying at her trial.
An attempt in November, 1925, was
frustrated when the police discovered
a plot to assassinate him btf the for
mer Socialist deputy, Zaniboni. On
Italy’s Armistice day, as the premier
was on his way to make a speech
from his residence, Zaniboni was
found concealed in a nearby hotel
with a high-powered rifle fitted with
telescopic sights and set up in direct
line with the balcony where Mussolini
was to stand.
Os the other two attempts on the
life of Mussolini, no details were
made public. One of these attacks was
said to have been carried out. but
without effect, by a royal guard at
Chigi Palace in 1923, and the other in
j 1924. when he was reported to have
j been shot at while traveling by motor
car from an outlying city to Rome.
Deemed Divinely Guarded.
The Italian people have come to
look upon Mussolini as specially pro
tected by Divine Providence. He.
himself announced as the slogan of
his life, “Live in danger,” and has
repeatedly declared that he would
carry out all his plans for the better
ment of his country no matter what
happened, or what dangers con
fronted him.
Recently a law was passed in
Italy nuking it a capital crime to at
tack the premier, to be punished by
the extreme penalty.
At the celebration of the fourth an
niversary of the Fascist march on
Rome last Thursday, Mussolini re
viewed the progress made under
Fascism. He prefaced his speech
with the words: "It is idiotic to de
, cry the regime of Fascism as having
i produced an oligarchy with a cruel
i and mysterious tyrant at its head. It
l is equally absurd to accuse Fascism
| of being an unpopular regime and an
enemy of the working classes.”
Mussolini went to Reggie Saturday
to open the Po Railroad and, as he
| put it, “to start the fifth year of
i Fascism in inaugurating a new work,
which does honor to the nation.”
He left for Bologna, where he was
received with a shower of flowers.
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NEW SOCIALIST PAPER.
' French Deputy Will Edit Party
Daily in Paris.
PARIS. November 1. <JP) —A Social
ist daily newspaper with a capital of
2,000,000 francs will be published at
the beginning of 1927. The national
council of the Socialist party haw
reached this decision and designated
i Leon Blum, leader of the party in the
Chamber of Deputies, as editor-in
chief.
In proposing the project at a meet
ing of the national council yesterday.
Deputy Bracke said the Socialists
could finance the paper by depriving
themselves of only 10 "appetizers”
during the forthcoming year. The
proposal was then voted unanimously.
HOUDINIS SECRETS OF ESCAPE
LOCKED IN MYSTERY OF DEATH
Magician Dies With Feats
Unexplained Even to
Own Managers.
Son of Rabbi Won Fame by
Offer to Duplicate Me
diums' Works.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Mich., November I.
Harry Houdini’s mysterious feats of
escape, which thrilled spectators !
throughout the world in his life, to- |
day werp locked in the mystery of
death.
The magician, hailed by his fellow
workers as the greatest of them all,
died here last night, taking with him
the secrets of how he escaped 1 from
manacles, chains, coffins, strait
jackets and other contrivances, per
formances which no other man ever
had duplicated under his challenge.
Although lloudini wrote copiously
on magic, the fruit of his quarter of
a century experience as a conjurer,
his managers announced that his own
methods never were revealed.
“His stunts were his own and not
adapted from something some one
else had done,” said B. M. L. Ernest,
vice president of the Society of Ameri
can Magicians, In explanation of his
unrevealed mysteries.
Great Skill In Escapes.
Although lloudini performed the
usual run of magical tricks and gained
considerable notice for his untiring
attacks on spirit mediums, the public
probably was most attracted to his
adeptneijs In releasing himself from
almost any kind of confinement that
could lie devised.
In one of his favorite tricks he per
mitted himself to be bound hand and
foot in a box wrapped with ropes and
chains and placed under water. Ho
escaped from thousands of strait
jackets, picked innumerable locks and
freed himself while hanging from a
derrick in manacles and strait
jacket.
Probably one of his most spectacular
feats, also one of his latest, was when
he was confined in a coffin under water
for 90 minutes. This performance re
sulted from his long-standing chal
lenge that he could duplicate or ex
pose any seemingly magic trick. Ray
men Bey, an Egyptian man of magic,
had been creating discussion by re
maining in a sealed coffin under water
for 19 minutes and he accepted llou
dini's defy to duplicate the trick.
Explained by Short Breaths.
“Short breaths and conservation of
oxygen did it,” was Houdini’s expla
nation after he had bested th£ Egyp
tian at his own game by remaining
under water more than four times as
long.
Although Iloudini's appearance be
fore the public began at the age of 8
as a trapeze performer with a circus
troupe, he first turned his attention
to the business of opening locks with
out keys when he was apprenticed to
a locksmith in Appleton, Wis., his
birthplace, after his mother objected
to a continuation of his circus career.
The trick of opening handcuffs was
discovered when a handcuffed prison
er was brought into Appleton by a
sheriff who had lost his keys, llou
dini said the trick was known only
to him, his wife and the prisoner.
Cliallenge to Mediums.
One of the magician’s standing
offers, which he never had to pay,
was SIO,OOO to any medium who could
produce phenomena which he could
not reproduce solely by his strength
and mental agility. Holding that the
I works of mediums, hypnotists and
| mesmerists were spurious, he waged
j a continuous war on what he termed
their frauds, both through stage
presentations and through l>ooks, in
cluding "A Magician Among the
Spirits,” and one intended to expose
the medium who won the Scientific
American award.
lloudini was bom in Appleton April
6, 1874, the son of Rabbi Mayer Sam
uel Weiss, later adopting the name
by which he was known on the stage.
lie was taken suddenly ill during
a performance here and was operated
on for appendicitis last Monday,
peritonitis resulting. Ills widow sur
vives. The body will be taken to New
York in the bronze casket he carried
everywhere.
Died Mentioning Ingersoll.
Friends of the magician said today
that Houdini died with Robert Inger
soll’s name on his lips. Houdini had
been a close personal friend of Inger
soll and possessed the largest collec
tion of Ingersoll letters In the world.
Houdini, however, was not an agnos
tic, according to H. Elliot Stuckel, his
personal manager.
A statement issued by the family
blamed Houdini’s fatal illness on a
blow struck by a McGill University
Houdini Leaves Casts of His Hands
And Library to National Museum
By Consolidated Press.
NEW YORK, November I.—Harry j
Houdini dealt little with such stuff j
as premonitions, but his death Sunday
in Detroit found him not unprepared
for an untimely end.
The famous magician, when the
writer interviewed him in his New
York home less than three months
ago, had Just completed two metal
casts of his hands, life-size repro
ductions mounted in a glass case, and
exhibiting every line and curve of
those marvelous fingers which mock
ed at the strength of steel.
Likewise, the handcuff _Jking had
had made a marble bust "of himself
which he said would be the only
stone or marker placed over his
grave.
The metal hands were willed by
Houdini to the National Museum at
PROTEST CANTON ORDER.
American consular officers in Can
ton have lodged a protest with the
Cantonese government, asserting that
it has violated treaty rights by com- !
pelling all ships entering the port of j
Canton to submit to an examination i
by officials of the newly created Chi
nese Inspection Bureau, which acts
independently of the regular Chinese
customs administration.
This is the second protest to be
filed with the Cantonese government
in the past few weeks. The first was
made at the time the Cantonese
authorities levied surtaxes on foreign
shippers, which the State Department
holds also to violate existing treaty
rights.
BERLIN LABOR CHIEF DIES.
BERLIN. November 1 UP). —Robert
Dissmann, 38, Social-Democratic mem
ber of the Reichstag, died aboard the
steamship Columbus from heart dis
ease while returning from a trip to i
Mexico, where he went to study trade '
union conditions.
He was president of the German
Metal Workers’ Union, reputed to b*
the largest Individual trade union in
the world. His trip to Mexico w'is
under the auspices of the Interna
tional Metal Workers’ Union.
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HARRY HOUDINI.
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student at Montreal, October 22. The
statement said some students had j
gathered in Houdinl’s dressing room ;
following a performance and one of |
them struck the magician in the stom
ach as a test of strength. Houdini
winced and experienced increasing
pains which culminated in his
collapse a week ago.
Some Notable Escapes.
Some notable escapes by Houdini
were: Broke out of the Siberian prison
van in Moscow, Russia, In May, 1903.
Leaped, heavily handcuffed, from
the Belle Isle bridge into the Detroit
River, December 2, 1906, and released
himself under the icy waters.
Leaped into San Francisco Bay,
August 26, 1907, handcuffed with
hands behind his back, with more
than 75 pounds of ball and chain
locked to his body.
Freed himself from shackles espe
cially constructed by workers at the
Krupp factories in Essen, Germany,
in 1901.
FALTAI, BLOW IS DENIED.
Montreal Friends Say Houdini Was
111 on Arrival.
MONTREAL, November 1 (/P).—
Harry Houdini did not die of an injury
received on October 22, but was so
sick when he came here that he was
under care of a trained nurse, two
men connected with his Montreal ap
pearance asserted today.
The magician's family in Detroit
expressed the opinion that the fatal
illness was due to a blow dealt by a
McGill University student in testing
the magician’s strength.
Abbi Wright, manager of the local
theater where Houdini recently ap
peared, said Houdini was ill w-hen he
came to Montreal and forced himself,
with great difficulty, to go through
with his performance.
Dr. William I). Tait, professor of
psychology at the McGill University,
where Houdini delivered a lecture be
fore the McGill Union, said there was
no encounter between the magician
and the student, as reported from
Detroit.
DOYLE LAUDS HOUDINI.
British Author CalLs Spiritualism
Only Issue Between Them.
LONDON. November 1 UP). —Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, noted author
and spiritualist, today paid tribute to
the late Harry Houdini as “the world’s
master trickster.”
“His death is a great shock and a
deep mystery to me,” he said. “He
w r as a teetotaler, did not smoke, and
was one of the cleanest living men
I have ever known. I greatly ad
mired him, and cannot understand
how the end came for one so youth
ful.
“We were great friends, lie told
me much in confidence, but never
secrets regarding his tricks. How
he did them, I do not know. We
agreed upon everything except spirit
ualism.”
THURSTON PAYS TRIBUTE.
Houdini Classed With Barnum as
. Showman by Magician.
SYRACUSE. N. Y„ November 1 UP).
—Howard Thurston, magician and for
many years, friend of Harry Houdini,
in a statement declared that Houdini
as a showman was in a class with
Barnum: in force of character he re
sembled Roosevelt.
“He would have been on outstand
ing figure as a poltician,” Thurston
said. “Life was a serious proposition
with Houdini—-an indefatiguable work-J
er, insatiable ambition, an aggressive
enemy and a loyal friend. His love for
his mother was his deepest emotion.”
Washington, along with most of his
remarkable library, chiefly devoted
to works on the theater, to magic
and the black arts. He was the lead
ing authority on magic literature and
had the largest magic library in the
world, according to B. M. L. Ernst,
vice president of the Society of Amer
ican Magicians.
The collection has been valued at
$500,000, and was insured for $350,-
000. It filled most of the three floors
of Houdini’s modest brownstone
house in upper Manhattan. Houdini,
Incidentally, was probably just as
proud of his achievements as he was
of his prowess with handcuffs, strait
jackets and the wizardry of magic.
I He exhibited proudly a wrist watch
presented to him by a New York
newspaper, engraved with his name
as editor of the paper’s Sunday sec
tion on the arts of magic.
COBB IS GRANDFATHER.
Daughter Bom to Mrs. Frank M.
Chapman, Jr., in Italy.
FLORENCE, Italy, November 1
j 04b.—The birth of a daughter to Mr.
| and Mrs. Frank M. Chapman, Jr., at
I their home here was announced to
.day. Mr. Chapman is a son of Dr.
Frank M, Chapman, distinguished
New York naturalist, while Mrs. Chap
man is the only child of Irving fi.
Cobb, American humorist, who has
been in Italy several weeks awaiting
the event.
Mr. Chapman came here in pursu
ance of his musical studies. Mr. and
Mrs. Cobb are having for America on
the Conte Biancamano.
NEW MAIL PLANES FLY.
Machines Leave Milwaukee for
Northwest Route Duty.
MILWAUKEE, November 1 (/P).—
Soaring into the sky. three cabin
planes of the Northwest Airways Co.
[destined for immediate service on the
'Chicago, Milwaukee and Twin Cities
mail route, today took off for Minne
apolis and St. Paul. Aboard the
planes were officials of the company,
which plans to carry passengers as
well as mail on the Northwest route.
The planes arrived here Sunday
from Detroit.
*
m ARE KILLED
IN GUNMEN’S FEUD
Pal Slays Notorious “Killer”
as Police Engage in
Detroit Battle.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Mich., November 1.
The criminal career of James “Killer’
Cunniffe, sought In connection with
a half dozen major crimes. Including
murder and mail robbery, came to
an end here yesterday in a furious
pistol battle which cost the lives of
| three other persons and resulted It
the wounding of two more,
j The “killer” and an unidentified
t woman companion were shot to death
j by a pal, a man known here as Wll
I liam Olsen, who in turn was killed
j by a policeman, but only after lie
| had shot to death another officer and
1 wounded a bystander. The slain po
liceman was Ernest Jones, 35. Patrol
man Ephraim Rancour killed Olsen
in the exchange of shots after he him
[ self had been wounded. Ernest
j Burns, a resident of a fashionable
j apartment house where the shooting
! occurred, was struck by a stray
bullet.
Thousands on Floor.
The officers had answered a cal 1
to the apartment house to investi
gate a report of shooting there. When
the wounded Rancour finally gained
entrance he found the bullet-riddled
bodies of UunnifTe and the woman,
tv ho apparently had been slain b\
their companion. Approximately
SIO,OOO in currency was scattered
about the apartment and police e\
pressed the belief the three had
quarreled over a division of the
money, believed to have been loci
obtained in robberies.
Cunniffe, Olsen and the unman
came here shortly after a series of
crimes in New Jersey and New York
in which Cunniffe was accused of par
participating.
Cunniffe was accused of being one
of two men who shot and killed
Frank E. Kearney and his son Rob
ert near Hadley Air Field, on the
outskirts of New Brunswick, N. J
October 4. The pair were slain when
the elder Kearney refused to give
transportation to the gunmen, who, it
was later learned, were planning to
hold-up a shipment of mail. Ho was
also wanted for the murder of Ernest
L. Whitman, a bond salesman. In a.
bank holdup at Bellemore, Long Is
land, N. Y„ April 4. 1924.
Another slaying with which Cun
niffe was accused of complicity was
that of John Enz, a mail truck driver
and the robbery of more than $l5O,
000 in Elizabeth, N. J., on October
14. It was after this robbery that.
Postmaster General Harry S. New
ordered out the Marines to guard the
mails.
Esoaiied From Elizabeth.
An elaborate search was conducted
for Cunniffe and his companions and
it was thought for a time they had
been bottled up in the district about
Elizabeth. They made their escape,
however.
Cunniffe, Olsen and the woman
arrived here three days after the
Elizabeth robbery and rented the
apartment where the shooting or
curred.
A short time later a series of dar
ing bank robberies were staged in
Detroit. One bank was held up twice
in two weeks, officials said Conniffe
and Olsen answered the description
of the men who participated in these
robberies.
Police today were attempting to
identify Olsen, who is believed to
have been a member of the notorious
“Bum” Rodgers gang with which
Cunniffe was associated.
GASOLINE BURNS MAN.
Becomes Ignited When Being Used
to Clean Beds.
George Edwards, 45 years old, 415
G street, was burned about the face
and arms today when a can of gaso
line became ignited while he was
using the fluid to clean the beds In
his home.
Edwards was alone at the time of
the accident. He was taken to
Casualty Hospital In the sixth pre
cinct patrol, but his injuries were said
not to be serious. The fire was ex
tingulshed by the No. 3 and No. 6
engine companies before It had done
much damage.
REEVES' TERM UPHELD.
■ - I ■■■ - »
Ralph D. Reeves, former president
of the Reeves Guaranty Co., must
serve a term of two years and six
months in the penitentiary, according
to an opinion of the District Court of
Appeals rendered today by Chief
Justice Martin.
The court upheld a conviction of
Reeves under an embezzlement in
dictment, in which he was charged
with appropriating to his own use a
promissory note of $3,825, said to
have been the property of the com
pany.'
PIMLICO ENTRIES
FOR TUESDAY.
FIRST RACE—Purse. $1,300: 2-year-old*
claiming: *1 furlongs.
Alphabet ,08 •Indian Light... 104
Connadonna joi Juhn W. Weber., los*
•Foreclose .... 107 Salto 112
Miss Grier 107 Foundation .... lot
Ambition 104 Pomonke.v 112
•B. of the Rocks S 3 Gimia I>ee 108
Rock Light 115 •Olive Dexter.. 110
Handclasp 115 •Quadrille 110
•Matilda B S 3 Brootnoney .... 115
SECOND RACE —Purse. SI 300: 3-year
olds and up: claiming; 1 ,v miles
•Compromise ... 90 ‘Leroy
•Star Falcon— 111 •Flying A1 lUB
Powder 112 Highwayman ... 107
Zeod 107 Red Wingfield.. . 10H
•Dreammaker .. 11l Grand Bey 117
•Green Blazes. . 104 South Breeze. . . 106
•Ensile 190 •Lady Bountiful. 104
Postman 11l
THIRD RACE—The Pikesvilie Purse.
2-year-olds ' purse. SI.500; 6 furlongs.
Buddy Bauer... 115 The Heathen... 123
I.assa l'»7 Flippant 107
tWand. Minstrel. 115 Poly 115
Weeburn 11° Brown Bud lift
Lord Chaucer. . . 125 tbun Forward... 123
Sankari Ho
tj. W’. Bean-J. P. Smith entry.
FOURTH RACE —Pimlico Serial weight
for age. Race No. 1; all ages: 53.000 added
6 furlongs.
Taps 124 Sarazen 130
fßurd Helen. .. 108 tCelidon 127
Cu'jgeller 130 Cinema 124
t Macaw 137 Ebuford 11l
Prince of Wales. 127 fCroyden 137
♦Nedana 127 Shuffle Along. . . 130
JSklpalong .... 108
tßancocas stable entry.
JK. E. Hitt-D C. Sands entry.
IH. P. Whitney entry.
FIFTH RACE—The The Southern Hand,
cap: purse. $l.o00; claiming; all ages; 0
furlongs.
Titana 95 Mlllwick ...... 116
Cupid’s Curse... 103 Gavotte 100
Gold Piece 113 Storm King.,,, JlB
Big Heart 115 Tamarind ..... 108
SIXTH RACE —The Sudbrook Park,
purse. $1,500: 3-year-olds and up: 1 mUe
and 70 yards.
Lancaster ..... 105 Festival 105
King Sulonlpn’s Big Blaze 107
Seal 118 All Gone 107
Traffic 102 Lord Martin.... 110
Gamble 107 Golden Spire... 114
SEVENTH RACE—3-year-olds and up:
claiming: purse. $1,300: 1A miles.
•Ruban Rouge... 11l *Senate ...... 97
•North Breeze.. 11l Moses 107
Federalist 11l 'Redstone 100
Alopex 121 Delusive 118
Hedgefence .... 118 •Alletache .... 109
Noreeland ..... 118 Rose Mist 114
•King O.Neill II 118 •Mysterious .... 184
•Prince Hablet.. 110
•Apprentice allowance rlalmnd.
Weather, clear: track, heavy.