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FOUfS WIFE
FOUND IN NORTH
Pastor’s Mate, Lost for
Month, Discovered Living in
New Hampshire Woods.
Br the Assortatcd Pre«*.
CLAREMONT. N. 11.. November 14
—A clergyman s wife, for whom three
States have been combed in a search
lasting almost a month, was tempo
rarily reunited today with her husband,
the Rev. Dascomb JO. Forbush. before
being taken to a Baltimore hospital
where alienists, thrice before baffled
by her strange malady, will attempt
to retire the 30-year-old mother to
health and her four children.
Mrs. Forbush was found by a $6-
year-old Imv. who stumbled upon her
in a shark buried in a heavy woods.
In it she apparently had made her
home lor several weeks while Rev.
Forbush. after futilely following lead?-
ln Maryland and Virginia, turned
North to the vicinity of their Summer
home at Canaan, near here.
Weak From Exposure.
The woman disappeared from the
lobby of a Washington, D. C.. theater
October 19. while she and Rev. Mr.
Forbush. pastor of a church at <\innn
daigua. N. Y.. were on route to Florida
on a motor trip, which the minister
hoped would improve his wife’s
health.
When found Mrs. Forbush was worn
and weak from days of wandering
through woods in heavy rains and
from exposure suffered by nights in
the opeti. She was taken to rhe home
of Chief of Police Daniel E. White,
where she was fed and kept in seclu
sion until Rev. Mr. Forbush could be
notified.
Mrs. Forbush’s discovery ended an
Intensive search of more than a week,
most of the time under the clergy
man’s personal direction. Numerous
reports were heard that a woman cor
responding to Mrs. Forbush's descrip
tion had been seen in the hilly
countryside, but the searchers were
almost prepared to abandon the quest
when news of its unexpected ending
was received.
Bells Are Rung.
From Canandaigua came the word
that the announcement had brought
general joy. The bells in the City Hall
and those in the various Protestant
churches were clanged, bringing the
news to many who had followed
closely the minister’s search for his
wife.
Although seemingly in a rational
state of mind, Mrs. Forbush could
give no reason for her actions in
Washington. She said that she had
taken a train directly to Claremont
Junction.
DISAPPEARED TWICE.
Mrs. Forbush Found in Woods After
One Flight.
Mrs. Forbush, twice before the vic
tim of an obsession to seek solitude,
complicated by an hallucination of
being pursued, slipped from Keith’s
Theater here by one exit while her
husband, fearful that she intended
going away, watched at another.
The couple were on a motoring trip
to Florida, tendered them by the
pastor's congregation, in the hope that
it would prove a mental cure for Mrs.
Forbush. who had disappeared from
Canandaigua three weeks previously
end was found three days later 200
miles away, crouching in a thicket
near her abandoned car.
Victim of Influenza.
The first time she fell victim to the
obsession, induced by nervous depres
aion following a long siege of influenza
while doing war work in Baltimore,
she was recuperating at her home at
Port Washington, Wis. She was found
after two days later hiding in the
woods.
For eight years, she appeared to be
normal. She became the mother of
four children, the oldest 7 years and
the youngest 18 months, and was
prominent in work of her husband’s
church in Canandaigua, besides taking
a leading part in the civic and social
activities of the town.
Telling her husband that she was
going to a meeting of a church or
ganization, of which she was president,
she drove 200 miles the latter part of
September, and was found by a posse
of 100 fellow towsmen and friends
from Rochester.
As soon as she disappeared from
Keith s Theater here, her frantic hus
band sought co-operation of police and
four days later a posse arrived from
Canandaigua. The home town group,
at one time numbering 30 persons, in
cluded Mayor William J. MacFarlane,
Judge L. W. Van Deusen, Sheriff John
C. Bolles of Ontario County. Fred D.
Cribb. city attorney; Dr. H. C. Burgess,
alienist, and other prominent citizens,
representing all denominations.
Park Is Searched.
Acting on scores of leads, the posse
futilely searched Rock Creek Park and
made an intensive survey of the ter
ritory lying along both'banks of the
Potomac River.
Bloodhounds were placed in the
woods at several points where women
resembling Mrs. Forbush had been
seen, but they were unable to And any
trail. After they had been returned to
their kennels at Occoquan. they w'ere
recalled October 29 for an all-night
search of Burdoff’s woods, near Whea
ton, Md., where two colored laborers
reported seeing a woman resembling
the missing wife lying in a thicket
near the Kensington road.
A fresh posse of four Oanandaiguans
and B. A. McKinney. Boy Scout ex
ecutive of Rochester, and Clifford A.
Parmenter of Rochester, participated
in the search which was conducted by
police of Maryland and the District of
Columbia and assisted by scores of
volunteers On the following day,
more than 100 volunteer firefighters of
neighboring Maryland towns aided in
the quest.
All Clues Fail.
All local clues failed. Rev. Mr. For
bush motored to Canaan, N. H., No
vember 2 to Investigate information
that his wife had been seen in the
woods 40 miles from there, and had
obtained food at a farmhouse in the
Green Mountain region. He followed
the theory that she might be attempt
ing to make her way to their Summer
cottage at Canaan.
Mrs. Ellen G. Ramsey, mother of
the missing woman, arrived here No
vember 1 and, after the departure of
the husband, directed the independent
angle of the local search. She was
assisted for a time by Dr. Robert G.
Cook, head of Brigham Hall Sani
tarium, and Rev. G. E. Finlay, pastor
of the Baptist Church at Canandaigua.
CLAIM FILED’FOR $15,000.
“Jimmie’s Barber Shop” Owner
Sued for Injuries by Auto.
Leon Ammaducci, proprietor of
Jimmie’s Barber Shop, 3314 Four
teenth street, was sued for $15,000
damages today by Mrs. Catherine
and her husband, Gerhard
Laue, 523 Harvard street.
Mrs. Laue wants SIO,OOO damages
for Injuries alleged to have been sus
tained by her July 24, last, when a
car of the defendant collided with a
machine in which she was riding near
Mount Zion, Md. The husband asks
an additional $5,000 for the loss ol
Ms wife’s services and for the ex
pense incident to her Alness. Attor
.Tievs Maurice M. Grudd and R. N,
Jgjlkr appear for the plaintiff
Missing Woman, Found
in Woods, and Husband
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SALVATION ARMY
AIDS PLAZA PLAN
Abandons Scheme for Build
on the Avenue as Help
to U. S. Program.
Because of a desire not to interfere
in any way with the plans of the Gov
ernment for the Improvement of the
approach to the Union Station-Cap
ital plaza, the Salvation Army has
agreed to abandon plans for a new
building on its property on the north
side of Pennsylvania avenue between
First and Second streets.
This was made known today by
Capt. E. R. Hull, commander of the
organization in Washington, and by
Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of
the public building’s committee.
According to Capt. Hull, the army
had intended to erect a $300,000
structure on the north side of Penn
sylvania avenue in a line with the
building it has now on B street be
tween First and Second. Although
the army’ advisory board has not yet
decided where else it will build, Capt.
Hull said that definite decision had
been reached not to place its new
building on the army property near
Peace Monumnet. It was emphasized
by Capt. Hull that the decision was
set in order not to make It more diffi
cult for the Government to carry out
its proposed plan for the approach to
the Capitol-Union Station plaza.
The plaza plan, contemplated for a
number of years, calls for a wide
thoroughfare from the vicinity of
Peace Monument through the plaza
to the station.
GEMTHiEFWORKS
AS FAMILY SLEEPS
Loot of $585, Including S6O
Cash, Taken From Hamilton
Home, Woodley Place.
, The home of John*'.T. Hamilton at
i 2611 Woodley place was robbed be
-1 tween 1 and 5 o’clock this morning
( while Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton and
. their daughter, occupants, were sleep
ing. The burglar obtained Jewelry
! valued at $525 and S6O was taken
i from Mr. Hamilton’s trousers.
Mr. Hamilton, on awaking this
morning, saw that the dresser drawers
cf his room had been piled on the floor
, and that his trousers had been taken
. from a chair.
Drawers of a dresser in his daugh-
I ter’s room also had been removed. A
, hasty examination of the upper floors
- disclosed the theft of a bracelet valued
, at $250, a gold wrist watch, with
’ bracelet chain attached, valued at
i $200; a pearl bracelet, valued at $75,
t and S6O In bills from his pockets.
Hidden Gems Safe-
Several thousand dollars worth of
. jewelry which Mrs. Hamilton had
. hidden was overlooked.
, The burglar gained entrance through
, a rear kitchen window, which was
j unfastened. Itemaina of several oranges
> and a number of cigarette stubs were
j found on the kitchen floor.
The borne of Edward H. Bond, at
r 1516 Hamilton street, was broken into
last night and entered by a burglar,
f who, after smashing in a basement
. window, stole Jewelry worth $175 from
f an upstairs room.
t The home of diaries Charuhas, at
j 5208 Colorado avenue, was robbed of
a diamond ring, valued at $75, and sl2
! in cash by a burglar who gained en
r trance by using a duplicate key.
Clothing thieves forced a rear win
dow at the dry cleaning establish
ment of Robert Harris, at 707 P street.
1 some time during the week and stole
clothes valued at SIOO.
Morris A. Baker of Baltimore, Md.,
r reported to police that clothing valued
at S3OO had been taken from his auto
mobile while it was parked In front
f of 810 F street yesterday.
The report of theft of S6O worth of
9 clothing from the Monrow Plant, at
e 1502 Thirteenth street, was made
j yesterday,
Ethel Cook of 2004 Ninth street
s reported the theft of two pistols and
numerous articles of apparel from her
j, home yesterday,
x * * 1
jj Gamming Back From Pern.
if Surgeon Gen. TL S. Cumming of
the Publlo Health Service, has re
turned from the eight Pan-American
- THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. T>, C.. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1927.
ACTS TO CONDEMN
SITE FOR COURT
U. S. Seeks to Acquire Land
for New Offices of
High Tribunal.
- *
The Department of Justice at the re
quest of the Secretary of tlu- Treas
ury, today began in District Supreme
Court condemnation proceedings for
the acquisition of a site for the new
building of the United States Supreme
I Court. The land sought comprises the
two squares lying between East Cap
itol street and Maryland avenue and
First and Second streets northeast.
The site corresponds to that occu
pied by the Library of Congress on tlie
south side of East Capitol street. Con
| areas has appropriated $1,700,000 for
I the purchase of the property,
j Through United States Attorney
j Gordon, assistant United Sttaes Attor
ney General Henry H. Glassle and As
sistant United States Attorney James
O’Leary, the court Is advised that the
Treasury Department has been unable
to acquire the land at a reasonable
price from the owners and has request
ed the institution of condemnation pro
ceedings.
There are 37 parcels in square
727, and 44 parcels in square 728.
Citations will he ordered by the court
against each of the owners and such
other persons as claim any Interest
In the land. Advertisements will be
ordered to bring in any other per
son not so notified.
Three commissioners will he ap
pointed by the court, who will view
the land and then hold meetings at
which property owners and experts
for the Government will give testi
mony as to the value of the land and
improvements. When the award has
been filed, time will be set for the
owners to file objections, if any, to
the amount allowed them by the com
| mission and If no objections be filed.
the award will be confirmed by the
! court.
Should the property owners object,
a jury of seven citizens will be Im
paneled to set in review of the
award of the condemnation com
mission.
DAMES PUN
ON FLOOD CONTROL
Mississippi Association Told
U. S. Must Bear Cost
of Program.
By the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, November 14.—Dwight
F. Davis, Secretary of War, told the
Mississippi Valley Association today
that inland waterway navigation de
velopment and flood control are na
tional problems, the expense of which
should be borne largely by the Fed
eral Government.
"Loss of life, property and business
Incident to a flood disaster warrant
the expenditure of huge sums for flood
control,” Mr. Davis said.
Levee Need Stressed.
"Levees must be the backbone of
any plan for flood protection In the
Mississippi Valley, because more pro
tectlon for the same amount of money
can be obtained by this method than
by any other. But levees alone can
not be depended upon to solve the
entire problem. • • • A high-levee line,
built on foundations near the river
banks and constructed of the material
that must necessarily be used, cannot
be made so strong as absolutely to
preclude the possibility of accident.
However, any plan that does not re
duce the probability of a crevasse to
a minimum is unsound.
"The higher the levees are built the
greater the loss of life and property
that will result from a crevasse."
Secretary Davis outlined his conclu
sions on flood control as follows:
"1. Improvement of existing levees
and relocation of levee lines where
necessary.
"2. Spillways of sufficient capacity
to insure protection to the city of
New Orleans against super-floods and
to relieve pressure elsewhere.
Floodwayl Proposed.
"3. If justified from the engineering
and economic standpoint, the provision
of floodways which during super-floods
will carry excess water to the gulf.
"4. So far I have been unable to
judge whether it is practicable, or
economically feasible, to bring about
a material reduction in Mississippi
River flood heights by a system of
reservoirs on the tributaries. I be
lieve, however, that such a system of
reservoirs would require many years
to Install and that we cannot afford
to wait so long for substantial results.
"The entire valley must get behind
and push thfe plan finally worked out
by congressional committees, if there
is* to be slightest hope of success. We
should always remember that the
most difficult flood control problem of
all is to keep the waters of the Mis
sissippi in its banks and out of poli
tics."
A billion-dollar expenditure by the
Federal Government on flood control,
river navigation and conservation was
the plan James E. Smith of St. Louis
today held before the Valley Associa
tion, of which he is president.
Up to Government.
A speaker on today’s program of
the association s ninth annual conven
tion, Smith declared flood protection
and waterway development "must go
hand in hand as national problems
and the Government must assume en
tire responsibility and pay every dol
lar of their cost.”
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri,-
another speaker, was of the opinion
the Government, if it completely domi
nates navigable waters, also should
harness them. Senator Joseph T. Rob
inson of Arkansas, was fearful that
rivalries and Jealousies among indi
viduals and associations would con
fuse the flood control movement.
"The billion-dollar program can be
completed in 10 years," said Mr.
Smith. "Its cost will be trivial when
compared with the resultant benefits
which the completion of the work will
bestow on our population."
He urged enactment of emergency
legislation by Congress as Imperative.
The program, he added, must be car
ried through In Its entlretly If its aims
are to be realized.
Use for Feeders.
He said all navigable streams should
be put to use, smaller ones as feeders
of the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri
Rivers, which form “the trunk line
waterways of America."
Senator Reed declared "the nation
that asserts complete domination over
navigable rivers must accept tlfte duty
of harnessing their waters."
"Flood prevention, power conserva
tion and navigation are Interrelated
and interdependent propositions,” he
said, "and closely connected with all
of these problems Is the development
of the great Interior and betterment
PITTSBURGH AREA RAVAGED RY BLAST
Explosion Ilr^v
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NATIONAL FLOODS
CONTROL IS URGED
Plan Submitted to House
Committee by American
Farm Bureau.
By the Associated Press.
A plan of flood control applying to
all rivers of the nation was presented
today to the House flood control com
mittee by the American Farm Bureau
Federation, through its Washington
representative, Chester H. Gray.
He said the farmers of the country
favored the Federal Government tak
ing full charge of the national flood
control problem.
Mr. Gray followed Representative
Leavitt. Republican, Montana, as a
witness before the committee which
commenced its second week of hear
ings today. Mr. Leavitt proposed the
?stablishment of reservoirs on Montana
rivet a which form the headwaters of
the Missouri River, one of the
Mississippi’s principal tributaries.
Outlines Plan,
Tho principal features of the Farm
Bureau's flood plan were outlined by
Mr. Gray as:
•‘l. Levees must be strengthened,
straightened and made higher as the
first line of defense.
“2. Diversion channels or spillways
must be provided for in/ the lower
reaches of the Mississippi River.
“3. Parallel channels are recom
mended to be secured by constructing
drainage ditches so that the principal
carrying capacity of the river will be
increased.
"4. Surveys of tributary streams to
ascertain how navigation, power de
velopment and flood control can be all
secured in one effort.
“5 The construction of reservoirs
at points on tributary streams ascer
tained by the surveys.
“6. Reforestation.”
Cost of Reservoirs.
Mr. Leavitt said the cost of the
reservoirs should be apportioned be
tween the Federal Government and
the States, the Federal Treasury
paying on the basis of flood control
and the States for the agricultural
benefits accruing to them.
He outlined a number of dam sites
on the Missouri and its tributaries in
the Chain of Lakes section of Mon
tana, including the Big Horn, Yel
lowstone, Milk and Gallatin rivers.
"Thera are many reservoir sites and
dams already established on those
streams which could be utilized in
flood control of the Missouri.” he
added.
"This Is a long-time enterprise
which we are engaged upon," Mr
Grav told the committee, “and it is
well’ that we have definite knowledge
before proceeding to the lavish ex
penditure of money. Congress should
not be asked to expend hundreds of
millions of dollars for flood control
until the Army have, by
exhaustive surveys, ascertained how
the money can best be spent. It
seems inadvisable, too, that a new
Federal Commission should be set up
to attend to flood control affairs. Pres
ent existing Federal agencies seem t(
have the technical knowledge as well
as the ability properly to expend what
ever appropriations are provided b:
Congress.”
A National Issue.
“Flood control is a national issue,
not only on the Mississippi River, but
on other rivers which are Interstate
in character,” he continued. “No
longer can we expect the farmers and
the communities on our great rivers
to hear the burden of controlling
waters which flow down upon them
from great at*eas beyond their res
pective States.
“The physical carrying capacity of
some of our great rivers like the
Mississippi must lie made larger by
building levees stronger and higher
1 and straighter than have been true in
the past, and by, in some cases,
dredging parallel drainage ditches
which will, in times of flood, give
much more rapid progress of the
water from the flooded areas.”
The Farm Bureau Federation pro
poses three reservoir sites, including
on the upper Arkansas River in
Kansas, the Devil’s Lake region in
North Dakota and Cove Creek in
Tennessee.
MAN DIES IN HOSPITAL
DUE TO GAS POISONING
Rescued With His Wife by Fire
Department Squad, but Succumbs.
Couple Found Unconscious.
First aid by the rescue aq .ad of the
Fire Department last Friday after
noon in the case of Mr. and Mrs. L.
R. Bee. an elderly couple residing on
the third floor of 620 North Carolina
avenue southeast, found overcome by
gas, s ved the life of the wife, but the
husband died in Casualty Hospital
this morning.
Discovery of the unconscious couple
was made by David Myers, 16-year-old
occupant of the house, while search
ing for a leak in the gas pipe.
Gas had escaped from the jet of a
stove in the kitchen of the Bee apart
ment, the result, it is believed, of a
gust of wind having extinguished the
flame. Mrs. Be® recovered from the
effects of the ga a shortly after reach
ing the hospital and was able to re
turn to her home.
26 - Story Building |
Sways Under Force
J
Os Heavy Explosion
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, November 14.
The force with which the big gas
storage tank exploded on the
North Side today was recounted
by Government Weather Fore
caster W. S. Brotzman, who was
seated on the top (twenty-sixth)
floor of the Oliver Building. He
said:
"As if given a mighty push, the
Oliver Building swayed, something
like that caused by an earthquake.
We found that the barometer re
corded the increased air pressure
resulting. The air was so com
pressed by the violent concussion
that its pressure became greater
by live-hundredths of an inch.”
MANY DEAD, HUNDREDS
INJURED IN GAS TANK
BLAST IN PITTSBURGH
(Continued from First Page.)
where he lived. He whs sent to a
hospital.
County Commissioner Joseph G.
Armstrong, chairman of the commis
sion, arose from a sick bed and or
dered that county officials make what
ever expenditures were necesary to
relieve the sufferers. He ordered
that all facilities of the county de
partment of works be made available
to the police and firemen.
When rescuers reached a point near
the tank they found that the large
factory building occupied by the Union
Paint Co. had caved in. trapping all
the workers in the plant. Here a
number of dead were dug from the
debris.
Among the wrecked plants was the
McCutcheon works of the Carnegie
Steel Co., a part of the old city plant.
Luckily, the mill was not operating to
day. The five men on duty were in
jured. The roof was lifted from the
structure and the machine shop was
totally wrecked.
Death Toll May Mount.
Indications that the death toll would
increase was found In one wrecked
building alone—the plant of the Pitts
burgh Clay Pottery Co. One hundred
and fifty men escaped from the build
ing with cuts and bruises, while
eight or ten others, trapped in the
basement, were believed to have been
drowned by the water rushing in from
broken mains in the streets. Firemen
were pumping out the basement in an
effort to locate additional bodies.
Meantime, hundreds of firemen and
rescuers were digging into other piles
of debris, searching for victims.
George Howland, safety department
representative of the Equitable Co.,
expressed the belief that gas, leaking
from one tank into another supposedly
empty tank upon which workmen were
making some repairs, caused the
disaster. Twelve men and a foreman
were using acetylene torches to make
the repairs when the blast occurred,
he said. He thought that gas from
the filled tank leaked to the other
container and was ignited by the
torches.
TWO POLICEMEN INDICTED
FOR ACCEPTING BRIBES
IN LIQUOR LAW CASE
(Continued from First Page.)
Howard S. McDermott for joy-riding
and Charles Curtis for housebreaking.
A total of 19 indictments was re
turned, including Richmond Frizzed,
William Frizzell, Vernon Carter, Her
bert Carter. Lemuel Carton and
George P. Taylor, grand larceny and
joyriding: Charles Thomas, James
Wetherspoon, Walter Burris and John
H. Morgan, assault with dangerous
weapon; George W. Moore, Incest:
Harry Milner, carnal knowledge:
Blair Barghausen, grand larceny:
Dorothy Woodfaulk, alias Dorothy
Ilammond, and Mattie Thomas, grand
larceny: Wendell Smith, alias Abe
Marlin, and Nathan Cohen, alias
Stephen Cohen, housebreaking and
larceny: Charles Reed, forgery and
uttering, and Robert E. Humphries,
larceny after trust and embezzlement.
W. C. T. U. Meeting Wednesday.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
RIVERDALE, Md.. November 14.
An executive meeting of the Prince
Georges County Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will be held at the
home of the president, Mrs. Herbert
Roby, Wednesday at 1 p.m. The
chairman of the various committees
will be appointed and the year’s work
will be outlined.
Lineman Stumbles
Over Dead Father
In Ruins of Blast
By the Associated Prese.
PITTSBURGH, November 14.
Summoned to the scene of today’s
gas explosion disaster. Ray Mich
aels, an emergency electric lineman,
stumbled over the body of a man In
the street.
He halted, turned the body over,
and looked into the face of his
father, C. F. Michaels, superintend
ent of the wrecked gas works.
The son aooomoanled the remains
ta the moreue. ' .»• ?*ft*3*
hard b. owen
DIES IN AUTO WRECK
Patent Attorney in Car Run
Down by Truck —His
Wife Injured.
Swerving from one side of the road
to tho other, a heavy automobile
truck, in which several colored men ’
wore riding, crashed last night into
the car of Richard Blakelock Owen, 3s
years old, a patent lawyer of this city
on Strawberry Hill, between Uppei
Marlboro and Foreatville, Md., crush
lug Mr. Owen's skull and indicting it
juries from which he died about
o'clock this morning in Provider-
Hospital.
Mrs. Owen, who was sitting by her
husband’s side with their 6-year-old
son, George, in her lap, suffered slight
bruises of the left arm. The little boy,
who was wrapped in blankets, was
unhurt.
* Truck Driver Held.
Charles Herbert, colored, 37 years
old, who lives on M street between
New Jersey avenue and First street
southeast, is at Casualty Hospital
under guard of a policeman from the
ninth precinct, who is holding him for
the Maryland authorities. Herbert is
understood to have been the driver of
the truck which killed Mr. Owen. He
is suffering from a possible dislocation
of the right shoulder and injuries to
his head. It la alleged that Herbert
was under the intiuence of liquor at
the time of the accident.
Mr. and Mis. Owen took their son
George, who is the youngest of four
children, for a ride to their cottage
at Shady Side. Md.. yesterday. After
Mr. Owen had drained the water from
•the tanks and pipes and otherwise
prepared the cottage for the Winter
season, they started back home about
8 o’clock. They had passed through
Upper Marlboro when, about 9 o'clock,
they noticed a truck coming toward
them, and apparently out of control
of the driver.
Car Smashed in Collision.
Telling his wife to sit tight, Mr.
Owen pulled as far as' possible to the
right side of the road and came prac
tically to a stop. Ills car was in the
ditch when the swiftly moving truck
tore into its side. Three of the col
ored men in the truck were thrown
onto the road and both cars were bad
ly damaged.
Mr. Owen crumpled up in his place
at the wheel. Jumping to the road,
Mrs. Owen waved a coat and flagged
th automobile of A. M. Cahn of Up
per Marlboro, who brought the in
jured man and his wife and child to
Provldf»ne Hospital, Mrs. Owen was
treated for shock and remained with
h r husband until he died this morn
ir •, when she removed to her home.
Native of Washing*'
Mr. Owen was a native of Washing
ton. He belonged to the Society of
Natives and the Congressional Coun
try Club. He was a graduate of Cen
tral High School and of George Wash
ington University. His father was
'■ *i*. Owen o\. nos this city.
He had a Urge patent practice, with
offices in the Owen Building. 622 F
street, and a branch office in New
Y'-ik City.
M. . Owen was formerly Miss Fred
ericka Smith. Their children are Miss
Frances E. Owen, 16; Richard B.
Owen, jr.. 14; Fredericka Owen, 10, and
Genr. C. Owen, 6.
funeral arrangements have not yet
been completed.
Miss Wilson Dies of Injuries.
Miss Elizabeth M. Wilson, 81 years
old, who was knocked down by a car
of the Capital Traction Co. in charge
of Motorman George Chrisman of
Cherrydale, Va., as she was crossing
the tracks at Pennsylvania avenue
and Eighth street shortly before 6
o’clock last Wednesday night, died
yesterday afternoon at Providence
Hospital, as a result of her injuries.
Miss Wilson, who resided with a
maiden sister at 1211 Fifth street, was
on her way to catch a street car. when
the accident happened. A coroner’s in
quest will be held at 11:30 o’clock to
morrow morning.
Auto Driver Hurt in Collision.
Raymond Barnes of 2011 Monroe
street northeast suffered cuts and
bruises about his head and legs, when
the automobile he was driving was in
collision with two others driven by
Detective Louis M. Wilson of 708 K
street northeast, and Louis Steele of
the Eckington apartments, at North
Capitol and P streets shortly before
3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Wilson
and Steele escaped injury and Barnes
was treated at Sibley Hospital.
William R. Price, 52 years old. of
119 Pennsylvania avenue was seri
ously injured when knocked down by
an automobile driven by Tony Astore
of 236 Four-and-a-half street south
west. as he was crossing Pennsylvania
avenue at Sixth street at 6:45 o’clock
last night. He was taken to Emer
gency Hospital suffering from con
cussion of the brain and possible frac
ture of his right leg. where his condi
tion was pronounced grave.
Woman Seriously Injured.
Mrs. Helen Fistag, 56 years old, of
1555 Ninth street, was knocked down
and badly injured at Ninth and Q
streets at about 11 o’clock last night
by an automobile owned by J. F.
Allen of 1330 Belmont street. She was
taken to her home and treated by her
family physician for fractured ribs
and bruises of the face and body.
While attempting to cross the street
at Twenty-fourth and K streets, at 10
o’clock last night James T. Sommer
ville, colored, 65 years old,, of 2022 M
street, was knocked down and slightly
injured by the automobile of Harry
Roche, 1238 Columbia road. He re
turned to his home after being treated
at Emergency Hospital.
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TREAT FOR STUDENTS.
Free Tickets to Buhlig 1 Piano Re*
cital Are Announced.
Free tickets for a recital to be
given by Richard Buhlig, American
concert pianist, November 25, at 3:30
p.m., in the Central High School
auditorium, will be given to local
high school students who are major
ing in instrumental music or those
students who are studying music out
side of the school system upon ap
plication to the community center de
partment of the schools.
Mr. Buhlig’s conceit is being pre
sented under the sponsorship of the
Arthur Jordan Piano Co., and a com
mittee composed of Miss Sibyl Baker,
director of the community center de
partment; Frank Kimmel and Mrs.
L. B. Swormstedt is arranging the
details of the performance.
Alleged Highway Bobbers Held.
Charged with highway robbery,
James Johnson and James Howard,
colored, were held under $5,000 bond,
each to await the action of the Grand
Jury, by Judge Hitt in Police Court
this morning. The accused are alleged
to have snatched a bag containing a
pair of spectacles and money totaling
$2O from Mesilla Weston, 1740 L street,
and $25 from Mrs. Margaret Buchanan.
2123 High street. The two men were
arrested by Policeman James I*. Dill
man of the third precinct.
Some people are so stuck up that
their friends find it necessary, to turn
than doenw ."'li?-' 1 ..*
Crash Victim
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BBKSBBSHHHBHHHS*
RICHARD B. OWEN.
PROOF OF MEXICAN
PLOTTING CLAIMED
Papers Said to Show Calles
Fomented Recent Revolu
tion in Nicaragua.
By the Associated Press.
The Washington Herald, a Ilearst
paper, today published a copyrighted
article in which were incorporated
facsimiles of documents said to have
come from secret files of the Mexican
government supporting the claim of
President Coolidge and Secretary Kel
logg that the recent Nicaraguan revo
lution was fomented and supported by
Mexico.
One document, dated June jJ, 1926,
purported to be an order for payment
of $50,000 to Dr. Pedro Jose Zepedo,
Mexican representative of Dr. Juan
B. Sacasa, who led the revolt, for the
express purpose of purchasing arms
and ammunition for the insurrection
ists.
Bears Cal s’ Sibnature.
As published, it bore the signature
of President Calles. Oother orders pur
ported to call for payment of sums
ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 to Zepe
do and Dr. Carlos Leon for perform
ance of secret missions confided to
each, they said, by President Calles
or th chief of the presidential stafT.
The arms were charged in the docu
ments to the secret expenses of the
presidential staff.
The Herald said that these papers,
and more to be published later, were
b. ought to this country by Mexican
officials and obtained from them by
the Hearst newspapers. All, it de
clared, would be placed at the dis
posal of the State Department and of
Congress.
Explaining American intervention
in Nicaragua, President Coolidge in a
t~ -sago to Congress early ir the year
asserted the Nicaraguan revolution
was being fostered by the Mexican
government, and a few days later
Secretary Kellogg issued a statement
supporting the views of the President
and declaring that bolshevism had
gained a foothold in Central America.
Russia Also Implicated.
Considerable controversy was pre
cipitated and the subject was defeated
at length on the floors of the Senate
and House.
The Herald article said that at the
time of Secretary Kellogg’s state
' ment he had not the documentary evi
; dence to supporrt his claim. It de
-1 clarcJ, too, that the paper was in pos-
I session of information seriously impli
s eating the government of Russia.
L Kellogg Is Silent.
> Secretary Kellogg declined to com
i ment today on the publication of docu
. ments purporting to be reproductions
. of Mexican official communications.
“The Department of State cannot
comment on a story based on
documentary material concerning the
> existence and authenticity of which
[ it has no knowledge and no informa
, tion whatever.’* he said.
, Mexican embassy officials declared
■ the documents were falsifications and
not worthy of comment. Ambassador
| Tellez was in San Antonio today.
1 RELATIONS NOT SHAKEN.
i ~
1 BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
, Revelations showing how Mexico
■ aided the revolution in Nicaragua will
; not disturb the relations of the United
States with its southern neighbor.
' Had the incident occurred at the
height of the excitement over the
Nicaraguan revolution it might have
meant a rupture in diplomatic rela
tions. Coming at this time it is look
ed upon as an interesting piece of
history with no practical effect.
The fact that Mexican government
officials were aiding the revolution
ists in Nicaragua has been known to
the American Government for some
time, indeed President Coolidge
i charged this openly in Ills message
! to Congress. But this is not a viola
■ tion of international law, but merely
an action unfriendly to the policy of
the United States Government, for
Washington had recognized a gov
: ernment in Nicaragua and the Mexi
can government was using its funds
to upset that government.
Development in Policy.
This is a new development in the
policy of mutual recognition which
the nations or this hemisphere have
informally adopted. Hitherto the
lead of the United States has been
followed by other governments in
cluding European countries in ex
tending recognition. When once the
government is recognized it remains
a matter of discretion with each out
side government as to what policy
it will pursue, but there is no case
on record in which one government
actually used Its funds and re
sources to support a revolution
against a constiuted government.
Much Discussion Likely.
The revelations probably will cause
a good deal of discussion in Latin
America, and particularly in Havana,
| where the next Pan-American Con
! ference meets in January. Some of
the political opponents of the United
States in Latin America were getting
ready to attack the United States for
its Nicaraguan policy, but the revela
tions may put a damper on such
1 criticism, as the policy of the United
States in seending Marines to Nica
ragua to uphold the constituted gov
' ernment, at its request, can be more
easily defended when it is shown that
1 the revolutionary forces are not in
spired by their own internal elements
alone, tut by agenda* outside the
country which were attempting for
reasons of their own to thwart the
policy of the United States Govern
ment.
Since the Nicaraguan,revolt was put
down an era of comparative peace has
followed, as all sides await the out
come of the elections which will be
supervised by American officials. So
far as Nicaragua is concerned the aid
once given by Mexico is purely an
academic subject, likely to be discuss
ed In international conferences as an
interesting precedent, but more likely
to be considered by the Washington
administration aa “water over the
dam" so far as relations with Mexico
are concerned.
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OBREGON ESCAPES
BOMBS AND SHOTS
Mexican Presidential Candi
date Lays Attack to His
Political Enemies.
! By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, November 14.
Gen. Alvaro Obregon, Mexico's sole
! presidential candidate remaining as a
i result of the recent revolt, today ex
pressed belief that the attempt to
; assassinate him yesterday was of
i political nature.
The general undoubtedly had the
| narrowest escape of his life when he
i emerged with but slight Injuries from
! his automobile, at which two bombs
had been thrown amid a rain of bul- *
lets by three assailants. The back of .
the window of the automobile shows f
a bullet hole in the place Obregon was
seated and the former President be
lieved that he was saved by the fact
that he leaned toward th© side of the
car when the first explosion took place
to avoid flying pieces of glass from
the shattered windows.
Two of the general’s assailants, both 4
seriously wounded, were captured by
members of Obregon's staff who pur
sued them with pistols, while a third
escaped after a mad race through the
city streets which took place near the
United States embassy.
Threw Bombs in Car. .
Gen. Obregon, who had been in the ■
city scarcely more than two hours,
i was motoring with a party of friends
to a bull fight. As they passed down
the avenue of insurgents, in the heart
of the fashionable residential district
and near the United States embassy,
another automobile drew alongside.
Three men were In it. As they passed
Gen. Obregon’s car they threw two
small dynamite bombs.
Both bombs exploded. They shat
tered the windshield and damaged the
automobile. A piece of glass from the
windshield scratched Obregon’s cheek.
Obregon’s chauffeur, Catarlno VII- t
lanova, drew his pistol and opened
fire on the bombers. Ignacio Otero, a
companion of Obregon, who was in
.another car, also opened fire. Two of
the bombers, Lamberto Ruiz and An
tonio Tirado, were seriously wounded.
The automobile bearing Otero took up
the pursuit and captured the trio. The j
third man was Francisco Olivero.
Police said the three men appeared r
to bo workingmen who were acting
for enemies of Obregon. The two
wounded men were given medical at
tention at police headquarters and
their condition was described as grave.
Police did not make public any state
ment they or their companion may
have made. f
Continued to Bullfight.
The companions of Obregon in his
automobile, Arturo Oreo and Thomas
Bay, at first thought that he had been
seriously wounded in the attempt.
The former president laughed and
told them not to worry as his face was
only scratched. Perfectly calm amidst
the excitement, he ordered his chauf- /
feur to continue to the bullfight. He
saw the performance as he had plan
ned.
President Calles was also at the
bullring. When he heard of the at- »
tempted assassination he warmly con
gratulated Obregon on his escape.
The anti-re-electionist organization
has under consideration Luis Cabrera. #
former minister of finance; Jose Vas
concelos, former minister of educa
tion, and Dr. Francisco Vasques
Gomez as their candidates. It is said
that none of them has yet consented
ta make the race.
Gen. Obregon told the Nogales,
Ariz., Herald over the telephone that
the bombers were “political enemies,”
but not men of importance.
Gen. , Obregon notified his wife.
Senora Maria Tapia de Obregon. who
is in Nogales, Sonora, of the attempt
and assured her that although he had
a “narrow escape” he was all right.
He also said that his chauffeur and #
Oreo were cut about the face and
hands by flying glass. 4
i Obregon, who usually travels with
out a bodyguard, left Nogales, So
nora, about two weeks ago for his
ranch at Cajame. Sonora. He left his
ranch five days ago for Mexico City.
GETS YEAR IN JAIL.
Roscoe Turner, who was recently
released from the penitentiary, after
serving a flve-year term, today plead
ed guilty before Judge Hitt in Police
Court to stealing a suit of clothes 4
and an overcoat belonging to William
G. Barnard. The accused, according
to Policeman Claude Ezell, was caught
in a tourist camp, where he broke
into Mr. Barnard's car and stole the
clothes which he was wearing when
arrested. He will serve a year In
jail.
BOWIE ENTRIES
FOR TUESDAY.
FIRST RACE—Purse. $1,300: claiming: .
2- 0 furlongs.
Skavaar 11l Rough Sea. 10S
Shortv 115 -Spiral 100
Linger 11l Fair Gold 10«
Graf Undstift.... 11l L»veken ....... 114
•Water I.ad 115 Also eligible:
Trappv. 114 ‘Star Gold I**o
Imperator 114 Jim Bean 11l
•Privet 104 Light Air 110
Stinhaby 11l Angry M00d.... 114
•Noise 112 Star Rocket.... 11l
Tinita 116
SECOND RACE—Purse. *1.300: clalmini *
3- and up: 1A miles.
•Woody 107 Lucky Beggar... 112
•Warfare 107 Culpeper 10*
Hoi Polloi lOrt ‘Gilbert Cook. .. 107
•Alita A11en.... 104 Blockhead 112
•Royal Flag.... 104 Also eligible:
Twilight Song.. 10S Arsacid 10*
Long Joe 108 Partner 108
John S. Mosbjr. . H 3 Who Knows Me. 112 t
•Compromise. . . 104 Finicky 102 A
George J 112 Gold Belis 105
Delusive 107
THIRD RACE—Purse. $1,300: the Frolic
Purse: 2-vear-old fillies: ft furlongs
aPoetienle 10ft bCelpbration ... loft
Fair Anita 113 Dicing 11 o
aTurkey’s Neck.. 10*1 Tinita loot
Purr 113 hManuserint .... 10ft
Memoria....... 10ft Miss Maryland.. 1 oft
Paulina L 113 Antidote 10ft
aEdw. Arlington and .T. W. Bean entry.
bSalubria Stable and S, Ross.
FOURTH RACE—Purse. $1,300: claiming:
3- and up: ft furlongs
False Pride 11l Candy Pan..... 112
•Lounger 113 Clean Play 113
Aversion 108 Centrifugal .*. . . 11l
Northern Pass., ill •Contemplate .. 10*
•Stuart's Draft . 101 Also eligible:
Sn.anish Aster... 10ft Gracious Gift... 114
•Telr.aglass ..... 104 Snnsard 11* *
•Single Star.... 100 *Lndv Marie.... I'** s *
Botanic 113 Orbit HI
•Peter Fiz 107 • Fantastic 104 ,
Maxiva 11l
FIFTH RACE—Purse. $1 400; the Glen
burnie Purse: 3-year-olds and up: ltV miles.
aßoyal Charge... 103 Fore Lark 103
La patina 103 Willie K 10*
Xenophon 102 sPolyerates .... 10ft
Ebuford 100 Signola 103
Seventh 50n.... 107 Overlooked
aMarshall Field entry.
SIXTH RACE—Purse, *1.300: claim**:
4- and ud: 1A miles.
Knockany 112 •Flagship .... 105
•Euphrates .... 110 Cerulean 112
•North Breeze... 103 •Blowhorn .... 100
AUetaehe 100 Warn nee 112
•Leger 110 Phidias . 110
Fleetwood 112 •Tasewell 10*1
SEVENTH RACE—*I.3OO: claiming: 3-
vear-olds: 1 mile and 70 yards.
Golden Volt 113 Rim 113
Ambition 107 *Caitbv ion
Frank Andrews 113 Trapstock 1 *****
•Beau Geste 115 Ebuford ........ 1.
Ladiva 107 Also eligible: a '
•Montclair 103 ‘Jack of Club.. 113 *
Math 10* Rounder 105
Parches! 108 Ominous 110
Pnget Sound....’ll« Bayou lio
•Matilda B 100 •Realisation ... 113
•Arefi ........ 100
•Apprentice allowance.
Weather clear: track fast
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