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ATTACK ON HOOVER
CITIZENSHIP MADE
Reed, in New Jersey Speech,
Assails Candidate’s Resi
dence Abroad.
Br the Associated Press.
ELIZABETH, N. J.„ October 27.
United States Senator James A. Reed,
Democrat, of Missouri, in an address
here last night, assailed Herbert Hoo
ver’s record of American citizenship
and. referring to Gov. Smith, asserted
that “one consoling fact in this cam
paign is that we have a chance to vote
for one whose citizenship does not
require official certification.”
“Nobody has ever suspected our can
didate of being a naturalized British
subject,” he said. "His name has never
been certifier! to a British election boar'll
as possessing the voting qualifications
of a British taxpayer. A1 Smith’s place
of residence has never been in ques
tion. He has not been obliged to main
tain a ghost habitat at Stanford Uni
versity or at any other place.”
Puts Queries to Hoover.
Turning to the oil leases. Senator
Reed said he would have Hoover an
swer these questions:
“You have given a blanket indorse
ment to the administration of the last
seven and one-half years. Do you in
clude within your general approval the
theft of the oil lands by Sinclair, which
was perpetrated under the Harding ad
ministration?
“Did you approve of the payment by
Sinclair io your fellow cabinet mem
ber Fall of more than $293,000?
“Did you approve of the lease of Do
heny, which has since been condemned
by the Supreme Court as a gross and
conscienceless fraud; and if you do not
approve of that transaction, why did you
not publicly denounce it when it was
being discussed before the cabinet?”
Holds Smith Practical.
Passing to the Democratic nominee,
Senator Reed said:
"Alfred E. Smith has been governor
of New York for nearly eight years.
In all that time the white light of
publicity has beaten upon his every
act. Relentless foes have been keen
to discover a single misstep. Gov. Smith
is not a dreamer. His head is not in
the clouds. He has no desire to try
experiments upon the American people.
He meets the questions of government
in a practical way. I want a man
who has no divided allegiance; I want
an American. I want Allred E. Smith.”
HEARING FOR KLAN
RECEIVER WAIVED
Counsel at Atlanta Agrees to Per
mit Case to Come to Trial
on Merits.
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, October 27.—Judge Sam
uel Bibley of United States District
Court announced today that hearing on
a petition for preliminary injunction
and receiver against the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan and others had been
waived by agreement of counsel. The.
hearing had been set for today.
Judge Sibley explained that attorneys
for C T. Rice, the plaintiff, and for
the Klan, had decided to permit the
case to come up for trial on its merits
several months hence.
Charging that thq organization spent
"large sums" to spread "slander, vinifi
cation and libel on and about Alfred
E. Smith, ’’ Democratic presidential
nominee, In violation of State laws, the
suit alleged the Klan is insolvent.
Mr. Rice, who identified himself as
a member of the Klan and a resident
of Oklahoma,-filed the suit October 15,
naming the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan, the American Building, a holding
concern for the Klan; Hiram W. Evans,
Imperial wizard, and J. A. Comer and
W. F. Zummbrum, high Klan officials,
as defendants.
Dissipation of Klan funds was
charged and the defendants were ac
cused of “fraudulent" conversion of
funds to their- use. The amount of
the alleged .fraudulent conversions was
not given in the suit, but they were
“so large,” the petition said, that, al
though an “amount in excess of SIOO,-
000,000” was collected from members
of the organization, it is now Insolvent.
BYRD CELEBRATES
FORTIETH BIRTHDAY
Antarctic Expedition Fetes Leader
12 Degrees South of
Equator.
By Wirelets to The Star and the New York
Times.
ABOARD THE 8. 8. LARSEN AT
SEA, October 27.—Comdr. Byrd last
night celebrated his fortieth birthday
anniversary aboard the whaler Larsen,
I2i degrees south of the Equator, bound
for the ice and the greatest of his
ventures in exploration.
He and members of the expedition
wqre the guests of Capt. Nilsen and
mstde the evening merry with toasts
and skits of Antarctic flying.
The Larsen Is expected to arrive at
Wellington a week from Sunday night
or Monday morning and the work of
disembarking planes and supplies will
bo begun immediately. They will then
be loaded on expedition ships.
Position of Eleanor Bolling noon, Oc
tober 26; Latitude, 11.26 south; longi
tude, 135.18 west.
Position 8. S. City of New York noon,
October 26: Latitude, 13.33 south;
longitude, 136.23 west.
(Oopyrlsbt, 1925. br New York Time*. All
rights for publication reserved throughout
the world.)
ROBERTSON TAKEsT
, STAND IN DEFENSE
ON SLAYING MILLS
(Continued From First Page.)
fare I went back.” Baughman had
testified that be saw Robertson there
ofl tte day of the killing.
f Calls Hills Moonshiner.
Concluding his testimony, Robertson
said that he had not seen Mills during
the past four or five years. “Some peo
ple disliked Ed because he made and
sold a little moonshine,” he said, “but
I never felt that way toward him. Ed
was a great fellow for shaking hands,
and so far as I know we were always
friends.”
A few minutes before Robertson’s 38-
year-old wife had beeft called to the
witness stand. She told of her early
life in an orphan asylum and of her
marriage to Robertson in 1916. She said
she lived with his parents for three
years when she was a child.
Mrs. Robertson’s testimony was sub
stantially the same as that given by
her husband, bearing out his story in
all its details.
In broken tones she denied that she
had ever told her husband she had
been mistreated by Mills and added that
she had not seen the man since he
Jived with Robertson's parents on their
SILVER SPRING BANK HELD UP;
GIRL STRUCK BY STRAY SHOT
(Continued From First Page.)
tectives. He told Capt. Emerson that
he was hired at Georgia avenue and
Butternut street by a man who ordered
him to drive to Silver Spring. He
stopped before the bank, and the pas
senger alighted, telling him to wait.
Shortly afterward the man ran out of
the bank amid the hail of shots and
forced him ac the point of a pistol to
drive toward Takoma Park. He said
the bandtt left the cab in the vicinity
ol Washington Sanitarium and that he
was running through the woods when
! he last saw him.
Pursuit Is Described.
Hamilton, an optician, who lives at
801 Silver Spring avenue. Silver Spring,
Md., said he drove his car in close pur
suit of the fleeing taxicab for several
| miles before he lost sight of it in Ta
kema Park, Md.
Hamilton declared that at times he
approached within 30 feet of the taxi
and could see the bandit pointing his
gun at the cab driver. The cab did not
run at an excessive rate of speed, aver
aging about 30 or 35 miles an hour, he
said. He made several efforts to enlist
help in the chase, but those appealed
to appeared to think he was crazy,
Hamilton asserted. Not until he en
countered an unidentified policeman in
Takoma Park did he secure aid, but
the cab by that time had disappeared.
“I was driving out Thayer avenue on
my way to work.” Hamilton declared,
“and was just emerging on Georgia
avenue at the drug store corner when
I heard the bank siren. I thought at
first it was a fire alarm. Then I heard
a shot, which 1 mistook for backfire
from a muffler.
Saw Whitacre Fire.
“Not until I saw my friend Ira Whit
acre, cashier of the bank, leaning
around the corner of the bank building
with a gun in his hand did I realize
w-hat was happening. I saw Whitacre
fire about two shots around the corner.
I could not at the moment see at whom
he w r as directing his fire.
“Then I noticed a taxi move off
on Georgia avenue and head south. I
could see a man in the back leveling
a gun at the driver. I started after
the cab with a vague idea.that I could
attract the attention of a policeman on
the way, or wreck the taxi by colliding
with it, or stop it in some other way.
“The cab was not going fast, prob
ably not more than 30 or 35 miles
an hour. The bandit did not look
back or drop his aim at the driver in
front, but I think he knew I was fol
lowing him.
“I got within about 30 feet of the cab.
We continued out Georgia avenue and
turned left into Falkland drive, near the
railroad tracks. The cab went over the
railTQad bridge and down the hill and
turned to the right onto Philadelphia
avenue, I think it was. He was heading
toward Takoma Park.
“About this time I saw a naval officer
in front of a house and I slowed up and
told him briefly what had happened and
asked him to send for help. He looked
‘BOOKIES’DECLARED
INFESTING MARKETS
Roberts Warns Dealers Ejec
tion Will Follow Placing
of Bets on Horses.
Aroused by reports that runners for
bookmakers are infesting the Western
and Eastern Markets, George M. Rob
erts, District superintendent of weights,
measures and markets, today served no
tice on the dealers that the placing of
bets on horse races or any other form
of gambling on market property would
result in their ejection.
Roberts does not allege that the deal
ers are “playing the ponies,” but he
said complaints had come to him that
agents of bookmakers made frequent
visits to the markets and not for the
purpose of buying food.
Roberts planned his reform movement
early this week, but did not take steps
to carry it out until last night, when
he mailed mimeographed notices to all
tenants in the two markets. The notice
read as follows:
“This letter is to inform you that
placing bets on horse races or any other
form of gambling by tenants or their
employes in District of Columbia mar
kets or on market premises will be con
sidered sufficient ground for ending the
tenapey of any tenant indulging in
such practice or permitting his em
ployes to do so.
“I am sending a copy of this letter
to each tenant in order that all may be
accurately informed on the subject.
“I trust that I may have the hearty
co-operation of every tenant in regard
to the matter and that no further action
will ever become necessary.”
FOOT BALL ROOTERS
IN TRAIN WRECK
Wisconsin University Students Es
cape Injury When Engine
Is Derailed.
By the Associated Press.
HELMAR, Ind., October 27.—A Wa
bash Railroad passenger train carrying
a large number of Wisconsin University
foot ball rooters to Ann Arbor, Mich.,
for the game with Michigan University
crashed into the rear end of a freight
train near here at 5 a.m. today. Sev
eral persons on the passenger train
were slightly injured. There were no
fatalities, according to early reports.
The freight train was going into a
•siding to permit the passenger train
to pass when the wreck occurred. The
engine of the passenger train hit the
caboose of the freight train and was
derailed.
A wrecking crew and another engine
was sent from Montpelier, Ohio. The
passenger train was taken on to Ann
Arbor byway of Kalamazoo.
REPORT NO INJURIES.
Wabash Officials Declare All Passen
gers In Wreck Are Safe.
CHICAGO, October 27 (A*).—Officials
of the Wabash Railroad said their re
ports of the accident at Helmar, Ind.,
indicated no passengers of the foot ball
special nor members of either of the
train crews were injured.
The locomotive of the special, which
crashed into the rear end of the fast
freight, was damaged somewhat and
had to be replaced before the special
proceeded to Ann Arbor.
BAND CONCERT.
py the United State* Soldiers’ Home
Band Orchestra, in Stanley Hall, at
5:30 o’clock, this evening:
March, “Grenadier Guards” Losey
Overture, “Ilka” Doppler
Entre acte — ,
(a) “You May.”
(b) “Why Not?” Gruenwald
Scenes from the musical comedy “A
Connecticut Yankee” Romberg
Fox trot, “A Dusky Stevedore,” Johnson
Waltz suite, "Lyslstrata” Llncke
Finale—
“ The Dancing Tambourine” (request)
Pollack
“The Star-Spangled Banner."
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C„ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27. 1928.
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c. e. McFarland,
Taxicab driver who was forced to speed
away from the Silver Spring Bank with
a bandit passenger.
—Star Staff Photo.
at me as though I were crazy, and
didn’t move.
Lost Cab at Corner.
“I followed the cab as it turned again
to the right and came to Carroll avenue,
where it turned north. A group of men
were standing outside a Sanitary Gro
cery Store, and I attempted to enlist
their aid, without success The cab went
on for about a block and then turned
right. That is the last I saw of it.
“I circled several blocks, looking for
a policeman and finally found one. He
was just coming off duty, but when
I told him of the chase he said he
had his gun with him and would just
as leave shoot a bandit for breakfast
as do anything else.
“We started in the direction the cab
had taken. The cop said it looked as
if the bandit was making for Hyatts
ville, in which case we stood a good
chance of catching him, because the
road was blocked ahead. We went
almost to Hyattsville, but saw noth
ing of the cab or its occupants.”
The police reported that the taxi
driver told them the bandit had thrown
$3 on the front seat as he leaped out
of the cab.
A search by police officers of the
woods resulted in the finding of a gray
cap, identified by Mr. Lutes as the one
worn by the bandit. Between Locust
and Carroll avenues, Wildwood, Md., a
point about half a mile away from
where the bandit first abandoned the
taxi, Policeman Roy Snyder found the
cap on the ground. It was slashed
down the middle and cut nearly in two
apparently by a sharp knife or razor
blade. Inside was the trade name
“Ralph Cap.” This is the only tangible
clue in the hands of police.
MARSHAL ALEENBY
ARRIVES IN D. C.
British Hero Pays Visit to Sir
Esme Howard and
President.
Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, hero
of the British campaign in the Holy
Land during the World War, and Lady
Allenby arrived in the Capital today
to be the guests for several days of
Hampson Gary, former United States
Minister to Egypt, a close personal
friend of the British military leader.
The marshal was met at the station
by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, Miss Helen
Gary, Col. Charles C. Allen, U. S. A.,
who will be the visitor’s military aide
during his visit here; Col. L. H. R.
Pope-Hennessy, military attache of the
British embassy, and his assistant, Maj.
W. H. S. Alston.
The marshal and Lady Allenby left
the station with an escort of four motor
cycle policemen and went to Mr. Gary’s
home, 1752 Massachusetts avenue.
At 11:30 o’clock the marshal started
a busy day with a formal call on the
British Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard.
Then his program included a visit to
President Coolidge with the British
Ambassador; a luncheon at 1 o’clock
at the Army and Navy Club as the
guest of Maj. Gen. H. B. Crosby, chief
of Cavalry, and the Cavalry officers
on duty at Washington; a visit to Fort
Myer with a guard of honor of a troop
of the 3d Cavalry; inspection of the
guard there, following the firing of a
field marshal’s salute: thence to Arling
ton to place a wreath on the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier; visits to the
Washington oMnument and the Lincoln
Memorial on the return and a visit to
the wounded World War veterans at
Walter Reed Hospital, with officers and
members of the District Department
of the American Legion in attendance.
This afternoon between 5:30 and 6
Field Marshal and Lady Allenby were
to be guests of Col. Pope-Hennessy at
a reception at the military attache’s
home, 2125 Leroy place.
Tonight he is to be the guest of
honor at a dinner to be given by Sir
Esme Howard at the British embassv.
The Jews of Washington, through
the District Zionist Organization, wel
comed Field Marshal Allenby and Lady
Allenby.
A large basket of chrysanthemums
and a “message of peace” was pre
sented to the visitors by a delegation
representing the Zionist group.
The message, a greeting in Hebrew
from Psalm exxil, read:
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
May they prosper that love thee.
Peace be within thy wails
And prosperity within thy palaces.
For my brethren art in companions’
sakes.
I will now say, ’Peace be with thee.’
For the sake of the House of the
Lord our God
I I will seek thy good.”
BATTLESHIP TEXAS
OPEN AT ANNAPOLIS
1 Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., October 27.—Al
though there was no official recogni
tion of Navy day at the Naval Acad
emy because all high officials of the
institution journeyed to Philadelphia
to witness the foot ball clash with
Pennsylvania University, the U. S. S.
Texas, flying the flag of the chief of
the United States fleet, Admiral Henry
A. Wiley, arrived yesterday and was
opened to public, in accordance with
the Navy’s plan of having a battleship
in every port possible for inspection on
Navy day. The ship will remain over
until Monday evening.
Salutes were exchanged upon the
ship's arrival, and Lieut. Comdr. Albert
Rocks, aide to Rear Admiral Samuel
S. Robinson, called upon Admiral Wiley
in an official capacity. Rear Admiral
Robinson, Capt. C. P, Snyder, com
mandant of midshipmen; Lieut. Comdr.
Rooks, and the officers’ families left
Annapolis at 9 o'clock this morning
with the foot ball -team. The regiment
left at 9:45 o'clock on two special trains.
PANZRAM RELATES
MURDER DETAILS
Tells Police of Slaying of
Two Other Boys in Minute
Confession.
Following his detailed account of the
murder last August of Alexander Lus
zock, 14-year-old newsboy, of Philadel
phia, in which he went into details so
clear that little doubt is left as to the sin
cerity of his confession, Carl Panzram,
a prisoner at the District Jail, last night
made detailed confessions to Lieut. Ed
ward J. Kelly of the Detective Bureau
homicide squad of the murders of two
1 other boys, one in Salem, Mass., and
i che other in New London or New
Haven, Conn., which he previously ad
j mitted.
Like the confession in the Philadel
' phia case, Panzram last night went into
details that authorities feel he must
nave gotten from actual contact and
not from reading newspaper accounts.
Typewritten copies of the two con
fessions made last night are today being
prepared in the office of Maj. William
E Peake, superintendent of the jail.
Lieut. Kelly is off duty today and Maj.
Peake said that he felt obligated to keep
their text a secret until they have been
turned over to the detective.
First Believed Hoax.
Panzram’s first confessions to having
murdered two boys, one in Philadelphia
and the other near Salem, Mass., were
thought for some time to be merely an
effort to escape trial here on two house
breaking cases, for which he is now held.
Massachusetts detectives came here to
question him, but left when he refused
to say anything to them, after having
made a confession to Maj. Peake and
Headquarters Detective Richard Mans
field that he murdered a boy near
Charlestown. They stated that they
will seek an indictment there for the
murder of Henry McMahon, 12 years
old, whose body was found in the posi
tion described by Panzram in his con
fession.
When the body of Uszacke was found
it was in such condition that identifi
cation was impossible. Buried in the
potter's field in the Pennsylvania city,
the body was exhumed after Panzram’s
story was made public and identified.
Body Wrapped in Blanket.
When found, the boy’s' body was
wrapped in a blanket and had with it
some pieces of a radio set, a situation
that Panzram had already revealed
when he said that he forced the youth
to assist him in the theft of the articles
from a yacht in the Delaware River,
afterward wrapping the boy in one of
the blankets and breaking up the radio
set. He also described how he had left
the boy’s tennis shoes tied together
near the body. Police say they found
them there.
The Philadelphia police who yester
day talked with Panzram left last night
for that city to start action that is ex
pected to bring Panzram to trial for
murder in that city. Nothing more has
been heard from Massachusetts au
thorities.
Following his three confessions Panz
ram is said to have told investigators
that he has committed a number of
other murders, and that he will confess
to them only when he is placed on trial
for on* of the killings to which he has
already confessed.
Strangled Boy to Death.
Included in Connecticut confession,
it was revealed, was a statement to the
effect that he met a 16-year-old boy on
the road. The boy was wearing thick
glasses. After buying the youth some
thing to eat they went into the woods,
where he waited for the boy to con
sume the food and then strangled him
to death.
He enjoyed that murder more than
any of the others, he is quoted as hav
ing said, because the boy had previously
told him that he had a relative who was
on the police force in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Panzram’s brother, a farmer of nea»
Seattle, Wash., has engaged M. J.
Lane, an attorney with offices in the
Columbian Building, to defend his
brother. Lane said today that he will
block every move to extradite his
client. Although he feels that Panz
ram is insane, he said, he will talk
with him again today,
COLORED MAN IS HELD '
ON CHARGE OF ROBBERY
Identified by Policeman J. C. Austin
of the second precinct as the man who
escaped from him as he was arresting
his companion for grand larceny two
months ago, Benjamin Beverly, colored,
was today held for the action of the
grand jury under bond of SI,OOO fol
lowing a hearing before Judge John P.
McMahon in Police Court.
, Beverly and August Stanley John
son, also colored, are said by police to
have taken women’s clothing valued at
$152 from the automobile of Laura B.
Glenn while it was parked at Thir
teenth and H streets August 18.
Policeman Austin approached the
men when he saw them carrying sev
eral bundles a few minutes after the
robbery. Without a word they drop
ped the packages and ran, he said.
Johnson was captured and has been in
dicted. Beverly escaped by jumping
on a passing truck and was at liberty
until yesterday when Detective R. B.
Carroll of the second precinct received
a “tip” as to his whereabouts and took
him into custody.
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former Minister to Egypt.
Left to right: Maj. W. H. S. Alston, assistant military attache to the British embassy; Col. L. H. R. Pope-Hennessy,
the military attache; Capt. Charles H. Allen, U. S. A.; Mrs. Gary. Field Marshal Allenby, Lady Allenby and Mr. Gary.
CAVE-IN DEATHS
PROBED BY JURY
Witnesses and Building Ex
perts Called in Effort
to Fix Blame.
A coroner's jury met at 11 o’clock this
morning at the morgue to hear a dozen
witnesses and the opinions of building
inspectors in an endeavor to fix respon
sibility for the deaths of two workmen
Thursday afternoon when a cave-in
occurred at the site for the new hotel
which the Cafritz Construction Co. is
erecting at Fourteenth and K streets.
Dr. J. Ramsey Nevitt, District coroner,
has requested the appearance of the in
spectors who have been making an in
vestigation at the scene of the accident
so that their expert advice may be ob
tained for the benefit of the jury.
Inspector Fixes Blame.
While the inspectors’ inquiry is not
yet completed, the accident is believed
by Col. John W. Oehmann, District
building inspector, to have been caused
by the improper removal of timber
shoring, which had held the dirt side
of the wall.
Tha accident has served to focus at
tention on the handicaps under which
the building inspector’s office is working
and has led Maj. Donald A. Davison, as
sistant to the Engineer Commissioner,
to begin preparation of a program for
the reorganization and expansion of the
office.
Col. Oehmann has endeavored for
some years to obtain the approval of the
Budget Bureau for such a plan without
success, but the program is to be submit
ted again for inclusion in the District’s
estimates for the next fiscal year.
“We haven’t enough inspectors to in
spect the hundreds of building opera
tions properly to begin with," Maj. Davi
son said. “Our jobs building inspectors
have 200 or more jobs to inspect at one
time. It Is humanly impossible for
them to remain at one important job
all the time.
Lack of Money Cited.
“We have not been allowed sufficient
money in the next place, to employ
highly trained inspectors with the tech
nical knowledge that is essential to pass
on matters they must judge.”
There are 10 inspectors to cover the
entire city, assigned to different terri
tories. Under the plan now being worked
out the inspectors will be divided by the
type of work they do.
Coi. Oehmann takes the position that
the amount or work his office must pass
on is indicated by the number of per
mits and not the total value of the
buildings, which has been the guide
heretofore in approving estimates for
the inspector’s office.
TOPIC FOR JUNIORS.
Services Are Announced for Wis
consin Avenue Baptist Church.
"Some Face Makers” will be the ser
mon topic for the junior boys and girls
at Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church,
Forty-second and Fessenden streets, to
morrow at 11 o’clock. “Yielding to the
Holy Spirit’* is the topic for the main
service. During the 8 o’clock evening
service the pastor, Rev. Clarence R.
Ferguson, will preach on “When to Re
sist the Devil."
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Barnette and Miss
Leona Lavender of Nashville, Tenn.,
with Miss Madge Ramsey. Eldorado,
111., will conduct an enlargement pro
gram for the Bible school November 4
to 11.
BAKER ERRONEOUSLY
REFERRED TO AS BEGGAR
Similarity of Words Responsible
in Case Involving Emil
Wenzel.
In the publication of the report of
the action of the Police Trial Board
of Thursday, October 25, in dismissing
a charge against Policeman K. O. Spiess
for his alleged action in dragging Emil
Wenzel, a baker, 1241 C street south
east. from his automobile, which was
transmitted by telephone, Mr. Wenzel
was described as a “’beggar.” This
was erroneous and The Star herewith
corrects the mistake, which occurred
through the similarity in sound of the
two words, “baker” and “beggar."
Mr. Wenzel has been employed as a
baker at the Schneider Baking Co., 431
I street, for the last 23 years.
ANGLO-AMERICAN
AGREEMENT SEEN
Baldwin Declares Britain
Does Not Seek Naval Race
With United States.
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By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 27.—Stanley Bald
win, prime minister, believes that fail
ure to reach an agreement with the
United States on naval matters is only
temporary. He is sure that Great Brit
ain has no intention of entering into
a naval building competition with
America.
"Our policy in naval building is to go
slow,” Mr. Baldwin said in addressing
a mass meeting in Albert Hall in cele
bration of the tenth anniversary of the
League of Nations Union.
“We have no intention of competing
with the United States and came to our
decision to go slow long before we were
asked to sign the Kellogg pact."
Mr. Baldwin expressed doubt that the
world realized the lull import of the
Kellogg-Briand treaty renouncing war.
“It gives us what in our spiritual life
we should be grateful for—an oppor
tunity for a fresh start,” he said.
The prime minister expressed pro
found regret at what he termed only a
“temporary failure" to reach an agree
ment with the United States on naval
matters. He decried suspicions con
cerning British action which had be
come current in some American circles.
Uneasiness reflected in those British
newspapers that thought by the Anglo-
French naval accord Great Britain had
been committed to the French view con
cerning army reserves without obtain
ing any adequate naval concession was
alluded to by the prime minister.
“I wish to contradict,” said Mr. Bald
win, “the idea that we had abandoned
our position of impartiality, adopted at
the time of the Locarno pact. We have
made no new engagements and there
has been no change in the orientation
of our policy.
"Our interests and our inclinations
have alike prompted us to preserve and
even strengthen the solidarity of our re
lations with Germany as well as with
France and Italy.”
Dwelling on the evil influence exerted
by war on national character, Mr. Bald
win said that this was particularly
illustrated in the World War. This war.
he held, showed that mankind had
chaacteristics of the tiger, “base in
stincts ready to be summoned from
their hidden lair at a moment’s notice."
“No two bodies of persons are more
potent to summon these ancient im
pulses than are the politicians and the
press,” he said. “Only an intense spir
itual fight can resist these instincts.”
PRESIDENT GOING
TO VOTE AT HOME
Expects to Leave on Night of
November 5 for North
ampton, Mass.
President Coolldge has virtually made
up his mind to go to Northampton,
Mass., to vote on election day, but he
has not given the slightest indication
that he has any intention of making
a speech in behalf of the Republican
national ticket in the meantime.
Unless business of a pressing nature
arises the President will leave Wash
ington on the night of November 5,
arriving in Northampton early on the
morning of election day. It is thought
likely that he will head back for Wash
ington that night, which will put him
back in the White House the morning
after election.
Mrs. Coolidge will accompany the
President. There is some likelihood of
her remaining in Northampton for a
week or so for the purpose of visiting
with her mother, who is ill in a hos
pital in that city.
Could Vote by Mail.
Meanwhile, Mr. Coolidge has sent to
the authorities in his voting precinct
for official ballots for himself and Mrs.
Coolidge in the event something should
arise to prevent their leaving Washing
ton. In that event, they could vote
by mail.
In 1924, when h: was the presidential
candidate, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge voted
by mail. Two years ago Mr. and Mrs.
Coolidge journeyed to Northampton to
vote in person. William M. Butler, per
sonal friend and political adviser of the
President, was then a candidate to suc
ceed himself in the Senate and the
President’s trip to his home town to
vote was prompted by a desire to set
an example to that army of apathetic
Americans who were represented as
being indifferent toward the exercise of
their right of franchise.
It is felt by friends of the President
here that his contemplated trip to
Northampton to vote in this election is
intended as a gesture in the same di
rection.
Question of Employes Voting.
The President has not reached a de
cision in the matter of issuing an order
excusing Federal employes throughout
the country from their work for a
limited period on election day. He is
represented as thinking favorably of
the proposition placed before him by
Luther Steward, president of the Fed
eration of Federal Employes. He is op
posed, however, to granting a full holi
day or even half a day, but it is thought
that he will agree to excusing the em
ployes for an hour or two.
Edward T. Clark, personal secretary
to the President, who, like the Presi
dent, is a legal resident of Northamp
ton, and Mrs. Clark will also go home
to vote. Everett Sanders, the Presi
dent’s secretary, and Mrs. Sanders must
vote in person this year, since the
voting laws of Indiana have been
changed regarding absentee voting.
LAWYER FIGHTS’
FIREHOUSE SITE
H. I. Quinn Asks Injunction—Says
Sixteenth Street Area Is
Residential.
Henry I. Quinn, lawyer, 1507 Galla
tin street, today filed suit for an injunc
tion in the District Supreme Court
against the District Commissioners, to
prevent the location of a fire engine
house at Sixteenth street and Colorado
avenue. Quinn says the land in ques
tion is zoned as residential and asserts
that a fire engine house is not permit
ted under the zoning regulations in
such areas. He also points out that the
strip of land is included within the
boundaries of Rock Creek Park, which
was authorized by Congress to be pur
chased and "perpetually dedicated and
set apart as a public park or pleasure
ground for the benefit and enjoyment of
the people of the United States.”
The lawyer advises the court of the
decision of the Commissioners to locate
the station at Sixteenth and Webster
streets until they discovered that a
covenant in the deed to the property
prevented its use for any other than
residential purposes and were au
thorized by Congress to dispose of that
site. The Commissioners then decided
to use the strip of land owned by the
United States at Sixteenth street and
Colorado avenue.
Bids for erection of the proposed fire
engine house will be opened next Tues
day, the court is advised, and Quinn
asserts that the alleged violation of the
zoning laws by the Commissioners
would result in irreparable injury to his
property and greatly depreciate its
value as a residence.
STORE WINDOW ROBBED.
Manager Reports Thief Broke Glass
# and Stole Clothing.
Police were notified by the manager
of the Fields, Twenty-Two-Fifty, Inc.,
store at the northwest corner of New
York avenue and Fourteenth street,
that articles of clothing, the value of
which was not given, were stolen from
a show window of the store last night
or early this morning by a thief who
broke the glass with a brick wrapped
in newspaper.
Detective Oscar W. Mansfield and
police of the flrtt precinct made an in
vestigation.
10 NEW DIPHTHERIA
CARRIERS LOCATED
Prepare to Give Schick Test
to 1,000 Pupils in
Northeast.
With the discovery of 10 more car
riers of diphtheria germs among pupils
of the Northeast public schools. Dr.
William C Fowler. District health offi
cer. today made preparations to give
the Schick test to the more than 1,000
i children in the four schools where the
disease appears to be confined.
The 10 new carriers brings the total
removed from the four schools to 71.
Five of them were found in the Blair.
School and the other five in the Hayes
School. No additional clinical or posi
tive cases have been discovered, however,
although another pupil of the Blair
School died from diphtheria yesterday,
increasing the mortalities to four since
the outbreak.
Test Shows Immunity.
The Schick test, Dr. Fowler pointed
out, will show whether a child has nat
ural immunity to diphtheria, but it
will not be given without the consent
of parents. Children found in this way
to be susceptible to the disease, the
health officer said, will, with the con
sent of parents, be given the toxin-an
titoxin treatments.
Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, supervising
medical inspector of the public schools,
and Dr. James G. Cumming, chief of
the contagious disease section ol the
Health Department, have been instruct
ed by Dr. Fowler to urge parents of
the children in the four schools to have
them immunized if necessary. The
health officer does not view the situa
tion with alarm, but he admits that it
is abnormal and that drastic pre
ventive measures must be applied to
check a possible spread of the disease.
Only Small Appropriation.
Dr. Fowler said the Health Depart
ment has only a small appropriation for
diphtheria preventive activities, but all
of this in addition to emergency funds
will be used if necessary to combat con
ditions in the Northeast. Other cities
have special appropriations for this
work, the health officer declared, but
despite his persistent pleas in past years
the Health Department has never been
granted adequate funds for diphtheria
prevention.
One physician and one nurse have
been detailed to full-time duty at the
four schools and will not be removed
until all fears of an outbreak are past.
On account of the closing of the
schools today, Health Department physi
cians were not able to complete the
taking of throat cultures of pupils in
the Webb and Kingsman Schools, but
this will be done Monday. Culturing
of the children in the Hayes and Blair
Schools has been finished.
56 HEROES NAMED
IN CARNEGIE FUND
Pensions and Medals Award
ed-—One Man Recognized
for Seocnd Time.
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, October 27.—Fifty
six acts of heroism in the commission
of which a dozen heroes lost their lives,
were recognized here late yesterday by
the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission,
which, in addition to 3 silver medals
and 53 bronze medals, awarded pensions
aggregating $4,320 annually; $19,200 for
educational purposes and more than
$20,000 for other worthy purposes.
For the first time in the 21 years of
the commission’s history, one person
was recognized a second time for a
heroic deed. He is Henry Naumann, a
railroad crossing watchman. Hammond,
Ind. In June, 1924, Naumann was
awarded a bronze medal for saving a
woman from the path of a train. On
March 30, 1927, the day before his
resignation as watchman was to go into
effect, Naumann plunged in front of a
train in an effort to save an aged
woman. The woman was killed and
Naumann's leg was crushed. He was
awarded SBO a month for the seconc.
act of heroism.
Twelve Women Named.
Twelve women were among thos
whose acts of heroism drew the atten
tlon of the commission.
The 12 heroes who lost their livr
while trying,to save others were:
Ernest J. Boughey, Waterbury, Conn.,
attempted to save a man from suffocat
ing in a man-way under a swimmiti;
pool at Sioux City, lowa, May 11, 1926
silver medal to his father, James N
Boughey of Waterbury.
Arnold K. Eisenring, North Bergen
N. J., attempted to rescue a man fron.
drowning at Belleville, Ontario, June 12.
1927; silver medal to his father.
Ronald E. Stevens, Pasadena. Calif.,
15-year-old schoolboy, died trying to
save a companion from drowning ai
Boonville, Mo., May 24, 1926; bronzt
medal to his father.
Orant P. Chapman. Salt Lake City
Utah, died attempting to rescue a gir,
trom drowning at Banta. Calif., Septem
ber 18, 1928; bronze medal to his fathei.
Ray D. Elliott. Marion, N. C., die
attempting to rescue a schoolboy from
drowning at Marion, N. C., July 1, 1926
Bronze medal to his father.
Forest W. W. Loyd, Phillipsburg,
Kans., aged 10, died attempting to save
a companion from drowning at Phil
lipsburg December 11, 1926. Bronze
medal to his mother.
Floyd A. Jones. Cincinnati, died at
tempting to rescue a man from suffo
cating in a sewer at Cincinnati October
28, 1927. Bronze medal to widow, with
a pension of S2O and $5 additional for
each of two children.
John D. Hayhurst, Belmont, W. Va„
met death when he went to the rescue
with Jones. Bronze medal to widow,
with death benefits of $75 a month
and $5 additional for one child.
William B. Prettyman, Wheeling, W.
Va., died attempting to save a girl
from drowning at Braeburn, Pa., June
18, 1926. Bronze medal to his widow,
with benefits of SSO monthly.
Widow Gets Pension.
Orren H. Dutton, Ontario Calif., died
attempting to rescue a man from
drowning at Highmore, S. Dak., July
14, 1925. Bronze medal to widow, with
benefits of S7O monthly and $5 a
month additional for each of two chil
dren.
Ernest E. Moore, Wellston, Ohio, died
attempting to save a woman from suf
focating in a gas-filled room at Jack
sonville, Fla., June 30, 1925. Bronze
medal to widow and benefits of SBO
monthly.
John Crockett, Rustburg, Va., negro,
died trying to rescue a man from suf
focating in a well at Rustburg Sep
tember 28. 1927. Silver medal to widow ,
with benefits of $35 a month and $5
additional for one child.
Takoma Park Baptist Church.
At the Takoma Park Baptist Church,
Plney Branch road and Aspen street,
the pastor, Rev. William E. La Rue, will
speak tomorrow morning and evening.
He gives a sermon to the children each
Sunday morning in the first part of the
service, after which they are at liberty
to go. Sermonet, 11 a.m., “Goose
Sense,” a nature talk; sermon, “How to
Think of Science. Philosophy and Re
ligion." Sermon. 8 pm., “How Do We
Know the Bible Is True?”