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Increasing cloudiness tonight followed
by showers tomorrow; ndt much change
in temperature.
Temperatures—Highest, 79. at noon
today; lowest, 59 at 6:30 a.m. today.
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GRAND! GOES HOME
ON EVE OF BROWS
SPEECHAT GENEVA
Sudden Departure Surprises
French and Stirs As
sembly of League.
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
CAUSES SKEPTICiSM
Paris Official Will Expound Ideas
on ‘‘United States of Europe”
at Session Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 10.—Foreign
Minister Dino Grandi of Italy suddenly
left Geneva by automobile this morn
ing without waiting for the opening
of the eleventh Assembly of the League
of Nations, which tomorrow will hear
Foreign Minister Briand of France ex
pound his ideas on his "United States
of Europe" plan.
Signor Grandi's almost precipitate
departure caused a considerable flurry
among the members of the delegations.
Thi» afternoon it was the principal topic
of lobby gossip, overshadowing the im
mediate business of organizing the As
sembly’s machinery.
The official explanation given out at
headquarters of the Italian delegation
was that Signor Grandi had arranged
in advance to leave Geneva as soon
as the Council sessions were finished
and to intrust Italy's business at the
Assembly to Senator Scialoja.
French Surprised.
French circles appeared greatly sur
prised that Signor Grandi should have
departed on the very eve of M. Briand’s
Important address. It had been an
nounced Briand would discuss his Eu
ropean federal union plan in the light
of the comments received from the
countries to whom it had been com
municated in a memorandum last May.
The surprise grew when it became
known that only late last night Signor
Grandi had canceled an engagement
with M. Briand and Dr. Julius Curtius,
German foreign minister, to discuss the
fiaar question this afternoon.
A number of Signor Grandi’s other
appointments were called oft this morn
ing.
leaves Hour Before Meeting.
The Italian statesman’s automobile
left Geneva Just an hour before the as
sembly was called to order for the first
session of its eleventh meeting.
The official explanation of his de
parture was greeted with diplomatic
skepticism in many quarters. Some
observers said that Signor Grandi felt
that naval negotiations with France
were going very slowly and preferred
to be absent when the report* of their
progress were called for.
Others, though conceding that some
thing was behind the official statement,
believed that some purely Italian ques
tion must have required Grandi s im
mediate presence in Rome.
A well informed Italian said this
morning that "the naval negotiations
are proceeding by means of conversa
tions between experts,” but made no
claim that they had progressed to the
point where, as Foreign Secretary
Henderson of Great Britain suggested
to the press last night, any public re
port could be issued.
Titulescu Named President.
Tha Assembly elected Nicholas Titu
leacu as its president. M. Titulescu
has been Rumanian Minister at St.
Succeeding M. Zumeta, M. Titulescu
then took office as chairman and de
clared the League now faced .questions
surpassing In importance any it has
dealt with hitherto.
He especially stressed the need of
relief for economic depression in the
■world and urged the Assembly to bend
Jts best efforts toward this task.
The Assembly then proceeded to organ
ize its committee and perfect its machin
ery. This work was expected to con
tinue throughout the afternoon.
The Assembly began its proceedings
with reports on and expressions of sym
pathy with the populations of Italy and
Santo Domingo for losses sustained in
the earthquake and hurricane of the
past few weeks, t
Past Failures Recalled.
Benor Zumeta told the Assembly it
must admit some failures and disap
pointments since its last session. He
mentioned among these discouraging
factors: Lack of hope for progress in
disarmament, failure of the tariff truce
conference, while conferences on the
status of foreigners, abolition of im
port and export prohibition, and for
codification of international law "did
rot completely exhaust their program.”
The temporary President also referred
to "a certain amount of uneasiness if
not anxiety in various parts of the
world.” His reference was taken to be
the Argentine, China and India.
“We welcome M. Briand’s generous
plan, which points away toward com
plete consolidation of European peace
and rapprochement,” he said. He added
that the mere formulation of this plan
emphasized progress of the idea of In
ternational co-operation since the
League was born.
The London Naval Conference, he as
serted, did not accomplish all of its
objects, but he hoped "that this work
would be completed and effected.” In
conclusion he praised the league's ef
forts to bring its covenant up to the
advanced standard for international
dealing set by the Kellogg pact.
The report of the Committee on Dele
gates’ credentials was then presented
to the Assembly. It said that 52 dele
gations were present, Argentina and.
Honduras being without representation.
GRANDI’S AIMS UNKNOWN.
Rome Has No Explanation for Hasty
Departure From Geneva.
ROME, September 10 14>).—The rea
sons for the sudden departure from the
League Assembly session of Foreign
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BOAT PROJECTS GRANTED
Equipment for Modernization of
Warships Is Ordered.
PHILADELPHIA, September 10 (4 s ).
—The Philadelphia shops of the West
lnghouse Electric Co. have received a
$500,000 order from the United States
Government for equipment necessary to
modernize two battle ships, the Penn
sylvania and the Arizona.
High pressure/ and cruising turbines
are included In the order. The Penn
sylvania now is at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard and the Arizona at
If.
FRIENDLINESS WITH U. S.
; TO BE URIBURU’S POLICY
Provisional Head of Argentina Plans
Active Part in Pan-American Affairs.
Has Open Mind on League.
Br the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, September 10. —President Gen. Jose Evaristo Uriburu
told the Associated Press today that close co-operation with the United States
and active participation in activities of the Pan-American Union were to be
keynotes of his administration in the Argentine.
Stressing especially his desire for friendly intercourse with the United
States, Gen. Uriburu declared: ”1 desire my government to establish friendly
and mutually advantageous relations with the
United States and shall name an Ambassador to
Washington the instant the United States rec
ognizes the new Argentine government.”
Touching upon the long vacancy in the Argen
tine embassy at Washington. Gen. Uriburu said:
"Both nations have everything to gain through
diplomatic, economic and commercial co-operation
and much to lose through political aloofness in
matters in which the best interests of both are
involved.”
He declared that other American republics could
depend upon Argentina's whole-hearted participa
tion in the program of the Pan-American Union,
but that this government could not say immedi
ately whether it would be found desirable to re
bume participation in the League of Nations.
• Explains Irigoyen's Status.
The new government, he said, has set itself to
the task of exhaustive study of the entire ques
tion of League membership, but in the past Ar
gentina’s ability to see eye to eye with the terms
of the treaty of Versailles has been the basis of
non-participation in the affairs of the League.
The President denied emphatically that the de
posed President, Hipolito Irlgoyen, had been put
in jail or had been taken aboard a warship. “After
I arrived at Government House Saturday,” he
said, "I discovered that the President had fled
from the capital. Later he was placed in the
barracks of the 7th Infantry, at La Plata, where he was held until his resig
nation.
“At that time his imprisonment ceased. On advice of his physicians he
remained at the barracks, since it was reported, his health would be endangered
if he were removed. My personal hope is shat Senor Irigoyen's condition soon
will be so improved that he may be removed to a sanitarium, where he will bp
able to recover.
"As proof of the government's concern In his health. I will say that he
has been given every possible attention. I personally sent two of the Argentine’s
most eminent physicians, Dr. Mariano Castez and Dr. Araoz Alfaro, to visit
him, and I am now awaiting their report. Senor Irigoyen is free to leave the
barracks, and if he desires tha government is disposed to place at his disposal
all conveniences.
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ARGENTINA ADOPTS
DRASTICMEASURES
Martial Law and Censorship
Tightened—Heavy Guard
Patrols Capital.
By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, September 10.—
The new government of the Argentine
today adopted the most severe measures
to prevent reprisals and counter
revolutionary tactics by friends of the
ousted administration of the resigned
President, Hipolito Irigoyen.
Rule by martial law was tightened.
Heavy guards were maintained over the
city; troops moved through the streets,
and fighting planes maneuvered over
head.
A censorship more rigid than has been
known heretofore was imposed. The
chief of the Argentine press section ad
vised all foreign correspondents that no
messages could be sent out of the coun
try which had not been approved by
authorized censors. The prohibition
applied alike to cable, telegraph and
telephone. The correspondents were
told that any one violating the order
would be expelled. No code messages
were accepted.
The government appeared greatly
concerned because quantities of arms
were taken from city arsenals during
the fighting Monday night.
Military Edicts Issued.
Two military edicts were issued pre
scribing trial by court-martial for any
one found in possession of arms after
6 pm. yesterday, for any one acting in
any manner against the government,
and for ar y one failing to return within
12 hours any arms belonging to the
government.
Reports that Irigoyen had been
placed aboard the warship Belgrano to
be taken to an unannounced destina
tlon were discredited this morning
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BOY SENT TOINDUSTRIAL
HOME FOR PAPER THEFT
Judge Kathryn Sellers Imposes
Year on Youth Caught Stealing
From “Honor” Rack.
A year in the Boys’ Industrial Home
is the price Stephan Henry Bundy, 15-
year-old colored boy, must pay for the
theft of 34 newspapers out of the so
called honor system street newspaper
racks. The sentence was imposed today
by Judge Kathryn Sellers in Juvenile
Court.
Bundy lives at 504 Rhode Island ave
nue. Policeman R. I. Thompkins of
the fourth precinct, who arrested him,
testified that he caught the boy taking
the papers out of a rack at First street
and Maryland avenue southwest yester
day morning.
RIDES RODS IN SEARCH OF WORK,
FATHER IS SENT HOME IN COFFIN
Police of Chicago Suburb Pay Return Fare After Finding
Wife’s Letter on Crushed Body.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 10.—Herman
Eller who rode a freight into town six
week* ago seeking work and didn't find
it, is going to ride home to Cheyenne,
Wyo., in a passenger train—up in front
. —in the baggage car—in a box—dead.
The police force of suburban Brook
i field is paying for the last ride of Her
-5 man Eller. There are only eight po
> licemen in Brookfield, counting the
• chief, but they're paying it, and they
are only sorry that Herman Eller can’t
i be riding farther back in the train—in
■ a chair car—alive.
i Last Saturday Eilcr, 2fi years old, got
t a letter from his wife in Cheyenne. ItJ
r-'A the m* I '''rifles were enlr'* to ’•••*
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PRES. IRIBI’RU.
AMMEL PREPARES
FOR ATLANTIC HOP
Hopes to Better Col. Lind
bergh’s Solo Flight to
Paris.
Br the Associated Press.
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Septem
ber 10.—Hoping to better Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh's time for a solo flight to
Paris, Capt. Roy W. Ammel of Chicago
today was preparing his fast monoplane
for a transatlantic flight.
He said he planned to take off within
two days or as soon as his motor and
Instruments can be checked, provided
weather conditions were faborable. He
arrived from Chicago yesterday after a
7 hour and 30 minute non-stop flight.
His plane is a low wing Lockheed
Sirius monoplane powered with a 425
horsepower Wasp motor. It is similar
to the plane in which Col. Lindbergh
and his wife set a one-stop transcon
tinental speed record last Easter Sunday.
Capt. Ammel said his plane has a
cruising speed of 140 miles an hour and
a maximum speed of 181 miles. Gaso
line tanks with a capacity of 817 gallons
have been installed.
If he has sufficient gas when he
reaches Paris, he said he would circle
the French capital and fly on to Rome
or Berlin.
He expressed confidence in his ability
to make the flight to Paris in less than
30 hours. Col. Lindbergh made his
flight in 33>/2 hours. The distance from
here to Le Bourget Field at Paris Is
measured at 3.610 miles.
Capt. Ammel said he would not carry
radio equipment.
He has had more than 2.000 hours
flying experience, much of it in Central
and South America.
rooseveltfavors
DRY LAW REPEAL
New York Governor Holds States
Should Have Right to Con
trol Intoxicants.
By the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y„ September 10. —Gov.
Roosevelt today came out for repeal of
the eighteenth amendment.
The Governor’s attitude was ex
pressed in a letter to United States Sen
ator Robert F. Wagner of New York.
In the letter the Governor declared
a condition given birth by the eight
eenth amendment could be remedied
only by the substitution of that amend
ment with another amendment giving
"the restoration of real control of In
toxicants to the several States.”
The Governor declared the sale of In
toxicants through State agencies should
be made lawful in any State where the
people so desire.
"Conversely,” said the Governor, "the
people of any State should have the
right to prohibit the sale of intoxicants
if they so wished within its borders.”
her and her family in the poor house
within a week. It said that rather
than that, she would kill herself and
the children.
After reading the letter, Eller thrust
it into his pocket and hurried to the
railroad yards. He caught a freight,
anxious to get back home and prevent
the tragedy that hung over his im
poverished home.
He slipped from the rods and was
crushed. They found his body by the
tracks.
Yesterday Chief O'Connor discovered
the letter in the tattered coat. He wired
S2O to Mrs. Eiler out there in Cheyenne.
He passed the hat.
J _ And today Herman Eiler Is going back
BLEASE DEFEATED;
LONG WINS RACE;
DRYS LOSE FIGHTS
Many Upsets Are Recorded
at Polls in 8 States in
Diverse Battles.
CRAMTON OF MICHIGAN
BARELY RETAINS SEAT
Shaw Takes 0. 0. P. Nomination
in Colorado, Beating Phipps*
Senate Candidate.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Primary elections in eight States yes
terday provided many upsets for the old
order. •
Two United States Senators, both
from the Democratic South, failed to
win renomination. Senator Cole Blease
of South Carolina, firebrand and for
years a storm center in the politics of
his State, went down to defeat before
the anti-Blease voters, who centered
finally on former Representative James
P. Byrnes for the Democratic senatorial
nomination.
While the more conservative Byrnes
was winning his way to the Senate in
South Carolina over Blease, Gov. Huey
P. Long of Louisiana, as much of a
storm center as Blease ever was, de
feated the veteran Senator Joseph P.
Ransdell. Byrnes’ lead over Blease. ac
cording to the last returns received, is
more than 5,000 votes, while Long has
won over Ransdell 'oy approximately
35,000.
Wet Candidates Win.
Outstanding in the primary results
were the victories of wet candidates
for Republican nominations for the
House in Washington and Michigan.
Although the returns are not yet com
plete, it appears that one of the four
dry Republican members of the House
from Washington have suffered defeat
at the hands of candidates who lean
toward the wet cause or who have
come out openly for that cause, and
two are being pressed closely.
In Michigan, Grant M. Hudson, dry
leader for a number of years in the
House, has lost to State Senator Sey
mour H. Person of Lansing. Another
ardent dry from Michigan. Representa
tive Louis C. Cramton, who has repre
sented the seventh congressional dis
trict of Michigan for the last 15 years,
is reported to be only 75 votes ahead
of his wet opponent. A recount of the
vote will be necessary to determine
finally who has won.
Concern Triumphs Easily.
Senator James Couse ns of Michigan
also has triumphed in the race for the
Republican senatorial nomination. His
opponent, former Gov. Chase S. Os
born, made as much as he could dur
ing the campaign of the wet and dry
issue. Senator Couzens has not been a
militant wet, but at one time he let it
be known publicly that he saw no ob
jection to the manufacture and sale
of beer.
The drys, it appears, have little cause
for rejoicing over the results of the
primaries held yesterday. The Repub
lican State Convention in Washington
several months ago adopted a wet plank
for the party platform. Coming as it
did in a State which has been counted
in the dry column for years, the action
of the Republican Convention created a
wide stir. Senator Wesley L. Jones,
senior Senator from Washington and
ardent dry leader, author of the “five
and ten” law, Immediately declared that
he did not believe the people of the
State would sustain the wet cause if a
referendum were held.
He promised to vote for the submis
sion of a resolution amending the Con
stitution if his State should go “wet” in
a referendum on this subject, although
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4 DIE AS SHAFT BREAKS
Passengers Fall Through Floor of
Speeding Sightseeing Bus.
SANGERSHAUSEN, Germany, Sep
tember 10 (/P). —Death in the form of a
flailing driveshaft came up through the
floor of a sight-seeing bus on a highway
near here yesterday and claimed four
lives.
The shaft broke while the machine
was going at full speed and tore a hole
in the floor. The four who died fell
through this and were crushed under
the wheels.
•
Fashion in the Shops
Fashion is the keynote in
the stores just now. New
things are in evidence
everywhere and priced on
a new low scale.
Among the advertisements
in today’s Star you will find
many things that will inter
est you—
Coats, hats and dresses for
college.
Fine underwear reduced
J /4 to J4*
Silk hose and rayon paja
mas and nightgowns.
New wool frocks.
Fall silk dresses.
Things for the baby.
Men’s Fall hats, clothes
and shoes.
And many other things.
Yesterday's Advertising
(Local Display)
Lines.
The Evening Star.. 32,185
2d Newspaper 13,563
3d Newspaper 6,690
4th Newspaper 2,772
sth Newspaper 2,202
Total •««*•«; 25,227
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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF!
OWNERS OPPOSE
KENT TAXICABS
Would Prefer Meter System,
Utilities Commission Is
Told in Inquiry.
The first meeting of the Public Util
ities Commission’s public hearing on
the taxicab situation today developed l
little but hard words about the 35-cent
flat rate cabs.
Among the most violent opponents of
the present system were the 35-cent
cab owners themselves, who said they
would like to go back to the old meter
system, but can’t afford to do it in the
face of the competition put up by
Government workers, firemen and other
semi-pro taxicab drivers, who put up
a 35-cent cab sign on their cars after
working hours.
The meeting was crowded. There
were even three women present, one of
whom operates her own cab. The trac
tion and bus interests were well repre
sented. S. Russell Bowen, vice president
of the Washington Railway St Electric
Co., even took part in examining the
witnesses. He wanted to know if taxi
cab drivers made a practice of picking
up fares on the regular street car and
bus routes. Charles H. Lettow, repre
sentative of Local No. 169 of the Cab
Drivers’ Union, told him they did. Mr.
Bowen wanted to know what time of
day the practice was prevalent.
Busses Are Assailed.
"Usually from noon one day continu
ously until noon the next," was the
reply. E. O. Turner, president of the
Independent Taxicab Owners’ Associa
tion, then accused the car companies
of taking business away from the cab
drivers. They send busses to hotels, he
claimed, and take up the space in front
of hotels usually reserved for taxi’s.
Then the busses are loaded up with
passengers at 10 cents a head and
taken around the Washington Monu
ment and other spots of sight-seeing
interest.
Edward W. Himes, who operates one
cab on his own, and has no other
occupation, was the first witness. He
did not state what profit he made, but
said that he received about sl2 per
month in tips. He claimed it was very
difficult to get on to a hackstand now
adays, and not very profitable to do so.
Favors Meter Rates.
Lettow followed him and said that
the union was strongly in favor of the
meter rates, as the owners under .flat
rates have no control over their drivers
and the drivers are fast becoming
thieves. He condemned the zone sys
tem as inefficient, and said that few
people knew what the zones were. There
was a general agreement on this, and
when Commissioner Harleigh H. Hart
man tried to secure some statement for
the record as to Just what the zones
were nothing but confusion followed.
The matter was summed up by Rich
ard Carneggio, the next witness, who
said that it amounted to this. A pas
senger gets into a cab. If the driver
likes his looks, he will take him where
he’s going for 35 cents. Otherwise the
passenger will pay 60 cents.
• Carnaggio, who is vice president of
the union and drives his own cab, has
the courage of his convictions. He has
never changed over to the flat rate, and
warns every passenger that the ride will
be checked by the meter. His business
has been cut 50 per cent by the flat
rate competition, he said, but he was
determined not to change, although he
operated the only Diamond cab now do
ing business at meter rates.
Lettow was asked if he favored com
pulsory insurance for taxicabs. He an
swered that he did, provided only that
all other vehicles on the street were
also compelled to carry liability insur
ance. He felt it unfair to single out
taxicabs and put the burden on them.
OPERATION ON ALLEN
IS REPORTED SUCCESS
By the Associated Pres*.
BALTIMORE, September 10.—Sen
ator Henry J. Allen of Kansas under
went a major operation at Johns Hop
kins Hospital today, and Dr. Hugh H.
Young, who performed it, said it was
entirely successful and that the patient
was in excellent condition.
Senator Allen arrived here Monday
from his home at Wichita with his
daughter, Henrietta, his physician and
a nurse. A minor operation was per
formed at Wichita last week, but faUed
to relieve the glandular disorder from
which he suffered.
The second operation was decided
on, it was said, at his home, when the
Senator expressed a desire "to go
through with it and get it over.”
Senator Allen was in a hospital at
Wichita two weekß before he was
brought here, following his return from
a vacation trip to Mexico Cit.y.
Tired Fish Retire
To Private Circle,
But Fail to Stay
By the Associated Press.
ERWIN, N. C„ September 10.—
Here’s the Summer’s best fish
ing story.
David Stephens tells it, his
wife vouches for it. Vtffiile fish
ing, her hook caught .a snag. He
scrambled into the stream to re
lease It. stepped on an old auto
mobile tire and threw It out on
the bank.
Inside were nine catfish.
STRIKING PARENTS
POSTPONE SCHOOL
Beltsville Fire Exit and Plumb
ing Facilities Are Pro
tested.
By a RUST Correspondent of The Star.
BELTSVILLE, Md.,* September 10.—
A parents’ strike, laid to the lack of
adequate plumbing facilities and fire
exits in the Beltsville School, now being
enlarged, forced Prince Georges County
school officials to postpone the opening
of that school along with the others of
the county today.
A large group of parents assembled at
the school when the scheduled time for
opening arrived this morning and flatly
refused to permit their children to enter
the class rooms under the present phys
ical condition of the building. After
considerable discussion, Perry Boswell,
president of the Board of Education,
and J. Albert Miller, assistant superin
tendent of schools, ordered the opening
postponed until Monday.
School Being Enlarged.
The school is being enlarged from a
3-room to a 4-room structure, and is
also being raised to provide bigger base
ment quarters. When the building oper
ations are completed entrance to the
school will be afforded by wide cement
steps, but at present a temporary ramp,
said to be only a few feet wide, serves as
the main entrance.
The parents say that, in case of fire,
all of the 125 pupils in the school could
not reach safety down the temporary
ramp.
School officials had ordered temporary
plumbing connections installed, and
when the County Board of Education
met yesterday and studied reports from
the contractor, it could see no reason
for postponing the school’s opening.
According to the parents, however,
the temporary plumbing connections
failed to provide either sewer or water
facilities.
Reluctant to Allow Opening.
If sewer and water is provided, and
a full set of entrance steps is built, the
“striking” parents will reluctantly per
mit their children to return to the
building and suffer the inconvenience
of noise and confusion until the en
largement operations are completed,
they said. , , ..
The parents say the work on the
school started only three weeks ago, and
complain that an insufficient force of
men has been employed to have the
building in shape for the scheduled
opening of schools. , .
Although school officials promised the
plumbing conditions and entrance needs
would be made satisfactory by Monday,
the parents assumed a “judge-for-our
selves” attitude, announcing they will
decide whether or not the building is
safe at a meeting of the local home and
school association Monday night.
GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE SPECIAL
COURSE FOR BACKWARD CHILDREN
New Service Announced Today Will Be in Charge of Miss
Elise H. Martens, California Specialist.
By the Associated Press.
The task of adjusting mentally ex
ceptional children through special
school training will be made the sub
ject of extended Government study by a
new branch of the Federal Office of
Education.
The new service, announced today,
will be under the direction of Elise H.
Martens, California specialist in the
training of such children, and will in
clude the preparation of special
courses for deficient and backward chil
dren in co-operation with school olß
i cials.
Special attention will be given in the
work to averting the development of
i mentally handicapped children into
Juvenile offenders and later adult crim
inals. .
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CAPTOR OF NURSE
HELD IN ASSAULT
Man Who Kept Police at Bay
Two Hours Bound Over
to Grand Jury.
Howard F. Carsou 25 years old, who
was arrested last night in his home, at
60 S street, after he h*d held a squad of
: detectives and policemen at bay for
I more than two hours, was bound over
to the grand jury under SIO,OOO bond in
Police Court this morning on a charge
of assault with Intent to kill Miss
Annie D. Jennings, a trained nurse,
rooming with Carson's parents.
Carson's father, O. F. Carson, a Gov
ernment employe, asked Judge Gus A.
Schuldt to commit his son to Gallinger
Hospital for mental observation, a re
quest which authorities expect to grant.
Carson likely will be sent to the hos
pital for the usual 10-day period of
observation.
Through his attorney, George McNeill,
young Carson waived a preliminary
hearing. The Government was repre
sented by Assistant District Attorney
Michael Keogh.
Carson was subdued by a rookie police
man, Earl L. Baker of No. 2 precinct,
who bridged an areaway with an ironing
board and clambored into a second
story window of the Carson home, where
the young man, a loaded revolver in his
hand, was threatening to shoot all
comers.
Parents Plead Against Guns.
For two hours and a half, while the
police took up a watch, and while Car
son's parents pleaded with them not
to use their guns. Carson talked in a
subdued voice with Miss Jennings in
her second-floor bedroom, urging her to
give up ''the other man” or die.
Neighbors learned something was
amiss when they heard the screams of
Carson's mother, Mrs. O. F. Carson.
They called police, and when a
patrolman arrived he was let into the
living room by the young man's father.
"Who is that down there?” Carson
called down the stairway. When in
formed who it was he threatened to
shoot if any one interrupted while he
"talked things over” with Miss Jen
nings. The policeman telephoned his
precinct and a squad of officers w T as
sent to the Carson home.
Later a detail of detectives arrived
in charge of Inspector William S.
Shelby. They took up positions com
manding a view of the upstairs win
dows. in neighboring houses and in the
street, and withheld their fire in the
fear of hitting the young woman.
Meanwhile, a large crowd assembled
in the street.
Let Caller In.
Carson, his parents said, became in
censed when Miss Jennings was sum
moned to the front door shortly after
8 o’clock last night to keep a “date”
with another young man, Joseph Jack
son, brother of a woman whom Miss
Jennings was attending in her capacity
as a nurse.
Carson himself let Jackson in and
then went upstairs, presumably to in
form Miss Jennings that her caller had
arrived. Instead of returning he went
to. his room and procured the pistol,
telling Miss Jennings she was not “go
ing out tonight.”
Young Carson's mother sensed some
thing was wrong and ran up the stairs.
Her son admonished her to stay away
and she screamed as she descended the
stairway.
Carson’s father then called to the
young man and w'as himself warned to
stay away. When the policeman ar
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“Education faces the problem,” the
education office said, “of making satis
factory provision for those children who
need special adjustment if it is to con
tribute to the world the best it can
give to the social welfare and law en
forcement. The new position in the
Office of Education is a step in the di
rection of its solution.”
Miss Martens is a graduate of the
University of California and has been
connected with the school systems of
Oakland and Berkeley. She will con
tinue a co-operative relationship with
child adjustment work at Berkeley and
will establish Similar relations with
other school systems engaging in the
task.
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TWO CENTS.
58 D. C. PROPERTIES,
WORTH 11,1,1,
MAY BE PADLOCKED
Premises Valued at $394,000.
Are Now Shut by Dry
Procedure.
OWNERS OF PROPERTY
ARE WARNED BY SURVEY
Current Business Review Compiles
Bata From Offices of Prosecutor
and District Tax Assessor.
Institution of padlock proceedings in
the Government’s efforts to make the
National Capital dry have placed 58
properties in Washington, having a to
tal assessed value of $1,309,000, under
the cloud of prosecution at the present
time, it was disclosed today.
Eighteen different local properties,
having an assessed value totaling $394.-
000, now r are under padlock as a result
of proceedings successfully carried
through local courts.
In addition there are padlock cases
pending and awaiting trial involving 40
pieces of property here, having an as
sessed value totaling $915,000, bringing
the total District Government assessed
value of properties now padlocked or
definitely threatened with enforced
closing to $1,309,00''.
This data was revealed in the Wash
ingto.. Current Business Review of
Rufus S. Lusk, Inc., in which appear
the results of a survey of the effects of
padlocking on local property owners.
The study, Mr. Lusk said, was de
signed in nowise as an argument either
for or against prohibition or the present
methods of enforcing the prohibition
laws, but rather as a mere statement of
facts concerning t’ - losses to property
owners from oadlock rulings as a warn
ing to landlords to be aware of the
activities of tenants for which they
may have to suffer
Sources of Information.
The data were compiled by Mr. Lusk
with the assistance of the office of
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover,
and contained information gathered
from the prosecutors office and from
the offiee of District Tax Assessor Wil
liam P. Richards.
In the Current Business Review,
which was today received by local real
tors, financiers and other business in
terests, Mr. Lusk said: “This informa
tion is compiled in order that property
owners may realize the danger they run
in renting property today to tenants
whose character and activities have not
been fully investigated.”
Only current padlock cases were in
cluded In the study. It was found in
the survey that on September 3 last
there were 18 different pieces of prop
erty under padlock after it was found
by court that violations of the prohibi
tion act had been committed on these
premises.
The review states that there are pad
lock cases pending against 40 pieces of
property. “In this latter classifica
tion,” the review adds, “are two or
three properties where the proceeding
is not against the entire building, but
against either the first or second floor
only.
“The loss that property owners are
now suffering by reason of padlocking
of property is about $39,000 a year, if
it be assumed that property will rent
for 10 per cent gross of the assessed
value.
“This is more than the cost of en
forcing prohibition in this area tout,
of public funds). The Department of
Justice in a release made September 5
stated that 7 cents per inhabitant, or
$34,000 per annum, was being spent out
of public funds to enforce prohibition
in the district of which Washington is
a pa:
Others to Be Padlocked.
“The district attorney’s office does *
not institute padlock proceedings until
it has an ‘open-and-shut’ case, so that
cases now pending probably will result
in the padlocking of additional prop
erty here. The district attorney has
stated in the press that he wishes to
proceed against these properties imme
diately upon the convening of the Fall
term of court. Should all the proper
ties be padlocked against which cases
now are pending, certain property own
ers in Washington may be contributing
something more Shan $90,000 a year in
lost rents to aid in the enforcing of
prohibition.
“It is the custom o' the district at
torney’s office ’ the survey report con
tinues, “although it is not required by
law, to adv.se property owners that ft
may start padlock proceedings on ac
count of the alleged violation of liquor
“Properties now under padlock are
scattered all over the cltv, even In
Chevy Chase, west of Sixteenth street
near Park road, and close to Dupont
Circle. The District Attorney docs this
except where the violations are so
flagrant that it is not necessary tc show
pioperty owners this courtesy.
“In the cases against which action
will be taken this Fall there are thres
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LINGLE SUSPECT
OFFERS TO YIELD
State's Attorney Fails to Agree to
Four Conditions of Surrender
He Lays Down. .
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 10.—James
(Red) Forsythe, whose photograph has
been identified tentatively as that of
the man who slew Jake Llngle, Trlbuno
reporter, June 9, has opened negotia
tions with the State’s attorney’s office
for his surrender.
Forsythe, speaking through an attor
ney. laid down four conditions under
which he would give himself up. He
must have assurance he will not be
mauled by police in an effort to force
a confession from him; he must be
interviewed only in the presence of his
attorney; he must either be booked
for murder or given, his freedom and
a clear b.ll of health within 24 hours,
ar.d he must not be turned over to
Judge John H. Lyle, who a year ago
sentenced him to a year In jail for
gun toting—« sentence Forsythe never
served.
The State’s attorney has not agreed
to accept Forsythe's term?, but has
t»ken steps to accomplish his arrest
independently.
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