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FORMER WIFE OF E. B. ALSOP, AGED D. C CLUBMAN, DOWN AND OUT >
ALCOHOL
AND DRUGS
HER BIKE
Taken to Bellevue FromShabby
. Lodging House Room Where 1
She Had Lain for Days.
With none to comfort her save j
coldly impersonal physician and |
nurses, there lies today in a
New York hospital, as though in
? back-wash of misery, the faded j
likeness of a woman who ten j
years ago was borne radiant into i
Washington on a flood tide of
beauty and wealth.
It is Effie Pope-Hill Alsop,
divorced wife of Edward B. Al
sop, millionaire clubman of 1502
Twentieth street.
When they were married in '
1912, it seemed that the prover- j
bial unhappiness of December
and May matings was disproved.
Alsop was seventy-seven, his
bride twenty..
But once again the old saw
was vindicated. Exactly what
brought about a parting in less
than two years never has been
definitely learned.
Alcohol and Drugs.
Perhaps some inkling of it is to |
be gleaned from the writing on the
Chart at the foot of Mrs. Alsop's
bed in Bellevue:
"Alsoholism and drug poisoning.
For twice within a few months
after the septugenarian and the I
chi.d had celebrated their nuptials,
?he mysteriously departed for treat
ment in sanitariums. And later
in New York she was arrested one
night in a state of hilarlousness
produced by something more tnan
bright lights alone j
During her hey-day, Mrs. Alsop j
was said to consider herself in dis
habille if she wore less than $20,000
worth of Jewels. Her last stop be
fore Bellevue, where she Is said to
be desperately ill from liquor and
veronal, was a dingy furnished roon.
at 61 West Forty-seventh street. |
Internes carried her out Wednes
day night. .
As remarkable as has been Mrs.
Alaop's evident decline since for
tune brushed her with Its wing is |
Alaop's defiance of Father Time.
Alsop Feels ReRret.
The troubles and trials of his hec
tic marriage, culminating in his se- |
curing a divorce in Pittsburg in |
1916. seem neither to have added a j
wrinkle to his face or to have robbed
him of affection for the erstwhile
girl wife.
In the alert tones of a man fifty
years his Junior, he expressed his re
gret today at learning of the latest
episode in Mrs. Alsop's recessive
career.
"I'm very sorry to hear of this?
very," he said. "Alcoholism, you |
say, and drugs? Too bad! Too bai!
She's a fine little girl."
But that was the extent of his
commiseration as evidenced to a !
Washington Times reporter. He will j
not go to New York. The affair is j
finished for him.
"It's all In the past," declared I
Alsop. as a man might speak with j
two-thirds of his future befor? him. j
?*t'B a closed Incident. I hear from
her once in a while, but I have not
?een her for a long, long time."
Alsop has found happiness since 1915
In his son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Edward 11. Alsop, who live
at 2005 Massachusetts avenue, Just
around the corner from his hand
some home.
When Effle Pope Hill was four
teen and Alsop, then seventy-one,
owned a palatial summer home at j
Toxaway Lake. N. C.. the girl's j
hlonde beauty attracted the million-1
? Ire. On his own account he had ;
carved out a fortune in Pittsburgh j
Heel, besides inheriting $3,000 000
from his first wife upon her death, i
He followed Kffle's adolescence I
with eager eyes, especially after I
?he and her mother. Mrs. John j
Hill, came to New York in 1810
from their home at Macon, Qa., in
order that the daughter might l
?tudy vocally.
In January, 1912, he admitted?)
he boasted?of his engagement to
the dashing young beauty. On St.
Valentine's Day they slipped away \
to Trinity Church. New York, nnd j
were married. That night he toast- ,
e<) the match In rare wine. There j
was a vivacious scene at the Wal- I
dorf-Astoria. where Alsop and his j
two sons. "Hal" and "Ned." Har
vard men. foregathered.
Alsop, pere: "They claim I am I
eighty. Don't you believe It. 1
am only forty. We are coing to |
make the grandest little team that ;
?ver came down the matrimonial
homestretch."
Ned: "She's a peacherino. If
you don't look out, pop, mamma
and I will elope."
Alsop: "1 don't think there is |
any danger of that, for I am still j
able to lick you, eh. what?"
Thus ran the dialogue, according |
to report.
A few days later, the couple an.e
to Washington and established them
selves in the home of the groom. But
a honeymoon trip was postponed be
cause the bride was indisposed, and
on March 30 she was In a sanitarium
at Litchfield, Conn., with a nervous
breakdown. Humors of grave dif
ferences at once arose, and w* r.>
aggravated by the transfer on April
1 Of holdings valued at $3,000,000
from the father to his two sons at
Pittsburgh.
Keunion In New \orU.
A reunion of Alsop and Mrs.
Alsop occurred In New York on April
(Continued on I'age 26, Column 1.)
BY BILL
SPAR
THE UNDER DOG. I
I always like the under dog
That people always knock.
And no I cums these words of mine |
Will give someone a shock.
I really like the office goat
That keeps our column clean.
I expect we'd he surprised to know
What that goat's Heard and Seen.
I really like old Kipling, boys.
Who talks more than he ought,
lie simply spilled the beans, 1
guess,
About what England thought.
I really like the President.
Though lie passed the bonus up.
If he has seemed ungrateful,
What about the rest of us?
I find so much is wrong with me,
So much I leave undone,
I haven't time to criticize
llenry Ford or anyone.
0. HOWE WISE.
BILL'S AFTER BIGGI
(Ask th
BEAT THIS IF YOU CAN.
Home years ago while fishing below
Chuin Bridfe, I hooked a Riant cat
fish. For iwo hours I struggled to i
land hint. Finally getting him near I
the shore, I leaped on his bark and j
grabbed him by the fins, hoping to I
tire hi:#i out. lie tried his b<*et to j
brush me off by swimming beneath |
the low-hanging bushes over the j
water's edge. He might have b- ? n |
swimming yet with me Ilk** the #iid
Man of the Sea on his back, had not |
a dog-fish barked sstern anil frighten
ed himi so he Jumped ashore, where 1 I
chokefl him death.
(West Virginia mountaineer s tale.?
ED HENRY. ?
VAKIEGATEl) VERSE.
Of course
The public appreciates
The fact that '
Rudio programs
.4 re free, but
Broadcasting free verse, !
Which is never so good
A s this,
Is carrying generosity
Too far. I
vol RE WELCOME. j
CHANGE PARTNERS?WH-RRR!
UnHfhHll. bare knee*. coat* of tan,
freckles, file** and mosquito* will kind- I
Iy retire to winter quarters aiul leave '
their place* In the humorous (?) col- I
iimnn to the Janitor, price of coal. !
New \enr resolutions and autumn
poem*. 1
Prohibition may remain, as it I* an j
all-tlie-> ear Joke. 1
OIDONO. |
NO INSTRUCTION NEEDED. 1
Irate mother: "I'll teach you to j
kiss my daughter!"
Innolent l'lebe: "Too late. I've
learnetl already."
0. A. FAVORS
HAND SIGNALS
IN CITY DUNG
Automatic Devices Said to Re
sult in More Frequent
Collisions.
By I nlvrroal Srnlrf.
The long series of triumphs for
automatic devices over the huiniin
hand was brought to a sudden halt
today.
The machine which has met its
Waterloo Is the "slow" and "stop"
s gnal attachment for automobiles.
The American Automobile Associa
tion says thumbs down on them and
up on the hand signal.
Increasing use of the automatic
signal, with a consequent neglct to
use the hand in notifying cars behind
of an intention to slow down, stop
or turn a corner, the A. A. A. state
ment declares, is resulting in more
frequent collisions.
The objections voiced against the
automatic signal is that it does not
show an intention to turn either to
the right or the left. Moreover, the
failure of the automatic signal to
function at times leaves the driver
in Ignorance of the fact that he is
slowing down without giving any
warning whatever to motorists Im
mediately In the rear.
SB?
E TIRE
A CAPITAL SAILOR.
A Bailor has no EZ time
When on the DP nails;
It's RD finds aloft to climb,
Exposed to IC gales.
And then, in KC makes a slip, ?'
Or if he DZ grows,
A tumble from the lofty ship
Is the last ND knows.
\
And, overboard, f6r AD cries
With NRG and vim,
And though of little UC tries
A vain SA to swim.
But when no LP finds is near
Nor NE one to save,
He then in an XS of fear,
Must CK a watery grave.
BERN ICE BREWER.
Home Is a place where one has
to stop for a moment to get the
golf rlul>S.
<:r game than this.
le Goat )
WHO BOUGHT HER?
(From the Hillsboro. Ohio. Gazette)
Several from here attended the
sale of Mrs. Alice McCoy last Thurs
day.
OIDONO.
DON'T APPLY TO THE O. ?.
The melancholy d*ys are here.
The saddest day* In yearn.
Men no longer use their heads;
They're guided by their f??ai?.
TOL D. YASO.
"I. kin remember," writes
UNCLE EBEM, "when worn
en had to have one hand free
on a rainy day so as to hold
up their skirts."
ANOTHER FOK
OCR COLLECTION
MIm Trlxle Trot ran out of rai
And stalled upon the track. ala?!
She'll not repeat that accident
There'll lot* of fuel where hIip went!
TKI) ROBINSON,
In the Cleveland Plain lAealor.
What does it profit a man tp
live forever and sit in the chim
ney corner? to count his goat
glandsf .
THK PERISCOPE.
HOO?HOO!
The man wlio?f nam**'* In Who'*
Who rtiimn't receive a* murli flattrr
Injr mull an thr man whoae name l> on
a sucker ll?t.
I KNOW.
Civilization seems to be merely
a slow and painful process of ac
cumulating more middlemen.
WHAT'S DOING
Today and Tomorrow
Tndar
Lecture?The Rev. Walter McNeil,
Boyd' Day School, Central Y. M. C. A.
bulldlncr. morning
Meeting?George Baldwin McCoy Unit,
American Women's Legion. Church of
the Covenant. 10:30 a. m.
Dance?F Street Club. Mrs. Dyer'*. 1619
H street. 9 p. m.
Meeting?The Writers' League. Public
Library, R p. in.
Meeting?Woman's Interdenominational
Missionary Cnlon. Mt. Vernon Place M.
K. Church South. 2 p. m.
Meeting?George II. Thomas Women's
Relief Corps, evening
Lecture?Archdeacon Webber. "The
Passion Piny at Oberammergau," Pun
day school room. Church of Christ.
Georgetown. # p. m.
Meeting?Woman's H6me Missionary
Society, Trinity M. E. Church, 3 and ft
p. m.
Dancing class ? Catholic Women's
Service Club. Community House, 601 K
street. 7:30 p in.
Entertainment?Aid Society of Eck
Ington Presbyterian Church, evening
Meeting?Northenst Boundary Cltliens'
Association. Burvllfe School. S p. m.
Meeting?National Capital Post, No.
127. Veterans of Foreign Wars. 1412
Pennsylvania avenue northwept, * p m.
Exponltlon of Sunday School Lesson?
Y. W. C. A., 1333 F street northwest.
4:46 p. m.
Tomorrow.
Meeting?Retired Enlisted Men's As
sociation. No. 1, Pythian Temple, n p. m.
Dance?Gibbons Club. Carroll Hall, 924
G street northwest, evening.
To Give Garden Prizes.
Prize winners In the lawn and
trarden competition of the Rhnds
Island Avenue Citizens' Association
will be announced at a community
meeting In Sherwood Presbyterian
Church, Rhode Island avenue and
Twenty-second street northeast, to
night at 8 o'clock.
CITY FOR 50,000
Almas Temple Plans Include
Town to House Overflow
Visitors.
A city of 50,000 inhabitants, with
all modern conveniences, including
running hot and cold water, electric
lights, playgrounds, and nurses for
the children, will spring up over
night here next June for the annual
session of the Imperial Council, An
i cient Arabic Order Nobles of the
j Mystic Shrine. The city will be In
i existence Just one week and will
vanish within a few hours, leaving
no traces behind.
| This is but one of the phases of
the problem of entertaining nearly a
' half million visitors here next June,
j which was nettled today by the I
' Almas Temple committee in charge. I
The committee today will begin |
aily broadcasting by wireless of j
nessngrs boosting Washington as a j
onvention city. These messages
rill be sent daily at noon from the
Uation of Thomas J. Williams, Inc.,
tnd will be relayed over the entire
?ountry.
First Message Sent.
I>ocal business organizations will
I be Invited to frame the daily tnes- I
i sages, according to plans under con
sideration today. The series of mes
' sages will carry the story of \Vash
i ington to the nation.
j Today's message, sent at noon, fol
lows:
"Almas Temple, of the Mystic
Shrine, invites you to come home the
i first week of next June to the iru
j perial council session In Washington
' and to bring all the folks. Eats. fire
' works and everything."
Plans for the ephemeral city wer>
today practically completed by the
newly organized transportation com
mittee of Almas Temple, of which
Harry K. Cary is chairman. Th*1
committee Includes operating and 1
expert traffic officials of all trans ]
I portation lines now entering Wash
I ington.
I This city, which is to be b it one '
of several like It. will lie laid out In
I the Southern railway yards -it Alex
' andrla, \ a. Pullman cars, in whit h
I 50,000 people will make their homes,
for the entire week of the session,
will make up the city. Comfort
houses will be built, water and sewer t
| pipes laid, telephone and electric
I cables installed, playgrounds laid i
out, automobile parks provided, and
| roads laid out connecting the tt m-j
porary city with all the main high- ,
ways leading into Washington.
Track Already Taken l'p.
The huge railway |iark. without
precedent in American railroading I
I history, according to officials, will |
| he hut 1.600 feet from the electric |
[lines lead.ng to Washington and but
12.600 feet from I'nion Station at.
' Alexandria. Special bus service from !
the park to Washington will oe j
operated all week.
Every Inch of track In the Wash-1
Ington terminal yard has already i
been taken up. It will probably be |
necessary to park the Pullmans in
every yard from Washington to
Baltimore. From 1,500 to 2.000 Pull-.
I man's will probably come here.
A special staff of physicians will
I be kept on hand at each of the
Pullman cities and complete police!
and fire departments wil. be pro-1
vided. The membership of the j
transportation committee was an-1
nounced today, as follows:
Harry K. Cary, chairman; Alex
ander Grant, It. K. Cooke, vice j
chairmen; A. I*. Johnston, secretary;
W. B. Calloway, W. E. Lowes, W. |
V. Shipley, John Lewis, J. A. 1-atch
ford, E. V. Baugh, John 1). Potts.
W. A. Bralinstein, J. B. Edmunds,
W. I,. Booth. II. S. Calcutt. It. K.
Cooke, F. 10. Evans, W. H. Callahan,
D. N. Bell. (>. T. Boyd, C. E. Mi
Cullough, Nathan Well, George M.
Smltb. II. H. Baker, J. T. Ilansom,
C. P. Stewart, J. B. Mordecat.
George P. James, (!. W. Vlerbuchen. j
C. W. Culp, E. L. Kaub, T. H. Ilarr.
W. 11. Tayloe, C. A. Kline, W. S. ;
Andrews. A.exander Grant, J. M. j
Woodruff. S. E. Burgess, Joseph
Marks, J. II. Wlngfield, J. V. |
I>avis, G. C. Baggett, K. L. Prince,
E. A. Gannon. M. G. Stratton. T. j
H. Travers, A. C. Brown, L M.,
Ansley, C. E. Phelps, R. O. Rudd, |
O. B. George, W. 8. Hall. R. M.
Hicks, E. Von Culln. G. W. 8hockev,
J. H. Stevens. A. H. Ferrendou, W.
H. Howard.
More Chairmen Named.
Appointment of two more chair
men of Almas Temple subcommittees
I was announced today by Illustrious
Potentate Leonard P. Steuart.
I James C. Hoyle is named chairman j
of the banquet committee and George
Duval, jr.. High Priest and Prophet j
of Alams Temple, chairman of the
1 fireworks committee.
Harrison Dingmnn, Past Imperial j
| Potentate and Past Potentate of i
j Almas Temple, is named honorary I
I general chairman
| This leaves but three of the thirty j
| committee heads to be named. The i
I vacancies are in the baggage, pur-1
I chasing, and entertainment commit- j
I tees.
ACCUSED OF ROBBING
ROOMMATE OF BIG ROLL
Alleged to have stolen $507 from
his roommate at the Vendome Hotel
on September 21, Peter F. J. -Young,
thirty-five years old, an alleged
| strikebreaker from Hlnton, W. Vn.,
' was arrested yesterday at Scranton,
Pa? and returned here this morning
In the custody of Detectives Brad
ley and Vermillion.
James McCann, of Philadelphia,
reported to the detectives that he
and Young had been working on the
railroad in the West Virginia town
j and came here en route north. They
occupied the same room at the hot?i,'
he said, and when he awoke he dis
covered that Young had left. A
search revealed that the money was
also gona.
Head of D. C. Branch
of New Motor
Organization.
WILLIAM t U.MAN.
Former nrwupaprrnun and ex
secretary of the local A. A. A.,
who now head* the Dintrirt
division of the National Motorists'
Association.
Organization Has Affiliation
With A. A. A.. But Has
Local Autonomy.
William I'limnn. for eight years j
secretary of the National Capital |
division. American Automobile As
sociation. aiul editor of American i
Motorist, lias been named local di
vision hend of the National Motor
ists Association. It was announced
today.
National headquarters of the or
ganization will lie in \\ asliington, [
as a numVier of automobile clubs
throughout th?' Atlantic <'oastj
States have become affiliated with:
the National Motorists Association,
it was announced today.
While Washington membership |
will be in tho nature of direct affilia- ]
tions with the national body. the
conduct of the local organization |
will 1h? entirely in the hands ot
District men and membership rn> - j
ments will be expended in local ter-1
ritory. ... . I
The local advisory hoard will be
made up of Washington men tainil
iar with traffic conditions here. Mr.
t'llman has been g.ven charge of the
formation of the District division and
its advisory board.
Mr. Vllman was inntrumentul in
building up the capital branch of the
A. A. A., and was d.rectly reK)Kinsl
hle for license reciprocity bet we* n
the District and Virginia. For years
he personally led the fight for a (sim
ilar agreement with Maryland.
COMMITTEE MAKES PLANS
FOR TRADE BOARD DINNER
Plans for the final get-together
dinner of the Board of Trade mem
bership committee, in the Conti
nental Hotel, October 20. :ire being
made by a special entertainment
subcommittee, headed by fred
White, it was announced toda>.
Serving on the committee with
Mr. White are Arthur Carr. J"nn
R. Casper. L. Lee Combs. Richard
L,. Conner. C.eorge Miller.
Murohv and Oleorge Plitt.
Covers will be laid for sixty, r.nfl
the committee Is arranging for spe
cial amusement features.
CIVITANS WILL MEET
NEXT AT BALTIMORE
Members of the Washington Civ
itan Club will meet jointly tonight
with their Baltimore brother In
the latter city, it was announced at
yesterday's weekly luncheon meet
ing at the City Club. O. B. An
drews, president of the Interna
tional Association of Clvltan Clubs,
will deliver an address.
The meeting endorsed the police
campaign to limit promiscuous
roller skating in Capital streets.
WOMAN CANDIDATE FOR
CONGRESS SPEAKS HERE
Women can play a most Impor
tant part in enforcement of pro
hibition and other laws. Mrs. Ju
lia It. Hazard, dry candidate for
Congress from Pennsylvania, told
members of the Anthony League
last night at the organization's
first fall meeting In the new home
of the Oeneral Federation of
Women's Clubs.
Other speakers were Wayne B.
Wheeler and Mrs. Thomas O. Win
ter. presld?nt of the Federation,
who dwelt on problems of prison
reform, instaneln* that In her
home State. Minnesota, there Is
not a woman behind tha bara.
TOO MUCH FOOD
BRINGS DISEASE,
DOCTOR AVERS
Curse of Nation, He Tells
Naturopaths?Yawn and
Stretch for Long Lives.
|
Overeating, America's greatest
paHUme, Is one of the chief causes of
disease In the United States, Dr.
Emll Posner, professer of mechano
therapy of New York city. who
sometimes known as "Americas
Dr. Lorenz." declared when he ad
dressed today's session of the
twentv-sixth annual convention of
the American Naturopathic Associa
tion meeting in the VVlllard Hotel.
Dr. Posner declared the drinklnj,
of impure water and exces-'s or
stresses of the mode of living, think
ing and behavior of the average
American also were causes of disease.
As a remedy for these conditions,
Dr. Posner said the rules for life
should be: Oet plenty of exercise,
! plenty of light, stay in the air and
J *un, Ket sufficient food, plenty of
pure water and proportion each of
these properly.
Advice to Persons Fifty.
To men and women of fifty or!
near fifty Dr. Posner"s advice is to <
stretch and yawn five minutes be-;
fure retiring and five minute* after
arising This will rejuvenate them,
he says. He also said that to pre
vent hardening of the arteries the
best advice is to eat plenty of
lemons, oranges, tomatoes, onions
and garlic. ,
The sessions opened today wltn
Dr. Benedict Lust presiding. He j
made a brief speech, declaring the,
naturopaths were willing and anx-j
ious to co-operate with the medical ]
world as long as physicians are j
sincere. Other speakers were Dr. |
William Carver. Dr. L. M. N'esmith, j
Dr. O. Ktechman and Dr. Wilbur
R. Prosser. Another session is be
ing held this afternoon.
Dr. H D. N. Parker, of this city,
speaks this afternoon on "Vacuum
Treatment." Dr. Eugene Christian,
of New York, also speaks.
Ex-Congressman John Baer of
North Dakota will give an illustrated j
lecture tonight, portraying in car
toons the hones and organs of the j
body. Tonight s session opens at 8
o'clock.
500 Delegates Present.
The convention opened at 8 o'clock
last night with more than 500 dele-1
gates In attendance. Dr. Lust pre
sided, and the advances made by
naturopaths In the last year were
reviewed.
Tomorrow morning and afternoon
sessions will be held, and tomorrow
night the banquet. 8unday delegates
| will go sightseeing, and Monday visit
Mt. Vernon. The sesstons close with
an oyster roast in Vlrgtnia Monday
afternoon.
Delegates will go to the White
House tomorrow afternoon to meet
the President. Bernard MacFadden,
physical culture expert, is on tomor- j
row afternoon's program.
12 DETECTIVES I
AND 2 PRIVATES I
OFF ACTIVE LISTj
Commissioners Retire String
fellow and Hughlett, and
Creamer and Faulkner.
Two headquarters detectives and
| two prl%'ates of the police depart
| ment were retired today by the order
! of the District Commissioners. They ,
; are: 1
J. R. Strlngfellow, forty-two years,
i old. detective sergeant at headquar-1
]ters. retired on $89.16 a month for,
1 physical disability.
| F. S. Hughlett. fsrty-four years
old. detective sergeant attached to j
automobile squad at headquarters,
retired on $89.16 a month for physical j
disability. , j
| Private W. J. Creamer, fifty-four
years old, special traffic policeman,
reltred on $69.61 for disability
| Private A. M. Faulkner, twenty
nine years old, retired on $40 a
month for physical disability. Faulk
ner fell from his bicycle last >''"ar
j while chasing a speeder, the fall re
| suiting In serious trouble with his
| right eye.
THIEVES GET $1.000 LOOT
IN MONEY AND JEWELS
i Monev and Jewelry, totaling In
I value more than $1,000, were stolen
! from three persons yesterday eve
I ning. _
j Maude Hawkins. 1501 T street
I northwest, reported that while her
furniture was being moved from
1408 Swan street she lost Jewelry
and money worth $250. AtnoriK
missing articles is a pin worth $100.
A duplicate-key thief entered the
home of Mrs. Chester A. Baker.
1438 Montague street northwest,
and stole two rings and a bar pin
worth $230.
Mrs. L. L. Combs. 3820 Tvwnwh*
street northwest, reported ' hit a
sneak thief entered a front room
! on the first floor of Iter home and
I stole a ring worth $500 and $?> In
I bills.
Federation of Churches.
Co operation between the Washing
ton Federation of Churches and the
Near East relief Is expected as the
result of a meeting of the exeouthe
committee of the Federation yester
day In the Y. W. C. A., building. The
meeting was held In honor of the
Installation of W. L. Darby as the
j executive secretary of the federation
In place of Dr. Lucius Clarke, chan
cellor of American University.^
Former Wife of Rich
Clubman Is Now
Down And Out.
MRS. EDWARl* B. ALSOP.
POLICE CLAIM
Mrs. Edna E. High Arrested
After Firemen Extinguish
Flames in Home.
Many a still alarm has been regis
tered on the fire board in the Dis
trict Building, but never the kind
that called apparatus early last night
to 802 L street northeast.
The blaze was on the second floor
of the dwelling, and a quick investi
gation by Policeman R. L.. Smith, of
the Ninth precinct, disclosed the
cause as two overheated gasoline
stoves used to heat mash in thirty
gallon booze producers.
The flames did only $100 damage,
but the sole occupant of th<> premises,
Edna E. High, forty-five years old,
may be out a good deal more than
that before the case is over.
A thorough search by Captain
Stoll, Lieutenant Burlingame, De
tectives Davis and Kuchling and
Privates Sircla Si>eah. and I.awson,
all of No. 9, discovered two more
stills, earh of fifty rations capacity,
and two barrels of what they solemn
ly affirm to be corn licker, and
caused Mrs. High to be held in J3.000
bond for a hearing before T'nited
States Commissioner Hltt this after
noon. The charges-are illegally pos
sessing and manufacturing intoxi
cants.
Mrs. High furnished the necessary
bail and was released. Meanwhile,
the white lightning generators had
been dismantled.
BROOKLAND CLUB PLANS
TWO NIGHTS OF MINSTRELS
The Brookland Athletic Club will
give its first minstrel show in
Mason'c Temple Hall. Twelf;h and
Monroe streets northeast, tonight
and tomorrow night.
Thomas Trodden will be inter
locutor. End men are Harry D.
O'Meara, William Molster, Gerald
Connelly and Robbie Bishop. Added
at-Tactions are the Aloysius quar
tet and Mulroe and Streeks.
Trout Prize Awarded.
The prize offered by the Business
Men's Association of Chesapeake
Beach for the largest trout caught
at the resort during the past season
has been awarded to Charles Oarch.
of Bladensburg, Md.. according to
announcement by officers of the
association. The prize fish, caught
August 4, weighed five and one-half
pounds. The prize is a handsome
silver cup, valued at $30.
Autos Stolen Here
During Past
24 Hours
8. II. Small, of Silver Hill, Mil.,
reported that his Ford touring car,
Md. 120-319, was stolen from
Fifteenth street, between I) and E
streets northwest last night. The
letters "8. II. 8." are painted on
the side.
Rodger Brantley, 515 New Jersey
avenue northwest, complained that
his Ford automobile, I). C. II 3306.
was stolen from North Capitol
street and Massachusetts avenue.
An Oldsmoblle touring car
owned by Joseph Raines. t?06 1
street northwest, was stolen from
rear of Ihinhar High School.
Internal Revenue Agent lllnes,
employed In the enforcement of
prohibition department, reported
yesterday that his Esse* "coach"
was stolen from In front of the
police court. The numbers of (he
license tags were not given.
Former Agent of Department
of Justice Says They Are
Official Favorites.
William B. Matthews, formerly
agent In charge of the Washington
office of the Bureau of Investigation.
Department of Justice, today charged
that department operatives allege
to have illegally disposed of * 100/ ' f
worth of confiscated liquors, instead
of being discharged, have l>een re
cipient of favoritism and prom
UO"Ifter the grand Jury had found
that Department of
had made away with thousands 01
dollars1 worth of liquors, the sta
m.nt was made that the men In
Solved in the affair had been di*
charged," Mr. Matthews said todays
?The facts in the case aie thy
every man mixed up in the affair ha.
been treated as a 'favorite' and has
been placed in some ?ther good jo >
or given a promotion in the Gown
m"Noteone of the men in my office
connected with the liquor scandal
has been separated from the Govern
ment service as a result of that con
nection."
Burns Didn't Act.
Mr. Matthews declared that it was
not Mr. Burns who brought the mat
ter to the attention of the district
attorney and the grand jury, but
Congressman Woodruff and an at
tache of the department.
The original investigation was pi*
cipitated in the spring of laat year
while Mr. Matthews was at the heart
of the Washington office. Two local
Tnen whose liquors had been ?elzetl
by department agents called at Mat
thews' office and asked for the re^
turn of their goods. The courts had
ruled that the officers could retain
only a quart for evidence.
"One man said that his liquor was
seized and* $160 also taken from
him." Matthews said.
"The man said he warttea his
liquor, but would not de^nand his
money back.
"I took the matter up with L.. J.
Ballev. then chief of the bureau. He
said "the incident took place before
he came to the office and he kneiy
nothing about it. ,
"On investigation of the files I
learned that both of the men who
asked for their liquor back had had
the number of cases seized as the>
represented it to me.
Storage Rooms Empty.
"The Government rents two or
three rooms in a storage warehouse
on Fifteenth street for storing con
fiscated liquor I learned that these
looms were empty when they should
have held thousands of dollars' worth
of liquors of all kinds. I believe un
report showed that $40,000 worth
should have been there at the time.
I found none."
At about this time, Matthewa says,
he was served with a writ of replevin
for the return of the missing liquor.
The case is now in the courts, he
says.
Judge Daniel Thew Wright, coun
sel for one of the complainants, took
a hand in the matter and called on
Matthews, who referred him to his
superior. William J. Burns.
"After Judge Wright left me, I
[ vent to see J. K. Hoover, Mr. Burns
i assistant, and asked him to arrange
for me an interview with Mr. Burns
j so that we could take some action
in the matter," Mr. Matthews said
' today.
Report Was "Filed."
"In the presence of Mr. Hoover, I
j told Mr. Burns what 1 knew about
the matter. Mr. Burns ordered me to
make the investigation. ?*
"I assigned James W. Bales, of
Alexandria, and Albert Willett to tin- j
case, and after two weeks they turn
ed in their report, which I person
ally submitted to Mr. Burns. 1 told
him that we were ready to explain
fully the contents of the report.
"Mr. Burns filed that report, and
it would have remained in the files
until Gabriel blew his horn had not
Congressman Woodruff l>een inform
ed of its existence and been asked to
get some action."
The report, ns considered by the
grand Jury, gives full details Involv
ing several persons still In the em
ploy of the Government, one or two
holding choice positions.
K'WANIANS AS HOSTS
TO CLUBS NEXT FRIDAY
Indorsement of the campaign of
the Joint Civic Counsel for adherence
to the original estimates of the D's
1 trict Comniislonera for the fiscal year
1024 and announcement that the pro
gram for the Capital district convei*?
tion of Klwanis Clubs, October 13-14,
has been completed, featured yester
day's luncheon meeting of Washing
ton Kiwanlans at the Washington
Hotel.
More than ROft members are ex
pected at the nssembly next Frldav,
and twenty-four clubs will he rep
resented. Motor trips to Mt. Vernon
and Alexandria, decoration of the
I tomb of the I'nknown Dead, and a
I banquet will intersperse business scs
| sions.
, Jack Boohnr, Roe Fulkeraon, and
Mark Knnsburgh were appointed h
committee to arrange for a concert
by Sue Harvard, Metropolitan Opera
t star, to be held here November 23 ? y
present understanding.
! BUS COMPANY PERMITTED
TO CONNECT D. C. LINES
j The Wahlngton Itnplrt Trnnwit
Company bus been given permission
| to connext Its Sixteenth street and
Grant Circle bus lines. The Dubltc
ilttllltte,* Commission approved the
company's application yesterd'.iy.
The busses will run from Grant
circle to Fourteenth and Buchanan
streets via Illinois avenue and Alb
nun street, Iowa avenuo and UucH
anun atrMt. ..