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GIRL HAD PREMONITION
OF FATAL AUTO SMASH
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GIVE OF
TRIP
Miss Sullivan’s Chum Tolls of
Fatal Holiday Ride With
Morris.
• M I had a foreboding that some
tiling would happen. 7 I halfway
coaxed Marie not to make this
date. Marie pleaded with me to
make up a second couple, but I
refused.”
® »°Prning and
oi her roommate, Marie Sullivan,
twenty-four»year-old , beautSt of
Irish type, whose neck was
broken under the bridge at Lau
rel early yesterday morning
when her companion, Beniamin
F. Morris, lost control ox the
wheel, Miss Audrey Hagen, a
striking blonde, at the Champlain
apartment this morning, tearfully
related what she knew of Marie’s
final “holiday party.”
Knew Morris Slightly.
,**l am overwhelmed,” said Miss
Hagen, as she gathered together
her dead roommate's effects in
preparation for her trip. "Marie
did not know Morris very well. In
fact, she had only met him two or
throe times, and I had only met
him once.”
While Miss Hagen declares that
Miso Sullivan did not tell her who
were to accompany Morris and her
on the George Washington Day
party to Baltimore, she intimated
that she would be more surprised
If Marie went with Morris alone
than if there had been at least one
Other couple on the fatal trip.
Claims Friend’s Body.
“When I found yesterday morn
ing,” continued Miss Hagen, “that
Marie had not returned to our
apartment here, I thought that poa
eibly she had gone directly to her
work. In the afternoon, however,
when I> read accounts of the acci
dent, I realized what had happened
and rushed to Laurel to claim the
body.”
Miss Sullivan was a vivacious
and popular girl, and many of her
friends in the income tax division
of the Treasury Department went
to the apartment this morning to
aid Miss Hagen.
Taken to Her Mother's Home.
Miss Hagen got in touch with
Marie’s mother, Mrs. Thomas Sul
livan, at the home in Avoca, Pa.,
gnd arrangements have been made
to accompany the body there.
Miss Hagen and several friends
left the Union station at a little
past noon for Avoca. •
, Miss Hagen said this morning
that Miss Sullivan made frequent
trips to. her home and that she al
ways had promised her mother that
She would "come home to live.”
Miss Sullivan entered the Gov
ernment employ during the war,
x and she had worked in both the
unaudited returns division and the
registration section.
Morris Is Held.
It has been determined by the
coroner’s jury, which met last
night, that “Miss Sullivan came to
her death in an automobile acci
dent as the result of careless driv
ing by Benjamin F. Morris, while
he was under the influence of in
toxicating liquors.”
While the inquest was being held
In the State police substation at
Laurel, Morris, who was injured
also, lay in a cot swathed in band
ages. He was then removed to El
licott City, Md., pending a pre
liminary hearing or action of the
grand Jfiry.
Denies He Drove Car.
Laurel police claim that Morris
was found wandering along the bank
of the stream near the bridge after
the accident occurred. He was suf
fering from minor injuries, and was
■aid to have been under the Influence
•f liquor.
Monte dented that ho was driving
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Bank President Is Held
On Embezzlement
Os $212,000
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FRANK L. TAYIjOR,
Former railroad fireman who was
created a bank president, has been
held In Chicago charged with em
bezzling funds of the First Na
tional Bank of Warren, Mass., to
the sum of $212,000. Taylor Is
believed to have been made presi
dent of the bank by Joseph B.
Marcino; who is being sought as
the master mind in a series of
embezzlements Involving more
than half a million dollars.
MBifSLIFE
INITALYIS
PROBED
Alleged Bank Wrecker Said to
Be on Way to Argentine.
Taylor Under Bond.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.. Feb.
24.—-Warrants were issued here to
day for the arrest of Joseph Mar
cino, alleged wrecker of the War
ren National Bank and other
banks, and Abraham Goldman,
Marcino’s father-in-law, by United
States Commissioner Edward T.
Broadhurst. Frank L. Taylor,
president of the bank, now under
1 arrest in Chicago, is expected to
start East today.
By International Newa Service.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—Investigation
of the past activities of Joseph M.
Marcino, fugitive barber-financier
and alleged bank wrecker, today
shifted to Italy. Orders were sent
’ from the Burns International Detec
' tive Agency to their Italian offices
to check up Marcino’s career in
Italy and ascertain how he obtained
the SIOO,OOO in cash he is said to have
i brought back to America from that
. country.
Latest information concerning
• Marcino’s whereabouts indicates, ac-
• cording to the police, that the fugi
i tive financier had sailed from Tam-
• pico to an Argentine port. Detec
tives asserted that when Marcino
I went South he had >200,000.
Frank L. Taylor, “dummy" prest-
I dent of ths First National Bank of
■ Warren, Mass., one of the institu-
■ tlons Involved in Marcino’s alleged
■ schemes, was arraigned before
s United States Commissioner James
R. Glass and held on charges of em
bezzlement in >IOO,OOO bond. It was
i the arrest of Taylor that revealed
c the condition of the banks with
, which Marcino had dealt.
Newspaper men today located
, Samuel Lombardo, former barber
s partner of Marcino in Chicago. Lom
bardo had been vice president of the
. ill-fated Niagara Life Insurance
Company He declined to make any
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TO SEIZE
GERMAN
FUNDS
French Will Take Over Strik
ers'
* lion Marks and Plates.
By International Nows Service.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 24.—French
military authorities at Dusseldorf
have given orders for the confisca
tion of German strike funds and
millions of marks have been seized
in the past twenty*four hours, said
a dispatch from Essen this after- ,
' It is illeged that the i German
treasury at Berlin was sending a
money into the Ruhr and Rhine
land to support German workers
who are on strike.
See Further Occupation.
Germans believe that the French
are preparing to extend their zone
of occupation some distance east
ward of the present boundaries.
The Berlin government will send
protests to Paris and London but
will make no effort to prevent
French encroachments.
Violence was reported from some
parts of the occupied districts to
day. A number of shots were .
fired. ’
Take 13 Billion Marks
As Germans on Strike
Tie Up Rail Traffic
By International News Service.
ESSEN, Feb. 24.—French military
authorities today seized 13,000,000,-
000 German marks from a train at
Hengstwei. The money was being 1
shipped by the Reischbank. French ;
troops also seized a number of plates
that were used for printing money.
Traffic between Coblenz and 1
nearby towns was paralyzed today i
by a strike of German railroad em- (
ployes. The GermaSs claim that
they will not return to work until 1
the Moroccan troops are withdrawn ’
from Coblenz. Moroccans, in a burst
of excitement on Friday, fired more 5
than sixty shots, wounding two Ger
man rail employes who had just '
brought a train into Ehrenbrietstein 1
from Niederlahnstein. ]
General Fournier, commander of j
the French troops in Essen, has de- ]
nied German Red Cross workers a
permit to visit former Mayor Schaef
fer and other prisoners who were
recently sentenced by a French mill- i
tary court. The German officials <
are said to be suffering from vermin ]
and lack of nourishment.
General Fournier, according to the i
Germans, sent word that if the Ger- i
man Red Cross attaches “wished to 1
be charitable they should visit the !
French wounded.”
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE i
TO ISSUE STOCK DIVIDEND !
Tha Interstate Commerce Com
mission today authorized the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad to issue,
subject to certain conditions, capital
stock to the extent of $45,000,000
to be distributed as dividends. 1
Certain holdings in affiliated com
panies shall not be disposed of, and
expenditures prior to October 1,
1922, shall not be capitalized by
bond Issues to reimburse the road’s ,
treasury.
PROPOSES SUPERVISION
OF OIL INDUSTRY IN U. S.
Drastic Governmental supervision
of the nation’s oil industry will be
recommended in the report which the ,
Senate oil investigating committee ‘
plans to submit to the Senate next '
week, ft was learned today.
One more company will appear be- ]
fore the committee —the Standard 1
Oil Company of Indiana, which, on '
Monday, has permission to file 1
formal denial of charges of price
fixing made by Thomas S. Black, <
president of the Western Petroleum
Company.
The report makes specific remedial ’
legislative recommendations for dome i
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DIES IT IS
Served as U. S. Ambassador
to Germany From 1902
to 1908.
By International News Berries.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. Feb. 34.
Charlemagne Tower, former ambas
sador to Germany, after several
weeks* illness with pneumonia, died
this morning at 8:05 o’clock in the
Pennsylvania Hospital. Bulletins
yesterday reported that his condi
tion was rather serious and not
much hops was held for his recov
ery. He was internationally known
as a diplomatist, philanthropist and
writer. *
Mr. Tower was in his seyenty
flfth year. Members of his imme
diate family were at his bedside in
the hospital when he died. Recently
he was reported to have success
fully passed the crisis, but a re
lapse occurred from which he failed
to rally.
Charlemagne Tower was one of
the foremost of modern American
diplomats. He was born in Philadel
phia in 1848, and was educated in
American and European schools. He
studied law at Harvard and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1878. Ten years
later he was married to Miss Helen
Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Smith, of Oakland, Cal.
Business interests took Mr. Tower
to the Northwest, and he lived for
a time in Duluth. Minn. He was
president of the Duluth and Iron
Range railroad and managing direc
tor of the Minnesota Iron Company.
In 1897 Mr. T— —— was appointed
American ambassador to Austrla-
Hungar - Later he served in Russia.
From 1902 to 1908 he was American
ambassador at Berlin. Mr. Tower
received numerous foreign honors.
He was a grand officer of the
French Legion of Honor and held
the Grand Cordon, Order of St.
Alexander Newskl, Russia. He
wrote a book on Lafayette's part in
the American war of the revolution.
VETERAN MUSHER WINS
BIG NON-STOP DOG DERBY
THE PAS, Manatoba, Feb. 24.
Covering the 200-mile course in
26 hours and 52 minutes, Billy
Grayson, veteran "musher” of the
North country, driving C. B.
Morgan’s entry, won the annual
non-stop dog Derby of The Pas Dog
Derby Association, when he finished
his long run at 1:52 o’clock.
A. Russick, of The Pas, driving
a team of hounds, was second, and
W. Winterton was third.
This was the third consecutive
win for Morgan’s team, and he
now retains permanent possession
Thirst Broke Up
Their Home
BERLIN, Feb. 24. —Serge
Essenin, husband of Isadora
Duncan, famous classical dancer,
who is in Berlin on his way
back to Russia from Paris, de
clared today that his married
happiness was disrupted by
Isadora’s thirst.
“I love Isadora madly, but
she drank so much I could not
stand it any longer/ said Serge.
“It is like the United States
which we recently visited. I
could not stand that either.
America is like the ashes of a
cigar lighted in Europe.”
Essenin was persuaded to re
turn to Russia after a wild scene
in the Crillon Hqtel at Paris
during which Isadora’s suite was
wrecked at 3 o’clock in the
morning.
MAY DEPARTMENT STORES
BUYS LOS ANGELES FIRM
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—The May
Department Stores Company today
announced It had extended its chain
of mercantile establishments to Los
Angeles by buying the largest de
partment store in that olty, Ham
burger & Sons.
The purchase price was said to ap
proximate $8,500,000. The annual
profits of the store were said to be
$1,000,000.
The May Department Stores Com
pany owns and operates the original
May Shoe and Clothing Company in
Denver and large department stores
in St. Louis, Cleveland and Akron,
Ohio.
The sales of the combined stores
for the last fiscal year were $58,-
981,639.
“BIG TIM” GIVES HIMSELF
UP; STARTS FOR PRISON
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—“ Big Tim”
Murphy, labor leader, ended his
game of hide and seek with
Federal officers today when he
surrendered himself at the United
States marshal’s office.
Murphy will be taken to Leaven
worth prison to begin serving a
four-year sentence for complicity in
the $350,000 Dearborn station mail
robbery. He disappeared Tuesday
when a stay of execution, granted
pending decision of his case by the
Supreme Court, expired. His sur
render came when the court was
about to order forfeiture of his
SIBO,OOO bonds.
MISS MORGAN’S WEDDING
TO TAKE PLACE MARCH 5
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Monday,
March 5, has been set as the wed
ding day of Reginald C. Vanderbilt
and Miss Gloria Morgan, nineteen
year-old daughter of Harry Hays
Morgan, American consul general
in Brussels. The wedding was
originally set for last Saturday, but
was postponed. ,
Contrary to previous reports, it
will take place in this olty, instead
of Newport, R.. I. The couple will
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Two Bandits Also Try to Kill
GirL^tenographer—Cut All
Village Phone Wires.
STEUBENVILLE. Ohio, Feb. 24.
—Assistant Cashier H. D. Price, with
a bullet through hie heart, is dying
today the result of his heroic but
unsuccessful efforts to foil two
armed bandits who entered the
People’s National Bank at Mount
Pleasant, near here, just as the bank
opened for business, shot the cashier,
and escaped with loot which will
reach thousands of dollars, but is not
as yet determined. Two shots were
fired at Miss Lulla Shannon, the
bank stenographer, and the only
other person in the bank at the
time. She collapsed.
After fatally wounding Price, the
bandits systematically looted the
bank, jumped in a touring car, and
drove off at a high rate of speed
in the directon of Canton, Prior to
entering the bank all telephone
wires leading from the little town
of about 750 people were cut.
The car bearing the bandits was
seen speeding through Harrisville,
west of Mount Pleasant, shortly
after the robbery. It bore Ohio
license number 299,837.
All Mount Pleasant . physicians
were ill, and a doctor from Martins
Ferry was called to attend the In
jured cashier.
BLUE-LAW LID URGED
FOR BROADWAY SHOPS
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Dr. Har
ry L. Bowlby, general secretary of
the Lord’s Day Alliance, who has
been conducting a campaign here to
close on Sundays all motion-picture
and vaudeville houses, as well as
legitimate theaters, yesterday appeal
ed to Police Commissioner Enright
to close all places of business or
amusement which are open in vio
lation of the State Sunday laws.
Dr. Bowlby asserted vaudeville
and burlesque shows were being
given with persistent regularity Sun
day afternoons and evenings. He
told Commissioner Enright that the
time had fully arrived when the
State Sunday laws should be en
forced throughout Greater ’' New
York.
SEES NON-STOP AERO
FLIGHT ’ROUND THE WORLD
OTTAWA, Canada, Feb. 24.—A
prediction that it would be possible
to fly around the world on one
charge of gasoline was made before
members of the Canadian Club by
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, of the
United States Air Service.
General Mitchell also asserted that
it was only a matter of time before
Canadians solved the question of fly
ing in, the cold and developed winter
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Work Hard To Save
Youth From Well
Rescuers Dig AU Night
Long To Release
X Buried Boy.
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fV. SEIZURE OF COAL 4
MINES ASKED BY HYUN
NEW YORK, -Feb. 24.—Immedi
ate Government, seizure and opera
tion of all coal mines was advocated
by Mayor Hylan in a letter from
Palm Beach, Fla., to Murray Hul
bert, Mayor pro tem. ”
The Mayor directed Mr. Hulbert
to call a “big mass meeting at
Madison Square Garden where the
people of New York and other cities
can come.”
"Let the voice of the people be
heard at Washington in no uncer
tain terms in an endeavor to get
the President and Congress to take
immediate action to take over the
coal' mines and operate them in
the interests, of the people,” he
said.
LEAP? TO DEATH FROM
HER 9TH-FLOOR SUITE
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Eluding
the nurses who had cared for her
since a mental breakdown recently,
Mrs. James W. Johnson, wife of
the treasurer of the Western Elec
tric Company, . leaped to death yes
terday from a window of her ninth
floor apartment in Park avenue.
Believing Mrs. Johnson too weak
to leave her bed, the nurse stepped
outside the sickroom. When she
returned her patient was crawling
across tire window sill.
The nurse caught Mj-s. Johnson’s
gown and made an unsuccessful at
tempt to pull her to safety.
REPORT OF SHARP NOTE
TO CHINA IS CONFIRMED
Official confirmation was forth
coming from the State Department
today that the United States has
sent a "stern note” to China in
connection with the killing by
Chinese provincial guards of Charles
Coltman, an American merchant, as
exclusively reported Friday by the
International News Service.
The department was asked today
if the note amounted to "an ulti
matum.”
"A note has been sent; it cannot
be discussed at this time,” was the
official response.
75 ESCAPE FROM FIRE
IN MICHIGAN APARTMENT
PETOSKEY, Mich., Feb. 24.—Fire
early today menaced the business
section, destroying the Alemeda
apartment and business block.
Seventy-five persons fled down
fire escapes. Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
Muneypacker jumped from a second
floor window, breaking their legs
and suffering other injuries which
it is feared will cause their death.
Damage was estimated at $200,000.
AGNES AYRES DENIES
ENGAGEMENT TO HAWKES :
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—“ Art is
my bridegroom, and I am not in
tending to commit bigamy,” Agnes
Ayres, film star, said today in de
nying dispatches from Los Angeles
that she and Kenneth Hawkes, pro
ducer were engaged to be married.
"Os course. I know Ken,” the 1
film star said. "And. therefore, he '
knows me. We are very, very good <
friends—but I . live only for my
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BURIED FOB
24 HOURS;
HE STILE
LIVES
Friends Work Frantically to
Roach Victim and Believe
Efforts Will Succeed.
SAVAGE, Md., Feb. 24.—With
his Howard county neighbors dig
ging incessantly through the night
to extricate him from his prison,
twenty-two feet below the surface,
and with Dr. Frank E. Shipley
i making half-hour trips down the
narrow shaft to administer hypo*
dermic injections, Maynard Easton,
twenty-three-year-old well digger,
of Savage, is making a heroic fight
for his life.
He calls constantly for his
father and for Dr. Shipley. His
voice can be clearly heard from
the mouth of the well. He has
been imprisoned since 1 o’clock
yesterday, when he was trapped
in the well by a cave-in which oc
curred as he was emerging.
pfamed to Wall by Door. :
The well la an old one and Easton
and his father, Will Easton, had
been engaged to dig it deeper,
point of the cave-in, and as he
Itosbeing hauled up he bracedhlm
Self against the door, predpttatins
the cave-in. ;
The wooden door forced Easton
against the other casing, wedging
his body at the hips. A pile of sand
came down upon his head, burying
him completely. ■ ...
At noon today the sand had been
removed from the upper part of Ms
body, but as fast as wqrtars jried
to remove the sand suffiehtotty to
release the door, which is ptadng
him, additional sand slid in from
the side.
Another Well Planned.
If the victim cannot be rescued
in this way the rescuers are con
templating digging a well a few
feet from the present one and
tunneling over to the imprisoned
man#
Richard Borrltz, of Ellicott City,
is In charge of the rescue wk to
day. John Wells and Tom Griffin,
of Howard county, worked in re
lays all through the night, and Dr.
Shipley has not left the scene of
the accident since it occurred yes
terday.
Two score men labored through
the night, hoping against hope to
bring Easton to the surface alive.'
By straining every nerve the men
early this morning reached the side
of their imprisoned friend. They
talked with him, administered medi
cal aid, but were unable to re<
move him from his prison.
The men, two at a time, climbed
down the well, keeping a continual
"pull” on the heavy log which had
pinned young Easton’s right foot in
the deep sand.
As the sand began for the second
time to fill th§. well from the
walled-up sides, Easton, although
weakened from his long imprison
ment, pleaded with his friends to
leave him to die. “I feel mysell
sinking, climb to the top for your
lives.”
Up went the men, but not to
abandon Easton. As one crew be
gan to patch up the cracks
through which the sand was leak
ing, another crew began tunneling
through the earth through a new
opening.
Rescuers Refuse to Quit.
The ground was frozen and the
digging hard, but they are Still
laboring. Although other friends
from nearby places are arriving to
offer their services, the men who
began work at 1 o’clock yesterday
afternoon, refuse to leave their posi
tions.
Easton is wedged beneath a door
and log setting in a V shape. These
slid down the well during the slide
of sand which carried the youth to
his imprisonment. To remove the
door or log would cause tons of
sand to fill the bottom of the well.
Easton is a well digger, in busi
ness with his father, William Eas
ton. They had been cleaning out
the well on the Basford farm. The
lad was coming to the top of the
hole with a piece of pipe he had
cut when the. sides began to give
way.
Dislodged From Rope.
Robert F. White was turning the
rope. "Quick,” shouted White, but
he was too late. Tons of sand be
gan caving in from all sides. Young
Easton was thrown from the rope
on which he was hanging by tho
heavy weights which crushed him
downward.
Lumber, along the sides of the
opening wept psxt. after which the