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WOODS' ACCUSATION OF ANOTHER MAN GIVEN LITTLE CREDENCE
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TO BE SHOT
IF PLEfi
FAILS
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•tght hours, Woods will expiate his
•rime before the firing squad.
Woods, in the death cell in the
Utah State prison, today was calm I
•nd collected. He had nothing to
My except that he believed clem
ency should be extended in his case.
Executioner Unknown.
Woods will be taken from the
death cell Friday morning into the
prison j’ard, where he will be bound
in a chair. The rifles of five men
will be discharged from a barricade
•nd be directed at a spot designat
ing the man’s heart. Only four of
the rifles will be loaded while the
Other will have a blank shot and
thus not one of the marksmen will
know whether -his weapon is the
one aiding in carrying out the death
order.
Woods was convicted of killing
his wife in their apartment here on
January 9, 1922. Following the slay
ing, he is alleged to have placed the
body on the bed and saturated it
with benzine and set afire. Firemen
were called by neighbors. Woods
said that two men had entered his
apartment, bound and gagged him
and attacked his wife. Electric wir
ing was around his legs. The prosecu
tion showed that Woods had taken
his wife’s life to collect insurance.
The prosecution branded the case as
one of the most dastardly in the
criminal annals of Utah.
WILLIAM FRANCIS DENT.
Services for Wiliam Francis Deni,
Wldley known local real estate man
of the firm of Gardiner & Dent, who
died last night at Providence hospi
tal, will be held at 1 o’clock tomor
row afternoon in All Saints’ Church,
St. Mary’s county, Md. Burial wii.
be in the church cemetery.
A native of Oakley, Md., Mr. Deni
lived here for many years until the
outbreak of the war, when he moved
to Arizona, returning to this city
last year. He was a member of a
Wilmington, N. C., lodge of Masons.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs.
Grace Bedore Dent; hjs parents, John
Marshall and Ida Elizabeth Dent, of
Oakley. Md.; one daughter, Miss
Betty Wise Dent, of St. Mary’s Sem
inary; a son, Marshall; five brothers,
W. Gilbert, of Gardiner & Dent,
realtors; John Marshall and Ellioti
E., of Oakley, Md.; Wright 8., of
Baltimore, and Walter P. Dent, of
Philadelphia, and three sisters, Mrs.
Wade H. Blackistone, of this city,
•nd Misses Katherine and Louise
Dent, of Oakley, Md.
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NASHVILLE,, Tenn., Jan.
16.—Federal agents today are
searching I the hills 10 miles
north of Nashville for “High
land Lassie,” a woman look
out for a band of moonshiners
who have been operating in
that vicinity for several months.
A carefully planned raid by
county and Federal officers yes
terday was frustrated when the
young woman sighted the raid
ers, fired several shots into
the air and disappeared. This
warning caused the operators
of the stills to flee to safety.
Three mammoth stills were
seized and destroyed by the
officers.
Only one of the officers saw
the young woman before she
escaped through the under
brush. He described her as
being about twenty years old,
very pretty, with long titian
hair streaming down her back.
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Stores Have Over 4,000 Who
Have Been in Service More
Than Five Years.
Practically one-fourth of the
4,000 employes of the Liggett stores
throughout the country have held
their positions continuously from
five to thirty years, according to an
investigation recently made by the
company.
At a mass meeting held in New
York of the officers of the company
and 345 employes from the central
warehouse and executive offices
each employe was presented wjth a
service button signifying length
of service. In a check up in the
stores throughout the country 600
more employes who had served
five years or more were located and
presented with similar buttons.
A second check up on the em
ployes was made by the insurance
offices of the company. Every
employe upon completing one year
of service is insured by the com
pany without cost to the employe.
The policies range from SI,OOO t«
$5,000. depending upon the class of
emplyoment and the length of
service.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES * ♦ National Daily • • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1924.
WOO LEADS
IN BALLOT
FOB ’24
Wins 52 Votes in Poll of Demo
cratic Committee.
Davis Second.
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Senator ’J. Ham Lewis of Illinois,
who said: “William R. Hearst gave
me my first job, and I would like to
see Illinois cast a single compli
mentary vote for him. Then I want
the delegation to vote for McAdoo
down the line.’’
Those favoring John W. Davis,
the next high man, with four votes,
were: C. W. Oeenton, West Vir
ginia; Mrs. Rose McGraw De Berriz,
West Virginia, by proxy; H. W. ‘
Dooley, Porto Rico, by proxy; Miss
Isabel Locke Horton, Porto Rico, by
proxy.
Those favoring Oscar W. Under
wood were: Walter Moore, Alabama.
4Those favoring James *M. Cox
were: George White, Ohio; Mrs. Ber
nice M. Pike, Ohio.
Those favoring Senator Robinson
were: Vincent M. Miles, Arkansas;
Mrs. James D. Head, Arkansas, by
proxy.
Those favoring Senator Ralston
were: Charles Greathouse, Indiana;
Mrs. Bessie L. Riggs. Indiana.
Those favoring Charles W. Bryan
were: W. H. Thompson, Nebraska.
Those favoring Carter Glass were:
Mrs. Beverly H. Munford, Virginia.
Frank Hague, of New Jersey, said
he favored "New Jersey’s favorite
son.” Asked to specify whether this
, was Senator Edwards or Governor
Silzer, he said he did not know yet
which it was, but that when it was
decided which was the man, he
was for New Jersev’s favorite son.
In “Undecided” Groups.
The “undecided” group in the poll
consisted of twenty-three committee
men, several of whom were’ friendly
to one or another of the candidates,
but did not wish to express them
selves openly on the matter. This
group consisted of;
W. L. Barnum, Arizona.
Andrew C. Grey, Delaware.
J. T. G. Crawford, Florida— ’’l’m
for the man who can win.’’
Clark Howell, Georgia; Mrs. F. I.
Mclntyre, Georgia.
Charles Boeschenstein, Illinois.
Wilbur W. Marsh. lowa—“Don’t
care to say”; Miss A. B. Lawther,
lowa.
Johnson M. Camden, Kentucky.
Samuel B. Hicks, Louisiana.
Mrs. Gertrude M. Pattingill,
igan
1 Missouri—“As
vice chairman of the national com
mittee, I cannot afford to be other
than neutral.”
Dr. Jennie Callfas, Nebraska.
Mrs. Dorothy B. Jackson, New
Hampshire.
Norman E. Mack, New York—“l
have no choice.”
Mrs. Sveinbjiron Johnson. North
Dakota, by proxy to Mrs. Blair of
Missouri.
Joseph F. Guffey, Pennsylvania—
“l’m for an uninstructed delegation.”
Patrick H. Quinn, Rhode Island:
Mrs. Robert E. Newton, Rhode
Island.
Mrs. Leroy * Springs, South Caro
lina.
Cordell Hull, chairman of the na
tional committee. Tennessee.
Carter Glass, Virginia.
Mrs. Gertrude Bowler, Wisconsin.
McAdoo Foes Rejoice
At Capture of Meet
By New York Leaders
By GEORGE R. HOLMES,
International News Service.
Having broken a precedent of
more than half a century by sending
the national convention to New
York, the lair of the Tammy Tiger,
the Democratic National Committee
found itself today in the throes of
a heated discussion as to whether
its action did or did not constitute
an "anti-McAdoo” victory. There
were plenty of claimants on both
sides of the question.
Had the McAdoo forces in the
committee hung together they were
numerically powerful enou/n to
have thrown the convention to any
of the four cities in the bidding.
But there was a division.
While a big majority of the
McAdoo strength stanchly- opposed
New York on the ground that it
was “enemy territory,” a handful
of his warmest supporters voted
steadily for New York, and de
clared they welcomed the prospect
of fighting the 1924 battle on Tam
many’s home grounds. Homer Cum
mings, of Connecticut, former chair
man of the committee, was one of
these.
Others Are Jubilant.
The friends of Oscar Underwood
and Governor Al Smith of New
York, were openly jubilant today
over the selection of New York.
They, of course, unhesitatingly pro
claimed the result an anti-McAdoo
victory and described it as “first
blood” in the fight that a powerful
coalition will make against the
nomination of the ex-Secretary of
tt}e Treasury.
The Tammany crowd were partic
ularly cheerful. The prospect of
“Al” engaging In the greatest po
litical fight of his career on his
home grounds, with the galleries
filled with thousands of his friends,
was a spectacle which they en
visioned with undisguised joy.
It may have been the exuberance
of the occasion or the result of the
political conniving that has taken
place in Washington since Sunday,
but, at any rate, Governor Smith's
friends made open claims today that
he wotfld go into Madison Square
Garden on the 24th of next June,
with “more than 300” votes on the
first ballot, and second only to Mc-
Adoo, whose lead is at this time
unquestioned.
The Smith votes, they claimed,
I would come principally from N w
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts and Illinois, with a
scattering from a few other Staten,
▲nd these votes, they declared.
wAere lawyer burned wife
In this house, at Aurora, 111., long a .mystery place, Warren J. Lincoln, Aurora lawyer, and horti
culturist, according to” a confession, just made, killed his wife • year ago, after she had shot to
death her own brother. He added that he had burned both bodies in the furnace. The confession for
the first time clears up his disappearance last August. Lincoln, who claims a distant relationship to
Abraham Lincoln, said his wife had been untrue and had attempted to poison him. When her brother,
Byron Shoup, upbraided her, he stated, she shot him dead, and added that he felled her with a poker
in self-defense.
, “under no circumstances” could be
swung over to McAdoo.
The Underwood people were not
so extravagant in their claims. But
, representatives of the Alabama
' Senator asserted he would go to
New York with a strength of about
1 200 votes on the first ballot, and
; that these would stick with him
’ until he was either nominated or
: gave the word to go elsewhere. ■
They claimed, too, like the Smith ■
1 forces, that none of these votes
1 would go to McAdoo.
> The McAdoo forces, who swarmed
’■ about Committee headquarters and
1 the hotel here, received these re
' ports with equanimity. All claims
to the contrary, they asserted, Mc-
Adoo would develop a majority of
I strength on the first ballot, which
■ means in excess of 550 votes, and
’ that the 200 more required to con
stitute a two-thirds would be forth-
• coming before the sixth ballot,
i after the favorite son and compli
mentary voting stage had passed.
McAdoo’s Friends Disturbed.
i It was evident, however, that the
McAdoo people were more disturbed |
• than they cared to admit over the I
increasing signs of a close working i
t agreement among their opponents.
, They have not forgotten that
Charles F. Murphy, of New York;
Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, and
George E. Brennan, of Illinois, had I
, a vacation together at French Lick
not many weeks ago and that these
three gentlemen can come very
. close to commanding one-third of
a Democratic convention necessary
• to deadlock a convention.
r And it was recalled, too, that
New York’s winning the convert- |
tion fight yesterday came only '
’ after Brennan had announced with-
drawal of Chicago. These Chicago ,
I votes quietly went over to New i
York and gave Tammany its first ,
> Democratic convention in fifty-six ;
• years.
Straws sre sometimes indicative |
; of the direction of the wind.
Visit To Wilson Home.
The National Committee met
again today to clean up odds and
. ends of policy, and to ar
rangements for the forthcoming
convention.
Before departing from Washing
ton, the National Committee planned
to make a pilgrimage in a body to
the home of former President
Woodrow Wilson in S street.
Women Helped Result.
The "woman vote” was largely
responsible for .New York’s getting
the 1924 Democratic convention, it
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tee gives women an equal voting
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A majority of these were cast in
favor of Gotham after Norman E.
Mack, veteran Democratic leader
of New York, had glowingly de
' scribed the beauties of Manhattan,
comparing its frivolities and its
shops as hardly second to those of
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"You can’t go to Paris,” he said,
“but you can go to New York.”
BOnSIBSENT
INUOUOR
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Preston Posey, thlrteen-year-old
alleged bootlegger, failed to appeal
In the Alexandria, Va., police court
I this morning at the preliminary
• hearing of his boss.
| Poaey, who was arrested Sunday
night, broke down In court yester
day after defying the law for two
days and named Walter Robey aaj
, the man for whom he had been!
■ selling liquor. Robey was arrested
■ yesterday afternoon on a warrant •
I charging him with a violation of
1 the prohibition law and contribute
! ing to the delinquency of a minor.
I The boy told the court that he did
: all the selling and had turned the
money over to his boss.
Judge Frederick G. Duvall, of the
juvenile court, after hearing the
boy’s story released him in his
mother’s custody, placing him on
six months probation. The trial
of the boy’s boss was set for this
morning, but when the case was
called the boy was missing. The
police are unable to explain his
disappearance, but are confident
that he is still in Alexandria.
The case against Robey has been
continued until Friday morning, to
give the police time to find the
boy. Robey has been released on
SISOO bond.
Ears Bitten'Off, Are
Sewed On Again
By Surgeons
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NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—After
biting off the ears and one
finger of William Flynn, Law
rence Eastman, it is alleged,
didn’t even have the courtesy
to save the parts, but carelessly
■ spit them out in the hallway of
the house where the fight oc
i curred.
Flynn was rushed to a hos
pital, sans the complete right
ear, a large portion of the left,
and the little finger.
A detective noted the sev
ered members reposing on the
floor, wrapped them up and
hastened to the hospital, where
the surgeon sewed them back
on.
Eastman was arrested on a
charge of mayhem.
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DEMOGRHIC
CHOICE
Hard Sees Double Triangle in
Warm Quest for Job in
White House.
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nlpg much but he will have the
delegates from West Virginia.
These three candidates in the geo
graphical center are waiting to see
the candidates on the rim outside
them run around and around until
they run themselves to death. It is
calculated for them that then the
question will be: which of the three
unexhausted and unexpired aspir
ants for the Democratic nomination
will the Democratic party choose?
It is said that Mr. Davis is too
conservative. It is said that Mr.
Cox was in 1920 too defeated. It is
said that Mr. Ralston is too old.
Such are the arguments against
them. Yet it is dominantly thought
that if the running candidates should
in fact run themselves to death it
would be from among these cen
rally located stationary candidates
that the Democratic nonfinee would
have to be picked.
It appears, however, that the right
word for Mr. McAdoo’s activities is
not altogether the word “running."
Mr. McAdoo, besides running in his
own free, progressive part of the
country, spends his jtime also boil
ing up under the feet of the other
candidates in their part of the
country. He boils up, for instance,
, conspicuously in North Carolina Jn
the South and in Connecticut in
the far East, and in lilials in
what Easterners call the Middle
West, but what Westerners call
the last Eastern frontier.
In Illinois George Brennan, the
undoubted leader and the accused
“boss” of the whole Democratic
party of all Illinois, is traditionally
a friend of Mr. Murphy, of New
York, who is similarly the leader or
the "boss” of the whole Democratic
party of all New York, and who at
this moment Ilves in order to defeat
Mr. McAdoo for the Presidency.
(Copyright. 1924. Washington Press
Service.)
Moroccans Get Pension.
MADRID, Jan. 16.—King Alfonsc
■ today decided to grant half a mll
lion pesetas annually to the fam
ilies of Moroccans killed in battle.
41D. C. HEROES
WILL RECEIVE
MEDALS
Elaborate Program, Attended
by Police and Firemen,
Arranged.
(Continues from First Page.)
Selections by the orchestra.
In his speech Congressman Kelly
will announce for Chief George S.
Watson, of the fire department, the
name of the person to whom a
third gold medal will be given.
Mr. Kelly will make the presenta
tion.
This gold medal was awarded last
year to Chief Watson for his
generalship In directing rescue work
at the Knickerbocker Theater col
lapse. He declined it. It was then
given him in trust to be presented
this year to a person whom he se
lects.
No announcement, however, of
the name of the person who will
receive this medal will be made.
Firemen To Be There.
Members of the police and fire
departments will attend in large
numbers. Chief Watson stated to
day that all firemen off duty would
attend the ceremonies in a body,
all in uniform. Major Daniel Sulli
van, superintendent of police, today
is sending, out a general letter to
members of the force inviting (hem
to the presentation exercises.
The general public is Invited to
attend the presentation ceremonies.
Representatives of the various
civic organizations in the city are
also expected to be present.
EMIGRANTS REPORTED
DROWNED ON CONEJOS
NEW YORK, Jan. IC—-At least
100 Russian emigrants drowned
when the American steamship Cone
jos went down in the Black Sea sev
eral weeks ago, according to a dis
patch received from Constantinople
by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The report said there were 300 pas
sengers on board.
Offices of A. P. Bull A Co., opera
tors of the Conejos, denied the
vessel was carrying passengers.
They said the Conejos was a cargo
vessel and not equipped to carry
passengers. Their latest advices are
that only the crew of thirty-seven
were drowned.