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THE WEATHER
Bain tonight and tomorrow; colder to*
morrow; moderate shifting wipds, v be*
coming northerly.
GEMS STOLEN FOR U. S. MILLIONAIRE
HIS DEATH
PHEHTS
SAEEDF
LOOT
International Crooks Com
pelled to Return Antiques to
* Lady Ludlow, Their Victim
By International New* Service.
LONDON, Dec. 17.—A Chicago
millionaire, now dead, was impli
cated in the theft x>f Lady Lud
low's famous collection of antique
jewels, according to a sensational
and fantastic story which the
Evening News published today.
American thieves stole the
jewels for the Chicago man at Jiis
behest after he had sought un
successfully to buy them from
Lady Ludlow, the News said.
After getting the jewels, the
gang of thieves, all American,
came to New York with them, the
story said. They had expected
to meet the Chicago man and turn
the jewels over to him, according
to the News, but the Chicagoan
died the day the thieves arrived
in New York.*
Returned to Owner. I
Confronted with . this situation,
the thieves feared to try to dis
pose of the jewels in the"' open
market. They therefore arranged !
for them to be returned to Ladyi
Ludlow.
Ludlow, however, denied!
today that the jewels were kept in (
her town residence, but were al- i
ways “in safekeeping.”
The News' story then ouUined |
these reputed circumstances.
The millionaire personally visited
Lady Ludlow's town residence,
Bath House, as a guest, and, there
fore, knew the layout of the bed
room ' where the jewel collection
was kept.
The robbery itself was a clever
piece of “second-story” work.
When the thieves got the jewels,
they were driven in a powerful
motor car to Dover, where a yacht
awaited to carry them to France.
I In France, they boarded a liner
at Cherbourg and arrived in New
York city June 19. '
From New York they telephoned
to the millionaire in Chicago, only
to be Informed that he had died
•n hour previously.
Another Story Related.
i The Central News today gave a
' aomewhat different version of the
‘ jewelry robbery.
It said that the instigator was a
jewel connoisseur of the west coast
of the United States, a man who
was the author of brochures .upon
jowelry.
This man came to London last
April, according to the Central
News, visited Bath House, saw the
jewels, and then planned the ’ rob
bery.
The Central News said the Amer
ican thieves arrived in London June
* and robbed Bath House June 11.
The jewels were taken to New
York, and there placed in a safe
deposit box, the News said. The
Westerner died and New York at
torneys arranged to return the
jewels and receive a reward, it was
•aid.
$250,000 FIRE SWEEPS
' WAYNESBORO STORES
HAGERSTOWN, Md., Dec. 17.--
The business section of Waynes
boro, Pa., was swept by fire at 3
o'clock this morning. The estimat
ed losh being over $250,000.
Hagerstown and Chambersburg
sent fire apparatus to the aid of
the town and helped check' ths
spread of the flames, which threat
ened 'the entire center of the busi
ness district.
The fire raged for several hours.
• It was discovered by a mechanic of
the Frick garage and at that time
it had gained such headway that
the Waynesboro firemen were un
able to cope with it.
Among the buildings gutted were
♦he Dreyfuss and Kirson stores,
the Sanitary lunch room, the Gold
berg store, and the apartments of
Mrs., Anna Good. J. C. Clugston.
and Mrs. Wolfensberger, over the
stores. Some of the occupants of
the apartments were rescued by
firemen. Harry McCarthy, a
Waynesboro fireman, was injured.
Radio News on Page 18.
Poison Liquor Death
Toll In New York
Is 11 Now -
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The
holiday death toll here from
poison liquor increased today
to eleven victims within a week,
making a total of twenty-seven
for this month.
Police believe most of the
deadly liquor is coming ■from
New Jersey via ferries.
men have been placed on guard
at all ferries.
Dominick Carfaro, of Troy,
N. Y., the latest victim; was
found with a whiskey bottle in
his hand bearing the label
“wood alcohol.”
Small hope was held for the
recovery of twelve of the sixty
seven patients in Bellevue Hos
pital, while twenty others are
threatened with blindness.
MTHTLS
NAVY BILL
WASTE
Expenditure of $110,000,000
Will Not Add lota of
Strength to Float
■S.V, LA,.,,.-;; ■ . ;
Editor’s Note—The condition of
the American Navy and whether it
ts proportionately equal in strength
with the novice of the ether great
powers, has been a subject of.
heated controversy in Congres for
several weeks.. Several Congres
sional investigations have been pro
posed. ,
In view of these facts, the follow
ing analysis of the pending naval
bill by Rear Admiral William F.;
Fullam, U. S. N., retired, is of ;
timely interest:
By REAR ADMIRAL W. F.
FULLAM,
United States Navy (Retired). ■
(Written Exprewly for International
News Service.
(Copyright- J# 24 - b >’ International
News Service.)
The navy bill just passed by
the Senate provides for the
“modernization” of thirteen battle
ships 'by adding blisters to their
underwater hulls to resist tor
pedo and mine attacks; heavier
deck armor for defense against
bombs; new oil-burning boilers for
six ships; money for six river
gun boats to cost $700,000 each,
and eight scout cruisers to cost
$11,000,000 each.
The bill as passed (1) defies
logic, (2) ignores the world war,
(3) encourages waste, (4) forgets-'
the budget, (5) adds no fighting
power to the fleet, and (6) re
fuses the two weapons without
which our navy is doomed in war.
No Strength Added.
An analysis of this bill reveals
the fact that an expenditure of
$110,000,000 will add not one iota
to the actual fighting strength of
our navy in battle. This bill pro
vides for nothing but patches to
our battleships, and the addition
of fourteen cruising ships, big and
little, to our surface fleet —nothing
more, i The word "submarine” is
not found in the building program.
Not an ounce of strength is added
to our naval air force.. And yet,
without thtese two forces, above and
below the surface of'the sea, our
fleet will remain as it la today,
helpless in defense and completely
impotent in offensive war.
Our battlefleet is strong as such.
Attacks upon the Washington con
ference and upon our battleship
ratio are indefensible.
We have a splendid surface fleet.
Our weakness is not in battleships
nor in matters affected by the
Washington conference.
The conference left us free to
build the most powerful fleet in
the world.
Oil Burners Necessary.
Os course, new oil-burning boilers
should be supplied the six battle
ships. They are useless if their
speed is not maintained. But this
is their only real weakness. Money
spent on blisters and armored decks
will be wasted. These devices wil(
not project these ships from being
disabled. They may delay the in
evitable for a few minutes, perhaps,
but that is all. The topsides, fun
nels; bridges, and masts will be
blown off, the rudder and steering
gear damaged, and the bottom of
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WAWBMBMES
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NO. 13,113
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Haarmann Declared Perfectly Sane
MORALLY
INFERIOR,
EXPERT
SAYS
Perfectly Accountable for His
Butcheries, Two Alienists
Tell Berlin Court
By S. D. WEYER.
International News Services "•
HANOVER, Germany, Dec. 17.
Fritz Haarmann, butcher of young
men and boys, was declared sane
today by two alienists who took
the stand at Haarmann’s trial.
“It is wrong,” said the first
alienist, Professor Schulze, "to con
clude that such a criminal must be
i insane. Even the most bestial of
deeds can be committed by a aane
person.”
Schulze then went on to gylate
in Haarmann's ' life. This
brought an emphatic objection from
Haarmann. The alienist then
pointed out that Haarmann has
had a life-long dread of insane*
- asylums.
The second alienist was Doctor
Schackwitz. He testified:
Moral Superiority.
“Haarmann was not insane when
Jhe committed murder, nor is he in
i sana now. Haarmann, however, is
a man of considerable moral inferi
ority: he is intellectually weak and
has feminine traits and a hysterical
character.
“All of these however, would not i
■ prevent a free exercise of his will. '
There is a strong indication that be I
killed through impulse at times, and !
at other times, merely to get the J
clothes of his victims.”
Professor Schulze is the famous
■ savant of the University of Goet
tingen. Continuing he said:
“Nor was Haarmann in an ‘al
coholic twilight’ condition. But even
if he were, this would be an excuse
only for the first few murders.”
A “Perfect Actor.”
I He then pictured Haarmann as a
| “perfect actor," but lately he has
i been feigning idiocy. He is shrewd,
i cunning, vain and selfish. When
' I talked with him he said, ‘lf 1
■ hadn’t killed all those people, I
wouldn’t be so famous as I am i
now. I have beaten all murder
records.’ Haarmann told me he
wanted the executioner’s knife made
very sharp. He said to me, ‘I will
! surely go to heaven and my mother
will plead there for rite.’ ”
Schulze said that in some re
spects Haarmann was like a child,
that he would become very happy
when given a piece of cheese or
a cigar. “He considers.” continued
Schulze, “that he has had a won
derful life and wants to put it in
a novel. He promised me one
half of the profits of the sale of
the book, the other half to go
to Hans Grans, his alleged accom
plice. He specified though that
Grans must put a wreath on his
grave on his’ birthday every yfigr.” ;
WANT*Aof
■
HERE ARE A FEW OF THE NEW
WANTS APPEARING IN TODAY’S
CLASSIFIED SECTION:
MEN an train news agent*.
A ST. N. E.—Four rooms, bath,
gaa electricity, heat, linens in
cluded; *66.00.
' , \
MAN —To collect debts and write
industrial and ordinary life in
surance.
i
’ AVE., N. W.—Large room,
completely furnished; house
keeping; *6.00 week.
OIRLS wanted; experienced In
Uundry work. \
COLLIE lost; black and white- re-
, ward offered.
AMATEURS wanted for amateur
night. F
i TWO COMMUNICATING ROOMS
for rent.
MT. PLEASANT Three rooms,
private bath; unfurnished; *66.
ITOUNd MAN wants position as
■tore Clark or bookkeeper.
FOB FURTHER DETAIIA TURN TO
THE CLASSIFIED SECTION.
Entered aa Mcond-claaa matter at
Poatofflce at Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1924.
SIVES UP ROYAL RIGHTS
FOR MAN SHE LOVES
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\ Sister of
Crown Prin
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renounces
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wB marry Prince
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' DHERNATIPNAL NEWS REEL
PRINCESS NOBUKO KUNI.
Mail Rate Statistics
Puzzle Mr. Hanson
By WILLIAM HABD.
Elisha Hanson, Washington representative of the American
Newspaper Publishers’ Association, was indignant today as
he contemplated the fact that no amount of effort on his
part had enabled him to understand the percentages and
other statistics which the Postoffice Department has sent to
Congress to back up the Sterling bill for raising the postal
rates on newspapers.
The Sterling bill is lying on the
table in the Senate but presumably
will noon go to the Senate Commit
tee on Postoffices and Post Roads,
of which Senator Sterling is chair
man, and will stay there quite a
while in the midst of long hearings
regarding the costs of handling first
class. second-class, third-class and
fourth-class mails.
Press For Passage.
In the men time every effort will
be made by the friends of the postal
pay increase bill to press it to
passage in the Semite over the
President’s veto.
■ Administration forces were today
still seeking some method by means
of which they can marry the postal
pay increase bill to the postal rates
increase bill and have them con
sidered together.
Administration forces then would
not much care whether these two
bills were passed together or voted
down together. In either case, as
they look at it, there would be no
new burden imposed upon the tax
payers. The rate Increases proposed
by the Sterling Bill would balance
the pay increases proposed by the
Edge pay increase bill, and all would
be as it was before from the tax
paying standpoint.
If Bills Are Defeated.
That would be the situation if the
bills were passed. On the other
hand, if the bills were defeated, the
situation which now exists would
continue and the Treasury would
remain the same as at present.
It is expected therefore that if the
two bills get joined together for
consideration, many Administration
sympathizers in the Senate will pay
little attention to their further fate.
This falls In with the fact that
Postoffice Department officials are
known to have flatly said that the
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OLD UNCLE TOM
DIES “IT JUST
ABOUT7O”
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Writer Recalls Halcyon Days
When Aged Hack Driver
Was in His Glory
By THEODORE TILLER.
"Uncle Tom" Carter died early
today, There are places in town
where that line of type may not
mean anything—but over at the
National Press Club and dlong
what used to be Newspaper Row it
will bring sighs and memories of
the old , Washington in which
"Uncle Tom” had his part.
Tom Carter yras an aged colored
man. He claimed to be “Just about
seventy,” but when he hobbled
into the Press Club for his last
visit a day or so ago, he seemed
eighty-five. • He was so weak then
that his white friends sent him
home ih a taxicab, giving him a
little purse as he left. That’s how
they felt toward him. *
"Uncle Tom” came here from
Fredericksburg in 1866, Just after
the war clouds lifted. For a little
while he was a porter in a hard
ware store. Then he acquired a
horse and what the fellows along
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N* Y. *PAYS TRIBUTE TO
SAMUEL GOMPERS
PASTOR TO
PLEAD FOO
HISLIFE
Hight, Accused in Poison Case,
Will Act as Attorney in
Own Defense
By SONIA LEE.
International New* Service.
MOUNT VERNON, 111., Dec.
17.—Reverend Lawrence M. Hight,
counsel for the defense!
This Is the newest role which
the Jockey turned pastor, now on
trial for his life for removing an
embarrassing husband from his
road to happiness with Elsie
Sweetin. is to assume.
His counsel, Nelson Layman,
let this be known today, formally
announcing that, when the time
came, the little circuit-rider would
argue his own case before the
jury which will hold his life in
their hands. This course, Layman
holds, will serve a double pur
pose—first, it will give Hight a
chance to protest his innocence,
and second, it will enable the jury
to accurately gauge the mental
capacity of the preacher.
Test of Mentality.
"If he wanders too much, Lay
man said today, ‘Til stop him with
a suggestion that he isn't talking
sense, and then I’ll turn to the
jury and ask them to judge whether
this man is responsible for any
thing he says or does.”
Hight will not again be placed on
the witness stand.' layman said, as
he has a tendency to wilt under
hot cross-examination.
The State today was placing on
the stand its final witnesses, and it
was expected to close its case late
this afternoon.
Yesterday the town folk of Ina,
who have seen Elsie Sweetin grow
up from pig-tail days, and who
have worshiped at the shrine of
the minister, had their day. They
took the stand to repeat the gossip
of a small town; to tell of taber
nacle meetings and prayer meetings:
sessions in porch swings, and ex
traordinary handshakings between
Elsie, the woman who was held
"right pretty.” and the preacher
who seemed devoted.
Comedy In Gossips Tales.
Comedy snuggled close to the
women's skirts and sneaked up the
steps with the witnesses as they t
settled down to tell the jury and
their neighbors assembled in the
court room what they had seen and
what they had heard.
Every one in Ina, apparently,
had noticed something "kinda
funny” about Elsie and the preacher.
They talked about it and mulled it
over the backyard fences, but
there was little proof of wrong
doing in the stories offered.
Today also there arose in court
room circles, following yesterday's
refusal of the court to admit Elsie’s
signed confession to evidence, a
question as to whether or not the
jury could find the pastor guilty
and acquit Elsie, his codefendant
for her husband’s murder.
layman maintains that with the
acquittal of Elsie goes freedom for
Hight. He holds that if Elsie did
not administer arsenic to Wilford,
then Hight cannot possibly be an
accomplice by having given it to
1 her. ,
D. C. MAN DIES AFTER
ATTACK OF APOPLEXY
Richard P. Johnson, 102 Fifteenth
street southeast, died in Emergency
Hospital yesterday. He was suffering
. from a stroke of apoplexy.
, When stricken ..last Friday, he
fell to the floor at his home and
’ struck his head, but physicians at
, the hospital do. not believe that
' Injuries suffered at that time caused
his death, _ .
THtyEE CENTS
2 Ministers Arrested
With Still-One Was
Writing Sermon
RICHMOND, Va„ Dec. 17r-
Prohibition enforcement officers
swooped down on a fifty-gallon
still in Wise county and ar
rested two Baptist ministers,
Floyd Cantrell and Medford
Lane, on Charges of operating
it, according to a report filed
at prohibition enforcement head
quarters here today.
One of the men is said to
have been engaged in writing a
sermon when the officers ar
rived.
Both gave bond pending a
hearing in eourt.
FOOWNEED
GOOD FELLOW
GAN FILL
Many Are Asking Only That
C ristmas Table Be Not
Left Bare
Appeals for shoes, clothing and
food, in perference to dolls and toys,
marked the daily flood of letters that
was received by the Good Fellows
Editor today.
With Christmas Eve just one week
off, ths unfortunate members of
needy families apparently are turn
ing from any plans for a Christmas
such as they have probably known in
the past and are appealing for the
bare necessities of life.
With the continued flow ot ap
peals the necessity for heavily in
creased enrollment in the Good
Fellow organization becomes neces
sary.
Specific cases, such as the
stricken soldier in a Denver tuber
culosis hospital, who, wrote and
asked assistance for his family in
Washington, have been well cared
for.
Scores of Other Cases.
But there are scores of other
cases, many of them almost identi
cal , in nature—hungry, ragged
children and sick, tired mothers—
perhaps not so strikingly appeal
ing. but which, nevertheless, are
equally deserving With the wife
and children of the sick ex-soldier.
All of these families, mothers,
"'ildren and often fathers, really
w 1 the help they ask.
■k-, become a Good Fellow one
to express the desire to
less fortunate than
this time of the year.
out the application
be found elsewhere on
and mailing it to the
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Thousands View Face of Labor
Chieftain—Lies in State at
Elks’ Headquarters
By WILLIAM PARKER,
International News Service.
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The
great city of New York to which
Samuel Gompers came sixty-one
years ago a penniless immigrant
boy, paused thoughtfully in its
manifold activities today and paid
a noble tribute to his memory.
The body of the president of the
American Federation of Labor ar
rived in New York from Washing
ton early today. It will lie in state
at the Elks Clubhouse until 9
o’clock tomorrow morning. Funeral
services will be at that time.
A few hours later the body will
be lowered to its final resting place
in historic old Sleepy Hollow Cem
etery, at Tarrytown, in the rolling
Hudson river country made famous
by Washington Irving.
Station Like Cathedral.
The train’ bearing the body of
Gompers arrived at the Penn
sylvania station at 7 o'clock this
momihg. Hurrying hundreds on
their way to work stopped outside
the station for a brief view of the
solemn cortage as it started for
the Elks Club House.
Although it was nearing the
peak of commuters traffic, the
huge, cathedral like station build
ing was for the time more like a
religious edifice than a bustling
passenger terminal.
There was an unnatural stillness
in the vast, high ceilinged, waiting
room. It was a silence as of a
period of prayer and meditation in
a sanctuary. The reverberating
voice of the train announcer was
silent. Only the soft shuffling of
travelers’ feet was audible.
Escorted by. a platoon of police,
city, state and labor officials, the
cortege moved through the down
town streets to the Elks House r-
Forty-third street.
Thousands In lane.
The bronze casket was borne on
a caissen and draped with an
American flag, the symbol of tht
nation that was on rhe lips of the
great labor leader when he died at
San Antonio, outside the club
house; other hundreds had gathered,
waiting patiently in the rain which
shortly began to fall, for the
police signal that the public could v
enter.
Nation, state, city, judiciary, *
church, layman and laborer in a
seemingly endless queque of silent
humanity filed past the bronze
.cgqket. far, a last look at the face
of the dead leader.
The room where the body lay
in state was a garden of floral
tributes. Four baggage cars were
required to bring from Washing
ton floral pieces which were sent,
as tributes there, and scores more
came to the club house from Gomp
ers' New York associates and
friends.
Family Heads Line.
An order of precedence was main
tained in viewing the body. First
came the widow, shrouded in deep
black, red-eyed with weeping, but
nerved for the ordeal.
Accompanying her were the Gom
pers three sons, Samuel J., Henry
J., and Alexander J. Next came
. Samuel Mitchell, of New York, son-