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WIFE TWICE STOLEN
Recovered by Husband and
kidnapped Again Same Day.
ABDUCTOR UNDER ARREST
Forced Her to Submission by Threat
of Death to Family.
HER BEAUTY MAY BE CAUSE
Pope Says "Black Hand" Has
Stolen Her-He Followed
Strange Men to Lair.
ABDUCTOR UNDER ARREST
HER BEAUTY MAY BE CAUSE

Special Dispatch to The Star.
| PHILADELPHIA, Pa Nav IA
search in which the entire police force
Of the city has Joined, is being made for
Mrs. Angelina Pope, twenty two years
old. Of 100 Christian street. whose hus-
band. Joseph Pope. declares that the
woman has been stolen by the Black
Hand"
Twice was the young wife kidnapped
and on the same day. last Tuesday. Her
husband recovered her the first time
Only a few hours later she again was
spirited away.
She was led to believe, it is said, that
unless she left her husband he and his
three children would be killed and their
home blown up. Terrified into submission,
the woman did as her abductors demand
ed to save the lives of those she loved.
| Abductor Under Arrest.
! Clement Lenzo, thirty years old, de-
clared to be the chief conspirator against
| the happiness of the Popes. is under ar
rest. He is charged with threats to kill.
Since he was taken into custody he has
| maintained a sullen silence.
Nor the slightest trace of Mrs. Pope's
police believe, however, that comrades of
Lenzo are holding her a prisoner in some
furnished room house. They hope soon
to find her.
The Popes have been married six years.
Mrs. Pope is described as a woman of
remarkable beauty. This. it is believed,
was responsible for her abduction.
| The husband, heart-broken over the
disappearance of his wife, is twenty
| five years old.
For some time previous to the day on
which Mrs. Pope was kidnapped strange
men had been seen lettering about the
| Pope home. Monday one of them enter
| ed the house during the husbands alb
sence.
Pope Follows Strange Men.
| When Pope first missed his wife, on
| Tuesday. he followed two strange men
he had seen lettering about his home. He
| saw them enter furnished room house
at 9th and Locust streets. where. it de-
veloped later. Lenzo lived
AS he reached the front steps Hasson.
| a special policeman of the I'd and Chris
tan streets station, came up. Pope knew
him, and in few broken sentences told
him of his wife's disappearance and of
his suspicious.
The door was forced open. Pope and
the policeman entered.
Two men, one of them Lenzo sprarg
out Of room and rushed through the
| house to the back yard. AS they We're
| climbing the fence Hasson caught them.
| While he held them prisoners, Pope
searched the house.
Wife Rescued by Pope.
| in an upstairs room, her eyes red with
weeping, was his wife. When she saw
her husband she broke into wild sob
| bling. and threw her arms about his neck
''Oh, joe" she moaned, .Oh, Joe! I
| have you back again. but they'll kill you,
dear. They'll kill YOU"
He took her home. He had business in
another part of the city.
According to the neighbors, two men.
one of them LenZo entered the house
| and dragged the woman out. She has
not been seen since
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Samuel w. Wehn, native of Staunton,
Va. and a prominent shoe merchant,
died suddenly at Everett, Md, from heart
failure. He was fifty-seven years old
and belonged to the Masonic lodge at
Staunton. He was brother-in-law of
Charles A. Smeltz, recent candidate for
mayor Of Cumberland
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In Memoriam.

BOYLAND In sad but loving remembrance &c
my dear husband and our dear father. JOHN
A: BoYLAND. who died two years ago today.
MAY -. 1905.
Anniversary mass at ST. Stephens Church.
BY HIS WIFE AND SONS.
dear sister. GEORGIA GRIFFIN. who died
three years ago today, May ., g. la@I
BY HER SISTER, IDA BtDD
LEWIS. Sacred to the memory of my beloved
brother. WIIFRED A. LEWIS. who departed
this life three years ago today, May -, 1907.
Brothers gone: fold gently on his breast the
Untroubed now shall be his rest that was 50
broken here
Ere sin could harm or sorrow fade death came
And this beautiful bud TO heaven conveyed and
babe ii blossom there
DEVOTED SISTER ETHEL.
ROBERTS. In sad but loying Tsme pnlr Of
died one year today. May ~. 1898.
'Tis not the tear at the moment shed
+ When the cold earth has just been thrown DER
That tells how beloved is the that is dead
Or how deep in my heart | deplorr her.
It's the tear through many long day wept,
IT'S LIES whole pathway shaded.
IT'S the remembrance fondly kept
When all lighter grlefs have faded.
BY HER son CHARLES.
SMITH. In sad but loving membrane NJ 81 or
dear son and brother. CHARLES T.. SMITH.
Jr.. who departed this life three years aSo
TODAY. Nav 81. 1907.
BY HIS MOTHER. MARTHA +. SMITH: SIS
TIERS AND BROTHERS.
SORREII In sad but loving remembrance Of
our dear husband and loving father. JOSEPH
W. SORRElI., whose precious life was ~
suddenly taken four years ago yesterday, May
II 1906.
Then let US leave him 10 his rest,
And homeward turn. for h" is blcst:
And we must well souls prepare.
When death shall come. 10 meet him there
I shall know the loved on" who hath gone before,
And iovfully sweet will the meeting he
When over the river the peaceful river.
Th.. angel of death shall carry me.
BY HIS LOVING WIFE AND CHILDREN.
Glide ms not for weeping:
Our father with cannot STAY.
Free from and care. rejoicing
In glory. he's looking this way.
Ely HIS DEVOTED DAUGHTER AND son,
HARRY VI. AND MARY r. BALL.
The flowers we lay upon his grave may wither
and decay.
But fresh and green his memory within our
hearts shall stay
We miss him and mourn him in silence unseen.
And dwell on the memories Of JOYS thar have
been.
Unknown and forgotten by some. papa may h"
Bun the grave that contains him IL Sacred Ia me.
BY HIS LOVING DAUGHTER AND son.
HENRY V and LILLY NJ. HEliN.
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Question Of Ethics

tiveB and tho rectItUde OF his Intentions.
the Secretary Of the Interior welcomes
this investi CATION have presented the
resolution calling for this investigation
not in his behsl' OF In antaZonism to
any other Official OF the Government
but in the interests Of good administra-
tion and IN order that the people may
know the facts Of this deplorable con
JrOVeTSy and for the judgment thereon
OF an impartial body.
This resolution has been drawn di-
rcCtiu- the committee to investigate
alou- certain md specific lines and then
authority Is given to il 10 make any
further investigation that Il may deem
desira BILE The intention is to secure
the hrOadest and most thorough in
yestiEstioE-
IF the resolution can be made broad
er and more rigid and = more thorough
investigation secured, II should bs done
and viii be welcomed by the Secretary
He wants no Whitewssh. he wants no
partial investigation, he wants IL rigid.
thorough coIpl etc, and conducted with
out fear or favor It is believed shat
this resolution viii accomplish this Gur-
pose It Is not introduced IN an un-
Friendly spirit 20 any one, but simply
in the interest Of honesty, decency. and
good government
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SAFER TO FLY HIGH.
DECLARES BLERIOT
Says Aviator Can Ride Storm
In Safety at Greater
Attitudes

PARIS, Jan 5.-"The higher you 20,
the safer you are declared Louis
Rleriot. the aerOpIaue channel crosser."
Today in commenting on the death OF
Leon Delagrange during a fight at Bor-
oeauX yesterday BIeriot's view is
shared by the majority OF French avia-
tors.
Hubert Latham's recent flight at
height OF nearly ZOO feet during a ire
mendOUs wind proves that ss fetv lies
IN great attitudes continued Bleriot.
At the height OF mile or possibly
Two miles. ar currents. 70 matter how
violet they might he near the surface.
would have absolutely no effect on an
aeroPlane and an aviator couIc ride the
storm in perfect safety
i think the deaths OF DelagrauRe.
Lefebvre, Fernandez. and Ferber were
all due TO their flying too close TO the
ground. where air currents are always
variable Buildings, topography. the
varying temperatures Of chs earth and
many other things contribute 70 create
these currents and gusts. which are
usually in an upward course and no
matter how careful the aviator. ne IS
IN constant danger OF a sudden change
in the air
When Wilbur Wright made his re-
cent flight Up the Hudson in New York
he said his only trouble came from llU-
ward gusts while flying close to the
towering buildings along The river
benks- In flying IN what might appear
TO be dead calm I have passed near
trees OF over buildings and suddenly ex-
pCrienced aerial swfrIs and suctIons that
made the manipulation OF the machine
very difficult.
There IS only one way 10 escape this
danger. sud that IS by flying high
enough to escape these currents. I
would just a. soon fan from height
If loo OF 5000 feet as from height Of
100, and as there is much less danger
Of falling at the greater height. 7 think
shall sail at no less an altitude than
f,p.E feet hereafrer-'
Yesterday was sad day for the avia-
tors marking the death Of DelaErauz e,
who was one Of the most popular avia-
tors IN France, and the injury Of San
tOs-Dumont al St Cyr, and Nine de Il
Roche. AT ChaiOus-Sur-Maru Neither
SantOs-Dum0ut nor Nine de IA Roche
was seriously hurt. ont the death Of
Dslagraage nas plunged aeronautic civ
Cles into gloom such as no other aCCI-
dent has ever done
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MISS BROWN HELD
BY DENVER POLICE

Miss Elizabeth KiIlingsworth Brown.
daughter Of the late David Wolf
Brown. reporter Of debates in the House
Of Representative and well known in
Washington, Is locked up in Denver,
Col on a charge OF passing an alleged
worthless check, according 10 a press
dispatch today
Miss Brown was first in the Huelight
several years ago when she announced
that she had abandoned a grand opera
career TO manage a mine which she had
accidentally discovered fl Colorado.
The mine did not pan out and Miss
Brown was again before the public in
connection with an alleged bad check
on the Willard Hotel. and also one fu
philadelphia Both charges were mol
pressed
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uected. within two wears after leaving
the Government employ.
There had been varying decisions by
former law officers Of the Government
holding that the word claim in this
statute means. on the one hand, only
a monetary claim against the Govern
claim Of any description. including land
claims These were argued pro and
con. on the question Of BalllnSers be
coming attorney for the CunninghanlS,
by those taking sides in the matter, but
his opponents kept close 10 the ethica
view OF the question.
When Ballluger entered the Tar
Cabinet in March 1893 ne gave no his
connection with the Cunningham cases
and when thew came 10 him as Secre-
tary Of the Interior. he directed Assist
ant Secretary Pierce TO decide all QueS-
tons relating 10 them
But 10 return 10 CLAWS. When he was
IN formed OF the clear listing or the Gun
ninEhsm claims for patent he entered
protest, and the action was suspended
Claws was ordered 20 resume his iuves-
tigatlon-
On March 8. 1875. BsIIlnEer, then Com
missioner Of che General Land Office.
had appeared before the House Com
ulttse on Public Lands in relation 10 a
bill introduced By Delegate Gale Of
Alaska The Gale bill provided for the
consolidation OF bona fide entries on
Alaskan coal lands Commissioner Bal
liuger showed considerable familiarity
with 't-hirty-three entries on Alaskan
coal lands. embracing $50 acres near
the BerluE river, in the Eatalla district
RE said that great many Of the entry
men bee ne involved in conditions
/ which. o. the Land Office records
show d technical violation Of the stat
ute and urged legislation permitting
the consolidation Of the entries The
committee disrezardsd his suggestion
But q bill introduced by Senator Hey
rnru and amended AT the suggestion OF
Secretary Garfield, became q law This
{ law provided for the Consolidation OF
claims cnJere1 by lOcalurs solely in their
own interest ard not a. the employ Ell
agents Of another
Immediately altar his resignation a.
COMMISSIONS. BallinEeTr az attorneF
for the Cuuuinghams, fled an AFFIDAVIT
in explanation If certain passages IN q
private journal secured by Claws from
Cunningham which IS alleged 10 have
shown that the Alaskan claims were
taken out cy the CuuninghaIns in the
names OF dummy entrymen- The book
is alleged TO have shown the SubStl-
tuition OF responsible persons for the
/ ''dUmTies~ later on
Decision BY Pierce.
Assistant Secretary Pierce in NAY,
I 1a}a sfened a decision holding that the
Hepburn law allowed the consolidation
( Of a certain character q coal claims
/ in Alaska. which would have included
the Cunningham Z aims A copy Of this
( decision went to Claws, and he was di-
| rected 70 make a report in accordance
; with It
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Died.

ASBURY-Suddsn-v- on Tuesday January &
1910 BURKE r ASBURT- Of 10l5 Il street
o-rhVycst-
M Asbur-y was born in Charlotte. y c.
and made his home IN that city until six
months ago when h came 70 Washington
He was III for four months preceding his
death which was due 20 heart disease. Two
sisters and tUo brothers survive him
lie NOIS-0a Tuesday. January g. 1910. a.
HIS a IN. A. her residence, G15 Sixth
street southeast. LOUISA. wife Of the late
William = Lc NoIz
NOFFAT-On Tuesday, January 4, 1910 az
80 p m a. her residence. I61 Twenty
eighth street northwest. MARY WHITNEY.
widow OF Frederick W Nofat-
Mrs Noffat was born in Albany. y y.
Seventy--fve years ago. She came 20 Wash
inEton in 1851. when her husband was aD-
pointed to a position in the Treasury De
QartUent- Her death followed an illness
Of four days. due 90 pulmonary coupli-
cations She IS survived by two daughters
and one son
wATTS-Sud6enIv on Monday. January 8,
1910 az $50 a. m al the residence o. her
son. Thomas H. Watts. I245 Duncan street
northeast ANN WATTS, in the eighty
sixth year Of her axe
McCLOsKEY-On TUESDAY. January 4. 1910
CHARLES beloved son Of Mary g and the
late George MCCloskey-
Relatives and friends are respectfully in
yited 20 attend the funeral. from his late
residence 2l14 FlaSIsr street northwest on
Friday January Z. 1910 at $50 a m. thence
20 81 Martins Churchr where mass OF
requiem VIII be offered for the repOse Of
his soul Interment at nj Olivet Cemetery
Wilmington. Del. and Eimirs- X y,
papers please COPY 1a5-2LC
BROWN-On Tuesday, January 4 1910. at
n H. az $50 Wade road, Hilsdsle. D G.
Mrs ELIZA BROWN
Funeral Thursday January g. 1910 Al
a. M. from ST Theress's Church, Ana
costa u - Friends and relatives invited
TO attend It.
WTLSON-On sunday December - 1863
WILLIAM A.. beloved husband Of Mary =
Wilson and son-in-Iaw Of Rachel g. and
= the late Edward 2. Moore
MAY HIS soul rest in peace
Funeral took place from his late residence
III2 X street southeast, on Thursday, De
Cember p 1909. at 10 a. m. Burial was ~
Congressional Cemetery. II
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Ballinger-Pinchot Case Alb
Sorbing 10 Exclusion of
Other Matters.
BACK FROM ELBA''
MOVEMENT STARTED
Said 10 Be Part Of Plot TO
Discredit Taft
Regime

The story OF the BauinEer-Pinchot
controversy began with the refusal Of
Richard Achilles BalIiucer-w within a
few weeks after he bacame Secretary or
the Interior. on March g. Iast-tO with
draw from entry certain small portions
Of the public lands for s0-caIIed ranger
sites. at the request Of Clifford PInchQt,
chief Of the Forest Service Of the De
partment Of Agriculture
The dispute has grown, until today Il
IS admittedly the foremost feature or
President Taft's Administration. Orig
inRlly q petty departmental affair, II
has expanded, until Of late It has re-
suited in whisperings Of q Back From
Elba'' movement, with Theodore ROOse-
Welt in the role OF Napoleon and the
activities % the Forest Service and its
officials as part OF a widespread plot
for the discrediting of the Taft regime
Il has engrOssed the attention Of the
Cabinet, while important international
affairs waited. preceded long lists OF
distinguished persOnaEes with important
business on the enEa gament list C
President Taft. and. finally. has halted
Congress in It's business Of making
laws.
In the last days Of the preceding Ad-
Tninistration. James R Garfield, the then
Secretary Of the Interior, by direction
Of President Roosevelt, and with the
idea Of preserving the public domain
from uonopoIistic exploitation, had
withdrawn from entry vast tracts OF
land located along Western rivers. De
cuIiarIy adapted for furnishing hydrau-
lie electric power During the last two
weeks Of February. 1919. Garfield kept
the midnight caTb0us aSlOw in his Office
LorfnC over maps Of Western States
and ytabbing with little pins as marks
for withdrawal, rivers which seemed 10
have power site possibilities Those
Withdrawals were under the Ssupervts-
ory authority Of Jhe Secretary Of the
Interior This authority Garfield held,
gave him the right 10 withdraw appar-
emily valuable lands until Congress
should have time TO IeEisIate regarding
their future disposition
Taft Regime Begins
Then the Taft regime began. and Bal
lIinger replaced Carried In the Interior
Department Chief Forester PI1ChOr.
through his superior, Secretary Wilson,
OF the Department Of Agriculture, had
1 been recommending TO the Interior De
paTtmeut for withdrawal, as range
sites. small tracts IT the public do
main, outside Of the forest reserves FL
/ There had been no difficulty under
/ the Roosevelt Administration, but when
the first batch Of these proposed with
6ravaIs- locates IN the States Of Wash
Z iugton and Oregon, reached Secretary
BaIlinEer. he refused 10 approve them
( saying that such action would be add
ing To the forest reserves power held
/ exclusively by COnETesS-iD those States
This vas the opening gun SeCretsr n
{ Wilson took the matter 70 President
Taft, who referred Il TO Attorney Gen
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DISPUTE WHICH STARTS IN SMALL WAY
GROWS INTO NATIONAL CONTROVERSY
GLaVis' Charges Against Baainger

As to the action of the Land Office these claims he
Cunningham coal entes assert that the Land Office ordered
the Cunningham claims patent without due investigation when
Commissioner Balnger knew they under apcon that
while in office Commissioner BaInger urged Congress to pass
law which would validate fraudulent Alaska claims that shortly
after regning from Office he became attorney for the Cunning
ham group and other Alaska claims; that after he became
Secretary of the Interior his Office rendered decision which
would have validated all fraudulent Alaska claims reversal of
that decson every point obtained from Attorney General
WckeTSham. Had been for Mr. Understands decision
every fraudulent Alaska claim would have gone patent
Il R. CLAWS"
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Decision BY Pierce.
PRESIDENT ASKED
TO ATTEND SHOW

An initiation 10 attend the Appa-
lacHiau exposition. TO be held at
<uoEvilI e- Tenn Septern Der Is 70
october -. was extended TO President
TAFT today BY deleEat ton headed by
Representative Austin Of Tennessee
The President promised 10 attend II
possible The exposition IS 10 exploit
the products Of the Appalachian
States
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eral wickersham where IL lay for
months II was finally decided in favor
OF Secretary BaIlinger-
Before the smoke OF the ranger site
skirTniSh cleared away, somebody dis
covered that Secretary Ballinger was
hard ar wOrk-and had been since a
week after his taking Ofhce-reStoring
to entry millions OF those precious
aCres that Roosevelt and Garfield had
withdrawn only a short une before
Balliuger founded MS reservations on
the theory yEat the Secretary of tn 2
Interior has none OF the supervisory
authority which Secretary Garfield
had quoted 70 Justify the Withdrawals
Gu of the West came a chorus Of dis
approval B@iliuSer continued his res
tOr3tions, un.il the matter was called
10 tfe attention Of President Taft, who
decided in favor Of the supervisory
authority
Claws Charges Flashed
This brought the BaUinEer admins
tra.tion down 20 August, 1903, and then
through the lowering cIoUdbanks there
flashed with a tEunderous report. the
CLAWS charges, regarding the Cunning
ham cOal claims in Alaska
The Cunningham claims, near Katslla,
Alaska, cover thirty-three coal entries
comprising $50 acres a report made
by the claimants experts says that they
able coal. much timber for mining pur-
poses. and waterfalls which could fur
nish 500 horsepower available for haul
ing. lighting and working the mines
These claims had been under investi-
cation for more than a year when they
were turned over TO J. R Claws chief
OF the ieId division Of the Land once
AT Seattle. for investigation, in Deem
Der, 1897. Special Agent II. T. Jones
had reported that in his opinion the en-
tries were suspicious, and he believed
were frauJulenty made IN the interests
OF the GuzEeEheim Mining Syndicate.
Early - January. 1905, while Claws va 8
investigating the claims, they were
clear listed for patent IN the Land
.Ofice, and CLAWS was Informed Of that
action
Question OF Ethics
Right here arises a very interesting
question Of ethics which the opponents
Of Secretary BaIlinger prOpounded at
that time. and have been raising ever
since
BaIHnger. uD- 70 March. IS0s- vas Com
missioner Of the General Land Onics-
which bureau had charge Of the Gun
niuRham cases When BalIinEer re-
signed as commissioner he became at
Jornev for the Cunninghams. and sub
United = brief in the case 20 Secretary
the Revised Statutes Of the UniTesl
States provides that no officer or en-
DlOve OF the United States shah act as
attorney or counsel for prosecuting am
claim which had been pending in the
department with which he was con-
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AGE LIMIT FIXED

ATHENS. Jan 6--The demands OF the
Military League affecting the ministers
AZ Paris Berlin. Vienna and Rome
have been met by the governments
promise 10 pass q law limiting the age
Il diplomats. which viii lead TO the
early recall Of the four ministers
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Aero Club Combine

los ANGELES. Jan. Steps have
been taken 20 combine under worSinE
= agreement the five aero clubs OF the
state under the title OF the Aero Clubs
OF California. They viii arrange a
working agreement with the Aero Club
u America