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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-15
Of SENATOR
BY VOTE OF THE PEOPLE
Governors Action in Maryland
Informally Endorsed by Group
of Senate Lawyers.

Fearing that the action soon to be
taken by the Senate on the credentials
Of Henry D. Clayton as senator from
Alabama might preclude consideration
next winter of a Maryland senatorial
case. two Maryland lawyers. William
l.. Rawls and William II. Lamar, came
to Washington yesterday and laid the
facts concerning the Maryland situa-
ton before a group of the leading SEN
ate lawyers.
No formal action was taken, but
after the conference Senator Overman,
who has presided, said that the pre-
ponderance of opinion seemed to be
that Gov. Goldsborough's action in call
ing a special election to elect a sue
cessor to the late Senator Rayner was
legal.
Governors Authority for Action.
The Marylanders explained that the
governor found authority for his action
in that clause Of the new seventeenth
amendment to the Constitution which
directs the governor to issue writs of
election to fill vacancies. coupled with
the Maryland law. which defines cleo
tions as covering elections for both
state and federal offices.
They pointed out that the Maryland
case was different from the situation
which had arisen in Alabama, where the
governor has appointed q senator instead
of calling a special election.
Senator Bacon's View.
Senator Bacon, regarded as one of the
strictest constructionists Of the new
amendment. announced that he had been
SO far converted by the argument as to
reach the following conclusion:
If the election as ordered by the Gov
ernor Of Maryland is held there IS no
question that the senator then elected
would be chosen by the constituency in
tended and prescribed by the seventeenth
amendment. and that the essential and
fundamental requirement of the law
would thus be complied with. i think
that in case of doubt as to the legality
of the calling Of the election, the bene-
tit of the doubt would be given in favor
of the senator chosen by the people at
such an election
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THE EVENING STORY.
Pickpockets.
DOWNRIGHT 1919 by w. Werner


MAZDA. who had the flower stand in
the corner of the big four aisled lobby Of
the twenty-story Office building, just
caught a glance of him as he ran through
"a slim. good-looking young chap. with
green felt hat, and a pair of very sharp
steel gray eyes. He lodged in from the
east entrance, glanced furtively back as
he spurted through the big central space.
and shot out the south door into the
crowded street. 1t was about 1890 and
the lobby was comparatively deserted.
Most of the men had gone to their offices
and the noon rush had not commenced.
The few lettering did not look after him
except with languid curiosity. Plenty of
people In a city are in a rush.
full minute later, long enough to give
the fellow full chance of disappearing in
the streets crowd, fat. purple Jowied.
old man, putting and choking, rushed
after At the top of a raucous voice he
was crying. "Pickpocket! Stop him! He
got my money-He got"
Mike, the elevator starter, who was also
private policeman, tore across the lobby
for lucid description. slim, gray-suit-
ed green hat, good looking, the scoun-
drel," roared the old man, breaking away
from Mikes OBTAINING clutch, and tear
ing on.
They didn't catch him, of course. State
street is thickly dotted with cookbook
ing youths with gray eyes and the correct
attire prescribed by spring fashion. The
old man turned out to be broker in the
adjoining building. The theft had taken
place in a crowded elevator He had felt
the thief's hand leave his pocket as the
car touched the first floor. But the fell
low had been the first out, and he had
been among the last.
Mazda was shocked. She hadn't been
very long from the farm in Wisconsin
and SO hadn't acquired the cityite's nom
chalance toward crime and criminals.
And he was such a nice-looking fellow"
she sorrowfully told the aunt with whom
she boarded DO you suppose he had
a sick mother Or
Her aunt laughed. Her uncle at the
other end Of the supper table chuckled.
Alice. her counsin, stenographer in the
same building, smiled. "They say he's
the fellow that's been looting half the
offices on State street. The police have
been after him for months, but he's too
clever for them.' she remarked.
Mazda forgot him in a week or SO. She
was a pretty girl. with big truthful blue
eyes and hair that rippled like sun
Drowned cornsilk. Alice had had little
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DENIES WIFE'S CHARGES.
Maynard A. Bayles Answers Her
Suit for Divorce.

Unqualified denial Of his wife's charges
Is made in the answer OF Maynard A.
Bayles, an automobile salesman, to the
suit for absolute divorce filed by mis-
wife, Mabel c. Bayles Among the charges
made by the wife was q joy ride on the
speedway with q married woman. The
correspondent In a separate answer also
denied the allegation made by the wife.
Bayles says his wife left home and
sought employment of her own accord.
He bought a home for her at 4JO6 Sth
street northwest and says the wife after
a. short residence there declined longer
to occupy the property.
His wife is jealous, Bayles tells the
court, and to this he attributes his
martial infelicity. Her demands on him
for money, he claims, are excessive and
he has been unable to give her everything
she desired. He asserts he has frequent
ly requested her to return to him with
out avail.
Attorney George H. Calvert, jr., APP
pears for the husband.
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CURRENCY MEASURE IS
APPROVED BY BANKERS
LEGISLATION at Present Session
of Congress Regarded as
Best for Country.

Before adjourning their conference
yesterday with Secretary McAdoo of
the Treasury Department regarding
the distribution among banks OF the
south and west of s50.000.000 govern
ment funds to be placed on deposit
for the movement of crops the bankers
adopted a resolution declaring it to be
their opinion that the enactment OF the
administration currency bill at the
present rather than the regular session
Of Congress that begins In December
would be best for the entire country.
This action followed a detailed explana-
ton of the bill by Senator Owen.
Outline of Needs.
The bankers from Pacific coast cities
outlined their needs for participation in
the $4,000 900 government deposits.
Secretary McAdoo made it plain that
while the funds are to be placed only
with banks in the larger cities. it was
with the express stipulation that they
would look after the needs OF the
small banks.
A long discussion Of the administra-
ton currency bill took place. Treas
ury officials said the bankers expressed
themselves as being in accord with
the federal control plan, but suggested
changes in the reserve features. Among
those present were: Jess Stoddard, Los
Angeles James X. Lynch. San Fran
cisco; e. A. Wyld, Portland, Ore. !;
Daniel Kelleher, Seattle, and Charles
A. Mclean, Spokane.
Allays Feeling of Unrest.
The bankers told Secretary McAdoo
that announcement of his intention to
make the deposits had allayed a feeling
of unrest on the Pacific coast and pre-
vented what might have become a seri-
Gus financial situation.
The general sentiment was voiced by
Jess Stoddard Of Los Angeles. The an
nouncement, he said, had restored con-
fidence and created decidedly hopeful
and optimistic sentiment.
Bankers from other western cities
cOrroborated Mr.. Stoddard and ex-
pressed the belief that his announce
ment had made it unnecessary for that
section to receive as much government
aid as would have been needed had the
announcement been delayed even two
weeks.
Secretary McAdoo repeated the list of
securities that the department would
accept, and outlined the method by
which his department expected to OBJ
their values. In reply to a question he
said he would not make an exception
as to Steel and like Industrial bonds.
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gayly at her. Her eyes hardened again.
he was very foolish. Did he think no
one would recognize him? He must
think people had poor eyes and poor
memories. Mikes head was emerging
over, tipped a pink bud from the heap
and smiled, with the paternal freedom
allowed gray whiskers, at MAZDA. Then
he strolled on, while she was opening
her lips to tell him to arrest the young
miScreant.
She opened them twice and closed them.
She had a guilty sense of being an ac-
cessory. She didn't know what they
would do to him-"they'' being the vague
law-but she hadn't the heart to send
even a scoundrel to prison.
He went away whistling. MAZDA sadly
watched him. Mike turned to watch him.
She fancied vague CLEAN of recognition
lay in Mikes eyes. But instead Of hurry
ing to prod that Interrogation Mazda
was scared. Why didn't the boy hurry?
Didn't he know he might be remembered?
She sighed. with something very like
relief. when the gray shoulders vanished
through the east exit and Mike was busy
starting elevators.
the steel gray eyes smiled over the
counter at her and the clear voice said,
Some pink roses, please"
Mazda was very sure that it was her
pickpocket." But she didn't. She gazed
sadly and miserably at him, and sadly
wrapped dozen pink roses in white
tissue paper.
After that he came every day And
every day Mazda lost bit of her former
serenity and fresh color. Her aunt no.
ticed 1t and got her a bottle Of cod liver
oil. Alice, shrewder. suspected love
affair. MAZDA Indignantly denied it.
Love! She would never love anybody.
And wondered drearily why pickpocket
need have such an honest smile
When he asked to call some night she
snapped him short. He didn't come back
Tor three days. Then he came, apollo
glzed and coolly repeated his request.
MAZDA looked at him SO reproachfully
that he was puzzled.
4 don't see why" he protested. with
a certain boyish diffidence. Il want to
know You better and 1 can't hang about
this stand any longer without people no
tlcing IT." If he hadn't been a pick
pocket MAZDA would have been sure that
he was gentleman. Most men didn't
care who noticed them hanging about
the stand or what unpleasant attention
they drew to her.
She flushed and was almost ready to
cry out. when her eyes grew big with
fright. From the east entrance the old
purple-jowled broker was advancing and
his eyes were fixed hard upon the young
fellow leaning opposite her. His lei
surely walk quickened. Mazda tried to
too soon.
Say he began, clustering.
know what you are going to say.
half pettishly returned the boy III
finish those letters after lunch, father
See that you do" brusQuely said the
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Transfer Order to Include Two.

The orders called for the transfer of
Private Cook, but there was nothing In
them prohibiting the transfer of Mrs.
Cook to Fort Sheridan also. big idea
flashed across Cooks mind. but he kept
his peace and mentioned it to no one ex-
cept Miss Gill.
Private Cook said farewell to his COM
rades at the hospital yesterday, and
started on his way to Illinois. He failed
to mention that Miss Gill would accom-
pany him to Baltimore and there be-
come Mrs. Cook, and that at the con-
clusion Of the ceremony would accom-
pany her husband to his new post.
His comrades at the barracks did not
learn that Cook had enlisted partner
until last night
well. he's the SLY old fox, anyway"
remarked one of the Medical Corps men.
But then he remembered that "all's fair
In love and war;"
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COURT NAMES COMMITTEE.
Trust Company to Have Charge Of
Mrs. Rixford's Estate.

Justice Barnard appointed today the
Washington Loan and Trust Company as
committee of the estate of Mrs. Caroline
T. Rixford. who was yesterday adjudged
Of unsound mind after hearing before
iurv. Attorney Brainard w. Parker
was named as committee Of the person of
tbe insane woman and directed by the
court to remove her from the Govern
mapt Hospital for the Insane to the
Laurel Sanitarium at Laurel. Md.
The evidence adduced at the hearing
showed that Mrs Rixford is suffering
from senile dementia, being eighty-five
wears old Her estate is valued at more
than $4,000.
tha annointment of the trust company as
Committee. were represented by Attor-
neys Frederick A. Fenning and Spencer
Gordon. Mrs. Rixford was represented
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-15
HUSBAND TO PAY ALIMONY.
Order Of Court in Force Pending De.
Termination of Divorce Suit.

Justice Barnard has ordered James w
Chapple to pay temporary alimony of $o5
q month to his wife. Jennie p. Chapple,
pending the decision Of the wife's suit
for q legal separation.
In his answer to her charges. Chapple
saws his wife has violent and uncon-
fr0Iable temper; that she abused him.
threw a poker at him and then, picking
up the implement. followed him into an
other room and attempted to assault him
with it.
In protecting himself. the husband tells
the court, he pushed his wife out of the
room. and she fell over table, cutting
her nose and causing it to bleed. The
wife had charged that although she wore
glasses, her husband hit her in the face
with his fist.
Chapple claims he supported his wife
az best he could on his salary OF $50 per
week.
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broker. as he hurried to the cigar stand.
us he your father" gasped MAZDA.
incredulously
HE is Do YOU remember one day We
Thought a pickpocket ran through here?
He nearly had apoplexy. That was the
first time | saw you. and l had to go
west On a business trip for him the next
day. / thought 1 would never get back
here before some other feiiow-Maida
His voice was absurdly humble and en-
treating. 90,
tbourht-' She colOred and broke off
confusedly.
lon, nearly laughed himself into apoplexy
when his son, in spite of Maida's pro-
tests. told the story
'e' THE ENID
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nonchalantly, elbows propped among the
pink and green heaps, as unconcerned as
though the entire ten commandments re-
posed unfractured in his pocket.
Maida's eyes got big and stern. She
hastily looked around for Mike, who
would take charge of this audacious fell
low. But Mike wasn't in sight; it was
his luncheon hour
will you send them this afternoon? %
he asked. They're for a friend who
died yesterday-an old lady" His voice
held q sad note.
Maida's eyes came back from their
search for Mike and softened. 1t seemed
he wasn't utterly hardened. He smiled
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LOLA NORRIS AGAIN
TAKES THE STAND
First Witness Called TODAY in
Diggs- Caminetti White
Slave Case.
RESUMES STORY OF TRIP
TAKEN TO RENO, NEVADA
Moving Picture Photographers In
wade Court and One Is Ar
rested and Fined.

SAN FRANCISCO August 15-Lola
Norris. who followed Marsha Warrington
on the stand yesterday in the trial OF
Maury I. Diggs. charged with violation
OF the Mann white slave act, was the
first witness called this morning. She
resumed the story that was related with
such mass Of detail by her companion
in trouble.
only in the manner Of its delivery did
the testimony of Lola Norris differ from
that Of the other girl. Her answers were
sharper and more spirited than those
OF her companion She was able to sup
plement nothing to the narrative or the
Warrington girl. She could only confirm
stateme IS and descriptions of events al
ready described.
Step by step she went over the flight
to Reno she and Marsha Warrington had
made with Digs and Drew Caminettl.
When her Characterization began she
retained her composure, answering the
searching questions of the defense even
ly and with no show of hesitation.
Throughout she chung to her original
story.
In accordance with the announcement
of Judge Van Fleet the case was to be
adjourned at the close of the afternoon
hearing until next Tuesday morning. 1t
is probable that the defense will then
begin the presentation of its case.
Day of Minor Surprises.
Yesterday was punctuated by series
Of minor SURPRISES Juror Bliss showed
a disposition to question the good faith
of the government in withholding from
evidence transcript of the story told
by Marsha Warrington to the assistant
district attorney of Sacramento county
on the way home from Reno after the
of the prosecution. He was instructed
by the court that the jury would take
cognizance of nothing except what
came regularly before it.
Curiosity as to his state of mind In
creased, when, after the noon adjourn
ment, he was fifteen minutes late, but
Judge Van Fleet accepted Suavely his
statement that he had misunderstood
the instructions as to when he should
return.
In dismissing the jury last night the
court repeated the usual caution and
at the same time explained the par
ticularly emphatic admonitions he gave
Wednesday.
Il don't want to be understood" said
the judge. las having implied yester-
day that there was any well founded
suspicion as to the integrity of the
jury. The suggestion l had in mind
came from one of my own attendants,
but 1t did not mean that any one knew
anything of a sinister nature of any
one on this jury. 1t was suggested that
one looking like a member of this jury
had been seen talking with some one
connected with the defense Of this
case
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trouble persuading the owner of the
flower stand to engage her She JUSTIFIED e
his estimate of her charm. me IoWer
building took to wearing rose or car,
nation. But Mazda was a cool-hea esa
girl. The fiattery did not anect ner' Sne
had too little vanity to credit all that
was murmured over flower purchases.
She grew expert in parrylns, mPsrsinens
remarks. rebuffing undersired at.snuo IONS
and selling flowers. In time she got used
to city ways and was only mildly excited
by pickpockets and other incidents of
big town. .h s,o mo-
sorting a big heap of pale pink roses
and buds into clusters to fit the Jars rs,,a
clear voice asked her for dozen Gala
lilies. She looked up carelessiy, and
then the hot blood rushed to her cheeks.
Across the fiower-loaded counter. eyeins
her interestedly. was the young man OF
the green hat, steel gray eyes and gray
suit. whom the old broker had chased In
furious wrath. He was leaning there
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by Attorneys ID. w Baker W. j. LAM
bert and X. H Yeatman.
Counsel agreed that the present mental
condition of Mrs. RiNford is unsound hut
secured a finding by the jury that the
term of her disability is doubtful and
leaving open the question of whether she
had disposed OF real estate while under
mental disability
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-15
Moving Picture Men Fined.

During a ten-minute recess in the after
noon session photographers and moving
picture men invaded the courtroom and
there was furry among the principals
In the case and the woman spectators,
all of whom covered their faces. One
photographer was arrested and fined $50.
The court confiscated his negatives.
Earlier in the day the court commented
sharply on the presence of women.
4 see some very young women in the
rear of the courtroom. said the judge
Are they accompanied by their mothers
or chaperons?''
One of the girls spoke up and said they
were.
IF that's the case" said the judge,
then the responsibility Is on them and
not on the court
Strengthening Her Narrative.
Miss Warrington, on cross-examination,
strengthened rather than weakened her
first direct narrative. She showed her
self to be not only positive but a
quick-witted witness, and took advantage
Of every opportunity to discomfort the
attack made on her.
When her memory failed her as to the
questions asked on the way back from
Reno she was prompt to emphasize her
motive in submitting to questions on the
train. ITO shield Mr.. Diggs,' she ex-
planned repeatedly.
When she admitted that. So: '1h1s had -talkea
with counsel for the government about
the testimony she was to give, her ac-
count of her instructions was this: ITO
tell the truth
Contrary to expectation. Lola Norris,
who followed her, was the more out
loss for answer: her replies were distinct,
specific and full, given with her eyes on
the interrogation.
In all the essentials her narrative was
the same as that of Marsha Warrington.
She reaffirmed that the elopement to
Reno was brought to pass only by threats
of exposure II they remained in Sacra-
mento; that marriage had been promised
before and after their flight, and that
Diggs bought the tickets.
Mother Opposed Plan Of Diggs.
MY mother could not stand the shock. ;"
she testified she had objected to the ar
guments Of Diggs.
TT always takes bullets to kill" Diggs
had replied: Il guess she'll get over it all
right"
HE said we should all be absolutely
ruined if we stayed in Sacramento" she
continued. He told us that every one
would scorn us. that every one of our
friends would leave US. and We should
be pointed out as the two girls who had
been connected with them in an affair.
Finally we agreed to CO."
Before she met Caminetti, she had been
chaste, she testified. Caminetti, she
swore, had reiterated his promise of mar
riage.
Her relief when she stepped down from
the stand was visible and she smiled as
her father stepped forward to put an
arm around her and shield her face from
tha nhotoeraphers who fiocked about the
doorway of the federal building.
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SAGACITY OF DAN CUPID
DISPLAYED IN CAMPAIGN
Secures Aid of the War Department
in Accomplishing Matrimonial
Alliance.

Buckling on his sword and side arms
and otherwise equipping himself with the
accouterments of war, both modern and
ancient, Dan Cupid sailed forth yester-
day morning and performed certain mys-
terious maneuvers over fields made
famous by Gen. Early S attempted raid on
Washington in civil war days and
brought to a climax a campaign begun
months ago Unseen by any one he
climbed to the top of a now dead poplar
tree just within the entrance of the
grounds surrounding the Walter Reed
General Army Hospital-the very tree
from which rebel sharpshooters terrified
the defenders of Washington as they lay
entrenched about Fort Stevens many
years ago.
His modern implements of war he cast
aside.
They are not nearly so effective and
sure as my trusty bow he muttered to
himself, as he took aim at the Medical
Corps barracks which lay to the east of
the hospital building. The barracks were
bombarded with many arrows before
hit was scored. Finally, one of the darts
claimed a victim, and Cupid. climbing
down from the tree stump, transferred
his archery practice elsewhere.
eliminates in Matrimony.
| Today advices rom Baltimore tell of
| the marriage there yesterday of George
Z. Cook, first-class private, Medical
| Corps, United States Army, and Miss
Nettie A. Gill of Silver Spring. Nd. Be
hind this brief announcement is an In
teresting story of how love. overcame
| such troublesome things as general
| orders from the. War Department.
| For four years or more. Private Cook
| has been stationed at the Walter Reed
| Hospital. The lot of hospital corps
man is not an. easy. one. and yet each
day there are specified hours at which
he is at liberty. 1t was during these
1 times that Private Cook became &C
quainted with Miss Gill, whose home at
Silver Springs, Nd. is about d mile
north OF the hospital.
| A warm friendship sprang up between
the t., young people. and not long ago
they became engaged. Their courtship
was running smoothly when along came
| an order from the War Department
transferring Private Cook from Walter
| Reed to an army hospital at Fort Sheri-
| dan ILL.,, and it was stated that August
| IA he must leave for his new post OF
/ duty.
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Mother and Twins Fatally Hurt.

CHICAGO, August 15-Mrs. Stephen
Drawoski and her twin babies which she
was wheeling in a go-cart were fatally
injured late yesterday when struck by
the Monon fiier at South Side crossing.
The infants were thrown about twenty
five feet on opposite sides of the track
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Found Dead in Bed.

Rosie Lee, colored. thirty-six years old.
was found dead in bed at her home. 735
Smiths row. last night. Her husband.
Moses Lee, found her and notified the
police Her family physician gave GER
tificate Of death.