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The Washington herald., 1919-04-01
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tria Of William II. Olhlrt, charged
with shooting and killing Linwood
Kidweu, which occurred November
L. 1918, in the office of the yardmas-
ter OF the Southern Railway Com
pany. was begun today before a jury
i'm the Corporation Court, Jsdge r.
II. l. Shichester. fredericksburg,
Va, presiding.
The last witness to testify before
court adjourned was the accused.
Among other things he told OF the
pistol being accidentally discharged
the night of the shooting. He will
again resume the stand tomorrow.
But few other witnesses are to be
heard. and IT is expected that the case
will go to the jury late in the after
noon.
The accused Is represented by At
torney Edmund Burke and the prose
cNtion is being conducted by Com
Smith. The trial will be resumed at
Yen o'clock tomorrow morning.
The jury is composed of the fol-
lowing. Eugene Bode, Ferdinand E.
Cornell. John A. King, Irving Lindsey,
Joseph Heyman, Smith Williams f.
L y
Earl Sullivan, J. NJ. Duling. George
colin Brenner.
E. Z. Downham. a member of the
local draft board, yesterday re
ceived the following telegram from
Gov. Westmoreland Davis: Gen.
Stern has reported to me that Vir-
cri nj q nf he 20 20
to complete shipment OF all of her
board records 10 Washington. She
was also frst 20 send her complete
quota of soldiers to camp. The
work OF her boards was, therefore,
first in war and first in peace. Con-
gratulations."
4 small fishing boat belonging to
Capt. Charles McKenney, this city,
in charge of William Butler. this
city, together with a fishing net.
was lost during the storm last Tues
day off Quantico. Butler escaped.
A fishing net belonging to George
Elliott, this city. also was lost at
the same time.
The board of governors OF the
Anne Lee Memorial Home OF the
Aged will, Thursday. serve a supper
at the Westminster Building from
$50 until $50 p. m.
The burning OF rags in a house on
| east side of Henry street, between
| Queen and Princes strets, brought
( out the fire department shortly aft
er S o'clock tonight. Chemical ex-
tinguishers were Used in subduing the
blaze.
The funeral of Daniel NJ Appich,
who died Sunday, will take place at
o'clock Wednesday afternoon from
his late residence, E27 King street, and
will be conducted by Dew. P. p. Phil
lips, D. D., rector OF st. Paurs P. E.
Church.
Mrs B. F. Button has assumed the
management of the Hotels Belvoir
and Humphreys. succeeding r. L.
I Emswillers. Mrs. Button for several
months past has been in charge of
the bookkeeping department of these
hOstelTies. She was formerly connect
ed with the Monticello Hotel, Norfolk,
and the Ocean View Hotel. Ocean
! View, Va.
Dorothy Agnes Rearton, months
old, died last night at the residence
| Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. will
lam J. Rearton. Wagar Apartment
Fire Sunday night partially de-
stroyed frame dwelling, s23 North
Washington street, owned by Mrs.
Maggie Nelson. Loss is covered by
| insurance.
The newly elected officers of
Martha Washington No. AZ, Order of
Eastern Star, will be installed Tues
/ day night at the Masonic Temple.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-01
Y. M. c A. Fellowship Supper.

New members of the Y. NJ c. A.
will be the guests tonight at 6
o'clock in the Central Y. M. C. A,
1886 G street northwest. at the fell
lowship supper.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-01
Tell II to Shakespeare!

Springfield. Ill, March 3L-Dr. Sa-
mats L. Zaphyriades petidoned the
circuit court here to change his name
to Zaph. He thinks the last four syl-
lables of the present form drives away
customers
The Washington herald., 1919-04-01
One Bootlegger Cured.

Woodstock, Ill, March 3l.-There's
no frmer anti-liquor fan than Ben
Silver, jailed for bootlegging. he
waited 10 days for an appeal and now
must work out a 500 fine.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-01

Cofds Cause Grip and Influenza.
NxATIVE BRoAo QUININE Tlbists re-
ts he cause. There fs only one "Bromo
nine" Il. ". GROVES signature On TIE
nc-A1r.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
CONVICTED OF DESERVING
MEN WHILE UNDER FIRE
LIEUT.. SAMUEL H. STONE
GETS TEN YEARS.
Tried in France and Sent Over
Here to Serve at Leav-
enWorth.

Aver, Mass, July 30.-Convicted OF
deserting his men, whom he had led
into the fire of the enemy, Samuel
II. Stone, formerly a second lieuten-
ant of the 101st infantry regiment,
has been sent to Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, to begin a ten-year SEN
tence. A cable message from France
notified officials of Camp Devens Of
the finding of court martial at
Emonoy which convicted him in jan
uary.
Testimony by members OF Stones
platoons in Company II, 10lst regi-
ment, showed that he had headed
night patrols to the edge OF mo
mans land" four times, and then,
having drawn the fire of the enemy,
he left the men to their own resources
and withdrew.
Again, when his company was go
ing into action at Chateau-Thierry
in the first wave, Stone was seen to
run to the rear. A guard in the
supporting line halted him, but stone
was allowed to proceed when he said
he was returning for maps. His pla-
toon suffered losses which the court
martial held included needless loss Of
life. due to stones detection.
Stone, whose home Is in Boston,
was an officer in the national guard
before ii was federalized and the
101st regiment formed.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
Yep BUILDERS.
looming TO U. S.?
German Engineers Putting
Out FeelerS, World Cor
respondent Hears.
U.s.To CONTROL AIR
Think America Has Greatest
Opportunity in Rigid
Airship Line.
(eY JOSEPH w. eREEN.)

London, July 29.-(By Telegraph
From N. Y. World, Copyrighted)-
With the ratification of peace and re-
sumption Of relations with Germany
there is every possibility that some
of the chief Zeppelin engineers and
designers vii make an effort to reach
America. and there try to enlist big
financial backing for the develop
ment of rigid airships in America.
The correspondent of the World
learned today that feelers have been
put out in this direction. These Yep
pelin builders feel that America will
make a bid for aerial supremacy
over England, and that America,
rather than Germany, will offer
the greatest opportunity in the con-
struction of rigid airships in the, next
decade.
There have been other reports to
the effect that interests in the big
steel works in Germany would try to
obtain financial control of the Zeppe-
lin works, but so far they lack con-
firmation.
All the indications in this country
are that the development and near
perfection of aerial liners will go
forward with Irresistible energy.
This is seen in the plans for the voy-
age of the r. "a for Cairo, whence
she may proceed to India.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
MURDER WAVE SWEEPS
ENGLAND MORE BIGAMY
"Bigamy Seems as Casual as
an Invitation to
Dinner"

London, July 29.-(By Telegraph
From the n. Y. World, Copyrighted)
July has added heavily to the toll
of murder in the United Kingdom,
the heaviest in the last three months.
A well known criminal authority at
tributes the crime wave to the low
regard in which life has been held
by some persons since the was.
Five murders have occurred in
July, most of the victims being girls
or women. The latest victim is a
girl who was found gagged and
strangled in a house near Finsbury
park today.
The police are engaged in trying
to unravel the mystery of the death
of Connie Grant, l6, whose skeleton
was found undcr the flooring OF a
house in Elkton on Friday.
One magistrate, commenting on tne
Increased number of crimes, SAID
yesterday that lack of employment
or disincllnation to find work were
causes.
In addition to making a murder
record, both June and July have de-
veloped many cases of bigamy. one
of the Judges who has been burdened
with such cases, said bigamy seems
to have become matter as casual as
an invitation to dinner.
Clergymen in certain parts OF the
country now refuse to marry girls
TO overseas men without conclusive
evidence that the soldier swains are
not already married. But bigamy
had by no means been confined TO
oynrSeas men,
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
AUSTRIAN ENVOY FEARS
RUIN FROM PEACE TERMS
WOULD SADDLE STATE OF
100000 WITH OLD DEBT.
Can't Renounce Saving
German Tyrol and German
South Syria.

London. July 29.-(By Telegraph
From the New York World, Copy
riShted) DIR. Renner, Austrian
plenipotentiary in the peace negotia-
tions, has given out an interview to
a correspondent of the Daily News in
his Swiss retreat. According to a
dispatch to the newspaper he is in
Switzerland to consult with minis
ters who have gone there from vi
emma to get him.
There is great danger" he said,
that the peace labors of these many
weeks will be fruitless; the terms
offered~us would mean the destruc-
tion of German Austria and finan-
cially they would, mean that not only
for the government, but also for all
the banks, insurance companies the
serial insurance. system and for in
dividuals.
THE tragedy of it is that we are
to be ruined not by the demands Of
the great powers severe though they
be, but by conditions put forward in
favor of the Czechs, Poles and others
tits proposed to saddle a state of
100000 people with the largest part
OF the debts left behind by a state
of 30,0O0,000
Equally impossible are the terri
torial conditions. With heavy hearts
we renounced the idea of saving our
German brethren in Czecho- Slovakia,
but we cannot renounce German
south Tyrol, German south Styria
and parts of our purely German
lower Austria. There can be no sense
and no reason in depriving Austria
of these"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
BLAME PLACED
ON EX-KAISER
Ludendorffs ecIares He Was
ResponsI= for Decision to
Hold : lgian Territory.
EcoISJ MIC UNITY
Provil: for Extension Ger
ms Customs System to
Belgium.

Berlin, Tuesday, July pa. P)
Responsibility for the crown coun-
ellis decision in 1917 that Belgian ter
ritory must be held was placed upon
the former German emperor by Gen.
Ludendorff in a communication pub
lished today by the Deutsche- Tages
Zeitung.
Gen. Ludendorff's letter said that
great headquarters merely sketched
the military situation and stated
what measures they believed neces-
sary to protect Germany's west from
tier in an economic way. The for
mer German emperor, Gen. Luden-
dorff said, decided the question, and
his decision was binding upon mill
tary headquarters.
Premier Bauer and Dr. Hermann
Mueller, foreign minister, were con-
demned by Gen. Ludendorff for their
statements in the German national
assembly at Weimar on Monday crit
icizing the crown councils action
and making public reports of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg and Gen.
Ludendorff advising the retention
and military occupation of the Liege
district. Gen. Ludendorff inquired
where DR.. Mueller obtained the mill
tary information concerning great
headquarters.
An outline of what military au-
thorities were said to have consid-
cred the necessary economic unity"
with Belgium, also was published to-
day by the National Zeitung.
This outline, according to the
newspaper, contemplated the exten-
sion of the German customs system
to Belgium. the levying of impost
taxes on monopolies there, obIiging
Belgium to accept German control of
7Belgium taxation, trade representa-
tion and the division of the income
tax. 1t suggested also an agreement
for the equality of citizens of Ger
many and Belgium and various reg
uiations regarding shipment, legal
and industrial questions.
German shipping, according to the
published economic outline, would be
given rights in the harbor of Ant
werp; Belgium would adopt the Ger
man monetary system all damage
claims against Germany would be
annulled Germany would take over
the Belgian railroads, and the Ger
man workmen's protection insurance
law would be introduced in Belgium.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
FIANCE HELD ON
MURDER CHARGE
Lester Decker Is Arrested
After Discovery of Body
of Mabel Harris.
RIVER GIVES UP SECRET
Absence of Water in Lungs
Indicates Death Not Due
to Drowning.

Paterson, N. j., July S0.-After n
preliminary examination OF the body
of Miss Mabel Harris, 20, recovered
from the Pompton river today,
County Prosecutor Michael Dunn an
nounced that he will file a charge of
first degree murder against Lester
Decker, the girls fiance, who was
placed under arrest after her mys-
terious disappearance Sunday night.
The body was found by Edward
Toure. one of a party that had been
searching the river below Adam on
Pompton- Lake for twenty four
hours. The girls clothing was torn
and her undergarments twisted about
her head. She was without shoes,
and one stocking was pulled down
about her ankle.
DR.. Armstrong, county physician,
said that there was no water in the
girls lungs, indicating that she met
death before she fell. or was thrown
into the water He ordered the body
taken to a morgue for a more com
plete examination. Decker, whose
arrest was ordered, after he made
statements regarding his
'''''NNS -
his innocence today. He reiterated
his previous statement to the extent
that Miss Harris met death when the
canoe in which they were riding on a
part of Pompton lake was swept
over the dam while he was doing.
He lied to her mother Monday and
told her the girl had returned to her
work in sanitorium, but he did
not dare to face her with the fact
that her daughter was dead, he said.
Decker declared that he saved him-
self by an almost superhuman ef-
fort.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
TO GUST PACKERS IF LAW
OF MICHIGAN VIOLATED
ATTORNEY GENERAL 70
START PROBE.
Will Force Big Five" Out if
They Have Broken Anti
turst Laws.

Lansing, Mich, July 30.-Atty.-
Gen. Alex ]. Groesbeck announced
today that if the investigation he is
undertaking proves that the big
five" packers-Armour, Swift, Cuda
by, Wilson and Morris-are violat-
ing any of Michigan's three antitrust
laws they will be compelled to lower
their prices or be ousted from the
state.
The Investigations by congress
and the federal trade commission
have proved what we all know, that
the big five packers have the ma
tons meat supply in their control
said Groesbeck, land it is fairly evil
dent that they are manipulating
prices for profits and regardless of
public welfare. The combination Is
menace to the country. If uon-
gress cannot smash it, somebody
else must. Michigan may not be able
to doSvery much alone, but | believe
other states are ready to go after
them. Michigan. Ohio, Illinois, In
diana and few other states at least
can make a dent in their operations,
and l don't think it will be hard to
get evidence that they are violating
the state laws"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
U. s. SUBMARINE SINKS

New London, Conn. July s0.-The
United States submarine ca which
had been stationed at the submarine
base here. sank suddenly to the bottom
OF the sound. three miles off Pleasure
Beach, about 10 o'clock this morning
and two members OF a crew of twelve
were drowned The other members of
the crew escaped and were picked up
by the revenue cutter Acushnet. The
ca went down in deep water and it
will be a difficult task to attempt to
raise her or find the bodies of the two
drowned men. The submarines M-3
and RS. which were at the base when
the accident happened were rushed to
the G-2's assistance and are making ef
forts to find the lost undersea craft
The Ga was out for experimental
work this morning and without warn
ing her nose dipped and she plunged to
the bottom. The names OF the two
men drowned could not be Narned up
TO an early hour this afternoon.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
GERMAN PROPAGANDA
MAY Be BACK OF RIOTS
SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
SEES HAND OF BooHE.
Saws Schools Like Tuskegee
Would Eliminate Race
Hatred.

Washington, July 80 - German
nroneganda may be an important
underlying factor of the race rlots
in various parts of the country
Franl,ljn K. Lane, secretary of the
interior, declared in an nterVie"
today. A.,
The secretary pointed TO the
known fact that German agents were
active during the war trying to Sur
IN race hatred in thickly populated
negro sections of large cities, adding
that he thought their activities in
this direction had not ceased with
the signing of the peace treaty. The
recent riots in Washington and those
now in Chicago might be traced di-
rectly OF their sinister work, he be-
lieved.
THE situation must be handled by
the state and government authorl-
ties" he said
"The police if unable to handle the
situation, should have prompt assist
ance from the military"
In reply to a question as to what
the government could do to elimi-
nate race hatred, Secretary Lane
said:
"Give us more schools like the
Tuskegee and Hampton institutes. |
do not believe that one of the blacks
connected with these riots were
graduates of these schools. There
the colored men\ and women are
taught the proper conception of their
duty and relation towards society.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
NO RADICAL DEFECTS
I'm e0URTS-MARTIAL.
SPECIAL A R MY BOARD
MAKES REPORT.
Soldiers Once Acquitted of
Charges Cannot Be Tried
Again.

| Washington, July 30.-One new ar
ticle of war and changes in thirty
others have been recommended by
the special board of officers ap-
| pointed early in the war to investi-
gate the army court martial system.
In making this announcement today.
Secretary Baker said ne soon would
transmit the boards report to con-
gress.
ut may be said" MIR. Bakers an
nouncement said, that the board,
upon the whole. finds no radical de-
Iccts IN the system, and it attrib-
utes the greater part of the just crit
lclSm not to inherent faults of the
system Itself, but rather to the in
experienced personnel called upon to
administer 1t at time of stress
When the great thing was to get
4,00O,OOO men quickly in shape for
the lighting line"
The board was composed of Mai
zen. +. j. Herman, who organized
the service of supply in France: Mai
Gen. John f. O'Ryan, who com
manded the Twenty seventh national
guard division, and Lieut.-Col. Hugh
w. Ogden, Judge advocate, who
served with the Rainbow division.
secretary Baker said these officers
were selected after the controversy
OF the existing court-martial system
began, because it was desired to have
every class of American opinion rep
resented. The board invited express
slons OF opinion on the army legal
system from all officers who had ex-
erclsed general Court-martial iuris-
dlction during the war and from all
Judge e-advocates who had been com
missioned and functioned as such
during the same period" II received
and analyzcd some o25 letters and
formulated its own views as a result
or It's study of these statements.
The board has submitted recon-
mendations for changes in some
thirty OF the articles of war and has
proposed one new article said Mr..
Baker. The general trend of the
work had been in the direction of a
development Of the present system
and does not constitute a radical de-
partnre from the old one, which had
been growing and developing for
centuries precisely as other systems
or law have been SO growing and so
developing in the same period"
Only One Trial.
Boston, July 30.-Soldiers acouit-
ted by courts martial cannot be tried
again for the same offense, nor can
higher authority increase the sem
tence declared by a court. saws a
war department order announced by
the northeastern department head
quarters today. This step in court
martial reforms will make il impos-
sible for officers with authority to
review courts-martial findings to or
DER new trials after a man has been
found not guilty, or 10 increase the
sentence imposed hy the court "un-
loss sueh sentence is less than the
sentence fixed bv law for
the offense or offensos upon which
a conviction has been had"
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
EXTRA SESSION LOOKS
NOW A CERTAINTY
GOVERNOR FLOODED WITH
LETTERS.
Ratification of Susan B. An
thony Amendment May Be
Included in Call.

Nashville, July 30.-(Special)- I'm
dications today are that Gov. Rob
erts will issue the call forS the extra
session of the general assembly be-
fore many hours have passed.
The governor is being submerged
in a flood of letters from all over
Tennessee urging the immediate call
ing of the legislature to act on the
question Of providing poll taxes for
women.
In the event of an extra session
occasion may be taken to ratify the
Susan B. Anthony amendment to
the federal constitution.
Steps have already been taken
here to provide for the extension of
Nashville's city limits before the
1920 census. Several other impor-
tant matters may be taken up at
the session also, including an extern
sion of the corporate limits of the
city of Chattanooga.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30

INTERPOLATED
In Chamber on Disputed
Points in Versailles Peace
Treaty.
BELGIUM ACCEPTS TERMS
German Kameruns in South
Africa Ceded to France
by England.
BELGIUM ACCEPTS TERMS

Paris. Tuesday, July 29.-Premier
Clemenceau. accompanied by Capt,
Andre Tardieu, attended today's
meeting of the committee of the
chamber of deputies, which is con-
sidering the peace treaty, and brought
written replies to questions formu-
lated by the committee regarding the
left bank of the Rhine.
Capt. Tardieu read the replies,
after which there was lengthy dis
cussion, NJ. Clemenceau amplifyinG
the replies. He recalled that the
government had presented a memo
randum to the peace conference set
ting forth at length the reasons why
France should hold the Rhine bridge
heads. The document, presented
Feb. 81, was discussed until the mid
die of March. At that date the
French government, in agreement
with the allies, combined various
military systems which fully assured
the safety of France and which,
taken one with the other, were equiv
alent to occupation of the bridge
heads. These measures were ac-
cepted by the peace conference and
incorporated III lut lltdlS' III huu'-
ton to them came later treaties with
England and the United States guar
anteeing immediate and unlimited
military aid.
The premier and Capt. Tar
dieu, answering various objections
raised regarding the rapidity of pos
sible German concentration and the
distance of the military help of the
allies, pointed out that it was irRpos-
sible to admit that an army reduced
to 100000 men could, even in the
face of unusual indifference of the
world in general and France in par
ticular, be raised to several million
men. armed and equipped ready for
war. The hearing of NJ. Clemenceau
lasted three hours.
Accepts Terms.
Baron Kurt Won Lersner, chief OF
the German peace delegation, has
sent a letter to the peace conference
accepting the procedure proposed by
the allies for the transfer by Ger
many to Poland of the districts at
tributed to Poland by the peace
treaty.
Added TO France.
viscount Miner, British colonial
secretary, and Henri Simon, French
sninisterEof ce4onfess 1haVe Signed an
agreement at London ceding to
France the whole of the German
Kameruns, in South Africa, except
a strip adjoining Nigeria, which will
go to England, the Petit Journal
stated today The port of Dula and
most of Togoland, including LONE,
will go to France, IT was said.
Recommend Ratification.
London, July 30,-The foreign
committee of the Belgian chamber Of
deputies today recommended the rat
ifcation of the peace treaty by the
chamber. said News Agency dis
patch from Brussels.