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The Washington times., 1920-10-02
ADAMS CONFESSION
NEAR, IA|LERSSAY
Man Tried for Sandy Spring
Bank Staying at Odds
With Companion.

FREDERICK, Md, Oct. FL can
not be hanged and go down into hell.
What would my family do?"
The above exclamation, cried out in
the night by Clarence f. Adams to
John w. Mitchell, in the adjoining
cell, and Mitchelrs reply: Don't
bother me with your troubles. l have
troubles enough Of my own" have led
officials at the Jail to believe that
Adams and Mitchell, who were tried
this week for the killing of Francis
Hallowell and the looting of the
bank at Sandy Spring. April rs, are
"on the outs"
Adams. according to officials at tho
Jail IL expected to confess. He has
shown a decided weakening of spirit
in the last few days.
Mitchell, according to Detectives
Peter Bradley, and Joseph Dough
erty, has accused Adams OF "squeal-
ing on him." and the detectives admit
that Adams told him, that Mitchell
had planned a bank robbery similar
to the one at Sandy Spring.
Verdicts on the cases of Adams and
Mitchell have been withheld until
after the trial OF "Gunman Joe" PEN
dergrast, who win go on trial Mon
day to answer a similar charge.
Much excitement was created mere
last night. when message was re-
ceived at the jail saying that big
automobile, with curtains drawn and
containing six men was In ambush
on the Gas House Pike"
Deputy Sherin c. w. Ferrar.
Charles A. Taylor. Bart Bruery.
Charles Schauss, and Edward Grogan,
drove to tho designateS spot, followed
by approximately 500 persons.
When they arrived at the pike. the
posse members swooped down on the
car to hnd that II was nothing more
belliRerent than an auto truck, the
sole occupants of which we're q
couple of gypsies.
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ance was on August 13. when he at
tended a gathering at the Pittsfield
Park Club to hear Chauncey NJ. De-
pew in his Friday the Thirteenth"
address.
Senator Crane was born in Dalton,
in the Berkshires, April %, 1883. The
FAMILY name was already a famous
one, made so by the success of the
Crane paper mills founded by Mr..
Cranes grandfather, Zenas Crane, TO
the conduct OF which Mr.. Crane and
his brothers succeeded.
The mills have long held contracts
for the manufacture Of United States
and Canadian currency paper. from
which bank notes are made. and 1t
was Zenas Crane, who introduced the
silk fibers to render counterfeiting
more difficult.
Winthrop Murray Crane received
his education in the public schools
and at Williston Seminary. East
hampton. He was net college man.
but in later life received honorary de-
grees from Williams College and Har-
ward. At II years Of age he went into
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MAYOR
|THDA|NT|ES
Too Weak to Speak, McSwiney,
on Fifty-flrst Day, Shakes
Head, mo"
FORCIBLE FEEDING DENIED
Food Always Within Reach, But
No Compulsion Used-End
Believed Near.

LONDON, Oct. g. A last appeal
to accept food was made to Terence
McSwiney in his cell at Brixton jail
early today by his physician. The
doctor warned Nthe hunger-striking
Lord Mayor of Cork that he was sink
ing fast and begged him to take
nourishment.
McSwiney, so weak that he could
not even speak, merely shook his
| head.
ON FIFTY-FIRsT FAST DAY.
The prisoner began the fifty-nrst
! day of his hunger strike today
Within easy reach of the patient
there was again placed early today a
veritable banquet-no rich and heavy
food, but tempting bits of nourish-
ment just sustaining enough to give
him a new lease of life, and not too
heavy to disrupt his system.
The patient is so close to death that
the slightest exertion. even of his
masticating organs. would bring on
coughing spell or heart attack that
would rip of the thin thread his
spirit Is clinging to life.
McSWiney's endurance has come to
ba looked upon as twentieth cen
tury miracle by the whole scfentinn
world of Europe. All the reports and
rumors that he was being clandes-
timely fed have been dennitely ex-
ploded, not only by unbiased visitors
to his cell. who spent long hours with
him in close observation. but by the
unimpeachable word of famous doc
tors.
The last of these to make the posi-
tive statement that McSwiney's fast
was a straight" one was Sir Norman
Moore. noted specialist, whose dictum
dispelled the doubts even OF the most
SIX keptical.
Never since Lord Mayor McSwiney
was first locked up in the historic
Brixton gaol has the atmosphere been
filled with such virtual certainty that
his death is but a few hours at hand.
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Ex-senator Crane Dies
Of Illness That Began
At Rally For Coolidge
Former Mass. Governor Passes
Away at Denton Home, Sus-
rounded BY Family.

DALTON, Mass, Oct. 2.-Winthrop
Murray Crane, former governor OF
Massachusetts and former senior uni
ted States Senator from this state.
died at his home At o'clock today.
The former Senator collapsed at the
ceremonies of notification for Cover
nor Coolidge. Republican nominee for
Vice President and had been Ill since
that time. He announced shorty be-
fore the Republican convention, which
he attended as a Big -Four delegate,
that he would retire from active poll
tics Immediately upon the conclusion
OF his term As national committee
man. g.
Members Of his family and DR.. Brace
w. Paddock, of Pitsfeld, were with
him when he died. Death was due TO
heart trouble and general break
down. In the words of Senator Crane
himself. something gave out"
MANY PAY TRIBUTE.
Statements of tribute TO the mem
sections OF the country today. Gov
ernor Coolidge's tribute was "a
great man has passed"
Senator Crane had undergone con-
siderable strain at the Republican
convention. q few weeks before, and
standing in the hot sun before Gov
ernor Coolidge's house he collapse 4.
He rallied. however. Returning to
his home here In an automobile, the
Senator suffered Ave or six fainting
spells, followed by more the next day.
He insisted on going to the office Of
his paper mills as usual, but for days
after that suffered from sink ing
spells during some OF which he lost
consciousness. -
Early in September. the Senator'S
condition had reached the point whefe
specialists were called. and .on the
night OF Septe nber 8. his family was
gathered at the bedside. fearing the
worst. Among the heart specialists
called in consultation with DIR. Pad
dock. were DR. Hugh Williams and
DIR. John jerks Thomas. of Boston.
and DR.. Frank r. Meara. of New
York.
Senator Cranes last public appear
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ATTORNEY
SUES FOR 100000
Edward A. Ryan, Arrested for
HeckIing Harding in Balti-
more, Files Suit.

BALTIMORE, Oct 2.-As an after
math of the ejectment and arrest of
Attorney Edward A. Ryan, Of Wash
ington, last Monday night at the Re-
publican rally at Fifth Regiment Ar
mory, Ryan came to Baltimore yes
terday and engaged the services OF
Attorney Eugene O'Dunne for the
filing of civil suit in the sum of
500, 900 for damages.
Senator Harding, in Marion. Ohio,
last night made public telegram he
had sent to Ryan, expressing regret
for the latter's arrest and amplifying
his (the Senator's) stand on the
League of Nations.
The suit will be filed today in Bal
timore city court. The names OF the
defendants. as mentioned in the decla-
ration, are Galen l.. TAFT individually
and as chairman Of the Republican
State central committee; John ]. Han
son. Robert d. Carter. as marshal OF
police; Leroy Eagan and Albert Hol-
land. patrolmen. The charge on
which Mr. Ryan bases his suit is that
of "malicious prosecution and false
imprisonment"
Ryan was one OF the audience at
the armory when Senator Harding,
Republican nominee for President.
made his address. Ryan, who was
standing in the east gallery, inter
rupted the Senator to ask IL he pro-
posed to scrap the League Of Nations
and whether he followed Senator
Johnson In his opinions OF the league
This question brought from Sena-
tor Harding a declaration that he did
not favor the league, and he invited
Ryan to come to the platform to put
his questions, the latter started to
comply, but before he reached the
platform he was arrested and taken
to northwestern police station, where
he was locked up for about an hour
before he could secure bail and de-
posit collateral for his appearance
the next day before the police magis-
dismissed.
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Wilson Gave Japan Islands
Despite Navy's Warning

How President Wilson, in the face of impressive
warning from his administration, surrendered to
Japan the peace conference the Pacific Island out
posts possession of which might decide war between
1t transpired that on the of the assembling OF
the peace conference at Paris the general board OF the
navy prepared memorandum setting forth the menace
to the United States of permitting Japan to retain
possession of the adrone Caroline and Marshall groups
of islands in the North Pacific which belonged to Ger
many prior to the war.
The memorandum pointed out that these islands
constitute behind which the Philippines could
be seized and envelop the American island of Guam the
site of a prospective great American naval base.
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The scene and circumstances or the
arrests recall pages from Dickens,
Three de etectives working on the pier
robberies were passing the salomone
garage and stables on INLAY street,
Brooklyn. when they heard a noise of
hammering. Peeking through knot
hole, they saw Mrs Salomone taking
bolts OF cloth out OF a case and hand
ing them to her four boys. ranging in
age from . to IL.
WORK IN SILENCE.
The work went on silently. The
youngsters seemed well trained and
responded to their mothers every
cue. Not a word was spoken. When
the woman had completed her job,
she gave a sign and the boys, laden
with mysterious looking packages,
tiptoed over a bridge to the rear Of
the garage to their apartment, fol-
lowed by the woman.
As they started to enter, the arms
Of the law reached out of the shadows
Of dawn, and mother and her fve
boys found themselves under arrest.
They promptly confessed. according
to the police. The thefts included
articles of all kinds, notably type
writer materials and manicure sets.
Entering the apartment, the detec-
tives found on all sides neatly piled
up stolen goods, including many
typewriters. Many Of the stores were
to be shipped to Norway today. Alto
gether, the value Of the booty stored
up in the apartment was estimated
at $50, 900.
When the officers penetrated fur
ther into the mystery fat" they
heard violent coughing. A mans
voice struggled with choking. 'An-
gelina" he was heard to call In
stead of his wife, whose report he
evidently suspected, the detectives
entered and placed him under arrest
But he was too sick to be moved.
Pnuemonia is threatening his life
An officer stayed at his bedside.
salsmone L. rated In the Italian
colony as a millionaire.
A few minutes later, the mother
and her four sons were hustled into
a patrol wagon. Right behind 1t
rumbled another police motor filled
with. the stolen goods. At the police
station. mother and boys wept and
told their story.
Between SIS. 900 and $50. 900 of the
goods seized in the Salomone home
belonged to the New York Forward
ing Company.
Mrs. Salomone, asked by the police
why she engaged in these thefts
though her wealthy husband WAS able
to supply the family with all they
desired. told the old story of the lure
Of "'eaay money" A few months ago.
she said some one took $4,000 worth
of goods out Of case In her hus-
bands care. The thief was never
caught It looked easy and she tried
II herself. Once she had begun. she
could not stop. Her boys proved val
liable companions in crime.
The woman and her children will
be arraigned today.
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The girl. who gave her name to the
police as Anna Miller. with a ficti-
tious address, and who is a war work
er in washington from New York, is
said to have three sisters living in
Washington.
Mrs. Nina c. Van Wrinkle. head OF
the Women's Bureau. who made the
arrest, and who yesterday said that
she could not Identify the man, admit
ted this morning that he was Rey-
nolds Hit, former minister to Pan
anna, and that he was SO registered
on her books, In addition to the name
OF "John Johnson" which yesterday
was given to reporters as the name
the man arrested had given.
1t now becomes known that Mr.
Hit was on his way to Hot Springs
when he stopped over in Washington
Thursday evening to fill a dinner en-
gaEement with the Washington war
worker.
Mrs. Van Wrinkle. who with one OF
her assistants. Miss Schofield. was
seated near the couple in the willard
dining room placed them under ar
rest when she saw them drinking
whiskey from a silver flask.
"T can't see what all the excite
ment's about" Mrs. Van Wrinkle said
this morning Here a mans arrested
for having a flask with less than a
gill of whiskey in It, and | Am be-
.iegcd by rcports--forty-on OF them.
I didn't know there were so many re-
porters in Washington.
"Mr. Hit wasn't angry, and was
awfully polite when i arrested him.
He merely tried to make me believe
that was doing something foolish.
He argued that he had right to
drink in his home, and that the Will
lard dining-room at that minute hap
pencd to be his home. But. of course.
I couldn't see IL that way"
Before his appointment as minister
to Panama Mr.. Hit was third secre-
tary to the American embassy In
Paris, second secretary to the Amer
scan embassy at Berlin, and Secretary
TO the embassy at Rome. He Is
graduate of Yale and has an LII. B.
from Harvard.
He is a member OF the Metropolitan.
the University and Chevy Chase
clubs. He has a home in this city
which Ia now closed and another
home at Mt. Morris, III.
Mr.. Hit forfeited his bond OF $40
and the girl her bond Of 50 when
they failed to appear In court yester-
day morning,
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ENGLAND HOGS
|NEAR EAST OIL
Mandate Restriction on Foreign
investments Followed BY
Huge British Ventures.
BY w. II. ATKINS.
International News Service.

A sidelight on this Governments
controversy with Great Britain over
the latter's right to restrict invest
ments in oil lands in so-called man
date countries came to the notice OF
officials today in the report OF
American financial advisers In Lon
don announcing that the British
Government had invested $25, ,0O0, 900
In Persian oil properties and had ex-
tended her control over other large
Industrial projects in the Near East
500 900 900 INVESTED.
Recent British investments in the
near east area. the reports stated.
approximate s10O.0O0.OOO.
Further extension of the British oil
monopoly in Persia, and reports that
the government has laid plans for
huge expenditures in the same direc-
tion in the near future. were con-
sidered highly significant BY officials
both of the Treasury and State De-
partments.
The British Governments latest
Persian investment represents n sub
stantial block of the stock In the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The
amount OF government capital SO In
vested. II was said. has been 20 placed
that the government position will re-
main dominant In so far as the Per-
sian company's policies are concerned.
b The move here is Interpreted an
an enect by England 10 tighten
further her grip upon the available
oil properties, as against the pos
sibility OF encroachment by other
foreign investors.
TIGHTENs GRIP ON OIL.
British investments also are being
increased in the oil lands of Turkey,
the British Government having bought
500 900 worth OF the stock of the
Turkish Petroleum Company. Gov
ernmental backing upon a big scale
in other industrial projects in the
near east including sugar. dyes. nickel
shipping. and cellulose plants, also
are included in the expenditures re-
ported from London.
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lt)O[UMNADE
CADET LEADER
17-Year.0Id Central High
Student Is Named
3 Colonel of Corps.

Robert Coumbe Ludlum. seventeen
High School, today was appointed
colonel of the Washington High
School Cadet Corps. Benjamin Simon,
Eastern High School. was named
ment. The appointment of lieutenant
colonel for the first regiment will be
announced next week.
Announcements &c the appointments
were made today by stephen Il.
Kramer, assistant superintendent OF
schools who Is in charge of the cadet
corps. The appointments followed
competitive examination held last
week.
Ludlum is the son of Samuel s.
Ludlum, an employe of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing. and lives at
S7OO Connecticut avenue northwest
He will be eighteen years old next
May
Ludlum was sergeant major of the
first regiment of the cadets last year.
He has been a member of the cadet
corps for the past three years. Lud-
lum attended the f. " Brown and
John Eaton graded schools.
Simon Ia the son of Max Simon and
lives at 1911 Nichols avenue south
east He will be eighteen years old
next June. He was sergeant major
of the cadet brigade last year and
has been a member OF the corps for
three years.
He at one time attended the Van
Buren, and Ketcham graded schools.
Appointments of captains, lieuten-
ants and commissioned officers
will be made on October 8. The regi-
mental officers will be named Octo-
Ter z.
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STACKER BERGDOLL
IN SEEN IN JERSEY

NEWTON. ". J., Oct 2.-Freo-
holder Robert M. Smith. OF SusssN
county, reported the sheriff OF Sussex
county that he saw Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, the wealthy Philadelphia
draft dodger. in this vicinity at 10
o'clock this morning.
Smith said that Bergdoll was driv-
ing an automobile rapidly on the
road to Hackettstown from Andover.
He said he was su surprised at first
sight OF the man that he was not
sure OF the Identification, but that
within a moment after the car passed
he was certain the man at the wheel
was Bergdoll
Smith was In an automobile riding In
the opposite direction when the car In
which he claims to have seen Berg
doll passed him.
The Washington times., 1920-10-02
10000 WELSH OUT
AT COAL MINES
TN ENGLAND

LONDON, Oct. Z.-WOre than
10000 Welsh coal miners struck
today.
They refused TO accept the set
Element which II was believed yes
terdxy would avert the strike,
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LONDON. Oct. 2.-Persistent rumors
that Leon Trotzky. bolshevik war
minister, has been wounded, either at
the front or as a result of an attempt
to assassinate him. are reaching
Copenhagen, according to Central
News dispatch from that city.
The dispatch adds that General
Budenny. famous soviet cavalry COM
msnder, has been arrested, and is held
for court-martial
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FACTORY STRIKE AND
RIOTS In PETROCRAD

IIELSINGFoRS. Oct. Am extern
sive factory strike has broken out In
Petrograd and rioting IL raging in that
city, according to an unconfrmed dis
patch received here early today. Sew
cral commissaries are reported to have
due to the bread shortage.
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REST ORDERED FOR LANE.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Threatened
with a physical breakdown after
seven years OF public life, Franklin
X. Lane, former Secretary of the In
terror, has been ordered by his physl-
clans to take a complete rest, u was
learned today. He has gone to
Bethel, Me.
The Washington times., 1920-10-02
MAN With Flask Was
Ex-U. s. Minister Hit;
Girl Is Still Mystery

Robert Stockwell Reynolds Htt former United States
minister Panama and Guatemala the man-t learned
todaywho Thursday night arrested in company with
a companion for drinking whskey in the dining
of the Willard Hotel is his Hot Springs
The Washington times., 1920-10-02
COAL DEALERS INDICTED.

CHICAGO, Oct. 2.-Dsvid Ritter q
Co, wholesale and retail coal dealers,
were indicted by the Federal grand
Jury today charged with profiteering
in coal Thcy are charged with hav-
ing sold coal at profits ranging from
I5O to $3.50 per ton when Govern
ment regulations allowed only 10
cents per ton profit
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Today
Stone Walls Popular.
Get Your Mountain.
What the Mirror Saw.
Sleep for Digestion.

t-Oy nm nO y OAAOASSsAs~
tcosyught. isssp.
sStsse walls do set . prison nsAs
Nor ir0n bars \ cages
ninAs ianecest and qsiet take
THAI fer ~ hermitage"
More than nfty million minds
innocent and quiet" have taken the
stone and brick walls, asphalt
streets. narrow quarters OF our
cities for their hermitage.
United States census shows that
more than half the people now
live in cities. What is more I'M
portant and frightening, the pop
ulation OF cities is growing seven
and . half times as rapidly as the
population Of the country.
The Creator Of the Universe
who put the first man and woman
in q beautiful garden. and subse-
qucntIy stopped building opera
ttoas on the Tower Of Babel. fore
saw everything. Of course. and
knew that one day. after the apple
had been eaten, the city OF stone
and glass would prove more At
tractive than any beautiful gar
den.
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TROTzKY INJURED;
PLOT IS RUM0RED
Copenhagen Hears Premier's
Wound May Be Result of
Attempt on Life.

LONDON. Oct 2.-Cnpt0re of TO-
OO0 prisoners by the Poles is nn-
nounced I'm todny's official Polish
war communiaue. received here
from Warsaw. The abatement nd<is
TINT the Poles are approaching No
yierOdok.
The Washington times., 1920-10-02
Woman Teaches Sons
To Steal AS Wealthy
Spouse Lies Home III

NEW YORK. Oct. 2.-The wife and four children OF
Angelo Salomone Brooklyn trucking king were arrested
early today and through them the police believe they have
discovered the key to mysterious pier the toang million
dollars in the last six months.
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CHARGES BRIDE "RUNC IN"
SOME EXTRA KIDS; QUITS

NEW YORK. Oct 2.-when William
Rothman, of Brooklyn, took a second
wife two months ago he thought he
was marrying a widow with one child.
with his own four children from a
previous marriage that made FIVE.
But shortly hfterward his second
wife produced three other children,
making a total OF eight. TOO much"
said Rothman, and went to the domes-
tic relations court.
The Rothman home II broken up.
The Washington times., 1920-10-02

Latest Insensou. Method 20 Rsi-e Lost
ye.sels With Ali Their Wealth, In Toner
rsv's sunday nA~A
The Washington times., 1920-10-02

Upu.oaI. Very Dramatic Methods Of Gal
liant Nobl~man to Test Heart Of His Beau-
tiful Countess, In Tomorrow's Sunday
TiaAAA.