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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07
SHAKES
VILLAS AL|B|
Prosecutor Relies on Mrs.
Thompson as Star Witness In
Dynamite Staying.

With his own wife turned against
him and declaring herself willing to
help send him to the gallows, Guy
Vernon (Villa) Thompson, forty
year-old laborer, was placed on 'tri0
for his life at Rockville today,
charged with triple murder.
He is charged with having dyna-
mited the cabin Of James Bolton,
located in the. woods one and one
half miles from Germantown, Mont
gomery county. Md. Bolton. Mrs,
Hattie Shipley, his housekeeper; and
her two babies were blown from
their beds. The children died few
hours later, and Bolton succumbed
the following day.
SPED BAREFOOT FOR AID.
Mrs Shipley, blown many feet.
crouched in the ruins of the home
until daybreak: then sped barefoot
two miles through the woods and
waded an icy stream for aid.
Apparently she was not even made
i'll by her terrible experience. But
the results became cruelty evident a
few weeks later.
At the time Of the explosion Mrs.
Shipley was soon to become mother.
The baby was born-dead. Doctors
said it's death was due directly to the
shock sustained.
A speed record was made in getting
jury. Feeling has run high in the
case: so high there were threats oil
lynching. and Thompson had to be
| taken to the Baltimore county jail,
| for protection. AS result, two panels
were called for the trial.
LEAVES SICK BED,
| But they were not necessary. Less
| than an hour after Thompson had
| formally pleaded mot guilty. the
| Jury was chosen, and States Attorney
| Thomas Dawson, up out OF a sick bed
lfor the trial. was outlining tho prose
fcution. 49,,
The first witness, Crner Forman,
first to reach the Bolton home after
the explosion, was on the stand be-
| fore noon.
There will be twenty-nine witnesses;
most of them for the State. The main
deponent on whom kawson counts 70
send villa" to the gallows, is Mrs.
| Thompson.
1t was due to conflicting stories told
by her and her husband which was
| largely responsible for villa" being
held. At that time, she was trying
to protect him.
Ever since the inquest she has been
| in custody; not allowed to see her
husband nor any of his relatives. And
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D.C,F|REH HEADS FEAR is. WILL
TO Be GR|LLED SWAY WORLD
Japanese Feel American Naval
Plans Propose Dictatorship,
Says Nipponese Diplomat.

LONDON. Jan. 7.-"I believe that
Secretary of the Navy Daniels is a
genuinely religious, peace-loving
man, like most of the Americans,
but he has set out to construct a
fleet so strong that America will be
able to dictate her new conception
of right to all the other nations Of
the world"
This declaration was made by Baron
Hayashi, Japanese ambassador to
Great Britain. in an interview printed
in the Daily Telegraph today.
The japanese ambassador pointed
out that II the new japanese naval
program were completed. the Japa-
nese fleet would equal only half the
strength OF the American navy.
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DEBS' RELEASE NEAR,
PALMER INTIMATES

NEW YORK, Jan. THE re-
lease OF Eugene Debs and other
political prisoners is promised by
Attorney General Palmer in a let
ter received by John Sullivan,
president of the Central Trades
and Labor Council, Sullivan stated
today.
He said Mr.. Palmer declared in
his letter that the Socialist lead
er and others would be released
as soon as the Attorney General
has fulfilled certain technical
requirements"
Attorney General Palmer will
take up the case OF Eugene V.
Debs, Socialist leader, within a
few days, with a view to making
recommendations as to appeals for
a pardon for Debs, the Department
OF Justice announce today.
The Attorney Generals office
denied that the Attorney General
had written a letter to Sullivan
promising the release Of Debs. It
was stated that he has written
Sullivan stating that the case Of
Debs would be reconsidered.
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TODAY

President to go over and hear
what has been decided, it is now
proposed to send representatives
over here to see Mr.. Harding as
soon as he is inaugurated and dis
cuss world peace.
THIS is the place for the Presi-
dent OF the United States to dis
cuss public questions. To ask the
United States to be tied up in a
League Of Nations, controlled
abroad, is a prcposterous notion,
eliminated by tie last election. For
Europe to come over here and tell
us what plans she has for reform
ing herself, and stopping the wars
that have lasted a thousand years,
is reasonable enough
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procedure that will be followed In all
probability IL to turn over the evil
dencc to Elmer A. Geran, Federal dis
trict attorney at Newark, and II WiIl
then be his duty to take the case to
the grand jury.
MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
Developments yesterday tend t.
show that any move toward the de-
portation OF DenseI on the ground
that he Is an undesirable alien is very
unlikely. Although in this country
eleven years he has never taken out
citizenship papers. II was pointed
out and verified at the office of the
Dutch consulate in this city that Dem
sci IL not n citizen of Holland since,
under the provisions of a law passed
in 1898, any Dutch citizen away from
Holland for ten years loses his citi-
zenship. The former dominic is there
fore a man without a country.
1t was said at the office OF Mr..
Stone that the deportation of an alien
on grounds of immortality was in
tended to apSfy only in cases involv-
ing an element OF CONNIE alism and
that such would not apply in the case
OF Densel.
MRS. HANNENBURG TALKS.
In addition to announcing. that it
was her intention to bring, suit
against Densel. Mrs. Hanncnberg ad-
mitted a swarm OF reporters to her
home and made a statement bitterly
deploring events that have occurred
since her daughter fed with the
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Mra Franzen signed a paper which
reads:
"On the 4th day OF January, 1921,
hereby waive all claims to property
or estate or good will of Philip Fran
zen."
GAVE CHECK FOR 500.
Then. Franzen says. he was forced
by the pair to sign a check for 800.
which was Immediately cashed at a
nearby store. Then Mrs Franzen
packed her suitcase and the couple
left for Highland Park, n suburb OF
Chicago. Mrs. Franzen told her nus
band they intended to make their fu-
ture home In Philadelphia. She re-
fused to take her two-year-old soi..
Kemp, for whom. according to Fran
zen. she had shown a dislike for the
last six months.
Franzen resigned himself to the be-
lief that he had been sacrificed In
order that a husband and wife might
be reunited. But on Wednesday
morning came a letter from Mrs. Au-
ther warning him that she had dis
covered letters which led her to be-
lieve Mrs. Franzen was attempting t.
steal her husband. He now believes
he was made the dupe OF framed"
Enoch Arden plot concocted by Au-
ther and Mrs Franzen.
Auther, whose mind Is believed I.
have been affected by injuries re-
ceived In an explosion while making
chemical experiments. has been a man
of mystery even to his wife. They
met while working at the Du Pont
powder plant at Pompton Lakes. ".
J., and were married In Jersey City
in 1918 Auther claimed to have the
blood of spanish nobility in his veins.
His mother wss Spanish, he told his
30. ana Ma Gather q Frcnctmsn.
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FRANCE CLAIMS EDICT
WAS GIVEN FOR ALLIES

The French embassy has informed
the state Department that the recent
warning given to Germany by france
was for the good OF all of the allies,
day.
Despite the statement OF the French
embassy, 1t was indicated at the
state Department that this Govern
ment will oppose any further occupa-
tion OF German territory by France.
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Weinberger said that he had drawn
the papers and tina, they would be
filed with the Supreme Court at Tren-
ton today, the case to be tried at
Paterson.
Although complaint in the new suit
was not made public, the attorney
said the basis of the suit would be
permanent disgrace and humiliation
inflicted upon the parents as well as
the loss of their daughters services
Nothing has developed OF the report
ed intention OF Mrs. Densel to start
a $4,000 alienation suit.
MAY INVOKE MANN ACT.
The Federal investigation into the
alleged relations between the former
pastor and Miss Hannenterg was
completed today, and the evidence
gathered is ready for presentation to
the Federal attorney. according to
Frank y. Stone, head OF the Depart
ment of Justice in New Jersey.
There has apparently been tech
nical violation of the Mann White
Slave Law" said Mr.. Stone at his
office in Newark, but i cannot go
into the details or that FRANK
Holmes of my stan. who conducted
the investigation and questioned the
principals in the case, has submitted
a .,comptete tes report to me and II VIII
be acted on.
"There are two methods OF action.
The first would be to forward the
evidence to the United States Com
missioner, obtain a warrant for Den
sells arrest, and then submit the
matter to the grand jury. But the
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Franzen told how Pierre Paul
Auther. Chicago chemist, appeared At
his home last Tuesday night, forced
him at the point of an automatic
pistol TO sign away all rights as the
husband of the woman to whom he
had been married for ten years, Mrs,
Charlotte Franzen, and then eloped
with her.
as to what had become OF Auther
since he deserted his wife and baby
girl New Year Day, leaving them
penniless in their home here. A war
rant charging the chemist with wife
and child abandonment was issued
during the day. Auther and Mrs.
Franzen are believed to be in Phila-
delphia.
LEyELED PISTOL AT HIM.
When Auther appeared at the Fran
zen home he represented himself as
Pierre c. De Voy. lie backed Fran
zen into the dining room and forced
him TO sit opposite at the table while
The pi.tol was kept leveled at him.
"This woman is Charlotte De Noy,
NV lawful wife, whom ! married In
Australia eleven years ago. Auther
aid 'T have searched for her for
ten years and now l mean to have
her dead or alive
"Then my wife began to plead with
me-" Franzen explained today ut
isn't my fault, Phil, she said. i
thought he was dead. You might as
well let me 60. He'll shoot me IL you
don't | told her she might as well
GO as ehe hadn't been a dutiful wife
TO me since last summer. The man
then showed papers at us and asked
ua both IN algn,"
The document signed by Fran,er
waIyes all claims against Charlotte
De Noy. her posAsslAns or chattels
and estate Of az nAEA
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Mrs. Mary Woodson Shippey the
writer's wife, is slowly recovering
here from nervous prostration which
came upon her after her husband told
her he wished a divorce so he could
marry the Babin girl. Mrs. Shippey
also has a son. Lee. Jr. Because of
the little boy she refuses to sever the
marriage tie.
Madeleine has christened her son
Georges Sbippey. He was born In
Kansas City after deportation pro-
ceedings had been instituted against
her. When Mile. Babin came here
from France she brought her family.
Her younger sister. Georgette, who ia
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still here, was barried about a year
ago.
While immigration officials at
Washington were considering the
case Of Mile. Babin. Shippey went to
Los Angeles, where he worked on a
newspaper UP to a short time ago,
Monterey. where the two now are. is
one hundred miles below the Texas
border.
Lee Shippey volunteered as a Y.
NJ. c. A. worker after the United
States entered the war. He was
sent to France and billeted in Paris.
One day he visited the American
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INDIANS SEARCH WILDS FOR LOST FL|ERS

DRINCIPALS in the sensational love triangle of Lee L.
Shippey, Missouri poet and newspaperman and dur
ing the war Y. M. G. A. worker in France who has
deserted his wife and is living in Mexico with Made
leine Babin pretty French girl whom he met abroad
and later persuaded to to this country when he
learned that she was to become mother.
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GERMAN SCIENTIST HAS
new CANCER SERUM

BERLIN, Jan. a new serum
treatment for cancer has just been
announced before the Hamburg Acad-
emy OF Science by Dr. Rollin, ono OF
Germany's leading cancer experts
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Husband Stumbled Out
OF Wife by Reuoluer

CHICAGO, Jan. 7.-One of the weirdest triangles of
police Ian Enoch Arden story with odd dramatic
twist and gunpay its cmaXwas revealed yesterday by
Philip NJ Franzen chief decorator for the University of
Wisconsin at Madison.
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CORK'S MAYOR
HERO 0CREW.
Sailors on Liner West Cannon
Believed to Have Aided
St0WaWay.

DUBLIN. jan. IA two-hour bst-
tie was fought at Dungsnnon. Csun-
~ Tyrone, today between q strong
detachment Of police snd Sim Fein-
ers, hut the extent OF casualties II
unknown.
The ixhtinR started during . rnie
by policemen for arms and ana
munition. There were heavy seiE-
ures. including formulas for making
explosives.
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Poet Deserts Wife For
Grille Met inFrance;
Their Child With Them

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Jan. 1.-THE love of Lee Shippey,
Missouri poet for Madeleine Babin French girl has
suited in the two departing from the United States and 60
ing to live in Monterey, Mexico.
With them is their little son, born out of wedock.
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COMES TO WARRINGTON.

Within a few days he will go 10
Washington to tell the Committee OF
One Hundred, the friends of Ireland
who are gathering evidence in connec-
ton with the Irish fight for freedom
OF the burning of Cork and of other
events In tho Irish drama which ne
has witnessed.
As soon as he was released the
Lord Mayor threw of an old serge
suit he had been wearing and donned
striped dark trousers, a cutaway coat
a vest with a white cord about the
collar. and stiff shirt. One article
he did not discard. That was an i'm
mensc gold chain which the Lord
Mayors of Cork have worn for hun
drcds of years. 1t is composed of
many parallel series of links and
stretches across the vest.
The Lord Mayor. the immediate
successor of two men who have died
unnatural deaths as a result of their
espousal of the cause of Irish free
dom, Is romantic and a dignified
fgure.> whether in the loosely hang
ing blue serge or in the cutaway and
striped trousers sharply creased. In
both he shows that he has much in
common with the plain people OF his
land. In neither does he show snob-
bishness or any sign that his head IS
likely to be turned by the role he Is
playing. At all times he seems to
have in mind tho possibility that he
may die as did his predecessors.
There is a suggestion OF youthful
fair for adventure about the manner
in which he stands, when 1rishmen
come to talk to him. with his left
hand in his trousers pocket, his right
grasping cigar. his head turned
slightly toward his interviewer's lips,
and his body leaning backward from
tho waist, as If he were aware. and
not without pride, OF that ancient
chain he wears.
The chain which has been worn by
so many Irish lord mayors came to
him from McSwiney, who starved
himself for ireland. and McSwiney
got il from MacCurtain, who, the
Irish say. was murdered by the Brit
ish in his own homo in the presence
of his family.
O'Callaghan is in looks. bearing,
even speech, exactly like countless
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An urgent invitation 10 Lord
Mayor Daniel O'CaIlaghan OF Cork,
to come Mt once to Wsshin&ton ior
q conference. was teIeEraphed TO
him mt Norfolk this morning by the
members Of the Irish Diplomatic
Mission herr. The lord mayor was
asked 20 take = boat from Norfolk
this evening which would bring Nm
to Washington mt 1880 o'clock to-
morrow morning.
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Warrant Issued For
Errant Pastor; Mann
Act Violation CHARGED

PASsAIC, N. j., Jan. IA warrant for the arrest OF
the Rev Cornelius Dense pastor of the First Neither
lands Reformed Church, issued today by United
States Commissioner Joseph A. Delaney Dense charged
with violation of the Mann white slave act.
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PASSAIC, n j., jan IA chapter added to
the multiple troubles of the Rev. Cornelius Dense former
pastor the First Netherlands Reformed Church. today
when Marnus Hannenberg and his daughter Trina who is
suing Dense for $25O0 appeared at the office of their at
orney Joseph j. Wenberger and asked that he prepare
papers in $4,000 suit against the former dominic in behalf
of Mr. and Mrs Hannenberg.
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LONDON. Jan. 7.-Esmos de Val
ern, according to the WestmInster
Gazette today, has been invited 20
London to confer with Premier
Lloyd George. on Irish pence. This
report was r'dicuied by Sim Fein
leaders, who declared that, instead
Of inviting de Valera 10 London, tne
British government IL attempting
to put him under arrest.
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The European Mohsm,, uds
about decided to come to the noun
tain. instead of vhistling for the
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Jan. T.
Daniel J. O'Callaghan, the twenty
nine-year-old lord mayor of Cork,
who arrived in America Tuesday a
stowaway on the steamer West
Cannon, and who was told that he
would be deported, has been paroled
in the custody of Joseph j. Law
less, his lawyer, and it is expected
that he will leave today or tomor
row for Ncu, York .--z-. r-.s--.~--.s- ~ ? {. -
Imperial Valley press., 1921-05-23
HIGH FREIGHT COST
is MENACE TO STATE

"Save the west from transcontinen-
tai freight rates so high they threat
en- the Pacific Coast with ruin.
This is the eXhortation of &. Harold
Powell, executive of the California
Fruit Growers association and chair
man of the Producers Transportation
committee.
Mr.. Powell in q statement issued
through the State Market commission
says it is difficult to estimate the
damage which will be inflicted upon
Southern California by continued ap-
plication of present freight rates,
which are making agriculture and hor-
ticulture Improbable, and therefore
undermining the basic prosperity OF
the Pacific Coast.
Mr., Powell asserts there is but one
way to obtain lower freight rates-by
arousing public sentiment. This, suf-
ficiently aroused, he saws, will compel
action by congress which will have as
its sequence orders by the interstate
commerce commission reducing the
complained of rates.
The Producers Transportation COM
mittee is composed of the heads of the
Industries most seriously affected by
the present rates.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-05-23
FAIR AND WARMER
SAYS WEATHER MAN

The weather man says today thar it
is going to be fair and warmer in the
Imperial Valley tomorrow.
Ii is hoped by everyone interested in
the successful handling of the great
cantaloupa crop of the valley, that the
weather man does not fall down OIL his
pr0gnostication.
The valley yesterday experienced
spring showers. TIE rain began fall
ing about 0 a. m.. and continued inter
mittently throughout the day. The
rainfall at TO point in the valley was
more than enough to be recorded as a
trace" The showers were the first
since the 9th inst, and brought the
seasons total up to 3 inches as against
4.55 inches for the same date last
year.
Storms in the mountains for the
past Ecw days have materially lowered
the temperature in the valley and has
retarded the ripening of cantaioupes,
honeydews and watermelons. Toma-
toes, summer squash and lettuce have
also felt the effects of the change in
the weather, but with bright sun and
warmer weather the maturing of all
crops should be materially expedited.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-05-23
PROMINENT MAN
FROM BORDER IN
JAIL FOR DEBT
Enrique Terydzas, MericaH The
0ter Olcner, Can't Pay Money
BCTFoWed of Casey Abbott.

Enrique Terrazas, brother of Fran
CISCO ierrazas, secretary of state for
the Northern District of Lower Cali
lorna, IS in the El Centre county iail,
under the arrest and bail act, for fail
ure to pay a note Of $4,000 due Navor
Casey Abbott of CaleXico. 1t is also
alleged that Enrique Terrazas at
tempted 10 conceal his assets in order
to eVade payment of the note, which
originated in q land deal in Mexico.
Terrazas' bondsmen last Thursday
notified the sheriff that they would no
longer be responsible for the custody
Of the defendant, and Terrazas sur
rendered to the authorities and has
been in Jail since that time. 1t was
alleged at the time that he was at
tempting to leave the country and es
cape payment of the aote, thereby com
9elllng his bonGsmen to suffer.
Terrazas was admitted to bail ten
days ago. and an effort was made to
settle the case out of court, which was
unsuccessful, it is said and was in
directly responsible for the action of
his Dondsmen. He has been engaged
in the theater business in Mexicali
for several years, and in 1919 nego-
tiated the lean with Abbott to finance
an agricultural deal in which he be-
came interested.
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HONOR PAID TO
AMERICAN. DEAD
OBv Associated Press)

NEW YORK, May 23.-Presdent
Harding today laid wreath on the
coffin OF the first American soldier 20
die on German soil at a funeral cere-
mony for 5000 war dead held on the
army transport pier at Ho00ken, n. J.
With voice husky and eyes c'mmed
with tears the President gazed over
the long rows of flag draped coffins,
and said: "A hundred thousand sor-
rows are touching my heart at this
sight. 1t must not be again. God
grant that it will not be. | do not
pretend to say that millenial days will
come when there will be no more wars
but l wish for a nation so powerful
that none day provoke its wrath"
When the president had finished his
brief address he stepped forward and
stopped in front of the coffin that had
been selected to symbolic the army
of dead surrounding him and laid upon
it his wreath of roses and orchids.
There came at that instant a moment
of silence which was as if the great
piers all along the water front bust
ling with life had been turned into a
comb