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The Washington times., 1922-08-30
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IN SEARCH FOR
BANDITS LOOT
Police Seek 5000 Believed
to Have Been Buried at
A Street House.

While Baltimore and Washington
detectives were searching the prop.
erty at 1886 A street northeast
for $4,000, said to have been
buried by Joseph Hart. alleged
master mind Of the bandit gang
which robbed and shot to death
William B. Norris, paymaster, at
Baltimore, the police unearthed
seven 100-gallon stills.
The stills. the police said, were
not in operation, and, according
to indications, had not been used
for some time. They were turned
over to the revenue authorities.
Detectives John Klein ana John
Mintiens, Of Baltimore. came 20
Washington today following the ar
rest late yesterday Of Mrs. Catherine
Stewart Hart, wife of the alleged
bandit, who is being sought In n
nation wide man-hunt. The woman
was arrested at the A street address.
She was taken to Baltimore last
night. .
II is believed information furnished
the police by Mrs. Hart instigated
the search for buried loot today. In
spector clifford l.. Grant, chief of
detectives, detailed Detectives Charles
warfieid and Vermillion to assist tho
Baltimore detectives.
The Washington detectives had
been shadowing Mrs. Hart for the
last week In an effort to locate Der
husband. Six men are being held
in Baltimore IN connection with the
murder Of Norris and the theft Of the
securities, ,A-
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
DAVID LANDAU,
BUSINESS CONDITION
REPORTED IMPROVED

NEW YORK. Aug. s0.-Despite
the crt,is precipitated by the coal
miners and railroad shopmen's
strikes, the general business condl.
ton is reported improved and the
credit situation unharmed in the
monthly review OF the Federal Re.
serve Bank, out today.
More fundamental conditions
have influenced the credit situation
the review says. For many months
past, increasing commodity prices
and general increase in trade and
Industrial activity have facilitated
the liquidat,o ,on Of many commercial
bank loans Of long standing. At the
same time, investments OF the banks
in Government and other bonds have
steadily increased"
In the last month. the review says
the downward movement in volume
OF commercial loans has ceased,
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
TO-DAY

threw away her bonds when
she had collected the few cou-
pons on a temporary bond.
Millions in temporary bonds are
still outstanding. II you know
any unbusinesslike bond buyer,
tell him the facts. No wonder
sharpers swindled the innocent.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
johnson APPROVAL
IS WINNER EXPECTED
BY 75,00Q0N BONUS
California Senator Defeats
c. C. Moore in Republican
Primaries.
BY Internationai News Service,

By International News Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3d.
Harry Encill, campaign manager
for Senator Hiram johnson, today
estimated the Senator would de-
feat c. c. Moore by $4,000 at least
and possibly 100000 as returns Of
o favorable nature were received.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
Cong. Andrews Ayers
Debt Interest Will
Stand Cost of Bonus
by Universal Service.

Interest payments on the British
debt alone will pay the entire cost
Of the soldier bonus and leave a
large balance, in addition to the
undisturbed principal, according to
calculations by Congressman An
drews Rep) of Nebraska, former
auditor for the Treasurer of the
United States.
Mr.. Andrews figures are based on
official Treasury Department rec.
ords and applied to Senator Nc.
Cumber's estimates of the cost OF
the bonus.
The maximum amounti to be paid
out in forty years, II every veteran
entitled to the benefits Of the law
takes advantage of It, is s4,S00. .000..
900, but, according to McCumber.
the total cost Is not expected to
run above $500, ,000, 900.
The first years's cost-calendar
year of 1923--will be s77,440, $50.
The greatest amount to be paid out
In one year will be in 1926, when
the total will be s370,22a,ss5. The
aggregate cost for the first four
years, including 1925, will be Ss12,
100000 In round numbera
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
MYSTERY
BATTLES
NORFOLK
OFFICIALS
Clothing Left Behind Taken to
Indicate Passenger Met
Death on Voyage.
by Cosmopolitan News Service.

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 30.-Po-
lice and Department Of Justice
operatives today are investigating
the mysterious disappearance of
Edward H. Moon, thirty-three
years old, a prominent merchan-
disc broker of Richmond, Va, and
president of the firm of Moon,
Taylor a Co., with branches
throughout the South, who was
missing from his stateroom on the
steamer jefferson when it arrived
here yesterday from New York.
of Lexington, Va. who is said to
have shared the staf Groom with
Moon. He can materially assist in
unrayeling the mystery, 1t Is be-
lieved.
Both hunks in the stateroom, ac-
cording to detectives, bore evidence
Of having been occupied, but there
was no indication of struggle Of
any sort having taken place.
Word was received from New York
that Moon checked out Of the Van
derbilt Hotel there Monday.
In Good Spirits, Wife Says.
Because he had no other suit with
him than the one he was wearing,
friends Of Moon, whose coat and vest
were found in his berth, cherished
but little hope today that he would
turn up alive.
According to his wife, who was
Miss Katherine Henderson Scales,
a niece Of Rear Admiral A. II. Scales,
u. s. N, he was in good health and
spirits when she parted with him in
New York before he left on the hoat
for Norfolk. She had been spending
time at Fisher Island, N. Y, and
Joined him in New York a few days
ago, when he went there on "a bust
ness trip. She returned to Richmond
by rail after he took the boat for
Norfolk.
Moon, It was explained today, de.
because he had business to transact
in that city.
Mrs. Moon was prostrated today
at her home at 1901 Grove avenue, as
a result of her husbands strange dis.
appearance.
Her marriage to Moon was a so.
ciety event of October, 1921. the wed.
ding being held in fashionable st.
Paul's Episcopal Church. Among
the groomsmen were Oscar w. Un.
derwood, jr., of Washington, and
Dewitt Talmage Donnan, Of this
city, a grandson and namesake Of
the late DR.. Dewitt Talmage, the
noted Presbyterian divine of Wash.
ington.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
By ELLIS H. MARTIN,
International News Service.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.-
United States Senator Hiram w.
Johnson has won denomination in
one Of the greatest fights Of his
political career.
With returns in from something
like half Of the State he was lead
ing Charles C. Moore today by
about $4,000, and his managers
claimed that as the complete re-
turns come in this lead would
grow to 10000.
Jubilant at Victory.
California remains progressive 81
the senior Senator tubilantly de.
clared to International News Service
today as returns continued to pile up
his lead.
Moore won southern California by
taking the two most populous coun.
ties, Los Angeles and San Diego.
johnson, however, showed strength
in other southern counties, with the
result, his managers claimed today,
that Moore would come north to the
Tehachapi mountains, the dividing
point between northern and southern
California, with but 5000 lead.
Offsetting his opponents southern
strength, Senator johnson carried
every northern county-many OF
them overwhelmingly.
Senator johnson swept San Fran
cisco by 1881 votes, a complete
semi-official count showed today
He secured 52.Ss3 votes against
1892 for Moore. Oakland and
Alameda county gave him between
5000 and 5000 majority. Sacra
mento, seat of the capital, came
through with an estimated lead oi
1000. Humboldt county, at the
extreme northern part Of the State
was estimated to have gone 70:
Johnson by 5000, and 80 the coun,
went in northern California.
Close Race For Governor.
The big surprise Of the primary
election Is the neck and neck race
of Gov. William d. Stephens, and
Friend w. Richardson, for the Re
publican nomination for governor
Richarson was leading Stephen,
early today by about 1000, although
Stephens was showing more strength
in later returns. This close rae,
furnished the most unexpected re
versal Of political forecasts In re
cent California history.
The Klan figured in a number
of local contests. At Sacramento
1t was reported today that the 90
called Klan ticket was defeated with
| the exception Of three members.
In the Congressional field present
incumbents appear to have beer
returned in every instance-severa
having no opposition.
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RESCUERS lose
HOPE 0E SAVING
DOOMED MINERS
Entrapped Men FoodIess Sixty
Hours-New Explosions
Seal Their Fate.
BY international Now. Service.

JACKSON, Cal, Aug. 30.-The
slight hope entertained yesterday
for the rescue Of the forty-five en-
tombed miners in the Argonaut mine
is waning today. following reports
of additional explosions in the lower
levels of the mine shaft.
A gang Of four men brought the
news of the latest explosions from
their positions at the 2,700-foot level,
where they remained for more than
five hours dynamiting the walls Of
the shaft in the hope that in this
way they could check the further
progress Of the blaze.
A recheck Of the probable victims
of the disaster disclosed today that
forty-five, and not forty-eiGht. are
buried somewhere in the scores of
passages below the burning timbers.
Blasting Walls.
Although admittedly there is less
than one chance in a million that
the men will ever emerge alive, the
attack on the 21-foot wall sapai ating
the Kennedy mine from the ArgU.
naut is being continued with new
crews, representing the fittest min
ers in this section.
four hours-thirty in each crew. The
enormity of their task can be appre-
ciated by the fact that engineers
agree the work they have under.
taken ordinarily should require at
least two weeks, maybe more, to
complete.
The scene Of their labors is at the
3,600-foot level Of the Kennedy mine,
thirty-eight feet below the 4,200-toot
level of the Argonaut mine.
Fire.fighting efforts have been
progressing, and today there is a no.
ticeable diminution in the force of
the blaze, directly resultant from the
dynamiting Of portions Of the shaft
and of the playing of huge 5000. gal.
lon skipfuls Of water on the fire.
Canary Harbingers.
Miners are being sent down the
shaft in crews of five, each crew
carrying canaries to aid them in de-
tecting the presence of gas. The lit.
tie songsters have been secured from
homes Of miners throughout the dis.
trict.
The dynamiting crew freely ex.
pressed the opinion that there IL no
hope for the imprisoned men because
of their belief that the deadly fumes
of the released gases have penetrated
to the lower reaches of the mine.
II alive, the men have now been
sixty hours without food or water,
with nearly all possible sources of
fresh air supply exhausted.
The wives and relatives of the men
are gradually beginning to lose the
blind hope they at first entertained.
The crowd Of anxious watchers
around the mouth of the mine ha s
decreased In size. II is generally
believed by the miners that Il prob.
ably will require several weeks to
reach the men.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
Remarkable Victory"
Johnson Says, AS He
Gets Primary Returns
N, Epun vuaUEEp
By FIRED ]. WALKF
Cosmopolitan News Service.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3O.--
California by this victory remains
Progressive"
Thus did Senator Hiram w.
Johnson, grizzled veteran of politi.
cal campaigns, comment this morn.
ing from his post by n telegraph
wire on the remarkable vote OF
confidence which the people Of this
State have given him.
Surrounded by close associates
and Hiram w. jr., and Archibald,
his two sons, the Senator, from
the moment last night when the
first avalanche Of upstate figures
showed conclusively that he had
been reelected. never lost his su-
preme confidence.
I'VE have won a remarkable vic.
tory. There never has been in any
campaign In any State in the union
such a lavish expenditure of money
and such an organised effort Of
, econtinasd On Pags 2. Column ~
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
Ship Line Officials
In Doubt That Moon
Ever Boarded Vessel
BY International News Service.

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-Officials OF
the Old Dominion Transportation
Company were unable to say today
whether or not Edward II. Moon,
Richmond, Va, broker, missing when
the steamer jefferson arrived at Nor.
folk, yesterday, had boarded the YES.
sci.
The ticket agent at the Old Domin.
ion passenger office remembered
Moon bought a ticket to Norfolk,
because he knew a Moon in Rich.
mond." The purchaser was not,
however. the Moon he knew.
The general agents said records OF
the company showed Moon had rot
been given a key to his stateroom,
No. ~, before boarding the Jeffer.
son. Passengers obtain their state.
room keys from the steward on
board. They are not checked at the
gang plank by name, merely being
required to display their tickets.
Continued on Page Q, Column ~
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Have you collected the in
terest on your Liberty bonds?
The Government is having diff
ficulties that show how little
some Of us know about busi-
ness or bonds. Eighty-three
million dollars in interest are
still uncollected. At post
offices, many have inquired
where they were to pay in
terest on the bonds. They
thought bond owners had to
pay interest One woman
The Washington times., 1922-08-30

Careless Republican Party.
No Heavy Breakfast.
Think Of These a..
ignorance Sees Devils.
, ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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What do managers of the Re-
publican party think will hap
pen at the Northern elections If
they let the coal and railroad
strikes "drift along?"
Do they doubt that the vote
cast will wake them up and set
them trying to save themselves
for 1924?
Why don't they do something
now? 1t is just as easy as to
wait. Corporation gentlemen,
with strings on the Administra-
tion, will hold thes, strings
just as tight a month hence as
they do today.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
G. o. p. and Democratic Sen
ators Feel President viii
Sign Measure.
BY J. BART CAMPBELL,
International News Service.

As passage Of the soldiers
bonus bill by the Senate today
was considered probable, Repub-
lican and Democratic Senators sup
porting it expressed the belief
that whatever objection President
Harding had to 1t had been net
by the adoption Of the Simmons
amendment providing that interest
received on the foreign debt 10
the United States be used to COM
pensate ex-service men.
Approval Expected.
The expectancy that Great
Britain will pay the first install.
ment of interest on her debt before
the bill becomes operative January
1. 1928. and the latest declaration
Of Premier Lloyd George that It is
Great Britain's intention to dis
charge in fun her obligations to
this country helped to encourage
Senatorial advocates of the meas
ure in their opinion that the amend.
ment would meet the Presidents g
approval and cause him to sign
the bill.
The adoption OF the McNary
land reclamation provision, which
would permit ex-service men to &C.
quire farms and homesteads in re.
claimed arid and swamp areas In
the West and South, would also be
helpful, its supporters thought, in
avoiding the danger of a Presiden,
tial veto which anti-bonus Sena.
tors asserted was impending.
Passage Of the bill before the end
OF the day by a majority sufficient
to convince the President that sen
timent In the Senate is overwhelm
ingly In its favor was confidently
predicted, although anti-bonus Sen
ators said they were still depend
ing upon the President to with
hold his approval from 1t despite
the adoption OF the Simmons and
McNary amendments.
Dispute Debt Claims.
They said the real fight over tn,
bill was not yet over, and they die
not believe the President would ap
prove the Simmons amendment Il
only because II provided that wher
interest on the foreign debt Is moi
sufficient to meet bonus payment,
"the same shall be paid out of an,
money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated"
This would make the bill a direc,
charge against the Treasury, the,
contended, even IL Secretary Mel
Ions view that foreign interes,
payments should be used to NEE,
the Governments obligations unde,
the Liberty bond acts and not bt
diverted to other purpose did not
prevail.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
I 90 HOMELESS WHEN
FIRE SWEEPS PA. TOWN

BEAVERDALE, Pa, Aug. 30.-
Twelve families fled from their
homes here early today when fire
swept two town blocks destroying a
dozen stores and dwellings and caus.
ing an estimated loss OF $780, 900.
Over 100 people are homeless. Fire.
men from nearby towns we're sum.
moned.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30

Partly cloudy weather
and moderate temperature
tonight and Thursday;
gentle variable winds.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
SEX DISCRIMINA TION ENDED
IN HALL OF FAME'S POLICY
Separate Division Abandoned and Method of Election
Made Uniform in Action Taken by Senate of
New York University.

Abandonment OF the separate Hall OF
Fame for women and the abolition In
elections o. all discrimination as to sex
has been decided upon at meeting
of the senate of New York University.
DR.. Robert Underwood Johnson, director
of the Hall of Fame. in announcing the
change in the constitution. said;
This new departure in the direction
of just and liberal opinion was unapi-
mously approved by the senate and has
also the approval Of Chancellor Elmer
Ellsworth Brown Of the university and oi
the donor of the fund upon which this
patriotic enterprise was originally es-
tablished.
the extension from ten to twenty-five
years of the period that must elapse
after the death Of distinguished per-
son before the name may be Inscribed
In the corridor of the Hall of Fame.
The method of election has been SIM
plified, provision being made for a pri-
mary vote by twenty-one of the electors
of the Hail. of Fame. three from each
of the seven classes composing the en-
tire college, who are to consider the
large number of names submitted to
them by the senate, those thus chosen
to be voted on by the one hundred or
more electors who give the final ver-
dict which now will require a three
fifths vote to elect instead Of a majority
as formerly.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
NOTED CROOK RETURNS
TO LEAD HONEST LIFE
Charles Smith, Guerin's Pal,
ArriUes in Steerdge.

Charlas Smith. native of Virginia and
a carpenter. arrived yesterday In the
steerage OF the White Star liner Majes-
tic. declaring that he was going in for
the simple life hereafter and make an
effort to forget that he ever had been
an International crook. He Is not the
decayed and feeble fellow depit ted by
the British reporters who have sent to
this side of the world the story OF his
life before and after he was sentenced
for life to British prison for shooting
another American crook. Eddie Guerin.
in the foot over . falling out about
Chicago May"
He admitted that he had shot Guerin.
with whom he had been associated In
big bank robberies and in the looting OF
the office of the American Express Com
pany In Paris. but he said In carefully
selected words. betraying no trace OF
the Southern dialect, that he thought II
was carrying justice too far TO send him
up for life for shooting a man in the
foot. especially after the man had spent
only eight days in hospital after beins
wounded.
He seemed to be proud of the interest
that Lady Astor, native of his own
State, had taken in getting him released
and he was particularly grateful to
Mrs. Savage. wife of the American Con-
sui in London, who had helped to free
him. He said he had taken tea with
Mr.. and Mrs. Savage just before he had
left the other side.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
END OF STILLMAN CASE
MAY BE FIXED TO-DAY
Wife Fails to Obtain Sc 800
for Montreal Expenses.

Lawyers representing Mrs. Anne U.
Stillman and Guy Stillman. will confer
this morning at the office OF John f..
Brennan. chief counsel, in Yonkers, on
whether the defense will call more wit
nesses in .ne divorce case. 1t was said
last night that the lawyers would carry
out the wish OF Mrs. Stillman and close
the case. which has been In the hands
OF Daniel ]. Gleason. the referee. since
December. 1920.
terday when Justice Morschauser in
Supreme Court at White Plains refused
the request of Mrs. Stillman for $3.50
to dcfray the expenses of the Canadian
commission which took testimony at
Montreal. She will have to pay II out
of her $500 a month temporary allmony.
Dispatches from Montreal said that
Fred Beauvais. correspondent In the
suit. has retreated into the North
Woods on visit to the home Of his
parents at Little Lake Wyagamack.
Beauvais is reported to have told Il
close friend that he did not burn Mrs.
Stillman's letters, as he publicly de-
clared. but had turned them over to a
Montreal lawyer for safe keeping, and
that when the packet was returned to
him he found several letters were
missing. Edmund Leigh. private de-
tective. who swore he purchased letters
from Beauvais. said the guide asked
him to say the letters were ones that
had been stolen from him.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17

Resolutions of regret and sympathy
were passed by the senate on the death
since the last meeting of four Hall Of
Fame electors Mrs. Helen n. Starrett.
Henry Watterson of Kentucky. Gen.
Horace Porter and John Burroughs.
When the Hall of Fame was es-
tablished In 1900. no provision was made
for the election of women. In 1904 1t
vas voted to set aside a separate Hall
for the women and this division now
contains the names of seven women.
They are Harriet Beecher Stowe. Mary
Lyon, Emma willard. Alice Freeman
Palmer, Frances Elizabeth Willard,
Maria Mitchell and Charlotte Saunders
Cushman.
The abolition of the sex distinction
In the Hall of Fame comes just on
the eve of the unveiling of the first
bust in honor of a. woman in the Hail.
This bust will be that of Maria Mitchell,
the astronomer. The ceremony Will take
place on Saturday at the same time
that busts are unveiled in honor of
Washington, Edgar Allan Poe. Mark
hopkins and Gilbert Stuart.
The Hall of Fame contains at present
In addition to the seven women. the
remes of fifty-six men, Tablets 10 all
these men and women have been set
in the wall of the colonnade. but at
present the only busts are those OF
Gen. Grant, unveiled last month by
Marshal Joffre; Robert Fulton and
Horace Mann.
The New York herald., 1922-05-17
QUEENS RECEIVERS
SURRENDER TO JAIL
Refuse to Give Bail and Get
Habeas Corpus Release to
Test Case.

Slaughter w. Huff, president of the
Robert c. Lee. son-in-law of United
State Senator Calder, who are the joint
receivers of the old Steinway surface
lines in Queens Borough, passed half
an hour as prisoners in the Queens
county Jail in Long Island City yester-
day. Their counsel, Alfred f. Dawson.
and William !E. Stewart, obtained a writ
of habeas corpus from Supreme Court
Justice Cropsey. The writ was made
returnable tomorrow. Until then the
their attorneys.
Corporation Counsel O'Brien an
nounced last night that he would join
with District Attorney Wallace in an
EFFORT to persuade Justice Cropsey to dis
miss the writ and remand the Defend
ants to prison II they persist in their
refusal to accept d bail bond. When
they appeared yesterday morning before
Magistrate Harry Miller their attorneys
informed him they had decided to refuse
to give bail and had sought no bonds
man. The receivers had been held in
$500 each for the Special Sessions Court.
The lawyers denied that their clients
had committed any infraction Of law
and challenged the Magistrates power
to commit them. Magistrate Miller then
directed the commitment.
Transit Commissioner lie Roy T.
Hardness. regarded as an authority on
transit law, said yesterday he felt no
doubt of the binding force Of the
criminal law in this instance. The fact
that the receivers. by virtue OF their APP
pointment by Justice Callaghan, have
become officers or agents of the State
Supreme Court, Commissioner Hardness
holds, cannot apsolve them from liability
under the criminal law for their per-
sonal conduct while acting In that
capacity. The commission holds that
they have deliberately violated Section
20 of the public service law. That
staute in specific terms makes subject
to the Transit Commissions jurisdic-
tion in such matters not only officers OF
street railway companies, but also re-
ceivers thereof.