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DILLkRD. The family of the late IRVING
C. BILLIARD wishes to extend thanks TO
relatives and friends for kind expressions of
sympathy and floral tributes extended at the
death of our beloved husband and son.
SIMPSON. I wish to extend my sincere and
grateful thanks to the many kind friends for
their loving and tender expressions of sym
pathr and help during the sickness and after
the death of my dear husband. JOHN ~
SIMPSON MRS. ANNIE E. SIMPSON.
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FOREIGN,

The word vestibule is from the
Latin. meaning originally a place
where the Romans left their vestments
or overcoats.
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al arriaue.

wEAvER-NELLIGAN. Mr.. P. Fl. Michigan
announces the marriage of his daughter
FRANCES to SAMUEL A. WEAVER ON May
II, 1879, by Father Connolly at st. Peters
Church.
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FOUND.

RING-LAdy's, small; 18th and Park 3218
14th st. NV. 16s
SUM OF MONEY, Glen Echo Park, July IA.
Owner cal Columbia 331o-w.
Evening star., 1923-10-13
RUM SHIP OWNERS
SAY CASE OBSCURED
Brief Filed in Supreme Court Hits
Methods of Federal
Government.

The federal government was charg-
ed in brief filed in the Supreme
Court today with trying to obscure
the real questions involved" in the
appeal of Algional H. Rae and Charles
E. Alburg, from their conviction in
the federal courts of New York, as
the owners of the schooner Henry L.
Marshall and the liquor aboard the
vessel when taken into custody by a
Atlantic City. The government recent
ly directed the attention of the Su-
preme Court to correspondence fur
nished by the State Department.
showing that the British government
had repudiated claims of British reg
istry of the schooner.
The United States Shipping Board
had consented to the sale of the
schooner and it's transfer to a British
registry, the brief filed today assert
ed, and the circuit court of appeals,
in reviewing the case, had found, 1t
declared, that the schooner was sail
ing under British registry" The pur-
pose of the government was to Gre
ate the impression, by improper
methods, that the schooner was not
entitled to British registry, the brief
asserted, and contended that such
representations were inadmissible as
evidence in the case as now before
the Supreme Court.
The question as presented and tried
in the lower courts, the brief said,
was whether this government is en-
titled to seize British vessel beyond
the three-mile limit for an offense
alleged to have been committed be-
having held that it was so empow-
cred, the brief contended that this
was the only question upon which the
Supreme Court could pass.
Evening star., 1923-10-13
BANKERS SEE FARM
CONDITIONS BETTER
Gov. Cooper of Farm Loan Board
Among Congress Wit
neSSeS.

How banking and farming have not
mixed and what the reasons are. in
terspersed with explanations of some
of the trials and tribulations that
beset the farmer, was set out at
length before the joint congressional
committee inquiring into the failure
of the state banks to join the Federal
Reserve system, yesterday.
Gov. Cooper of the Farm Loan
Board; B. c. Powell of Little Rock,
Ark, representing the American Cot
ton Association; t. II. Atkeson, repre-
BENJAMIN C. Marsh of the Farmers
National Council were heard.
Contrary to the impression that the
farmers need additional financial aid,
their general credit condition has i'm
proved during the last year, Gov.
Cooper said. During the twelve
months. he declared, they borrowed
less money than In the previous year.
According to Mr.. Cooper, the board
only s15,000.000 so far this year, al
though it had further commitments
which probably would bring the total
to S40.000,000. This amounted to only
one-half of the money it held avail
able to assist agriculture.
Most of the demands for loans have
come from the south and far west,
Gov. Cooper said, generally through
farmers cooperative associations
added, for credit in the middle west.
Charges by Representative Strong.
republican, Kansas, that there had
been unnecessary delays in the nego-
tiationS of loans by the board were
denied by Gov. Cooper.
Evening star., 1923-10-13
GOV. WALTON GUSTS
HIS CHIEF ADVISERS
Blake and DR.. Bynum, After
Dismissal, Appear Before
Legislators.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, October
13.-Facing the crisis of his political
career, Gov. J. C. Walton has cast
aside two of his foremost lieutenants
in the administration of Oklahoma
affairs.
With legislative impeachment
court already investigating his official
conduct, the governor last night or
dered the removal from office of
Aldrich Blake, the executive coun-
sci, and DR.. E. T. Bynum, state
bank commissioner. both of whom,
since the days of the primary cam
paign, have been his chief advisers
and constant attendants.
Blake was credited with RESPONSE
bility for bringing the governor into
the field against the klan, and it is
known that he was the chief strate-
gist once the campaign was launched.
The ousted officials went imme-
diately before the house committee
inquiring into impeachment charges
against the governor, and, while the
nature OF their testimony was not
made public, their appearance before
the body was accepted as indication
that their break with Gov. Walton
was absolute.
DR.. Bynum has administered his of
flee unsatisfactory. the governor
charged, and is out of harmony with
the executive office. There was no
explanation given for Blake's re-
moval, although he, like DR.. Bynum,
is said by observers to have double
crossed" the governor in his fight
against the Ku Klux klan.
Over the denial by Blake that the
affair had any significance, the opin-
ion gained strength in political quar-
ters today that the address of former
United States Senator Gore of Okla
homa before the state Legislature
Thursday precipitated the removals.
Gov. Walton, 1t is argued by some.
felt that their allegiance to him end
ed when they sponsored former Sem
ator Cores address. in which he Sc
verely criticized the administration.
Blake and DR.. Bynum promised
statements soon.
The Legislature is in adjournment
until Monday, but the investigating
committee is expected to continue its
sittings today.
A statement declaring that "the
Klan fight must go on and that he
was glad to be free to continue the
fight unhampered" was issued here
today by Blake.
Evening star., 1923-10-13
COOLIDGE IN FAVOR
OF BROWN PLAN
Proposes No Changes From
Suggested Reorganization
of Government.

President Coolidge is not contem-
plating any changes in the Brown
plan for reorganization in the fed
eral departments, it was learned
yesterday. He is extremely anxious
for Congress to consider legislation
bringing about reorganization al
the next session.
A spokesman for the President, in
making known the Presidents atti-
tude regarding the reorganization
plan, explained that while the Presi-
dent personally has no changes in
mind for the plan as approved last
winter by President Harding and the
members of his cabinet, he is anxious
to study the matter thoroughly and
to obtain the views of each member
Of his cabinet before putting his Of
fetal Q. X. to the proposed changes
as provided for in the plan.
At cabinet meeting probably next
week or the following week, when
all of the members will be present
the President will have Walter F
Brown, chairman of the joint con-
gressional committee on reorganiza-
ton, who personally prepared the
,lan, appear before the meeting and
explain the essentldl details regard
ing the many proposed changes In
departmental operation.
1t is understood that the President
expects TO move fast in disposing OF
this matter.
1t was made known at the White
House that the conference of states
governors called by President Cool
idge for November 20 for the pur-
pose of devising means for better CO.
operation in the enforcement OF
federal laws affecting immigration
prohibition and the sale of narcotics
will be held in the White House and
will not be public.
Evening star., 1923-10-13

Continued from First Page,)
for the alleged murder, had planned
several other crimes, according to
evidence uncovered and statements
attributed to Covell.
May said he was DECIDING horoscopes
drawn by Covell and would submit
to the Oregon authorities evidence
that Covell planned to murder E. ].
Pressey, wealthy Oregon dairyman,
and his wife and three children, and
burn the bodies by firing the resi-
dence.
The motive was to be robbery"
declared May. Arthur Coven had
made Pressey's horoscope and was
to commit the murders when the
family was under unfavorable
planetary influence.
Evidence has also been uncovered
in other coded horoscopes which were
to direct the nephew to rob and then
Kill two merchants in Bandon, Greg.
Plans In Great Detail.
''The plans of Arthur Covelf were
so minutely detailed that they even
called for the removal of windows
and doors before the home of the vic
tim was burned. The stolen articles
"OiC " po uSSu III d HOHlS WnlCn the
Covells intended to build. Even wills
were to be written In advance, turn
ing the money over to the astrologer
or his agents.
"One will was in the hands of the
authorities when I left Marshffeld
and 1T was SO cleverly drawn up by
him that 1t can hardly be detected as
counterfeit.
Mrs. Covell apparently had inklings
of previous crimes and of those being
planned. She had threatened ex-
posure and the uncle and nephew had
decided to get her out of the way.
That is the deduction 1 got after talk
ing with Covell
1.-THE crippled uncle owns a type
writer whose type can be changed at
will. The type bar on the machine
contains large number of novel
keys and lettering. With this machine
the uncle devised a code system for
his nephew and wrote out his orders
in code"
Evening star., 1923-10-13

Secretary of State Hughes declared
that relations between the United
States and sister republics to the
south were never more satisfactory
or carried better promise OF mutual
good WILL" in the course of an ad-
dress made at the final session Of
the Columbus day conference of the
United States section of the pam
American international women's COM
mittee at the Pan-American Union
yesterday.
II say this, "said Secretary Hughes,
latter taking into account the COM
planning utterances that find place
from time to time in the press and
the criticism of those mentors and
publiclsts who supply the tang which
gives relish to our intellectual repasts.
The millennium Itself would turn out
to be tame affair If no fault could be
found with it."
Points to Era of Amity.
Mr.. Hughes said he was happy "to
say that there are no controversies
with any of our sister republics
which have not been settled or are
not in process of adjustment" He
diplomatic relations with Mexico, the
establishment recently of IAN accord
with Columbia" and added:
we are entering upon a period in
our relations with Latin American
states notable for the absence of
serious grievances"
The Secretary referred also to the
aid the American government had
been able to give to 1.-The promotion
of peace and stability among the
countries of Latin America" pointing
10 the arbitration agreement between
Chile and Peru worked out In Wash
lngton, to the conference of Central
american republics and to the plans
for withdrawal OF American military
forces from Santo Domingo.
Whatever the captious may say,
Whatever rumors may be stirred,
whatever the few anti-American
critics may voice." he said, at believe
1t to be fair to say that the govern
ment and people of our sister repub-
lies fully understand that we cherish
no imperlalistic purposes; that we are
seeking no pretext for interference
with their aspirations as free people,
and that we are sincere and SINGLE
minded in the desire to promote the
interests of peace and to secure the
opportunities of mutually beneficial
intercourse between Independent and
prosperous states"
Explains Naval Mission.
Mr.. Hughes referred to the sending
or an American naval commission to
Brazil, his statement being obvious
ly in answer to criticism OF that ac-
tion.
IF such mission were to be had"
he said, there was no reason WHY
we should not furnish it; not that our
influence should be thrown in the di-
rection of competition in armament
or in the stirring up of strife, but
decidedly to the contrary; that our in
fiuences should be most helpful in
avoiding waste and provocative out
ing conducted In accord with the
aims of peace"
The Secretary expressed regret that
the recent American conference
at Santiago, Chile. had been unable
to agree on a program for Limitation
of armament. He pointed out, how
ever, that the problem of armed fore
es was chiefly a European problem"
and quoted statistics to show that
of the total of active armies in the
world 1--WE find that in this hemi-
Evening star., 1923-10-13
3 HURT when CAR
HITS POLE IN FOG
Party Returning From Baltimore
Figure in Crash Early
This Morning.

Two women and one man are at
the Emergency Hospital suffering
from serious injuries as the result of
an automobile accident early today
when their machine. returning from
Baltimore in the dense fog, crashed
into a telephone pole on the Washing
ton-Baltimore boulevard near Belts
vile, Md, and caught fire.
The women are Mrs Grace Saur-
blich, waitress, and Mrs. Catherine
Ruby Bowers, cashier, both of
Bladensburg, Md. Mrs. Sauerblich is
suffering from severe laceration of
the left side of the face. Mrs. Bowers
Is suffering from a fractured left
thigh.
One Man Disappears.
Stephen Johnson of 1443 East Cap
itol street, driver OF the car, the most
seriously injured, is suffering from
laceration of the head. The other
man, whose only name is given by
his companions as "Slim," disappeared
shortly after the accident and has
not been heard from. 1t is not be-
lieved that his injuries were serious.
He is said to be a resident of this
city.
The injured were brought in by
Beale r. Howard of 1410 18th street,
who was returning from Baltimore,
and came upon the scene soon after
the accident. On his way to the city
he met the ambulance from Emer-
gency which had been called, and
transferred the injured from his ma
chine. At the time he arrived on the
scene he stated that the machine was
ablaze.
According to Mrs. Saurblich, the
party was returning from Baltimore,
where they had driven to see rela-
tive, when out of the thick fog a
telephone pole loomed up and the car
crashed. almost turning over and
finally resting half suspended against
the pole.
Mrs. Saurblich stated the occupants
were thrown into the road and lay
there for some time before any one
came to the rescue.
Evening star., 1923-10-13
DISTRICT OFFICIALS
DEFEND ESTIMATES
School, Police, Fire and
. Health Officers Before
H. Budget Bureau.

The second day of the hearings
before the budget bureau on District
estimates for next year opened to-
day, with the Commissioners op-
timistic over the outcome.
At the same time Supt. of Schools
Frank w. Ballou went before the
budget bureau to defend the school
estimates for the next fiscal year and
submit his five-year building pro-
gram, which is designed to eliminate
all of the undesirable portable build
ing and part-time and oversize
classes. Accompanying DR.. Ballou
were Assistant Supt. Robert L. Hay
cock and Garnet c. Wilkinson and
Ernest Greenwood, vice president IF
the board of education
Hope for Increase.
While 1t is not expected that the
budget officers will reverse their
original position by approving in full
the s32,000,000 requested by the mu-
nicipality, the city authorities are
extremely hopeful that some increase
will be made in the Limitation of
S25,144.SS2 placed on Washington S
annual expense account.
Commissioners Rudolph. Oyster
and Bell and Auditor Daniel J. DON
ovan were accompanied to the Treas
ury today by Supt. of Police Sulli-
van. Fire Chief Watson and Health
officer Fowler. They will answer de-
tailed questions concerning the
amounts they asked.
The police department is concen-
trating on obtaining more patrolmen
and an increase in basic salaries
The outstanding requests of the
hre department are for more motor
apparatus and increased salaries.
The reason for seeking higher pay
for police and f1remen now is that
these two groups are not included in
the reclaSsification law. AS the sit
uation now stands, therefore. the uni
formed forces will lose the S240 bonus
next year without getting reclassifi-
cation as substitute.
Fire Equipment Needed.
The fire department will point out
that is has in service eight anti
Quated tractor engines that have
been in service since motorization of
the department began. and that it
Is still necessary to call old, retired
fire horses back into harness when
ever a motor engine breaks down,
which has occurred frequently.
The health department has no i'm
portant new items TO fight for this year,
the estimates for that department
being of a purely routine nature.
Needs of the Public Library and the
estimates for this work were con-
sidered yesterday afternoon, Dr.
George F. Bowerman. librarian, and
Theodore w. Noyes, chairman of the
board of trustees, appearing before
the budget heads.
Evening star., 1923-10-13
STOKES DISPOSITIONS
TAKEN in MISSOURI
Wife Seeks Word of Towsfolk te
Disprove Testimony
at Trial.
BY the Associa ted Press.

BOONvILLE. Mo-. October 10
Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, young
wife of w. E. d. Stokes, New York
capitalist, arrived here today to at
tend the taking of dispositions in an
effort to disprove testimony given in
divorce proceedings filed against her
in New York that she was seen in the
company of Edgar Wallace of Boom
willie at Bunceton several years ago.
Accompanied by Isador Shapiro
one of her attorneys, and Mrs. c. A.
Meservy, a friend, Mrs. Stokes de-
clared the depositions would discredit
testimony by Mrs. Catherine Kramer
and Mrs. Alice S. Mills of Kansas
City former residents of Bunceton,
that they saw her with Wallace in
1904. She said she did not meet Wal
lace until 1906 in San Francisco and
that she would see Bunceton this aft
ernoon for the first time.
Wilbur and Arthur Wallace,
brothers of Edgar, have been sum-
moned to depose in BoonvHle, while
Mrs. Kramer and Mrs. Mills have
been summoned to give their depo-
sitions at Bunceton.
Shapiro said the taking Of the
dispositions would be hurried in order
to enable Mrs. Stokes to be back In
New York by Monday night
Evening star., 1923-10-13
MARINE FLYERS ATTEMPT
TO BREAK DISTANCE MARK
BY the Associate Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TUCSON. Ariz., October 13.-An at
tempt to break the worlds record for
distance in air travel will be made
by Lieuts. Ford o. Rogers and Horace
D. Palmer of the United States Ma
rine Corps, it Is announced here. The
two aviators, accompanied by their
mechanics, arrived in Tucson from Ell
Paso, Tex, ying De Havland planes.
They will hep off for San DiegoeSat-
urday en- route to San Francisco.
The planes will return to Washing
ton via the northern air route and
continue down the stern coast to
Santo Domingo.
orders to try to break the record
set by the Smith brothers, who few
from London to Australia, were re-
ceived from the Marine Corps head
quarters in Washington recently.
The f1iers have covered more than
5000 miles since leaving Santo Do
mingo, and have been in the air 51,3
hours.
Evening star., 1923-10-13


which, pro badly, will be Chancellor
Stresemann's first important act as
dictator-is expected to reveal amaz-
ing facts concerning the extent to
which few privileged persons have
been permitted to use the nation $
chief bank to enrich themselves at
the expense of the public.
In democratic circles the Reichs-
banks activities of the past year are
characterized as the greatest finan-
cial scandal of modern times
The scandal consisted of the Reichs-
banks loanfng to private individuals
enormous sums of paper marks at
ting the borrowers to repay the loans
later in deprecated currency.
The privilege of direct borrowing
from the reichsbank was resumed in
discount rate was nominally high
Is per cent, and later 80 per cent
but the currency deprecated so fast
that other banks were obliged to de-
mand l, or per cent a day. Thus
privileged persons borrowed from the
reichsbank at Is per cent, while
others paid from 500 to 1000 per
cent.
Aided IndustriaIists.
1t was President Havenstein who
decided what persons were to have
this privilege. He presumably fol-
lowed the usual reichsbank rules con-
cernlng the securities offered by the
borrower, but the big industrialists
and the big bankers received the bor-
rowing privilege almost exclusively.
1t has been calculated that a man who
borrowed from the reichsbank the
equivalent of 100000 every three
months, turning his borrowings i'm
1n11
repaying the loan after three months
In marks. would in fifteen months
have made a profit of more than
sS0o.oo0. 1t has been figured that i'm
single year, private individuals
made by this method s120,0OO. 600,
The reichsbank itself did not lose
The real losers were the general
pubic, who suffered through rising
prices, due to imitation. Herr Haven.
stem IS directly responsible for the
tnilatlon because he recklessly dis
counted treasury notes offered by the
government. 'e
Charge Deliberate Steal,
The democrats claim that c,,rr.no,,
imitation was not solely due to the
needs OF the state, as was pretended
out that the currency was deliber-
ately swollen to enrich private indi-
Vlouals. They further assert that
several OF former Chancellor Cuno's
ministers must have deliberately as
sisted in the process, while the for
mer chancellor himself, they declare,
must have been either criminally ig-
norant or criminally complacent.
The democrats have a list of other
charges against Herr Havenstefn,
based on information not yet made
public. The chief points Of the in
dictment are:
That he recklessly pledged the
greater part of the reichsbank's gold
reserve, which now probably is lost
That he first prevented, and then
emasculated, the internal gold loan.
loan policy, which artificially stimu-
lated business at the consumers ex-
pense.
Finally, the democrats assert that
the Havenstein scandal" is so far
reaching that 1t will involve other
public men in most serious charges
Evening star., 1923-10-13
CREW OF SHIP WRECKED
IN GULF THOUGHT LOST
Hope Virtually Given Up for Thir-
ty Men on Steamer City
of Everett.
BY the Associated Press.

KEY WEST, Fla, October 13.-Hope
Virtually has been abandoned that any
members of the crew of thirty men of
the City of Everett survived long
after the tanker sank stern first early
yesterday about $50 miles west of
Tortugas in d stormy sea. Tortugas
is between Key West and Cuba.
Search for the 1ifeboats, begun after
the Everett flashed an SOS call and
stated she was sinking, had been
abandoned last night with the excep-
tion that the coast guard cutter Sau-
kee has been ordered to make fur
ther search.
The opinion here was that the at
tempt of the crew to launch lifeboats
proved unsuccessful and that all hands
perished.
The Everett was owned by the Brit
ish Molasses Company of New Or
leans