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New Britain herald., 1923-08-29
FREE SKATERS ARE
LEADING In Votes
Several Days However, Before
Irish Returns Are ALI in
By The Associated Press.

London, Aug. 29.-Early returns
from the Irish election indicate a
sweeping victory for the Free State
candidates.
Nearly a score of government party
nominees, including almost the cabi-
net ministers, have won seats by
large majorities. while up to this
morning the election. of only three re-
publicans was assured.
The government so far has Is sue
cessful candidates to about half that
number for the other parties, and if
the present ratio is maintained it
may have a clear majority in the
Free State parliament instead of the
plurality which its supporters expect
ed.
The English press generally refrain
from comment until more returns are
in, but the Daily Express already
characterizes the polling as a repUb-
lican rout, and in an editorial used
the caption Exit De Valera" says
the republican leader has failed at
the ballot box as completely as he
failed in the field.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-29
Returns Coming Slowly.

Dublin, Aug. 29.-Some days must
elapse before the complete results of
Mondays election can be published,
says the Irish Times, adding that
President Cosgrave and his colleagues
have no reason to be dissa tistied with
the returns already announced.
The Freeman's Journal asserts that
the government party has done better
than even the most optimistic of It's
supporters believed would be possible,
while the Daily Independent declares
that the outstanding feature of first
returns is the enormous total poled
by the ministers. This, the newspaper
adds, discloses desire to give I'M
New Britain herald., 1923-08-29
ASSASSIN WOUNDED
Denver Police Believe Woman Killed,
Fought BraveIy For Her Life -
Slayer Being Sought.

Denver, Aug. 20. - The slayer of
Mrs. Lillian McGlone and Miss Emma
Nascovie, who were shot in the Nc
Clone apartment Monday afternoon
was wounded by Mrs. McGlone in her
fight for life, according to the theory
advanced today by Chief of Police
Rugg Williams.
bloodstained cloth lying on a
chair beyond the reach of either
woman and the fact that Roy Nc
Clone, husband of the slain woman
has identified the automatic pistol
found between the two bodies as one
he left with his wife, support this
conclusion, Chief Williams said.
The search for Joseph Brindisi,
said to have made three attempts to
kill Mrs McGlone, is without success.
Brindisi, McGlone said, became in
fatuated with Mrs. McGlone, former
ly nurse, after she had nursed him
through an illness early in the year.
She spurned his attentions.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-29
Ed. Levitt OF The U.
S. S. Bulmer Had In
teresting Visit To
Cairo And Alexandria.
"MY ADVENTURES IN EGYPT,

I will endeavor to describe two of
the ancient ports of Egypt, Alexandria
and Cairo, respectively, as they were
shown to me by our guide and his
torian, one Semeda Abdellah who has
been acting in the capacity as guide
for the past twenty-seven years
through upper and lower Egypt. The
following is extracted from my log
which wrote upon my return to the
ship. On the trip I made notes of
all of the ancient dates all of which
hope are true.
1t Is the mystic land of Egypt that
we are about to enter via the Har-
Dor of Alexandria, and the trip should
prove to be of very great interest, for
perhaps no other land of the Near
East is so replete with things both
ancient and modern to hold the at
tention and quicken the Imagination
of the world traveller to trace the
story of the Egyptians it is necessary
to back to the earliest period of re-
corded history ..... ...
Herodotus, father of history, de-
clared that 1000 years ago, Egypt was
a gift of the Nile, for the river has
gradually extended the solid earth out
into the watery domain of the Medi-
terranean. .. ..,a... q,
Port Said rests at one angle and
Alexandria at another angle of the
triangle shaped delta of the Nile.
The two ports are almost equidistant
from the city of Cairo, the Jewel
on the handle of the fan where it
begins to spread. In ancient times
the Nile had sevent mouths, through
which the muddy water flowed into
the Mediterranean. Now all but two
of the channels are choked by the silt
brought down through the ages from
the inland portions of Egypt, the
two existing channels, the Damietta
and the Rosetta arms, empty into the
near Port Said and AL
exandria respectively.
In the year 4241 B. c., believed to
be the earliest fixed date in history,
the Egyptians divided the year into
365 days with five extra feast days,
and ito twelve months with 80 days to
the month.
5000 B. c., Egypt was the only
country in the world under a really
government, and about that
years also the Pharaohs began to-
build pyramids. After ruling over
their subjects with an iron hand over
New Britain herald., 1923-08-29
DAVIS OPPOSED TO
CHANGES IN COURT
Would Not Have Supreme Tri-
bunaTs Authority Curtailed
BY The Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
Minneapolis, Aug. 29.-Oppositlon
TO any curtai ment of the powers or
the United State supreme court was
expressed by John w. Davis OF New
York in his address as president OF
the American bar association at the
opening session of its 46th annual
convention here today
In addition to this stand, which
applies to decisions involving con-
stitutionality of congressional enact
ments rs well as departure from five
to four majority decisions, the asso-
citation president also advocated the
following:
Congress should come into being
Immediately upon it's election and the
president and vice president should
be inaugurated without any unneces-
sary lapse of time.
Bar should demand without fur
Their delay the appointment under
congressional authority of an expert
committee to codfy the federal
statutes.
Adoption of constitutional
permitting the president
of the United States to veto specific
items in an appropriation bill.
Ratification of treaties with foreign
countries by the senate by a majority
vote instead of the two-thirds vote
now required
Submission of constitutional amend
ments directly to the people of the
several states or to the legislatures Sc
lected after and not before the
amendment has been proposed.
Repeated hope expressed in associ-
New Britain herald., 1923-08-29
BODY TO BE CRENIATED

Paris, Aug. 29.-The Malaria
Gaekwar of Baroda is expected to
take charge of the funeral ceremonies
for Prince Shrimat Jaisingaro Gaewar,
his son, whose death on a train be-
tween Berlin and Paris, gave rise to
the report of the maharias demise.
The princes body will be cremated
Friday and the ashes sent to India.
The prince was educated at Harvard
university.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-29
REPUBLyCANs sMAMPED

London, Aug. 29.-Kevin O'Higgins,
minister of home affairs who has
been elected in the county of Dublin
told representative of the Daily Ex-
press
The republicans have been
swamped throughout the country. I
shall be surprised if 20 of them are
returned"
New Britain herald., 1923-08-29

ation's resolution last year that "a
way may be found by which the gov
eminent of the United States may
avail itself of the permanent court of
international Justice" "
Evening star., 1923-07-14
6 C0NvICTS ESCAPE
PHILADELPHIA PRISON
Climb Over Wall, Hold Up Motor
Truck and Speed Out
of City.

ny the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 14-Six con-
victs escaped from the Eastern State
penltentiary today after beating a
guard. They escaped over a wall. held
up motor truck and fed in the di-
rection of Fairmount Park All wer.
said to be armed.
Police reports stated that three of
the men left the truck before reach.
ing 29th and Poplar streets and iump-
ed into small touring car after wav-
ing the driver away with their pis-
tolls. They continued in the direction
of the park
Penitentiary officials are silent
pending an investigation. 1t was
learned that the six convicts with one
exception were Philadelphians. The
other was from Reading, Pa.
me men were part of a police
gang, whose duty 1t was to clean
up the prison yard 1t was said that
one or the prisoners stepped up be-
mind guard. struck him on the head
with pistol and then managed to
reach the top of the prison wall be-
fore an alarm was sounded
A half hundred policemen and de-
tectives were Immediately detailed
10 trail the escaped conVicts. most
OF them using bandit chasing motor
cycles and small automobiles.
According to Director of Public
SAFETY J. B. Cortelyou, head of the
police department, warning of a
possible escape last Wednesday was
received and guard thrown about
the penitentiary, but nothing han
pened. 1t was said that the tin
came from the sister of a convict
who had been double crossed" bv
a band of prisoners who were plan
ming to escape
Evening star., 1923-07-14
DENLY Calls Council to Plan
DetaiIs-Work Awaits
Ratification Filing.
UNFINISHED VESSELS
PRESENT BIG PROBLEMS
Cancellation of Contracts and Com
pensation to Require Much Study.
Saving Sought.

Definite steps toward fulfilling the
terms of the naval limitations
treaty, now ratified by all the powers,
were taken today by Secretary Den
by, when he called a meeting of a
naval council to arrange details of
scrapping the battleships abandoned
under the limitation program.
Although no actual scrapping will
take place until the ratifications have
been formally exchanged by the sig
natory nations, two naval boards
will be appointed Immediately, one
to consider methods of scrapping
and the other to take up cancellation
of contracts for vessels which are
building but which will not be COM
pleted.
A tentative plan for scrapping,
drawn up some time ago, is under
stood to be SO nearly complete that
the first board will be able to report
almost Immediately. The .concella-
tion board, however, will have a
considerable task in arranging de-
tails for disposition of the battle
ships and compensation to the con-
tractors.
While it is recognized that there
Will be much wasted and lost ma
terlal officials expect that a large
amount of the steel may be cut and
used proftably by the government,
either for maintenance of the per-
mitted navy, new authorized con-
struction and for commercial use.
Urge Work I'm Navy Yards.
One of the questions discussed at
today's conference between Secretary
DENLY and his advisers was a pro-
posal that the discarded ships be
dismantled by navy yard forces
rather than sold on the stocks as
they stand. No decision was reached
and the subject will be considered
again at meeting here Tuesday. at
which all navy yard commandants
will be present.
1t was urged that if the Navy
itself undertook the dismantling 1t
would provide many navy yard en-
ployss with work which otherwise
would be perfol med by private en-
terprise.
Evening star., 1923-07-14
J0NESLEADS FIELD
AT |NWOOD GOLF
Has 220 for So HoIes-Jock
HutchiS0n Falls
to PA.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INWOOD, n. Y, July 14.-Bobby
Jones of Atlanta was leading for
the national open golf title when he
finished his first eighteen holes to-
day He went the round in as, max
ing his total 220 for 81 holes of the
72hole competition.
Jones chances for the title in
creased when Jock Hutchison. who
led Jones by two strokes yesterday,
went around this morning in 50 for
a 54-hole total of 224.
Hutchison started badly on the
very trst neie. where he took s,
using three puts. He recovered the
two lost strokes with brides on the
third and fifth, but again was in
sliced out of bounds. where he told
a S. Coming in. he was way off
form, taking Al strokes, six over par.
Chases Sparrow Birdie.
On the eleventh the gallery crowd
ed in close TO the green and Jock
took three puts in less than twenty
five feet for s, two over. par. Or
the short. water-hazard twelfth his
mashie- nibllck shot from the tee
plunked into the pond and he took
5.
BY this time Jock had lost his good
humor shown on the second hole.
when a sparrow alighted in front of
his putt and he chased II about the
green. while the gallery roared. IL
got a birdie" he shouted.
Hutchinson's card:
Out o. sss 44sS 5-tti1-sa
GnIlett Has :25.
Francis Gallett. young Scot of Port
Washington. n. Y, with a "a on his
first round. today had a total of 225.
five strokes worse than Bobby Jones.
Jones used up many precious
strokes. He had all sorts of poor
luck on the difficult short seventh.
including penalty shot.
Out 5 Al.
Jones finished his second nine to-
day in 35. after taking Al going out.
In-4 3 A 4 4 5 4-35-76.
Longest Drive of Tourney.
He was 1 under par for the Sec
ond nine when he passed the six
teenth hole. His tee shot on the
sixteenth was at the edge of the
green. one of the longest drives of
the tournament. His chipshot rim
med the cup, cheating him from an
eagle 2. He was down for a birdie.
Gene Sarazen, 1922 champion, gained
on the leaders with a 36, one under
par. He had brides on the fourth,
fifth and sixth.
Out. 5 4 5 4 4 2 3-36.
Sarazen, playing with Bobby Jones,
was over the Is in 73 for 54-hole
total Of 230.
In 4 "a s 4 5 4 4-37-73-230.
John Farrell, Mamaroneck, with 153
for Yesterdays So holes, was over the
first nine today in par 81.
Out. 4 3 5 6 4-37.
Farrell came home In the morning
round in SO for rs and a 54-hole
total of 22S.
In ...... s 8 "a 4 5 4-3S-75
William E. Mehlhorn. ST. Louis.
with 152 for the thil ty-six holes yes
terday, went out in the first nine
ON poUa CoInfpp
Evening star., 1923-07-14
AUTO TAG ROUNDUP
TO START MONDAY
Drivers With Unregistered
State Plates Will Be
Arrested.

A roundup of drivers operating
machines in Washington on out-of-
town tags without having registered
at the traffic bureau, will be started
Monday, Inspector Headley announc-
ed today.
He explained that during the
Shrine convention this registration
requirement was not insisted upon,
because of the large number of tour
lists. but that after tomorrow the
police will investigate all cases of
violations of the registration regula-
tions.
Under existing law. a visitor is
allowed to remain in Washington
for the same length of time his home
state grants to Washingtonians. The
tourist, however, is required to visit
the traffic bureau. 14th anu E streets
WITHIN three days Of his arrival and
register.
He receives without charge a small
tag TO be displayed on the machine
bearing the date on which his period
of reciprocity expires.
rms Tree registration tag was
ADOPTED SO that the policeman on the
street could tell when visitor had
Ieslstered The campaign to be in
ausurated next week will be aimed
! al those residents of Washington who
opeIate throughout the year on a
state tag, in order to avoid buyinp
MARYLAND and District tags.
Ihe inspector explained that bona
! nue residents of Virginia are permit
ted to drive into the District daily
under reciprocity.
Evening star., 1923-07-14
MOTHER TO SAIL
TO VISIT BERCDOLL
U. S. Sanctions Trip Abroad.
Disabled Veterans Object,
But Passport o. KID.

A passport will be issued by the
State Department to Mrs. Emma c.
Bergdoll of Philadelphia, who has
asked for permission to visit her son.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. fugitive
draft evader, in Germany.
The department decided to grant
her request when it was learned that
the alien property custodian, who
has charge of considerable amount
of the Bergdoll property, could see
no objection.
Objection to the issuance of a
passport was made in a telegram to
Secretary Hughes from James A. Nc
Farland, national commander of the
Disabled American Veterans, but de-
partment officials said that since Mrs.
Bergdoll was an American citizen
there appeared no legal ground for
refusing her request. Mr.. McFar-
lands message declared the men he
represented desired to protest
against any courtesies whatsoever
being extended to the Bergdoll
family
Evening star., 1923-07-14
200 DEAD IN 1910 FIRE.

SPOKANE. Wash, July 14.-Yester-
days fire in the Occur d'Alene lead
silver mining district brings to mind
the fire which in August. 1910, ragged
for weeks, costing the lives of about
200 persons and causing property
loss of a million dollars in Wallace,
Idaho, alone.
Driven 10y high winds. the flames
frequently travelled with incredible
swiftness, and burning embers,
whirled high by ascending columns
of superheated air, were carried long
distances to fire other sections of the
forests. The skies were palled by
day and lurid by night and gigantic
smok bands swept across the Rocky
mountains and spread over the Da-
kota plains.
Another tragedy to the two towns
was suffered the night of February
% of the same year, when snow
slides in the district took twenty-one
lives. Twelve of these were at Mace
and five at Burke.
Evening star., 1923-07-14
FLAMES DESTROY
SERVICE STATION
Arlington Motor Company
Building at End of Key
Bridge Is Burned.

Fire today practically destroyed
the Arlington Motor Companys
salesroom and service station To-
Gated at the Virginia end of the
Francis Scott Key bridge. burned up
eight Ford automobiles stored inside.
and threatening destruction to motor
row" and the lumber yard of Joseph
Cooper, nearby.
The fire was caused by the ignition
of some gasoline as it was being
drawn out of an automobile in the
service department. A workman,
whose name could not be obtained,
was draining the tank and was seen
to crawl out from under the auto1no-
bile with a blazing can of gasoline
in his hands. He rushed through the
center of the building and threw II
into the street, but his actions LETT
a blazing stream behind him. which
set fire to the entire premises.
Property Gutted
The property of the Arlington Motor
Company comprised a one-story con-
crete brick building with a passage
way through the center to a frame
structure wherein the automobiles and
spare parts were located. In the
brick building the offices of the COM
pany were housed and an automobile
display room was situated. This
property was completely gutted, only
the records being saved, while the
frame building to the rear was de-
stroyed beyond repair. Damage was
estimated by d. r. Collins, manager,
as about 100000. exclusive of the
automobiles All, however, was cover
AS soon as the flames were discover
ed an unknown woman called on the
telephone the Ballston, Clarendon and
Cherrydale fire departments. who
rived the smoke and flames were
visible for miles around. Engine
company No. and truck company
No. of the District fire department
went to the scene, and assisted in
fighting the fire and protecting the
frame buildings abutting either side.
Gas Tnnked Saved.
The flames leaped out in front of
the building and licked the gasoline
filling pump, but the tank beneath.
although in imminent danger of ex-
plosion, was saved. by the firemen.
AS far as could be learned only one
person was injured. Henry Bowers, a
member of the Ballst>Sa volunteer fire
department was Cut on the wrist by
glass when, it is said, he was thrown
through plate-glass window by the
force of water from a District hose.
Bowers was in the building near the
front fighting the fire when the Dis
trict firemen, according to witnesses,
attacked the blaze from the rear. The
blast of the hose struck Bowers and
carried him through the glass show
window. He was taken to George
town Hospital
The fire originated ahout 10.O5
O'Clock. and burned for more than
| three-quarters of an hour before 1t
was extinguished. Throughout the
I fight firemen poured water on frame
| dwelling on one side of the burning
motor company's place and likewise pro-
tected service station to the left of it.
A large lumber yard. the property of
Murphy G. Ames, also received atten-
| tion from the firemen as sparks flew
' over in it's direction.
Evening star., 1923-07-14
MINNESOTA BATTLE
HOTTER AT CLOSE
PreuS and Johnson MAKING
Last-Minute Pleas for
Big Vote.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, Mimi. July l4-The
three candidates seeking the United
States senatOrship from Minnesota In
Mondays election rounded into the
home stretch in their campaigning to-
day.
Gov. J. A. o. Preus. republican;
Magnus Johnson, farmer-labor, and
State Senator James A. Carley, demo
crat, sent out their last-minute ap-
peals to the voters, concluding with
plea for 100 per cent vote.
Much will depend on the size of the
ballet turout as to whether Mime
sofa will have two farmer-fabor sena.
tors or whether the republicans will
add to their slim margin of control
in the Senate.
Much Anxiety Felt.
Congressional leaders and Others
prominent in national politics are
eagerly awaiting the final returns
perhaps more SO than the residents o,
Will align himself with Henrik Ship
stead. farmer-labor senator from
Minnesota, and Senator Robert M
La Follette's progressive bloc.
Gov. Preus as a senator would add
strength to the Harding administra.
ton in Congress. He has the backine
of the republican senatorial cam.
paign committee and has indorsed the
Presidents program.
Look to 1924 Election.
Political leaders already are look.
ing forward to the 1924 election. The
senator elected Monday will serve
out the unexpired term of Knute Mel.
son, who died last May. The term ends
in March, 1925.
Whether the candidate chosen next
week will make the run again for the
long term will depend a great deal
it was said. on the total vote he
polls as well as his reception by the
state after his activities in the Sen.
ate. If Gov. Preus is elected the re-
publicans will be faced with the prob.
lem of obtaining a strong candidate
for the governorship in 1924. In the
meantime Louis L. Collins. "the lit.
tie corporal" who is now lieutenant
governor, would hold down the CHIEF
executives job, with the possibility
that he may be named to run as gov.
ernor against the farmer-labor candi.
date a year from next November.
Evening star., 1923-07-14
so Office Girls
Obey Edict "Put
On Some CIothes''

By the Associated Press.
WHITE PLAINS, n. Y, July IA
An edict against sleeveless dresses
and other evidence of scantiness
in apparel of feminine employees
has been issued by J. Crawford
Stevens. president of the West
chester Title and Trust Company.
He revealed today that he had
sent one girl home to "get some
clothes on" then he issued an ulti-
matum in the form of a note in
each pay envelope. Each of the
eighty girls was told to either
dress in a manner becoming to
business office or "get out
The effect was satisfactory. Mr..
Stevens said today the girls had
obeyed the order. ANY objections
to bobbed hair?" he was asked.
Not the slightest" came his re-
ply. But the costumes-well. one
had to do something"
Evening star., 1923-07-14
Father, Sisters and Miss
Ricketts,, Bookkeeper, Tes-
tify at Frederick, Md.
TEN MINUTES DELAY
IN REPORTING TRAGEDY
Witnesses Say Husband Regretted
Marriage and Spoke of
"Nagging."
by a STAFF Correspondent.

FREDERICK, Md. July 14.-The
wheels of justice today were slowly
unspinning strange circumstances sur
rounding the death of Mrs. Grace
Simmons Kepner, wealthy daughter
of a refined old Maryland family.
who was found dead in her bedroom
last June IS, with a bullet in her
BRAIN
Evidence in sharp contradiction to
that given by B. Evard Kepner, hus-
band Of the slain woman. before the
coroner's jury yesterday was offered
this morning by Mrs. Kepner's eigh-
ty-six-year-old father. Ezra Houck:
her two maiden sisters and Miss
Lulu Ricketts,. the pretty bookkeeper
with whom the husband was ad-
mittedly on friendly terms.
Three Outstanding Statements.
Having already obtained testimony
from three prominent surgeons and
an expert on firearms that it would
have been physically impossible for
Mrs. Kepner to have shot herself, as
was at first believed. State Attor-
ney Aaron r. Anders today drew
from witnesses three outstanding
statements:
1. That Mr.. kepner, the first per-
son to discover his wife's body, re-
manned In the room at least ten
minutes before sounding the alarm
and not ten or fifteen seconds, as he
had testified yesterday.
z. That the husband had remarked
on several occasions that the only
thing in his life he regretted was
the day he asked Grace Houck to
become his wife
j. That he told Miss Ricketts, that
he was damned good and tired of
this nagging" and that some day
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