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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-28

the bandits abandoned after the
murders, carried many finger
marks which are being checked up.
The Diamonds have admitted own.
crship of the car.
Platona, former teller at the bank
whose funds were stolen, is charged
with giving the bandits the in
formation that enabled them to in
tercept the bank messengers. He
said he was willing to tell all he
knew about the affair.
"It isn't much-I wasn't mixed
up in it," he declared.
Police say Platona confessed tell.
ing the Diamonds and several other
men, under threats, the amount the
messengers usually carried and their
route and schedule. He accused
the brothers Of planning the hold.
up. police said.
Platona was to have received 10
per cent of the loot, according to
police, but he denies he got any
of the $4,000.
When police raided the flat they
investigated an automobile standing
In front of the building. Thev
found number of Morris Dia-
mond's business cards in it. fhey
said.
Police today said they had ar.
counted for $4,000 of the S43 (10O
taken from Barlow and Mclaughlin
by the slayers. Part of the money.
it was stated, was in safety de.
post box in Cleveland, Ohio, where
Morris Diamond was arrested Sun.
day night
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Would Have Election cf Judges
Taken Out Of League's
Hands Other Features.
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES,
international News SERVES.


President CooIidge's first mes
sage to Congress, which is await
ed BY the nation with more in
terest than has attached to any
state paper in years, was finally
concluded today and placed in the
hands of the public printer, )
week in advance Of it's delivery.
Unusual secrecy has been OBJ
served in its preparation and not
even the Presidents closest ad-
visers are familiar with all Of the
provisions Of the document.
The President has consulted wide
~, but he has written it himself.
and as finished it represents the
advice of many administration
''best minds supplemented with
Coohdge's own observations as to
the state Of public opinion.
From reliable sources, 1t is under
stood that Coolidge has succeeded
in effecting a compromise on one
of the most politically troublesome
policies he has had to deal with II
the preparation of his first mes
sage-the. issue presented by the
question OF American entrance into
the Permanent Court of Interna-
tonal Justice organized under and
controlled by the League OF Ma
tons.
The President is expected in au-
thoritative Republican quarters t0
indorse American adherence 10 tno
court. as proposed by the late
president Harding, but accompanies
his Endorsement with the recon-
nnendation that distinct reserva-
tons be attached that are cal'
culated to remove some of the prIA
emf features that are "objectte~
able to many Republicans.
Has Consulted Foes.
These objectionable features" are
mainly concerned with the manner
of election of judges. As the couIt
is now constituted, the League
Council and assembly elects ene
Judges and to a considerable extent
exercises supervision over its entire
structure-a fact which prevented
senate ratification of the proJecI
when ii was first brought FORWARD
by the late President Harding.
Coolidge has been in frequent con.
sultation during the past few days
with some of the courts most bitter
foes and as q, result it is understood
he has decided to recommend Ameri-
can adherence to the court on con-
dition that the power to elect Judges
be transferred from the League 70
the court itself or reposed in a sepa-
rate international commission to be
appointed by the participating pow
ers. This would automatically re-
move most Of the objections voiced
against the proposal by Senate irrec.
oncilables.
Depends Now ON Powers.
It Is believed that, with these con.
ditions, which would largely remove
the court from the Leagues domino.
ton, the present pronounced opposl.
ton to the court would gradually
disappear and Americas entrance
then would become contingent upon
the willingness Of the present pow
ers to mako the changes In it, con-
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s EFFECT.
ONJAP NAVY
DISCLOSED
Official Reveals Extent OF Dis
aster-NavaI Budget
Estimate Cut.
By DUKE NJ, PARRY,
International News Service.
tCopyrighG 1928. by International


TOKYO, Nov. 28.-"The Jap
anese navy, while suffering with
all other departments of the
Japanese government, has plans to
make a speedy return to it's pre-
earthquake status. While the
work on the auxiliary shipping,
construction of submarines and
aircraft, must be closed down as
a result of the September disaster,
and the resultant need for economy
in all departments, the actual
strength of the Japanese navy
has not been dangerously injured
by the recent events"
This was the declaration today
OF Admiral Takeshi Takarabe,
minister of the navy, who told
something of the damage done
Yokosuka, Japan's great naval
base in an interview today with
international News Service.
Navy Meets Emergency.
The navy" he continued. being
maze up of good sailors, meets the
present emergency as good sailors
the world over meet the emergency
1t postpones some of it's work, cuts
us budget request for 1923.1924,. and
hopes that its action may. materially
help in the post-earthuuake come.
back of Japan"
Listing the damage done at
Yokosuka and at other navy places
Admiral Takarabe- pointed out that
the damage done the floating power
AFTER all the great power Of any
navy, had been small. He said:
"As we have notified the Wash
ington treaty powers, the Amagi, ar
ex-battle cruiser, which the treaty
powers agreed might be trans
formed into an airplane carrier was
SO badly damaged in the quake
That 1t has been decided to abandon
that ship, and to use for this pur
pose instead, the battleship Kaga
which, according to the Washington
treaties, was to have been scrapped
This ship, with the Naka, a light
cruiser, which was practically com
pleted at Yokohama and was al
put destroyed in the fire which
swept the docks there, represent thu
greatest damage done the foatinf
poWexs
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Names hardly matter, but the facts
the police learned have been substan-
tiated by the Minneapolis Journal,
which today told the story in copy
righted article.
II was more than three years ago
that she came to hotel here, accom-.
panied by a man, ostensibly her nus
band, who carried a crying baby.
They wanted room indefinitely
and were given No. $40.
From that day no one ever saw
the woman outside her room. Guests
in adjacent rooms, heard a baby pratt
tie and a mother Groom. The months
rolled into years, the prattle became
childish voice and a little boy
pressed his nose against the window
pane to view the mysterious out.
doors.
Her husband travelled, he said,
and his stays at the hotel were IN
FREQUENT and brief. The woman ate
in her room and ordered from shops
by telephone. Her accounts always
were paid promptly.
Then: by chance, detectives heard
of ''the lady in So" On her legal
authority a police woman entered
the room and from the pale woman
of mystery gradually drew her story.
1t was that of a woman OF
twenty, whose misfortune, when a
college girl of seventeen, had
prompted a vow that never would
she leave the hotel room until a
wedding band circled her finger.
And so through the years she had
waited and hoped.
In, the police chiefs office she
told her story n 4 voice that fa2'
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District Attorney Charles
Dodd, of. Brooklyn, announced the
brothers had denied firing rhe
shots that killed the two messen-
gers and named three gunner as
the actual killers. @. WI.
Police have broadcast descriptions
of the three named by the Dia-
monds to police throughout the
country.
Swooping down today on flat
in the Bronx, which police say was
the Matching place Of the hold-up
and murder, detectives arrested BLK
men.
This brought the total haul Of the
police dragnet to nine.
Anthony J. Platoua waa aFrested
today as an alleged Tip Off man in
the case.
PIatona also is charged with
homicide and robbery.
Two of the six men probably
will be released, police said. The
other four have police records. and
one was released from Jail yester.
day.
We have important information
which We believe these men can
verify" detectives declared. The
prisoners gave their names as An,
cello Ferini, Michael Luciani, alias
Cheek" Michael Mezzano, Edward
Capobianco, Vincenzo Lenni and
Cragia Casertta. The two latter
will be freed, 1t was said.
Finger prints Of the men were
made The hloodstained car, which
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THREE HURT IN 100000
WATER FRONT BLAZE

DETROIT, Nov. 28.-One fireman
was injured. perhaps. fatally. anoth.
er dangerously gashed, a Waterman
burned and one person carried to
safety in river front fire early
today. Damage was estimated at
$500, 900.
The Detroit and Windsor Ferry
Company docks. the United States
customs offices, the United States
immigration offices, and the Detroit
and Windsor Ferry Company OF.
fices were completely destroyed and
the H. Finsterwald Furniture Com
pany warehouse Quilted.
The fire Is believed to have
started kyeHR - oVaEheataA eenNA
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Love Ends Mystery Of
''Lady in $40"

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov 28-Police have solved the mystery
of the lady in 51O wedding in the Courthouse today
tore aside the had kept the gosip tongues waggng
r than
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-28
5 CYPSIEs QUESTIONED
IN BOYS KIDNAPPING

NEW YORK, Nov 2S.-Federal
agents announced that they were
running down another clue in the
KIDNAPPING of Jimmie. Glass. who
disappeared from his Philadelphia
home in May, 1915, when they qdes-
toned five. gypsy women under ar.
rest in Brooklyn on charges Of theft
The women, the authorities said,
had been living at Jamaica, L. l.,
for several years, and were believed
to have been acquainted with a
gypsy known as Cruz, who has long
been sought in connection with tine
case.
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''MIND READ" BY MAN,
SHE ASKS HIS ARREST

NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-Because
aLman has been able to read her
mind accurately and to anticipate
everything she does or thinks, Mrs.
Felicfte Walsh in a Newark court
asked that he be arrested.
Mrs. Walsh said she had been
forced to place herself under a doc
tors care because of the mans
strange gift. Judge Boettner issued
a summons for him to appear.
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tered and with eyes that blinked
away tears. Nearby her husband"
sat silently; wan-cheeked, curious
eyed boy nearly four at her skirts.
Then came the solution. The man,
without a word but with a new light
in his eyes, touched the woman's
arm.s Together they went to the
wedding license bureau two floor
above, and the woman became his
legal wife and the little boy gained
q name.
Today the windows in room $40
were dark and gossips' tongues were
stilled as a man and his wife start.
ed on a belated honeymoon and a
boy of four learned of street cars
and outdoor things.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-28
RAILWAY WRECK LAID
TO BRIDGE WASHoUT

The derailment of a passenger
train on the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy Railroad, near Lockett, Wyo.,
on September 81, resulting in the
death of twenty-one persons and the
injury of two, was caused either by
bridge being washed away or to its
being so weakened as to cause its
collapse under the weight of the
train, according to a report SUBJ
mitted to the interstate Commerce
Commission today by the Bureau of
Safety.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-28

Senator Raps Coolidge Foreign
Policy Favors Bonus
and Cut IL Taxes.

CHICAGO, Nov. IS. Senator
Hiram Johnson's campaign for
the Presidency began in earnest
today with the broadside against
the present Administrations for
eign policy as the first blast and
with the promise of succeeding
rounds on:
IA firm stand for the soldier
bonus and immediate reduction of
tax rates on incomes of the lower
classes.
2-Relief for farmers through
Government aid in cooperative
marketing and in reduced freight
rates, but opposition to the ex-
tension of direct financial aid by
price-fxing or by Government
participation in wheat marketing.
3. Criticism Of the United
States Supreme Court for the
rulings on the minimum wage
law for women and the child
labor act and the proposal of an
amendment to the Constitution
to make these laws effective.
His Words Broadcast.
Without. mentioning Secretary
Hughes by name, Senator johnson
tore into the PREPARATIONS proposals
in the first public address of the
Californian since his announcement
for the Presidency johnson was
shonor guest at the annual banquet
Of the Cook County Real Estate
Board. ..,......
Johnson's opening campaign adj
dress was, heard by 900 persons at
the banquet and also was broad
cast to the Midwest by radio.
It is the first time that a states
man of presidential size has en-
ployed the. scalpel unsparingly in
warning the American people
against the "naneuvers Of the in
ternationalists," with respect to
reparatinns.,
"This," he declared emphatically,
is transparent subterfuge by gentle.
men who, having tried and failed to
put us in secretly through the
League OF Nations, now wish to get
us into the politics of Europe
through the indirect road of pre-
tending that PREPARATIONS would not. /"
Flags Statistician.
The Senator analysed the plea
that Europe needed an, American
statistician to figue up what Ger
many should pay. He said the
proposal was absurd.
"Who of u.s." he said, sis so weak
witted as to be deceived by this
maneuver, that in economics and
mathematics Europe must send for
an American"
"If Europe wants ali American on
the reparations commission" he
added, it is for some other reason
than simply because he can read
and write and cipher"
1T ia Johnson's judgment that
when it. is. comes to ciphering, Eu-
rope has plenty OF men who ran
figure all around the average states
man sent over by this Government.
Stripped of all pretense, he le-
cIared, tha PREPARATIONS proposal of
the present government lis simply
another effort to. get the United
States into European politics with
"If we get in at ALL he said.
1--WE have to so through"
In support Of this prophecy he
Continued On PAGE Z. c0luna u
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SOC, 900 BLAZE HURTS
TWO; GUSTS 20 FAMILIES

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 2S.-Two
firemen were slightly injured and
twenty families driven from their
homes early today when fire parti-
ally destroyed the main plant of the
Phillips Mine and Mill Supply Com
pany, ION the South Side here, caus.
ing a loss of nearly 100000.
The fire started on the second
0oor from an undetermined cause.
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Family Dest itute.
WOMAN WINS So, 500 IN
AUTO INJURIES SUIT

A verdict for $500 was awarded
yesterday by a jury in Circuit
Court No. / to Annie S. Van de
Water in her suit against Samuel
Alley for alleged personal injuries.
Through Attorneys Lambert &
Yeatman. the plaintiff declared she
was struck by Alleys automobile,
Nav %, 1920, at Twenty-fifth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-28
ORDERS
BERLIN REDS
TOR|OT
Five Seriously Wounded in.
Demonstration Staged by
Communists.
BY S. d. WEYER,
International News Service.

BERLIN, Nov. 28.-Four police
men and one civilian were serious
ly wounded here today in riots
during a demonstration by Ger
man communists. 1t is under
stood the order to conduc, the
demonstration came direct from
Moscow.
Seventy ring leaders were ar
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
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PURCHASER
To PAY To
FATHER
81, 600
Mother Flees With Destitute
Family to Stop Carrying
Out Bargain.
81 Internatlenal sew servlce.

d AAA4EFAAz&&AS4tMA 1sCtsB S%ANAGSs -
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. D.
The alleged sale of q twelve-year=
old girl by her father to Mus
tapha Garrett, forty-five, of Can
ton, Ohio, for $1,000, payable on
the installment plan, was being
investigated by police here today
while the girl, Amelia Ahmed.
her mother, Mrs. Mohammed All
med, thirty-five, of Arnold, Pa,
and her nine children are being
detained in the matron's depart
nent of a police station.
Family Destitute
The family was brought here
from Highland Park Mich, where
destitute. after the father and lie
alleged purchaser of the girl had
been Jailed in Canton, Ohio. they
came to the attention of the poor
authorities. Federal authorities will
be given the case today.
The girl told police the sale sas
negotiated in the Ahmed home in
Arnold, following which her father
took her to Canton ito make deliv-
cry" The mother, suspicious, fol-
lowed, found the girl and fled with
her and other members of the
family to Highland Park.
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in NelU York
Holdup and Staying
By International News Service.

NEW YORK, Nov 28.-Complete confessions were made
today by Morris Joseph Diamond brothers, charged
with homicide robbery in the 900 hodup and MUIR
der two bank messengers in Brooklyn November ID
, 1923-04-09

1t was announced in the Lutheran
Church yesterday that the Rev. A. Jen-
sen viii preach his farewell sermon at
he morning service on Sunday the 22nd
inst. and that a Song Service will be held
in the evening.
A Confirmation Service was held in
the Moravian Church OF this town last
evening.
The s. s. Marina with mails and pas
sengers called here on Saturday after
moor and returned to Porto Rico via
Fredariksted and St. Thomas yesterday.
The U. S. S. Grebe paid a flying visit
to this port on Saturday tor a deputation
of the Colonial Council, consisting of the
Chairman, the secretary and seven
members of that body, also the clerk of
, 1923-04-09

the Council r. Fraderiks to meet the sec
rotary Of the navy and a party Of sena-
tors at ST. Thomas yesterday. The
gentlemen return today on the Grabe.
No statements have been issued by the
Colonial Council as to what it had for
muIated to represent to the congressi0n~
al party in the interest Of the commu-
nifty.
The Gre0a brought some mail from St.
Thomas and carried some on her return.
Miss Vivian PEBBLES Of this town has
been given appointment as matron at
Richmond Penitentiary.
Tonight there will be screened another
instalment of the Sky Rangers at the
Christiansted Theatre. The programme
consists Of two episodes and two comics
, 1923-04-09
EDITORIAL

1t is puzzling to understand how the
Tribune could have drawn the conclusion
that this paper is opposed to the present
navy administration after reading our
editorial of last Friday, in which 1t was
rather clearly stated that under the pre-
vailing economic depression in the is
lands financial affairs, tie form of gov
, 1923-04-09

close for the States via ST. Thomas
by Munson S. S. Southern Cross at
800 p. m. tomorrow, April 10th.
Evening star., 1923-09-21
LOCAL STATIONS. /.

J
! NAA--NavaI Radio station. Radio, Va.
(435 MeterS).
1925 p.m.--Complete live stock mar
ket comment.
S:45 p.m.-Weather bureau report.
4:O5 p.m.-Crop report and special
items.
4:25 pm.--Dairy market report.
1906 p.m.-Weather bureau re-
port.
wIL-ContinentnI Electric Company
1850 Meters)
Station closed temporarily pending
repairs.
WAIU-DcubIeday-H Electric Conf
pany (26h Meters).
4:30 to $3.50 p.m.-Musical program;
base ball scores.
WJH-willinm p. Boyer Co. t2!3
Meters1.
to 4 p.m.-Market reports; music.
wCAP-Chesapcake and Potomac
Telephone Company t469 Meters).
Silent.
WRC-RadiO Corporation of America
(469 Meters).
p.m.-Children's and parents
hour, by Marietta Stockard Albion.
= Army and Navy Night.
s p.m.-A talk on the Army by Col.
William K. Naylor, chief of military
intelligence of the general staf'
United States Army.
$40 p.m.-Concert by the jazz or
chestra of the United States Army
Band, under the direction of l., ).
Yassel.
(a) Fox trot, She's Go Another
Daddy"
(b) Fox trot. wonderful Child"
(c) Waltz, Beautiful Rose" :
(d) Fox trot, Always Looking for
Little Sunshine"
(e) Fox trot, Home"
(f) Waltz, Just Little Gold
Watch and Chain"
(g) Fox trot. Stories"
(h) Fox trot. Dangerous Blues"
9:10 p.m-A talk on the Navy by
Capt. Luke McNamee, director of
naval intelligence of the United
States Navy.
s:2o p.m.-Concert by the United
States Navy Orchestra, under direc
tion of Charles Benter.
Program.
(a) March, Anchors Aweigh,'
Zimmerman
(b) Overture, "Orpheus" Offenbach
(c) Ballet, "Egytien". .Luigini
NuJ MeuieN, song troIn tne Olu
(e) Suite of popular songs.
GD Grand scenes from the opera
Bohemian Girl. Balfe
CD Valse de concert, "Pomone," -
Waldteufel
(h) March, Secretary of the Navy"
Benter
Dedicated by the Hon. Edwin Denby
DISTANT STATIONS.
All Programs Scheduled for Eastern
Standard fine.
WJZ-Ncw York (4J5 Meters).
sos p.m.-"Song Stories for the
Kiddies," by Agnes Leonard.
$50 p.m.-Final base ball scores.
6:35 pm.-"Sports." by William J.
Slocum
6:45 p.n.-Looseleaf current topics.
p.m.-Concert by the Police Band
of New York city.
8 p.m.-Edith Heinlein, pianist. 4
Evening star., 1923-09-21
GNU. FOOT BALL PLAYER
ANSWERS DIVORCE SUIT

.Befnsrd Licarione. former foot ball
player of George Washington Uni
versity and the Mohawk Athletic
Club, yesterday filed in the District Su-
preme Court his answer to the suit
of Mrs. Gertrude c. Licarione for a
limited divorce on the grounds of
cruelty and desertion.
Licarione deciares his wife's allie
CATION of cruel Treatment is founded
on Imagination, but he ayers he has
had on two occasions to demonstrate
in physical way with admirers of
his wife, who were surprised by the
husband. The last such incident, ac-
cording to the husband. occurred at
I'd and East Capitol streets, when
Licarione overlook his wife riding in
the automobile of another man. The
husband mentions the fact also that
previously he encountered a marine
In his home upon an unexpected call.
He denies the wifes allegation that
he is the owner of an automobile
and holds a lucrative position At
torneys Bertrand Emerson, jr., and
Raymond Neudecker appear for the
husband.
Evening star., 1923-09-21
AIDS UNIVERSITY FUND.

Mrs. Frances MouIson, 37O0 oliver
street northwest, has been appoint
ed chairman of the District of Column
bia womens committee assisting
Northwestern University in a s5,O50,-
900 campaign for endowment and
new buildings. She will work in
conjunction with Judge Isaac r. Hit,
1904 Mckinley street, who will con-
duct the general campaign in Wash
ington
Evening star., 1923-09-21
Radio News

An Army and Navy night" pro-
gram viii. be broadcast tonight by
WRC. the Radio Corporation of
America station. The program in
cludes, addresses by the chiefs of in
telligence branches of both services
and a concert by the Navy Orchestra
and the Army Band Jazz Orchestra.
WEAR in Baltimore will broadcast
tonight program by the Banneker
Radio Club of Maryland, the only
colored radio club in the state. The
numbers include songs by the glee
club vocal and instrumental selec-
tions and addresses.
Evening star., 1923-09-21
MRS. c. v. ,FAUNTLERoY DIES.

Mrs. Clara Virginia Fauntleroy, wife
OF Richard Fauntleroy, died at the
family home in Middleburg, Va, Sep
tember Is. aged forty-ssTen years
The funeral was held at the home
yesterday and the interment was in
Shiloh cemetery. Middleburg. The
Rev. DR.. Lake of1ciated. Mrs. Faun-
tleroy is survived by her husband and
six Children
Evening star., 1923-09-21

$3.50 -p.m.-Farmers' evening; ad-
dress to the farmers by Frank e.
Mullen.
6:45 pm.-Children's period.
p.m.-Base ball Gcores; farm pro-
gram continued.
7:20 p.m.--Concert by Edith Jen-
ktns, yiolinist;> Eva Spencer, So
prano; Matthew Frey, pianist.
S:45 p.m.--Farmer market report.