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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-20
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Evening star., 1924-11-25

Buffalo teams used in Asia Minor
travel at the rate of a mile and a half
an hour
Evening star., 1924-11-25
GREAT CROWD ATTENDS
FUNERAL Of CARDINAL
All Parts Of Ireland Represented at
Rites for Primate Logue
at Armagh.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ARMAGH. Ireland, November 25.--
This was a city of mourning today
the occasion being the funeral Of
Cardinal Michael Logue, primate OF
all Ireland, who died last Wednesd sday.
Despite a heavy rain, thousands
came here to attend the obsequies.
The crowds would have been larger
had it not been for a railway mis-
hap which held up many hundreds at
kedy station. Virtually all Of Ire
land was represented. the mourners
coming from Dublin. Belfast, Derry
and other outlying points.
The burial was preceded by the
celebration of a pontifical mass in St
Patrick's Cathedral. The cathedral
was draped in black and white, while
the pillars along the approach to the
edifice were also encased in somber
wrappings. Almost every one wore
mourning symbol. and so great was
the desire to attend the services that
many had to be content with kneeling
on the long tier Of steps leading to
the central aisle.
There were 500 priests at the cere-
monies. The Free State government
was represented by Gov. Gen. Timothy
Healy, Kevin O'Higgins, minister for
home affairs, and Desmond Fitzgerald,
minister for foreign affairs.
primate was closely associated for 4C
years, business was entirely suspend
ed for two hours.
Evening star., 1924-11-25
TWOROOSEVE[TS
|. NAMED IN OIL SUIT
Archie and Kermit Among De.
PENDANTS in $215,OOO Ac-
tion Against Sinclair.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 25.-Sui,
for $4,000 was begun yesterday in
the Supreme Court, when summons
ana complaints were filed against
George l.. lTeX) Rickard. Archibald
Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt. w
Forbes Morgan, one Smith, whose first
name is unknown to the plaintiff, and
the Sinclair Consolidated Explora-
ton Company.
aHiberto Blanco- Fombona, the plain
tiff. alleges through former Supreme
Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan. that
the money is due him for services
rendered in obtaining Guatemalan Oil
concessions and bringing about re-
vision of the laws of the republic OF
Guatemala to permit foreign corpora
tions and associations to hold larger
concessions than were formerly legal
ized.
According to Blanco-Fombona, he
entered the service of the Sinclair
Exploration Company in 1922. and
went to Panama to obtain Conces-
Sions and amendment of the law gov
erning concessions. In February, 1928
he was notified by the Sinclair Com
pany, he alleges, TO take up nego-
tiations with responsible parties in
New York by cabling Kermit He
did so and subsequently, he allages.
the defendants engaged him to work
for them.
lie labored effectively for the de-
PENDANTS, he states, but they failed To
live up to their agreemnt. with the
result that concessions that he had
outained were turned over to others
Evening star., 1924-11-25
SKIN SOON CLEARED
BY USING SULPHUR

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out of the skin,
l even fiery. itching
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Ion begins at once to
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worm.
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Evening star., 1924-11-25
REFORM OF CUSTOMS
ANNOUNCED BY LEAGUE
Secretary Notifies Treaty Makers
Simplifcation Agreements Eff
fective Thursday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA. November 25.-The -coun-
tries. including the. United States,
which took part in the customs con-
ference at Geneva have been notified
by, Sir Eric Drummond, secretary
general of the League of Nations,
that the convention for the simplifi-
cation of customs formalities nego-
tiated at that conference will come
into force Thursday, November 27.
The convention was signed by "a
states and has been ratified by seven.
It's provisions stipulated that 1t would
become perative 80. days after it's
ratification by five states.
The United States has not yet
signed the convention and the league
officials are inQuiring as to Ameri
cas- probable attitude. Although
Anne rican representatives participat-
ed in the conference, they were not
present in the capacity of official del
egates.
Evening star., 1924-11-25
BRIDGMAN is HONORED.
Memorial Meetings Held for Late
Publisher.

NEW YORK, November 25.--Cnder
the Craftsmanship of DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler. president of Column
bia University, national memorial
meeting was: held last night by the
Psi Epsilon College Fraternity at the
Lotus club in honor of the late Her.
bert l.. Bridgman, for many years
manag ger of the Brooklyn Standard
Union and formerly president of the
American Newspaper Publishers AS
sociation. He had been president of
the fraternity 40 years.
Chief Justice Taft Chauncey NJ. De-
pew, the oldest living member of
Psi Epsilon, and a number of other
distinguished alumni sent letters of
appreciation. Memorial meetings
were also held last night in all of
the fraternity chapters throughout
the United States.
Evening star., 1924-11-25
SOVIET GETSSHARP
NOTEFROM BRITAIN
Authenticity of Zinovieff Let
ter Asserted in Communi-
cation to Moscow.
BY the Associa ted Press.

By the Associa ted Press
MOSCOW, November 25.-The Soviet
government has received note from
the British government asserting the
authenticity of the Zin6vieff letter.
The note is alleged to be couched in
Sharp terms.
Several days ago the British gov
ernment made public communications
addressed to the Soviet representa-
tive in London, M. Rakovsky, which,
in effect, stated that the new ad-
ministration did not intend to ratify
the treaties concluded with the
Soviet by the ministry headed by
Ramsay Macdonald, and that the
government stood on the authenticity
OF the Zinovieff letter. The tone of
the communication with regard to
the Zinovieff affair was described as
not calculated to aggravate the rela-
tions between the two governments,
although it fully supported the line
taken by Mr.. Macdonald toward
Soviet propaganda.
Evening star., 1924-11-25
GRAPE FRUIT FOR LONDON.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. November 25
The first shipment in 80 years of
Florida grapefruit for the London
market is loaded in the American
Palmetto liner Minnequa and will
clear today. The shipment consists
of 1000 boxes of fruit, mostly pelican
grape fruit, but including 100 boxes
Of oranges.
Thirty years ago 10000 boxes Of
citrus fruits were shipped from Fer
nandina, but the experiment proved
successful only 50 far as introducing
the fruit was concerned. The ship
ture.
Growers said that they expected to
create a market in England for the
fruit.
Evening star., 1924-11-25
ONE MAN HELD IN LIQUOR
THEFT AT LETTER HOME
Savia Calantonio Of Boston Arrest.
ed After Eight Escaped
From Police.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
BEVERLY, Mass, November c5.-
Savia Calantonio of Boston, was
charged last night with larceny and
with breaking and entering in con-
nection with raids Saturday and yes
terday on the wine cellar on the
estate of Joseph Letter Of Chicago, in
which thieves made Off with hauls of
liquor worth $4,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively.
Calantonio was taken. into custody
by the Beverly police after a band
Of eight men who had been arrested
as they were driving away with the
last of the liquor obtained from the
Letter cellar escaped in the police
automobile. They left behind them
the liquor loaded truck which had
been stalled as 1t was being driven
to the police station.
Evening star., 1924-11-25
5000 at Fascist Farley.

ROME, November 25.-A congress
of Fascist corporations attended by
5000 delegates, representing 1000, 900
organized workers. opened here yes
terday. A letter from Premier Mus
solini was read in which he declared
that the aim Of Fascist trade union
ism was to reconcile the interests of
all who were contributing to the well
fare and wealth Of the nation.
Evening star., 1924-11-25

Fine-grade Lace Curtains. by
the pair. or silk fringed panel
curtains, including the famous
Quaker Lace Co.'S products, in
white. ivory or ecru colors: 2h
and yards long: many patterns
exact copies of the most costly
real laces.
Evening star., 1924-11-25

ment. and you do not have to wait tor
relief from embarrassment. Improve
ment quickly shows. Sufferers from
skin trouble should obtain small jar
of Rowles Mentho- Sulphur from any
good druggist and use it like cold
cream.
Evening star., 1924-11-25

Unskilled workers in the building Z
trades of Germany are now paid the
equivalent of $5.76 for q week of 54
hours.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-13

prisoner. working faithfully and
well. obeying every order of the
keepers.
He had only few minutes every
now and then in which to work at
his scheme OF escape, such as when
the keepers head was turned or
when he absented himself for a few
minutes. Still. the time was used
wisely. He pried up in q corner a
section of the solid flooring. Every
day he took a small quantity of the
earth from the hole, mixed it up
with the coal he was burning and
cast 1t into the furnace.
A Mystery for Years.
For months he worked at his task.
until at last he completed tunnel
about 10 feet long. leading against
a great sewage pipe that carried OF
all the refuse OF the institution.
Finally the day came when he de-
cided TO make his escape. He went
into the hole, fastened the loose
stone into place by means Of pieces
of wood, broke into the sewer and
swan into the Hudson.
For number of years his disap-
pearance was a complete mystery to
the prison authorities. It seemed as
though he had simply dissolved into
thin air and disappeared; then they
made repairs to the sewer and the
secret was discovered. He was new
er recaptured.
Carl Faby, 25 years old. made his
escape by passing himself OF as a
visitor. Faby, who was German
baker by trade and who was serving
a six-year sentence. used his head.
A series of unusual condolences
we're also in his favor.
Faby was a "trustie," whose duty
1t was to sweep the corridor and
clean the brass work around the
tiers of cells. More than that, he
was allowed to go into the keepers
office to do little jobs or get ma
terials for his work. One day an
Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-13
I RAILBREAKING Is a fascina

YAIL-BREAKING is a fascinating
subject Who does not remem-
Der the stories of remarkable
tunnels. of infinite patience. Of free
1om after years of effort, the scaling
IF great walls. of problems with al
most superhuman skill?
But We are to believe the records
Of the various jails. 1t does the con-
vict very little good to attempt to
escspe. All but 10 per cent of them
are eventually returned to their cells
and with sentences just SO much
longer for the attempt. 1t is almost
IN axiom that the jail-breaker Is al
ways recaptured. However there are
ixceptions.
Planned Month Ahead.
Consider the escape Of one Thomas
Thompson from Sing Sing. His SEN
senos. piled up by an aggregate Of Of
lenses, amounted to between 15 and
Is years. but Thompson resolved new
er to serve them. His was MASTER
mind and no philosopher pondering
upon subject of the most abstruse
depth, ever thought more seriously
ortto better point than he. Day after
lay, as he went to and fro In the
prison, he surveyed every crack,
svery joint every popularity Of
sonstructio.l He amassed a great
amount OF data and by a process of
reasoning. as clever as ever employed
" : convict built a plan of escape.
He made up his mind that the
,aeiest way Of getting out of prison
would be By means of the fire and
snG1ns room he built his plans ac-
cordlngly. He let it be known that
be had one time or other served as
droman and begged that he be
given that task in the prison. Now,
this was rather unusual, for the
prisoners detested the dirty work of
the power house and everyone tried
TO dodge It; but here was Thompson
tctually seeking 1t out. Still his re-
l1ogt was granted. He was a model
Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-13
risoners DeDise Thrilling Methods Of Escape
But Only Small Percentage Are
Ultimately Successful

One day he got into . barrel, the
other convicts headed It up and he
was sonsiened out OF the prison. the
barrels were standing on the deck
Of steamboat. After q certain
amount Of time had elapsed Kohler.
who had tools in the barrel with him,
knocked on the head and came forth.
Some Of the crew saw him and gave
chase but he succeeded in swim
ming to the opposite bank Of the
river and got away. Fifteen years
later he was returned to the same
prison from whence he had escaped
on another charge
Set Fire to Shoe Shop.
About 10 years ago . notorious
English forger was sent up to Sing
Sing for . long term- He was known
as Charles J. Williamson and had .
long and black record behind him.
Ono day he and "Steve" Boyle, an
other desperado. set the shoe shop
afre and escaped in the confusion.
Boyle was recaptured, but Will
hanson got to England. from whence
he mailed q letter to his former
keeper. taunting him and making all
manner Of fun OF his efforts to keep
him penned up. Extradition laws
were a bit hazy at the time and moth
ing could be done with him. He.
however. succeeded IN getting into
trouble in England and to escape q
jail term in that country returned to
the United States, where he was re-
arrested and made to serve out his
incompleted term.
The use Of a dummy Is q favorite
way Of escaping the watchfulnessI of
the keepers. Holland, an English
burglar. imprisoned in a Massachu-
setts prison. used this method of
escaping. When every man returned
to his cell In the evening he was re-
Quired. after being locked IN. to
come to the door Of the cell when
his name was called. Holland SIM
ulated being sick-very sick, and he
was not compelled to appear at the
door Of the cell. The keeper was q
humane man and. seeing the convict
so> Sick, finally came to permit him
Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-13

ilton drove the machine. The keep
ers. seeing the familiar white beard
of the contractor passing BY. hardly
gave the rig moments notice. A
short time later the absence Of the
convicts was noted and armed men
spread over the countryside, with the
result that they were captured two
hours later.
Escaped Seven Times.
There are some men whom Jail. 1t
seems, can not hold. Such a man
was the one-time notorious. Gustave
F. Kindt, expert iron and steel work.
er by trade and burglar by prefer
ence. He had the record Of breaking
from seven prisons In the United
States and Canada, including two
escapes from Sing Sing. On one oc-
casion he succeeded In making acid
In his cell and eating the iron bars
through with the chemical. just how
he made the acid has never been sat
isfactorily explained. On another
occasion he set out to make coun-
terfeit money in prison and did 1t so
cleverly that he succeeded in bribing
the keeper with $500 of fake money
to count him present while he stayed
in the shop and filed through the
iron bars Of window.
The story Of Jack Sheppard's at
tempted escapes from Sing Sing is
rather humorous. His method was to
hide himself in a trash barrel and
gradually allow himself to be showed
under as it were, with rubbish, hop
ing to be carried out and deposited
upon the junk heap. Once he was
betrayed because of the heaviness Of
the otherwise light barrel of Junk;
another time he was discovered
when the stuff was dumped, while at
third attempt he got as far as New
York City. Each time he was re-
turned from where he had come.
Frank Koehler was another man
Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-13

opportunity for which he had been
looking for so long arrived. A large
party OF visitors was being escorted
through the halls. They were about
to leave. Faby, favored by the alb
sence of the keeper, ran into the Of
fee pulled on a pair of dark trousers
he found hanging there, donned red
sweater, but could find no hat.
He mingled with the visitors and
succeeded In passing the prison
gates, even in spite Of the close in
spection of each face made by a
keeper as the crowd passed into the
street. Two months later he return
ed to prison to serve his term.
Built Ladder.
Homer Cleveland Virgins, serving
20 years for murder, and Charles
Taylor. in for seven years for burg
larry and counterfeiting. escaped by
using ladder and rope to scale the
outer wall and descend again to the
street. The men were employed In
the woodworking department, and
while there secretly made the lad
der. 1t was in sections, so made that
1t could be quickly Joined together.
Each day the men would work on a
certain part of the ladder, hiding the
sections in their mattress.
Finally the zero hour approached.
The day before they had removed the
lock from one Of the cells, substitute
ing a finely-painted wooden one in
its place. About o'clock in the
morning, just after the keeper had
made a trip of inspection. Virgins
arose from his cot, stole from his
cell and opened up the cell of Tay-
lor. The ladder was placed on a
fre-escape and the men crawled to
the roof. where they descended to
the courtyard.
At that time. the courtyard was
filled with Siberian bloodhounds, but
the so-called terrible creatures made
not the slightest noise. The men
reached the wall. erected their lad
Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-13

der again, got to tho top Of the wall.
and swung to the street and safety
by means Of rope. They had been
furnished with clothes by some one
from the outside and made a perfect
ly clean getaway. no one having
ever reported seeing them. The
first notice OF the mems escape was
given by the sight Of the ladder
standing against the wall.
Two TRUSTEES.
The story of how John Curry and
Tony Hamilton got out Of New
Jersey prison is a very humorous
episode.
Curry and Hamilton were two
TRUSTEES. as are so many of the Jail
breakers. They cleaned up the Jail
Offices. and within those limits had
free range of tho place. They were
pretty clever fellows and knew how
to take advantage of opportunities
that offered themselves. 1t seems
that contractor who had the con-
tract Of supplying stuff at the Jail
was accustomed to drive into the
courtyard in his nivver and spend a
certain amount Of time each day in
the offices doing business with the
officials. Curry and Hamilton no.
ticed that the contractor was aged
and that his pride was large, old
fashioned white beard.
The two convicts gathered together
everything that looked like white
hair and in time constructed an ex-
cellent white beard. One day while
working In the office and while the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-13

even worse than usual. permits
him to sleep on. Several hours latel(
when the keeper made a moro thol
ough investigation. the bulk whid
he thought was Hollands bod
proved to be only a pile OF rags. III
man was never recaptured. &
An even more startling use Of th
dummy was made by one George Il
vey in prison for a considerabl
number Of years from aggregate ol
lenses. One day the keeper made hi
shovel snow in the yard--a job /
disliked exceedingly, so he said
You keep me at this much lonx<
and I'll be out of here within
month"
The keeper merely laughed an
said: Go ahead and get out II "a
can"
One evening the keeper on one
his late tours of inspection. notlcA
Lavey still standing at the door
his cell. He told him to 60 to SLED
and obey the rules. About half
hour later he passed the eel! igzi
and there was Lavey still in til
same position. This time he gay
the convict good lecture on stul
bornness and disobedience in gel
eral. The man never so much {
moved an eyelash; he was poke
with q stick. and he fell to piece
The keeper went running OF to III
prison doctor, saying he had killa
a man.
When the doctor arrived upon th
scene he soon discovered that th
real Lavey had long since taken hi
departure. The man had some taller
for art, and by the aid OF grease an
dirt and small piece of muslin, ha
painted false face that. in the dill
light of the cell. looked exactly lih
himself. With q few pieces Of lat
he had fixed UP his clothing in
extremely lifelike posture. Lave
had hidden himself in the corrido
allowing the keeper to lock his dun
my in the cell.
Saved the Crumbs.
On June 8. 1922. one Char1A
Greer escaped from Sing Sing b
breaking through a ,trapdoor on th
roof, Jumping down on the wardem
house outside the walls. going
through cupola and walking II
freedom through the front door. Thu
night he hid in the prison grand
stand. swimming the Hudson tl1
next morning and getting caught d
he was about to hop a freight.
Men who are In prison--men VII
think Of nothing but their escape
develop an acuteness Of mentalit
and perception that is unbelievable
The prison authorities have learnd
by dear experience that they mud
not allow prisoners to retain an
materials whatsoever. To do othef
wise Is merely to court disaster,
the following story illustrated
Charles Brown worked in the mes
room and in the kitchen Of IL
prison.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-13

contractor was present his daily
visit they stole forth getting
air. Curry who the smaller Of
the doubled up
sight, filled with finished goods
Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-13

to stay in his bunk at roll-call.
Scheme Worked.
One day Holland secretly stole
forth. placing dummy on his bunk.
and in the absence of the keepers
reached the outside of the walls and
safety, When the keeper returned a
little later he saw the figure upon
the cot and. imagining him to be