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Evening star., 1924-08-12
WOMEN AID LA TOILETTE.
Plan to Enlist Sex in All Sections
Announced.

Organization of women in all sec
tions of the country in the interest
of the La Toilette Wheeler ticket was
undertaken at a conference here to-
day attended by a score OF women ac-
tive in the movement. Mrs. Mabel
c. Costigan of Colorado, a member Of
the La Toilette campaign committee,
presided
Those who attended the meeting
said 1t was planned to organize
committee of women with at least
100 members to assist in gaining the
support Of women for the Independ-
ent ticket. In addition regional State
and county committees Of women will
be appointed.
Among those who attended today's
conference were Mrs. Basil M. Manly
and Mrs. Edward Keating Of Wash
ington; Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch
and Miss Elizabeth Collier of New
York: Mrs. Sadie e. Scott of Indiana;
Mrs. Glenn Plumb, Mrs. Louis Post
and Miss Bertha Hale White Of IL
ffnois: Mrs. w. Thompson Burch and
Mra z. e. Luney of Maryland; Mrs
w. p. Neville OF Missouri aud Nh
Mary E. Meredith pf Virginia.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
G|LPATR|CS BANK
( CLOSED BY STATE
Aged Patrons Weep at Insti-
tuition Where Cashier At
tempted Suicide.
8Y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PUTNAM, Conn, August 12.-The
First National Bank of Putnam
whose cashier, G.. Harold Gilpatric,
shot himsel at his home last Thurs
day, closed its, doors today.
An hour after the usual hour of
opening the closing notice was posted
on the banks front doors. 1t was
signed by ". S. Eean. chief national
bank examiner.
DepOsitorS in Tears.
The notice was the first official state
ment that the bank directors had act
ed for the protection of the institu-
ton, whose funds have been admitted
to be impaired.
Before the, posting, President
Charles H. Brown notified all who
called at the bank that the hour of
opening had been changed to 10
o'clock. standard time, and crowd
began gathering. The directors were
understood to be in session in the
bank. \ few of the older persons in
the crowd were seen in tears
Gilpatric, also State treasurer, is in
serious condition as a result of the
bullet wourd and probably perma-
nently blind
A run on the savings department Of
the bank continued all day yesterday,
with an average of about a score of
depoSitorS in line Withdrawing funds.
From friends of the State treasurer's s
family it was learned that in a note
left for his wife after the shooting he
revealed that he was financially in
yolved.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
N. Y. PUBLISHER DIES.
James S. Seymour Executive of
Several Journals.

NEW YORK. August Thames
Sherwood Seymour. publisher. died
yesterday at his home in Bronxville.
He was born in Bloomfield, N. j.,
nearly Ga years ago and following an
education abroad, entered the pub
fishing business with Harper & Bros.
In 1890, he joined the New York
Evening Post as publisher. Seven
years later he took a similar position
on the Commercial Advertiser, which
WAS later combined with the Globe.
From 1903 to 1913, he was general
manager of the Chicago Record-Her-
aid. He then left the newspa per
business to become 4 member of the
executive committee and a director
of the Crowell Publishing Co. He
had not been active in business for
several years preceding his death.
Mr.. Seymour is survived by 4
widow, two daughters and two sons,
Edward P. Seymour and Theodore P.
Seymour.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
BLO0DHOUNDS TRAIL
CHILD LOST IN HILLS
Parents Believe Girl, 4, Was Kid.
naped-$300 Reward Is
Offered.
Special Dispa tch to The Star

CUMBERLAND, Md, August H.
Reinforced by bloodhounds brought
In from Fairmount, w. Va, more
than 300 volunteers today are hunt
ing through Dams Mountain for
4-year-old Mary Katherine Mitchell,
daughter of James Mitchell of Union
town. Pa, who disappeared at noon
Sunday, while on a picnic with her
parents at Dams Rock
The dogs were brought in this
morning after 36 hours, unceasing
effort had failed to bring any trace
of the child, whom, the distracted
parents believe, was kidnapped when
she strayed away in the timberland.
The kidnapping theory Is borne out
by reports that four men in an auto
mobile were seen picking up a child
in their machine in the neighborhood.
The father says also that the girl
was just recovering from severe
burns and could not have wandered
far without dropping from ex-
haustion.
Unless the child was carried away,
members Of the searching party,
which is led by States Attorney w.
A. Hustler and Sheriff W. Ralph, be-
lieve she has been killed in a fall
over one of the numerous precipices
in the region.
A reward of 5000 for recovery Of
the little girl, dead or alive, today
was offered by George P. Hoover. an
automobile dealer of Uniontown, By
whom Mitchell is employed
Evening star., 1924-08-12
CHILDREN IN FAMILIES
TO BRING LOWER RENT
Episcopal Bishop Wants Childish
Voices in Rooms Of His
Apartment House.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
RALEIGH, N. c., August 12.--Cou-
pies having children will be given
rental rate IS lower per month in
an apartment house erected here by
the Rt Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire,
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal dio-
cese of North Carolina In addition,
couples with children will be given the
preference of those without children.
Declaring that he prefers to hear
the sound Of childish voices in his
apartment. Bishop Cheshire pro-
fessed disgust with those owning
apartment houses who barred chill
dren. He declared that the property
into which he has put his life's saw
ings would resound with children's
voices If he were able to secure
tenants with families. ..
Evening star., 1924-08-12
SCIENTISTS TO NOTE
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
Wilbur Approves Plans Of Naval
Observatory for Expedition to
Sumatra in January, 1925.

To procure valuable data regarding
magnetic disturbances on the sun,
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has ap-
proved a project of the Uaited States
Naval Observatory of sending an ex-
pedition to observe the total solar
eclipse in Sumatra in January, 1926.
Sumatra, the most southern MEM
Der of the Sunda group of islands
and the largest, except Borneo, was in
1901 the main objective point of q
Government expedition from the
Naval Observatory to observe the to-
tai solar eclipse of that year.
The astronomical expedition. which
Is now approved by Secretary Wilbur
has for its main purpose. perhaps. the
development Of the most important
astronomical question in the future
progress of the science-that is, the
observation and study Of the suns
corona during a total solar eclipse,
with the ultimate object Of learning
more Of magnetic disturbances and
sun spots and their effect on the me-
teorological conditions on tho surface
of our globe.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
Congressional Club Fauors ssMember'';
Pays SIS for Package-of Bricks
Former Employe Charged With Larceny After Hoax
Is Perpetrated-Held in Rockville
49, for Hearings.

But when the member failed to fol-
low, the management became suspi-
cious and began to investigate.
Learning that their expected patron
was in the West. they opened the
mysterious package and out tumbled
the well caked bricks
Police at Rockville were notified and
accompanied by District officers, they
arrested Stitchcomb at his home here
yesterday 1t is said that he admitted
delivering the package He was taken
to Rockville, charged with larceny and
locked up TO await hearing.
Explaining their part Of the deal. Of
ficials Of the club pointed out that they
frequently accepted &C. o. D." packages
addressed to members, just as a hotel
or apartment house would do for it's
bona-fide guests.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
SAY WALSH SPEECH
PREJUD|CED PUBLIC
Dohenys Charge Prosecutor
May Have Influenced Grand
Jurors by Radio.

Edward /. Doheny, the oil magnate
OF Los Angeles, Calf, and his son,
Edward L. Doheny, jr., through At
torney Frank J. Hogan today filed in
the District Supreme Court an addi-
tional plea in abatement against the
Indictment charging them and Albert
&. Fall, former Secretary of the In
terror, with a conspiracy to defraud
the united states in connection with
the lease of certain naval reserves.
The Dohenys state they were preju-
diced and injured before the special
grand jury which returned the indict-
ment by speech broadcast over the
radio by Senator Thomas J. Walsh,
the prosecutor" of the oil commit
tee, May last, while the special
grand jury was in session.
The court is advised that the speech
OF Senator Walsh was greatly adver-
tised, and the public was told that
he would give the low down" on tho
oil scandal At least 20 public places
had loud speakers, which told to the
passers-by-in which have been in
cluded members Of the special grand
)ury-statementS which could not
have been received as evidence by
the grand jurors, it is claimed, in
addition to 10000 radio receiving sets
in homes in the District of Columbia.
whose listeners-in might have in
cluded the grand jurors.
Protested to Walsh
Mr.. Hogan informs the court that
when he saw the notice of the pro-
posed speech he sent a letter to Sen
ator Walsh calling attention to the
fact that the special grand jury was
IN session and that statements by the
Senator might affect the grand Jurors
adversely to the interest of the per-
sons accused. The letter was deliver
ed to Senator Walsh, it is stated, at
the radio station prior to the be-
ginning OF his speech. The warning
was not needed by Senator Walsh,
1T is said, and the speech was deliv-
cred to the great damage of the Do
the indictment should be quashed
The entire speech of Senator Walsh
delivered over the radio that night
IS incorporated in the plea in abate-
ment, and it is stated was printed in
The Congressional Record
The Doheny's filed a plea in abate-
ment shortly after the Indictment was
returned in which they claimed the
grand jury room was invaded by the
unlawful presence of United States
Attorney Gordon and other repre-
sentatives of the Department Of
Justice after Congress had taken the
oil prosecutions out of the hands of
that department
Evening star., 1924-08-12
DISCORD PLANTED At NEW YORK
BEARS FRUIT At CLARKSBURG
Davis and Ne,c Democratic Committee Haze Work
Cut Out to PLacate Factions Still
at Variance.

Supporters of Senator Walsh's
speech said that it was far better to
meet these charges now, at the out
set of the campaign, rather than to
wait until further attacks had been
made. Senator Walsh. they said, had
given Mr.. Davis an opportunity to
make his own eloquent defense of
his legal practice few minutes later
from the same platform.
A proposal was made just before
the adjournment of the national COM
mittee yesterday afternoon that here
after the committee on resolutions at
Democratic national conventions
should be composed of / man and
/ woman from each State delegation.
This Is the committee which drafts
the platform, and some of the women
were incensed because not single
woman was placed ON that commit
tee at the last convention.
Chairman Shaver pointed out that
this was a matter which the national
convention would have to act upon
itself, and that the only thing the
committee could do would be to make
a recommendation regarding 1t.
New Officers Named.
James w. Gerard Of New York, for
mer Ambassador to Germany. was elect
ed treasurer: National Committeeman
Greathouse from Indiana was reelected
secretary and Jesse H. Houston Of
Texas was chosen to head the finance
committee.
Bart New Of Indiana was elected
executive secretary of the national
committee. The Office of sergeant
alarms was left to be filled by the
chairman later, after he had heard
from ]. J. Hughes Of Iowa as to
whether he desired to continue in
that position. If Mr.. Hughes does
not so desire, then the chairman will
appoint a sergeant-at-arms for the
period Of the campaign.
Before the national committee met
there had been talk of displacing Mrs.
Blair as the vice chairman, repre-
senting the women, and electing
another. But so strong was the sup
port given Mrs. Blair that all op-
position petered out and her election
was made unanimously.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
Continued from First Page.)

cussion had been underway for some
time. He took up the cudgels for
the Kremer election, and clashed with
Senator Glass and Mr.. Moore, Senator
Walsh contending that the committee
had right to elect four vice chair
men if it desired to do so.
The contest over Mr.. kremer ragged
for the better part of two hours, and
then the committee adjourned, as the
hour of the notification Of Or. Davis
was drawing near. Members Of the
committee before adjourning, how
ever. urged that Mr. Kremer be given
important posts in the campaign or
ganization in the West, and it was
generally understood that this would
be done, even though he was not
named a vice chairman.
Senator Walsh's speech notifying
Mr.. Davis was criticized today in
some quarters on the ground that he
had gone too much into detail in de-
Tending the nominee against attacks
on his employment by big corpora
tions in New York, particularly J.
P. Morgan and Company and the
Standard Oil Company. Some of the
Democrats here insisted that it was
a mistake to call these matters again
to public attention, and that if there
was to be a defense Of Mr.. Davis
in connection with his law practice,
Mr.. Davis was the man to make that
defense.
Talking for the West.
On the other hand, it was pointed
out that attacks had been widely
made against Mr.. Davis. particularly
by Senator Wheeler of Montana, La
Follette's running mate on the Pro-
gressive ticket, and that Senator
Walsh had taken this opportunity to
put the record straight-arguing with
all the thoroughness of a lawyer in
support of Mr.. Davis. In the East,
it was said, it is not realized to what
an extent the attacks on Mr.. Davis as
an employe of big business-Wall
Street-had made an impression, and
Senator Walsh was particularly anx-
ious to eradicate this impression in
tho West
Evening star., 1924-08-12
RIFLE FOUND, DOCTOR
ARRESTED AS SLAYER
Physician Declares Brother-in-Law
Was Victim of
Burglars.
By the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated treSS.
BOSTON, August 12.-Dr. Raymond
D. Thiery, who is under arrest at
the Massachusetts, General Hospital,
charged with the murder Of his
brother-in-law, David NJ Noble, in
the suburb Of Somerville last Friday
night, remained in a serious condi-
ton today.
The authorities declined to make
public a statement obtained from
Thiery. The arrest followed a
search Of a Somerville house where
the two men lived with DR.. Thiery's
parents. An Austrian army rife
was seized by the officers.
Thiery at first told the police a
story of burglars entering the house,
shooting Noble and attacking him.
The doctor was taken to the hos
pital after being found semi:con-
scious at the foot Of the cellar stairs.
His condition was complicated, the
authorities said, by indulgence in
some form of drug.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
Three Prisoners
And Guard Gone
At Camp Meade
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP MEADE, Md, August H.
A kind-hearted guard and his
three prisoners walked away from
the camp yesterday morning. They
haven't been seen or heard of
since, but military and civil police
have been furnished accurate de-
scriptions, and a search has been
inaugurated in Baltimore and ad-
jacent territory.
Although police believe 1t pos
sible that the prisoners might have
overpowered the guard and given
him the alternative of going with
them or staying behind to serve
their sentence, Col. H. r. Smalley,
adjutant Of the camp. said that
this does not coincide with the view
military authorities take of it.
I'VE think the guard simply
walked or with the prisoners" he
said.
The prisoners are Lugie Cres-
cengi, Carries Rosme and Jacob
Harlan, and the guard is Claud ].
Miller. All are enlisted men in the
Regular Army.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
Depot Fire to Be Probed.

A board of ordnance officers, con-
sisting of Majs. Francis H. Miles, jr.,
and John H. Woodberry, has been ap-
pointed by the War Department to
investigate the recent disastrous fire
at the ordnance reserve depot at Old
Hickory, Tenn. g. G. Hale, at Plea
tinny Arsenal, N. J., has been added
to- the board as technical adviser
Maj. Miles is at the Picatinny Arsenal
and Maj. Woodberry Is attached to
the office of the chief Of ordnance,
War Department.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
STUDY DANCE REFORM.
Teachers Would Eliminate Terpsi.
chorean Extremes.

NEW YORK, August 12.-Plans
have been outlined before the annual
convention of the International AS
sociation of Dancing Masters for the
elimination of extreme forms of
dancing.
If the plans are carried out, the
wild .. Cat Whirl," the Tiger
Twaddfe' and the Camel Canter"
will be replaced by the whisper
Waltz" and the fox trots of fast and
jerky movements Will give way to
the ''Raggedy Ann described as fox
trot in slow rhythm.
The association has froWned on
the teaching of dancing by mail. The
members declare il cannot be done.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
DR.. STOKES AND REID
INSTITUTE new SUITS
Former Navy Man Asks $42, $50,
Magnate Counters With
$3.50, 600 Action.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Pre0a. -.~-a.
NEW YORK. August 12--Daniel d.
Reid, known as the tin-piate king,
today accused DR.. Charles F. Stokes
former Surgeon General Of the Navy,
OF malpractice In treating him for q
nervous 'ailment, in q suit for $3.50, 900
damages, which he brought against
the physician. ,rS.
Reid's, suit today followed q, coun-
ter claim for $42,5s9 for medical serv-
ices made by DR.: Stokes in bill Of
particulars dled in the State Supreme
Court in another suit brought against
him by Reid to recover $16, 500 on prom
issory notes. DR.. Stokes alleges that
the principal ailment from which Mr..
Reid suffered was chronic alcoholism,
and Mr.. Reid, in reply to DR.. Stokes
counter claim, charges that the doctor
failed to prescribe the proper treatment.
was drunk when prescribing for him
and prescribed an excessive amount Of
narcotics, inturing his health.
DR.. Stokes states that narcotics
were given only after consultation on
one or two occasions. He asserts that
Mr. Reid's marital difficulties also
were a factor in, his health.
Evening star., 1924-08-12

For accepting one neatly wrapped
package of extra dryyand aged bricks
the COMPASSIONATE country Club is out
$55. and John w. Stichcomb, a dis
charged employe OF the club, Is locked
up in the Rockville county Jail,
charged with larceny.
According to Maryland police and
officials of the club, a man called the
Congressional Country Club August
Z and claimed to be a member. Ex-
planning that he intended coming out
with his family, he asked tina. a
&C. 0. D." package, which was then
supposed to be en- route, be accepted
and paid for. -. -.
In due time, according to officials,
Stichcomb appeared with the pack
age" collected .S55. and disappeared.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
Ax-MURDERER CONVICT
STILL ELUDES POSSES
Negro Suspect Captured, Escapes.
Bloodhounds Being
Used.
BY the Associated Press.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, August IL
John Milton, negro convict, who is
charged with staying the infant
daughter of Mrs. Blaney Collins, and
dangerously wounding the mother
when they were attacked with an
axe near Morris, Ala. is still at
large. while posses in two sections
of the State searched for him.
Armed citizens are still vigilant
near Morris. Another posse assisted
by bloodhounds is combing a section
on Flint Creek, in Morgan County.
According to reports a negro be-
lieved to be Milton was captured
yesterday by T. ]. Pinson, section
foreman on the Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad in Morgan County, but
the negro leaped from a handcar
while being taken to the Hartselle
Jail and escaped.
Milton was a. trusty in Jefferson
County convict camp and had about
completed a. sentence for burglary.
A double bladed axe was used in the
attack on Mrs. Collins
Her skull was fractured and a baby
in her arms was killed almost in
stantly.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
CHURCH LEAGUE MEETS.
Epworth Members of Five States
Gather in Arkansas.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. August IL.
An address by DR.. F. S. Parker of
Nashville marked the formal open
ing of the general session Of the Ep-
worth League leaders and workers
at Mount Sequah, near here, last
night. approximately 200 young peo-
pie, representing the thirteen annual
conferences composing the Western
Assembly of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South. attended the opening
session.
Informal classes were conducted
yesterday. Brief talks, community
singing and recreation featured the
program. Actual study work will be-
gin today with the meetings of the
organized divisions.
Appropriate ceremonies have been
arranged for the dedication Thursday
Of the Epworth League Building, re-
Gently erected at Mount SeQuah as a
gift to the league from the leaders
in the parent conferences, Arkansas,
Little Rock, east and west Oklahoma.
Missouri, southwest Missouri. st.
Louis, Louisiana, and the four Texas
conferences
Evening star., 1924-08-12
PROBE COUNSEL NAMED.
Detroit Lawyer Engaged by Cou-
zens for Committee,

DETROIT, Mich, August 12.-Sen-
ator James Couzens, chairman of the
special committee that will investi-
gate the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
today announced the appointment Of
Earl ]. Davis of Detroit as chief
counsel for the committee. Mr.. Davis
recently resigned as assistant attor-
ney general. He will go to Wash
ington Thursday to begin work for
the committee.
Discussing the projected: :investiga-
tion, Senator Couzens said: We want
a full and fair investigation and
nothing else. I will be far happier If
we find no corruption, but we want as
complete an investigation as can pos
sibly be made" -.. -.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
COrpuIent Auto
Driuers in Hard
Luck in Germany
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Pfess.
BERLIN, August 12.-Fat chauf-
feurs are not in demand here any
longer, owing to the high price of
gasoline. There was a time dur
ing the imitation period when
every German owner of a private
car took particular pride in hav-
ing a sleek, round-faced driver,
but nowadays, with gasoline at 81
per gallon, even the wealthy have
seen fit to reduce running ex-
penses.
Short, slim chauffeurs. about the
size and weight Of jockeys, are
most in demand, because small
cars of the runabout type are
popular and a large driver would
take up all the seating capacity,
leaving no place for the owner
himself.
At least 30 per cent Of Berlin's
automobile owners hire licensed
chauffeurs.
Evening star., 1924-08-12
HYLAN OUT FOR DAVIS.
New York Mayor Indorses Ac.
ceptance Speech Of Nominee.

NEW YORK, August 12.--Mayor John
F. Hylan announced today he would
support John W. Davis, Democratic
nominee for President. There had
been considerable doubt as to the
mayors position, inasmuch as he re-
Gently let it be known that no was
waiting and listening for the nomi-
nee's speech OF acceptance before
stating where he stood.
The mayors statement said that
many Of the principles OF Mr.. Davis
speech were good. "They appeal
strongly to any one interested in hu-
manity in government" the mayor
said '"The translation of these prin-
ciples into actuality would tend
greatly toward the economic emanci-
patton OF the people,"
Evening star., 1924-08-12
START NONSTOP FLIGHT,
SAN DIEGO TO DENVER
Two Aviators Start at 4:44 AM.
and Will Follow Straight
Line.

By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, August IL
Lieuts. James n. Doolittle and Ewart
Plant, flying in . specially equipped
Do Haviland plane on what they
planned to be a nonstop flight to
Denver. took of at Rockwell Field
here at 4:44 am today.
The big De HAviland roSe from
Rockwell Field at dawn. After
cdrcling twice the plane straightened
out to q good start The aviators
plan to follow a virtually straight
line to Denver. They hope to main
tain an average speed Of about 120
miles an hour. ST., .
The plane has q gas capacity Of
1S2 gallons sufficient for q duration
dight of nine hours at top speed.