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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-16
WIDE HUNT
!. STARTED
FOR HER
S(J|TOR
Missing Farm Hand Quoted as
Saying IF He Didn't Get
Her, No One Else Would"
BY DAVID SENTNER,
International News Service.

KINGSTON, N. j., Sept. 49,
State troopers and authorities of
Middlesex county today prosecuted
. vigorous search for discharged
farm hand, Harvey Selzhaver,
twenty-nine, formerly of Iowa,
whom they wish to question re-
garding the murder Of Sarah Eliz-
abeth Johnson, a fifteen-year-oh
school girl, whose body was found
yesterday hidden beneath bushes
on the grounds of St. James Col
lege, Kingston, on the banks of
Lake Carnegie. She had been shot
through the head with a % cali
Der bullet.
The girl disappeared August IL.
Her body, when found, was care
fully laid out on Philadelphia
newspaper of that date.
six Men Questioned.
six years men friends of the girl
were summoned to the Office OF
County Detective Ferdinand I. David
at New Brunswick today. They are
not under suspicion 7 in connection
with her murder. 1t was said, but
are to be questioned.
The only actual clue police say,
leads to the search for Selzhaver.
The farm hand, who formerly had
been employed by Joseph johnson,
the girls father, had heen dis
charged because he paid too much
attention to the girl. According to
the father, this man disappeared
from Kingston on the day the girl
disappeared.
Mrs. Bertha johnson, mother of
the dead girl, first noticed he was
paying marked attention TO her
daughter. When she ordered him
TO desist, she told the State
troopers, he replied: IF can't have
her, no one else will"
The girls fate was attributed by
neighbors to her precocious develop
Hnent and beauty. She was mature
for her age.
witness against a youth who was
sentenced to the penitentiary for
an attack upon her. This youth
- IlOL uA4AGL OOSR&%AOAAS S4AO S~ASAASA .
sses said today.
Clandestine Love Affair.
The place where her body was
found was nine miles from hel
home. The police believe she was
slain elsewhere and the body taker
to the shores of the lake.
On the night the girl disappeared
she kissed her mother goodnight
and went to her room. A few hours
later, when all the other members
Of the household were asleep, she
crept from her window and dropped
the police believe, into the arms Of
an admirer.
The body was found on the an
niversary Of the unsolved murders
of the Reverend Edward W. Hal
and his choir singer, Mrs. James
Mills, whose murdered bodies were
found in the same county.
Like them, she had been shot Il
death. Like them, she had, beer
laid out with care. Like theirs
too, her murder had for a back
ground a clandestine love affair.
Selbaver, the farm hand, is sough,
Continued on Page Q, Column ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-16
LITTLE GIRLS TRIP
Is POLICE MYSTERY

CINCINNATI, Sept. 16.-Police
today were attempting to solve the
mystery surrounding a nine-year-old
girl, who arrived in Cincinnati last
night on a train from Detroit.
The girl told the police her name
was Genevieve Martin. and said that
she lived at $685. Edwards street,
Detroit. She did not remember her
mothers or fathers name. She
said she had been placed on the
train at Detroit by a woman she
did not know.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-16
U. s. ADMIRAL TO CONFER
.oN CHINESE SITUATION

PEKING, Sept. 16.-Admiral
Washington, commander of rhe
United States fleet in AsiaSic
waters arrived in Picking this
afternoon for conference with
the American Legation on yhe
Chinese situation.
A large part of Admiral Wash.
ington's fleet is now in Shanghai
waters protecting American inter
ests. He was delayed in his ar.
rival here due to troop movements
on the railroads.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-16


Here are q few Of the new wants
appearing in todsy's classified section
SHOE statesmen wanted for per-
Inanent positions.
HANDBAG LOST--Brown leather;
valuables, key, handkerchief: re-
ward.
1000 SQUARE FEET Of business
property to rent on You street.
5UsBoY wANTED-Good wages
paid,
USED-CAR CLEARANCE--sales Of
fering exceptional bargains.
DIsHwAsHER wANTED--good pay.
BLACK BULL TERRIER LOST
White chest AND feet pointed ears.
TAILOR WANTED. on ladies' and
- gents' clothes.
~ FURTHER DETAILS TURN IL
THE CLASSIFIED SECTION.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-16
THE WEATHER.

Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow un-
settled; probably showers; not much change
IN temperature; moderate northeast winds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-16
BACK
INTERESTS,
LEADER
CLAIMS
Declares Opponents OF La Fol-
Iette Are Same as Those of
jefferson and Lincoln

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.--The
campaign Of the Progressive party
is a contest against the seizure Of
the machinery of government and
the rights and privileges Of the
people by "self-ordained groups"
declared Frank Morrison, secre-
tary Of the American Federation
Of Labor, ,in an address at the La
Follette-Whe dinner at the
Hotel Aston last night.
"The present Progressive move
ment," he declared, els but q
phase of the continuous struggle
of the people for a better day
and a larger life.
"The forces that are opposed TO
the Progressive ideal are the
same that opposed Jefferson and
Lincoln.
Struggle Not New.
1.-THE names and the methods Of
these forces change, but their es-
sence remain. Our struggle is not
a new struggle. We are advancing
no. new theories in government.
Rather do we demand that our
Government shall function as it was
intended to function.
1--WE are opposed to self-ordained
groups Selling the machinery Of
government and through their
economic power, their control Of
educational forces, the courts, the
peoples credit, and the nations
finances taking into themselves
those rights and privileges that be-
long to all the people.
I'm this contest the organized
wage workers of the entire country
are taking a leading part.
"For the first time in our history
labor stands united to reward those
who are true to the democratic
ideal and to punish those who are
faithless to this iueaH.
Unity Greatest in History.
Never. was such unity, such de.
termination, such enthusiasm among
the workers. National and Inter.
national unions, State organizations,
central bodies, and local units Of tho
American Federation of Labor are
practically as one in this great
movement.
This solidarity must be main
tanned. am not unmindful of the
power and resourUerulness Of privil-
eye.
Through bitter experience labor
has felt this power, which has been
exhibited by injunction courts, cos
sacks, and gunner, and a misrep-
resenting press that has warped
the public mind.
LET 1t be understood that there
are not three divisions of citizens
in this campaign. There are but
two-the progressives and privilege,
though privilege has divided for
the time being into two sections,
but these will unite at the final
test, just as surely as water seeks
its level.
Attacks General Dawes.
1.-THE strategy of privilege among
progressive States beyond the Mis-
sissippi appears to be to terrify the
populace that any interference with
our courts or our Constitution ~
an attack on property and Is the
preliminary to revolution.
THE Republican candidate fer
J Vice Presiderk founder of that union
smashing organization known as the
Evening star., 1924-06-05
President to Address Graduates at
Howard University. r..

President Coolidge today accepted an
invitation to address the graduates Of
Howard University at commencement
exercises tomorrow afternoon at 3 80
O'Clock on the university campus. Chief
Justice Taft and Assistant Secretary of
the Navy Roosevelt also will speak, and
Secretary of the Interior Work plans
to be present.
DR.. ]. Stanley Durkee president of
the university, will award degrees TO
270 graduates. Among the recipients of
honorary degrees will be Judge Fenton
W. Booth of the United States Court of
Claims and dean of the Howard School
of Law; r. Nathaniel Dett, negro music
composer of Hampton, Va; c. c. Al
leyne, Bishop of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church Rev. Edward
e Tyler, pastor, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Melville Charlton, negro organist. of
New York City, and A. Clayton Powell,
pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church,
New York City.
Special arrangements have been made
for the accommodation of 5000 visitors,
Evening star., 1924-06-05
PRIEST GIVING DEATH
RITES is SHOT DOWN
Killed Instantly When Fired on by
Son of Man Whom he Was
Attending.
By the Associated Press.

DRACUT, Mass, June 5.-Rev.
Michael c. Gilbride was shot to death
today while administering the last
rites of the Catholic Church to John
King, ST., at the King home.A
John King, jr., thirty-seven years
old, was arrested after he had shot
Capt. David Petrie of the Lowell po-
lice in the shoulder. He will be ar
ra1gned tomorrow on a charge of
murder.
The police said that King admitted
shooting the priest and added he felt
justified They are at loss, how
ever, to understand his motive
According to the police, King en-
tered his fathers bedroom while Fa-
ther Gilbride was administering the
rites, muttered incoherently, and
drawing a revolver fired three shots,
one of which entered the priests tenn
pie and caused instant death. He put
the weapon in his pocket, took hoe
from another room and leaving the
house went to work in a field.
The Dracut police were notified and
called on the Lowell police for help.
As several officers approached the
was CARRYING sawed-off shotgun,
to stop. The officer disregarded the
warning and King shot him. Petrie
was able, however, to help the other
officers overpower King. The prisoner
in the scufle sustained several scalp
wounds
At the Lowell police station, King
Tighe. pastor of the Immaculate Con-
ception Church, but the prisoner call
ed him another traitor and refused
to talk to him.
Father Gilbride was pastor of the
ST. Mary's Church here.
Evening star., 1924-06-05
PLANK FOR D. C.. REPRESENTATION
IN C.. O. p. PLATFORM SUBMITTED
Colladay Proposal for Members in Congress and
Electoral College Laid Before Party
Resolutions Committee.

strenuous protest on the part OF Sen
ator Smoot OF Utah and Senator Nc
Cormick of Illinois brought about a
reconsideration of the vote by which
It was adopted, and it was finally lost
Proponents of the plank hope FOR
success at the present convention.
In his letter to Chairman Adams
Mr. Colladay said, in support OF the
plank:
approximately half I million peo-
pie reside in the District of Columbia
and are taxed without representation.
A joint resolution OF Congress is
pending providing for an amendment
to the Constitution granting repre-
sentation covered by the plank above
quoted, and has been the subject of a
favorable report of the Senate com
mittee on the District of Columbia.
1t probably will be favorably report
ed on by the House committee on the
District of Columbia next winter.
1T will be highly appreciated, and
we think, in the interest of the Re
publican. party, that the plank sug-
gested be embodied in the platform,
The plank has been included by the
subcommittee in the mass OF matter
which will be turned over by the sub
committee to the committee on reso-
lutions when that committee is ap-
pointed.
Evening star., 1924-06-05
1000, 900 BEHIND
DEFENSE OF SLAYERS
81 ,000, 900 Initial Fund Is Great
ed to Save Leopold and
Loeb From Moose.
CORPS OF EXPERTS TO AID
Public, Vengeful, Doubt Youths
Will Go to >Gallows.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO June 5.-Trial July 15
of Nathan Leopold, ,jr:. and Richard
Loeb, millionafres' sons, admitted
kidnapers and slayers of Robert
Franks. schoolboy son of Jacob
Franks, millionaire real estate man,
will be sought by the state. That is
the earliest date consonant with H.
linois procedure.
Two indictments against each
youth, charging kidnapping for ran
som and murder, both capital Of
fenses, have been prepared and await
the report of the grand jury. ex-
pected to complete it's examination
of with neSSeS today.
Arrangement is scheduled Monday.
The grand jury will continue to
examine witnesses after reporting
the case. however, said Robert L.
Grove, states attorney, in order to
get the testimony on record on oath
and thereby prevent a changing of
statements or intentional forgetful-
ness.
When Leopold and Loeb, shackied to-
gether, were brought into criminal court
today for Identification by woman
bank employe, Loeb collapsed and was
prevented from IdninS only by the
shackles, when a camera fiashlight
doomed. The woman was attempting to
determine if Loeb was the person who,
under the name of "Morden Ballard"
opened an account in Southside bank.
The states attorney previously had
said that that name was used by Loeb
as part of the kidnapping plan.
Clarence Darrow, chief of counsel
for the defense, was said to be con-
sidering retention of a corps of ex-
perts, including New York and Chi
cago attorneys, for which it is
reported an initial defense fund
of 1,O00, 900 has been created. Pitted
against them, States Attorney Grove,
in personal charge of the case, said
he would have three assistants iden-
titled with the case since the finding
of the boys body May 81. All wit
nesses who have testified before the
grand jury will be watched closely,
Michael Hughes, detective chief, said,
and it was announced prosecutions
for perjury would follow changed
statements.
Armed guards have been set over
the evidence, which includes the
blood stained clothing worn by the
Franks boy. the tape-wrapped chisel
with which he was killed, and rem
nants of an automobile robe in which
his body was wrapped. After the
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1924-06-05
RALSTON OPPOSES
PRESIDENCY BOOM
Asks Indiana Democrats to Send
Uninstructed Delegation to
New York.
URGES MAN OF HIGH VISION
Senator Says Need of Nation Is
Honest Executives.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. June 5.-Declaring
there lis something about the great
ness of this exalted position that ad-
monishes me against wanting to un-
and solemn duties" United States
Senator Samuel NJ. Ralston today
urged the Indiana Democratic state
not to consider him a
candidate for the presidency.
Great as this honor is. however.
would not speak truthfully 10 you
should ! refrain from saying that
have never aSpired to the presidency
of this country" Senator RalStpn said
IF there be those who doubt my sim
cerity in what I am saying. let me
lay additional emphasis on my state
of mind by declaring that this con-
lowing the delegates from Indiana to
the New York convention to go un-
instructed.
Wants Best Man.
II am anxious that the delegates
from my home state shall so to the
national convention with open minds
and perfect freedom to participate in
the best man to lead our
party in the presidential contest this
year"
The senator said the Democratic
party should choose as its candidate
for the presidency a man who is
human through and through: who
knows America and who wants this
country to do its part in establishing
nations of the earth"
IF such q candidate is chosen"
Senator Ralston asserted, his vision
will sweep the world around. and
while by word and contribution he
will want his country to lead in
the service of mankind, still he will
take care that the constitutional
rights of America are not surrendered
or placed in jeopa rdy."
The salvation of the people and
rest absolutely on the honesty and
efficiency of public servants, the
speaker told the convention.
Without honesty, without intelli-
gence and economy in public expen-
ditures no political party deserves
'All other issues are secondary to
this consideration and it is up to
the American people themselves. to
say whether or not they shall have
the public service to which theWare
One thing is certain. NV
have it unless they take theie
stand as Thomas Jefferson did in op-
position to our government showing
Favoritism to any class. 1 submit to
your judgment and your own con-
lions in our government are the
direct results of the doctrine of spe-
cial privileges"
Senator Ralson declared that no
government can be called honest that
fails to uphold the equality Of rights
zens generally. to be taxed for the
benefit of favored few.
Evening star., 1924-06-05
ALL ORATORS IN CITY
FOR GREAT CONTEST
Box Party at Keith's Tonight Will
Begin Entertainment Fea-
lures of Visit.
SPEAK TO NOTABLE AUDIENCE
Coolidge to Present Seven Rivals
Tomorrow Evening.

All the high school orators who are
to participate in the national ora
torical contest on the Constitution at
the Memorial Continental Hall tomor-
row night will be in the city today.
The arrival early today of the rep
resentative~ of the central states. fol-
lowing the arrival last night of the
student representing the northeas st
states. is to be followed this after
noon by the arrival of the eastern
states contender
The six out-of-town orators then
Will be ready to compete tomorrow
night with Ruth Newburn, Central
High School senior, representative of
the District of Columbia, for the ma
tional prizes These prizes, of $500.
81 900 and $500. are in the custody of
The Evening Star.
Miss Huber Arrives.
Eleanor Huber, one of the two girls
in the national contest, arrived at
Union station shortly before O'Clock
this morning from Louisville, KY,
accompanied by her father and moth
er, Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Huber; her
younger sister, Katherine Huber, and
Sam W. Severance. contest manager
for Kentucky.
Four feet eight inches tall. the
central states representative comes
to Washington determined to carry
back home one of the national
prizes. She is the most diminutive
of the orators, but has an air of de-
termination about her.
She won out in her zone over high
school students of Wisconsin. Michi-
gan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky,
West Virginia and that part of New
York adjacent to Buffalo. She has had
experience in oratory before the pres
ent contest, having won a speaking
contest when she was a student in the
seventh grade She is senior in
the Louisville High school.
Lost First Grafton.
After she had written her oration
she lost it, but Immediately wrote an
other one, and it was this draft that
she gave in winning from thousands
of other contestants in her zone.
ST had just written it, and hadn't
even begun to memorize it, and what
happened to that speech l will never
know, and, Furthermore, / don't want
to, because my second attempt was
far better than the first" she said
today. IF it wasn't for having to
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1924-06-05
BONUS APPLICATIONS
WILL BE READY SOON
Davis Expects Distribution to Vet
erans to Be Made This
Month.
FINGER-PRINTS SPEED WORK
Recipients Cautioned Against
Writing to Government.

The official world war bonus ap-
plication blank was made public to-
day by Maj Gen. Robert c. Davis.
adjutant general of the Army, who
will distribute them later for ali
branches OF the service concerned.
Two unusual features CT the blank
as explained in an accompanying
statement by Gen. Davis. are the fn-
ger-print identification, and the fact
that the veteran mead not have his
official discharge certificate or ether
papers indicating his service. His
memory will be sufficient
The application blank consists of two
sheets OF business letter size, joined
al the top, and printed on both sides
There are twenty-siX items 20 be
filled including the finger prints. and
declarations by dependents. Accom-
panying the blank is a single sheet of
instructions, printed on both sides.
Distribution to BE Made Soon.
Distribution of the blanks will be
made as soon as possible, Gen. Davis
explained, through the American Le-
gion, the American Red Cross, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Dis
abled American Veterans, all post
offices. the National Guard, the Or
sanized Reserves. Army, Navy and
Marine Corps stations, Veterans Bu-
Ieau agencies and other places OIL
cially designated. Although the dat.
of distribution has not beet set Gen.
Davis expects it to be about the end
Of this month
at will be noted" said Gen. Dawes.
that an oath is required only in case
the applicant is a dependent. No
oath is required where the veteran
makes his own application. Two wit
neSSeS, however, are necessary to the
veterans signature. The same blank
covers the case no matter whether
Continued on Page =. Column 81
Evening star., 1924-06-05

BY STAFF Correspondent.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, june D A
plank proposing national representa-
ton for the District of Columbia has
been submitted by Republican Ma
tional Committeeman Edward f. Col
laday of the District TO Chairman
John T. Adams of the national COM
mittee. and by Mr.. Adams has been
referred to q subcommittee which has
been working on a proposed platform.
National representation for the Dis
trict means the right Of. the people of
Washington to elect presidential and
vice presidential electors and to elect
representatives and senator's to rep
resent the District in Congress. The
text of the plank proposed by MI
Colladay follows:
We favor the granting to the Dis
trict of Columbia voting representa-
tion in Congress and the electoral
college"
1t is short and to the point Four
years ago a similar plank was pro-
posed and was actually accepted by
the committee on resolutions. but d
Evening star., 1924-06-05
DEATH RAY DISCOUNTED.
Commons Told Test Proved Inven-
ton PowerlesS

LONDON. June THE deadly
power of the death ray failed to
materialize in recent governmental
tests, the House of Commons was
told last evening by William Leach,
undersecretary Of the air ministry.
During the tests he said, one of the
ministry's experts placed himself in
the path OF the ray only ten yards
distant from the point of emanation.
II the inventors claim had been borne
out, the expert ought to have disap-
peared. but the undersecretary was
pleased TO report that he was doing
very nicely and when last seen
showed no sign OF having suffered.
Evening star., 1924-06-05
LEHLBACH BILL TABLED.
Rules Committee Sees No Chance
of Hearing This Session.

Hopes for reclsssification legisla =
ton at this session of Congress went
a-glimmerins today when the house
rules committee decided that il could
find no opportunity- bringing up
for consideration in the, House the
Lehlbach bill Increasing retirement
annuities AND 1iberalizing. the time
for optional Eetirement.
Every mehber OF the rules commit
tee expre@ed hipself as decidediy
friendly the Lehbach bill and any
ious th< 1t should have the earIiest
nossihg consideration. Assurance was
riyey thit it would be one of H.
Very firi measures given priyileEs
stat Yhen Congress reconvenes In
Decembf.