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The Washington times., 1924-03-22
ARSENALS SAFE
IN JERSEYS
FINDING.
Would Cost 100000 to
Move Them Out West,
Weeks to Tell Senate.

The cost Of moving the ammuni.
ton and explosives from Raritan
Arsenal, New Jersey, to army bases
in the West will be $4,000 900, Secre-
tary Of War Weeks announced to.
day.
In view Of this expense, which
cannot be met by War Department
funds, Weeks Is expected to make
a report to Congress within a few
days that in the belief of the War
Department the public Of New
Jersey is sufficiently protected and
unless Congress sees fit to appro.
pirate 100000 to recommend that
the explosives be left at Raritan.
The 100000 estimate was based
on part land and water transporta-
ton from Raritan to Government
bases at Ogden, Utah, and Savanna,
Ill.
This action is a result of protest
lodged by Senator Edge and other
prominent citizens or New Jersey,
following the recent fatal explosion
at Nixon.
The Washington times., 1924-03-22
HOUSE PROBE Of
DRY BUREAU
LOOMS
Investigation Epidemic, Long
Rampant In Senate, Hits
Lower Body.

The investigation epidemic, 80
long rampant in the Senate, has
begun to sweep the House.
With two Investigations already
under way in the lower body, the
House Rules Committee has fav-
orably reported q resolution to in
Vestigate duplication of bonds by
the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing and today had referred to
It a resolution for investigation of
the Prohibition Unit.
The prohibition bureau investiga-
ton, called for by Congressman
John j. Kindred of New York,
probably will be favorably consid-
cred by the rules committee.
The bond duplication probe will
be asked of the House early next
week, according to plans of House
leaders. Congressman Edward j.
King Of Illinois, father of the plan
in the House, probably will be
named chairman of the special
committee.
Another investigation probably
will be asked soon. This will be
into the aircraft industry and will
be made at the instigation of Con.
gresham John M. Nelson, Wiscon.
sin.
The special House committee ap-
pointed to investigate the United
States Shipping Board has already
held a number OF preliminary exec.
utive sessions and Is today hiding
It's first formal meeting, with Off.
Gals of the board as witnesses.
The other investigation commit
tee is holding executive sessions on
the charges developed recently by
a Chicago grand jury that members
Of Congress have received money
Illegally.
The Washington times., 1924-03-22
GARAGE OWNER GUILTY
ON CHARGE OF GIRL, 10

DOYLESTOWN, Pa, March o.
After celebrating three hours, a
jury IN the Criminal Court of Bucks
county convicted Henry C. From
nelser, well-known Quakertown ga.
rage proprietor on two serious
charges brought by Evelyn Auer,
ten-year-old daughter Of Mrs. Kath-
ryn Auer, a neighbor. Fronheiser
is fifty years old.
The case has been on trial for
three days before Judge Claude r.
Reno, of Allentown, substituting for
Judge William C. Ryan, who is i'll.
More than 500 persons attended, sew.
eral Quakertown manufacturing
plants closing down because of the
great number of witnesses and spec.
tators interested in the case.
The Washington times., 1924-03-22
BOB BARNETT WOULD
REDUCE THE GREENS

Robert Barnett, professional at
chevy Chase, has made a sugges.
ton to the effect that instead of all
this talk about making the cup
larger the putting greens on golf
courses should be made smaller.
Reduce the size of the green's"
said Barnett, land the approach to
the pin must be made ali the more
carefully and accurately. A smaller
green will also lessen the length Of
the putt. On some Of the green's
nowadays It is almost a brassle
shot from the edge of the green 20
the cup. A larger cup would make
the game too easy. Even II the
whole were six inches in diameter
some golfers would be found to
suggest that a small keg be placed
in the center Of the green"
The Washington times., 1924-03-22
OVER HALF OF wv. c. A.
FUND HAS BEEN RAISED

Sls,1S5.66 Of the $83,74S goal IN
the Y. w. C. A. drive has been
raised, It was announced last night
following a meeting at the associa.
ton headquarters, GA e street, Mrs.
ALDER H. Putney presiding.
Miss Helen Mcneil, secretary OF
the girl reserves, spoke about the
progress Of the movement among
the younger girls. Miss Mildred
King, secretary of the commercial
section Of the Business Women's
Club, told of the great popularity
Of these clubs among the business
women of Washington.
Mrs. Harry e. Hull WIN preside at
today's meeting and will give an
address on Future Dividends"
The Washington times., 1924-03-22
SiIzer Boom Launched.

ATLANTIC CITY, March o.
Judge William Smathers, of the
court Of common pleas of Atlantic
county launched Presidential boom
for Gov. George s. Silzer at a
luncheon of the Atlantic City
Kiwanis Club. A prediction by
Judge Smathers that Governor Sill
ger would be the next President of
the United States was greeted with
applause and cheers. The governor
was a guest OF honor q the club.
The Washington times., 1924-03-22
WIDOW IS HELD
IN DEATH Of
HUSBAND
Ahmed Mahommed Confesses
to Killing Merchant at Her
lnsistence.

DETROIT, March 22.-Mrs. Min
erva Abbas, thirty-eight, wealthy
widow of Russian Abbas, Highland
Park grocer, was charged with
murder today after Ahmed Mahom-
med, forty, confessed that he killed
the merchant at the insistent pleas
of the wife.
Mahommed also is held.
Abbas was shot dead while in
bed. Mrs. Abbas previously had
told detectives that a masked as
ASSN killed her husband after tying
her in the bathroom.
The Washington times., 1924-03-22
Reward for VandaIs.

PITTSTON, Pa, March a.
Pittston city council. In special SEES
sion, offered a reward of $1,000 for
information for the arrest and con-
viction of the person or persons
who desecrated the Pittson Gene.
terry on Vine street by topping
1879 headstones and using a sharp
instrument on statuary and marble
flower pots. The. cemetery associa-
ton estimates the damage at $1O,.
900.
The Washington times., 1924-03-22
Broadcasts for Son.

CHESTER, March 22.-Although
radio broadcasts and other methods
have failed to find her son, Mrs,
Mary McCauley, sixty.three, of
Linwood. who is dying in the Ches.
ter Hospital. still hopes she will
meet her boy before she breathes
her last.
The Washington times., 1924-03-22

The monthly national novena in
honor OF Blessed Teresa, "the Little
Flower" will begin tonight at 1880
o'clock in the Carmelite Shrine Of
the Little Flower, 200 T street
northeast. The relic will be exposed
during the novena.
The Washington times., 1924-03-22
EN LA TOILETTE SWAMPED WITH PLEAS TO HEAD THIRD PART7
Mellon Is Held Victim,
In Tax Scandals !
BY WILLIAM HARD.

The Treasury Department today firmly added to the
Navy Department the Interior Department. and the Depart
ment Of Justice in the list Of departments now under steady
raking fire from Senatorial investigators
The Washington times., 1924-03-22

Pershing Sees Poincare.
PARIS, March 22.-Gen. John j.
Pershing was received in audience
yesterday by Premier Poincare.
The Washington times., 1924-03-22

CLARENDON, Va, March ca
Annual election Of officers Of the
Clarendon Citizens Association viii
take place at the regular semi.
monthly meeting Monday night at 8
o'clock at the citizens hall. Full
attendance at the meeting is being
urged. $3.50 -
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04

CHICAGO, Sept. Jacob Franks
has sold his home-the house TO-
ward which his son, Bobby, was
trudging after a day at school when
he accepted an invitation to inspect
a tennis racquet and was, instead,
kidnapped and slain; the house that
he, the older Franks, had purchased
from Albert Loeb, father of Richard,
one of the youthful murderers, Is
years ago, a year before Bobby was
born.
The new master of the spacious
residence. located in the heart Oh
the south side fashionable district.
will be Joseph Trintz, part owner OF
a string of motion picture houses.
The Franks family will move to
north side hotel, Mr.. Franks said
today.
1t was necessary IN transferring
title TO Mr.. TrintZ to give a quit
claim deed to Mr.. Loeb, who had
once owned the property.
Constant association with un-
pleasant reminders of their sons life
and the circumstances surrounding
his death prompted Mr.. and Mrs.
Franks to sell their home. Certain
incidents which had occurred in the
neighborhood since Bobby died also
induced them to arrive at their de-
ciSion.
Among these occurrences was the
discovery a few weeks ago on the
front porch Of neighbor and friend
of human skull and several bones.
placed in the form of the age-old
pirate death symbol. Between the
bones was a note reading: IF the
court don't hang them, we will.
Judge Caverly, who has been con-
stantly applying himself to study
of the evidence developed at the
hearing that closed Thursday, rested
Saturday afternoon, but returned to
his work Sunday.
When Judge Caverly pronounces
sentence Wednesday, September 10,
among those present will be Albert
Fl. Loeb, father of Richard, and Ma
than F. Leopold, ST., father Of young
Nathan.
Mr.. Loeb has announced his in
tention of disregarding the advice
of physicians to attend court on the
fateful day. He is seriously ill with
an affliction Of the heart and has
been resting for several months at
the family summer estate at Charlie.
voix, Mich. Mr.. Leopold has attended
all sessions of the hearing.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04
OLD PARTIES OFFER NOTHING
TO REMEDY EVILS THEY HAVE
FOSTERED, LA TOILETTE SAYS
Slaves of the Same Great Financial Interests Both Talk
of European Issue While Monopoies Systematic
CaIIy Rob All ella sses, He Asserts

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-Assail-
ing the Republican and Democratic
larties, which he declared offer moth
ing to remedy 1.-The evils which have
arisen under their respective admin
istrations and as a result of their
policies" Senator La Toilette, of
Wisconsin, in a Labor day message
broadcast by chain of radio sta
lions, appealed Monday to the voters
OF the nation to support his indie
pendent candidacy for the presi-
dency.
Senator La Toilette asserted that
he had entered the campaign as a
candidate to Convict" the monopoly
system which he contended is pro
tected by certain laws and by the
failure to enforce others and whose
power is so great that both of tt e
old parties have become its abject
slaves"
'"The message Of the Republican
and Democratic parties" said Mr..
La. Toilette, lis a message of despair.
In it the American people find no
ray Of hope for relief from the bur-
dens which Cypress them.
But the people have found great
hope and that hope is in the pro-
GressiVe movement. We have en-
listed in this campaign to restore
this government to the service Of
the public, to secure to the laborer
and producer in all lines a greater
share of the product of his toll, while
protecting the consumer against the
trust-fiXed prices on all he buys and
to drive out of the government at
Washington the corruptlng influ-
ences now so dominant
What He Pledges
If elected president, Senator La
Toilette pledged himsel flo work for
the repeal Of the transportation act
of 1920, behind which he asserted
the interstate commerce commission
has taken refuge in its refusal to
reduce the present exorbitant rail-
road rates." downward revision of
tariff duties, readiustment of tax
schedules, reorganization of the fed
eral trade and tariff commissions,
conservation of natural resources
and promotion of cooperative
marketing, free from government
control as an aid to the farmer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04

we some we really don't want?-
laws that can't be enforced, yet can't
be repealed-laws that are broken
even by many of those who helped
to put them and who help to keep
them on our statute books?"
my job" answered the attorney
general, sis to try to enforce the
laws, not to criticize them"
Yet the attorney general does criti-
CHE a little, at least by implication.
Thus:
"The extension Of government &C
tivities into new fields has brought
about devices in the supposed inter-
est of expeditions law enforcement
without inconvenient interference by
the courts, by comforting more or
less arbitrary powers on administra-
tive officials, constantly tending to
narrow the common law rights and
privileges of the citizen.
eve will do we'll to remember that
the most precious Inheritance of the
new world from the old is embodied
in those fundamental rights and per-
sonal liberty under the law, which
have found their true expression
here in our bill of rights and the
first ten amendments to our consti-
tuition"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04
Novel Punishment Given
For Petty Theft in China

TSINGTAO, China, Aug. 3O.-The
park police here demonstrated new
and effective mode of punishment
for vandals recently when two men
were caught stealing flowers.
The officers took the culprits to
the main boulevard and made them
kneel To the prodding of police
rifles they were made to shout to all
passers by why they were being thus
treated.
For Is minutes they were COM
PEELED to shout: 81 took what did
not belong to me and promise never
to do it again." while they were
made to hold the stolen flowers
aloft
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04
SWISS IS ELECTED
AS PRESIDENT Of
LEAGUE ASSEMBLY

GENEVA, Sept. 1.-By the Asso-
ciated Press. DIR. Giuseppe Motta,
former president of Switzerland, was
today elected president of the Fifth
assembly of the League of Nations.
DR.. Motta received AS out of AZ
votes cast. He was escorted to the
chair amid tremendous enthusiasm
Business-like efficiency and speed
marked the inauguration today of
the work of the assembly. Paul
Hymans, Belgium'S energetic for.
elgn minister, who opened its pro-
ceedings in his capacity as presi-
dent of the council of the league,
conducted affairs like the chairman
of the board Of directors of some big
American organization.
Referring to the London agree
ment for a reparations settlement
with Germany, NJ. Hymans said it
ushered in a period of quietude and
progress on the road Of civilization
and had caused a new and hopeful
era to succeed the previous times OF
trial, sacrifice and suffering. He
remarked that countries which were
not yet members of the league, like
the United States. Germany, Russ ia
work Of the technical organizations
of the leag que. pointing out that thus
the leagues sphere OF action was
rapidly being extended and the spirit
OF solidarity daily gaining strength.
Bares Enemies "Fallacies"
The League Of Nations, he said,
had aroused the persistent hostility
of all who worshipped force and who
tt~iO oyiT
mask of hatred and anger and "who
degrade the love of country into an
egotisticaI and ferocious national
ISM
There is, he continued in ringing
oratorical phrases, a tendency in GER
tain quarters to oppose the idea of
country to the idea of solidarity, as
if these were conflicting and ire
concilable conceptions. Yet, to use
the words of NJ. Barthou, Of France,
he said, "the spirit Of internation-
aIism can and ought to be in har-
mony with the idea Of country"
Applause burst from the galleries
as NJ. Hymans flayed the enemies
Of the league as being opponents Of
progress and civilization. Abiding
to the charge that the lea que was a
clared it did not supersede the func-
tions of individual countries, but ex-
tended, developed and encouraged
them.
individual countries" he declar-
ed. do not lose a single iota of those
inalienable rights which are alike
their protection and their pride
Look Ahead, Not Behind
NJ Hymans appealed to the world
to look forward and not to look back
ward to the terrible war that had
begun ten years ago this summer.
The memory of great deeds done,
the heroic sacrifices made and the
blood so coura geously shed must be
cherished, he said, but the time had
now arrived to safeguard the world
from the recurrence of such disas
tiers as had occurred and to estab-
lish on an unshakable foundation
the reign Of law and the sanctity Of
treaties.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04
TWO JAILED AFTER
BREMEN SHOOTING;
ONE DEAD; z DYING

BREMEN, Ga, Sept. 1.-Haralson
county officials began today an in
vestigation into all phases Of the
alleged family quarrel which result
ed Sunday afternoon in the shoot
ing to death of j. D. Holcombe,
twenty-seven years old, Of Birming.
ham, and the wounding of his cous-
in, l.. d. Sumerlin, also of Birming-
ham,
Ollie Golden, who lives near
Bremen, a brother-in-law of Hol-
combe, and John 3. Cash, a brother
in-law of Golden, are held in jail
at Buchanan, the county seat of
this county, on charges of murder.
They are charged with emptying
two double arreled shotguns, load
ed with bucBshot, into an automo-
bile in which Holcombe and Sumer-
lin rode past Golden's home Sunday
afternoon Both surrendered to Of
ficers Immediately after the shoot
ing it, was said here.
According to the best information
available here, the shooting is sup
Holcombe's sister, about three weeks
posed to have resulted from an al
l6RSQ dIldCh ny oOloSAl Oii AiA0 VIZ
ago. Golden is said to have struck
his wife over the head with piece
of stove wood. He is under bond
here as a result of the alleged attack
and he and his wife have separated.
According to officials, consider
able enmity has existed between
Goldens family and the family OF
his wife since this affair, and Golden
is said to have stated prior TO the
shooting that he had heard thai
"Holcombe had sworn to get MN.
Both he and Cash have remained
silent since the shooting, according
to officers.
Holcombe was driving the automo'
bile at the time of the shooting.
When the two shotguns blazed away,
it was said, Holcombe sank down
over the steering wheel while the car
was going at a rapid speed. Sumer-
lin. himself dangerously wounded, is
said to have pulled Holcombe from
under the wheel and to have taken
control of the car, driving it for
about half mile before getting as
sistance When he stopped the car
he is said to have collapsed.
Both men were taken to Bremen,
and Holcombe was rushed from here
to Atlanta in an automobile. He
died there Sunday night and his
body was returned here this morn
ing. The funeral probably will be
held Tuesday.
Sumerlin was rushed by train to
Birmingham, where he is reported to
be in a dangerous condition. His
face and body were thoroughly pep
pered by the heavy shot and one OF
his eyes was said to have been torn
out. He IS not expected to recover.
RACE TO ATLANTA IN VAIN;
VICTIM DIES IN HOSPITAL
J. D Holcombe, 27-year-old victim
of the double shooting affray near
Bremen Sunday, was rushed to the
Georgia Baptist hospital here, where
he died about 10 o'clock Sunday
night. His lcdy was returned to
Bremen for funeral and interment
at GI5 C'rIock Mon0aV morning.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04

IT will, il elected, use the APP
pointive power of the executive de-
clared the Wisconsin senator, Ito
free every department of the govern
ment from the control Of special in
terest | would place at the
head of the department Of justice
and in the office of every United
States district attorney men who
would vigorously enforce all laws,
and 1 would instruct them to brin g
and prosecute criminal actions
against every profiteering monopoly
which violates the antitrust laws
with the same vigor which l. should
require of them in the prosecution of
a bootlegger."
Insisting that the two old parties,
seeking to divert the attention of
voters from pressing domestic is
sues, point to Europe and say there
is the solution" Mr.. La Toilette con
tinued:
1.-The original source of the Demo
cratic and Republican plans respect
ing Europe is the same. That source
is the well-known source of the bank
ing house Of j. P. Morgan & Co. Con-
nection of this banking house with
the candidates of both old parties
and with the leaders of those parties
is close and intimate and. confiden'
tial. The so-called Dawes plan is
merely the Morgan plan"
Promises Revelations
During the campaign Senator La
Toilette declared he intends to tell
1.-The American people exactly what
has been going on in Washington,
during his eighteen years service as
a senator In that time he added,
I believe I have been in a position
to observe the influences behind GER
tain of the enactments of congress
and the policies of the executive
branch of the government which are
Of the deepest significance to the
public
In the course Of his address Sen
ator La Toilette referred to the
combinations which go to make up
industry" the sugar monopoly"
the coil monopoly" the banking
combination the Transportation
monopoly" and the "meat packing
combination" as only a few of the
combinations which g to make up
the monopoly system"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04

in their plane. They were found
the next day by the destroyer Hull,
both men were suffering somewhat
from exposure. Two weeks were
required to obtain a new engine for
the Seattle from Kanatak, 100 miles
distant, and in the meantime the
other fliers rested at Dutch Harbor
waiting for the commander to join
them.
Major Martin left Chignik on Arril
80, and shortly after noon bumped
into the mountain. When no word
had been received from him the
next day all the fishing boats in
the regions were urged to aid in
the search for the two men in the
waters south of the Alaska peninsu-
la, while dog teams took up the
search on land. Later an army air
plane secuted over the territory.
Across the Atlantic
From London the schedule ar
ranged to bring the aviators to the
Atlantic coast of the North Amer
lean continent included stops at
Hull, England, then a jump of $40
miles to Kirkwall in the Orkney Is
lands; one Of 275 miles to ThorshaV-
en-. Farce islands; then to Horna,
ford, Iceland, $50 miles; to Reykja-
vik, Iceland, 339 miles; to Angmagsa-
lik. Greenland, the most northerly
point touched in the Atlantic, 500
miles; to Ivigtut, Greenland, 500
miles, and to Indian HarbOr, Labra.
dor, 572 miles.
The remainder of the trip will
take the flyers to Cartwright Harbor,
Labrador, 40 miles, thence to
Hawkes. Bay, Newfoundland, 29O
miles, and on to Pictou Harbor,
Nova Scotia, 420 miles. From the
last point the aviators will begin
to think of home, which to them
after such a trip will be the entire
United States. A flight Of $40
miles will bring them down along
the Maine coast to Boston, with only
two more hops left, one of 1856
miles to Mitchell Field, and another
of 220 miles to Washington.
Originally it was intended to have
the flight end at Washington, but
a short time ago officials of the air
service announced that they favored
Glover Field. Cal, as the finishing
point in order that the air route
completed. 1t is proposed to have
the fliers leave Washington for the
cross continent flight, following the
route to Moundsville, w. Va, Day
ton, Ohio, and then along the air
mail line as far west perhaps as Sac
ramento. Cal, before turning south
to Glover Field.
Air officials plan to have the trip
west made as eXpeditiously as pos
sible in order that efforts to beat
the record Of the American filters,
which are expected to be started gen
orally, may be made as difficult as
possible
After the crash Major Martin and
his mechanician retrieved some OF
Feir food supplies from the wreck
and started down the mountain side.
Seven days elapsed before they came
upon a trapper's cabin at the souther-
most point on Port Moller Bay. They
were exhausted. There they found
food and rested for three days, then
walked to the beach, whence Martin
sent his radiOgram to Washington.
in it he said the two men owed their
existence to concentrated food and
nerve.