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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-02
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-02
TO Col. Watkins

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-02
To Police Capt. E. l.. Hedges

Dear Captain Nearly all tho police officers gifts
Thanksgiving but have philanthropy Chief
Seattle officers distribute turkeys poor
people Tho thanks those
heart beat beneath a CHIEF SEATTLE.
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cHlEF SEATTLE
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-02
To E. d. CoIvin, Deputy Prosecutor

-T0TI7 YOU rr0s.c1I6T
Congratulations SO doubt l
most important office. CHIEF SEATTLE.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-02

DAIRY COWS IN THE UNITED
States increased at a lower rate
than the population.
Evening star., 1924-11-11
DOUGLAS ROBINSON
T0SUCCEED COUSIN
ASA|DE TO WILBUR
Another of Roosevelt Family
Virtually Selected as
Navy Assistant.

Theodore Douglas Robinson of New
York 4 nephew OF President The odore
Roosevelt, has virtually been selected
for Assistant Secretary OF the Navy
Mr.. Robinson, who is son OF
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, called
today at the White House, and after
conference with President Cool
idge went to the Navy Department
to confer with Secretary Wilbur.
The post of Assistant Secretary has
been vacant since early in October
when Theodore Roosevelt resigned to
make his unsuccessful campaign as
Republican nominee for Governor of
New York.
Tradition OF RooseveIts.
The appointment Of Mr. Robinson
would carry out what has become a
Roosevelt tradition in the Navy De-
partment. The Theodore Roosevelt
who retired as Assistant Secretary
six weeks ago had been preceded in
that post by Franklin d. Roosevelt,
Democrat, and years ago the Theo-
dore Roosevelt who later was to be
come President also served as the
departments second in command.
Mother Is Active.
Mr.. Robinson's mother, a sister of
the former President, has been active
in recent Republican politics. His
wife was. before their maria ge
Helen r. Roosevelt of New York.
Mr.. Robinson was born in 1888, was
educated at Harvard, and has served
in the New York State Senate. He
was chairman of the Progressive
State committee of New York in 1912
Evening star., 1924-11-11
Two Others at Bedford, Va,
May Succumb and II Are
Seriously III.
BEVERAGE PURCHASED
FROM NEARBY FARMER
Officials Think Receptacle Had
Contained Arsenate for Spray
ing Trees.
Special Dispa tch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va. November IL
Eight residents of the Elks National
Home at Bedford, 25 miles from here,
are dead, and two others of II seri-
ously ill are not expected to live, as
the result of arsenic poisoning be-
lieved to have resulted from drink :
ing sweet apple cider at luncheon
yesterday.
The cider was taken from a keg,
and when an analysis last night show
ed traces of arsenic in the beverage,
county officers investigating came to
the conclusion that the poison had
been left in the receptacle after it
had been used to hold arsenate of
lead for spraying fruit trees.
List of Dead.
The dead are:
Chester Tucker jewelerfi Lima, Ohio.
Alvin Spalding, railroad man, Love
land. Colo.
Joseph \. Kenny, hotel man, Marion
Ipd.
f.. f. O'Connor, railroad man. Dali
las, Tex.
Thomas Madisen, railroad contrac-
tor, Long Island City. l.. l.
George Ay. Slade, lumber merchant
Saginaw, Mich.
G. S. Whitney. general contractor
Omaha, Nebr.
3. F. Allen. Snowman, Portland
Ore.
The cider was made Friday by f.
NJ. Richardson, farmer residing
above Bedford, who long has served
the Elks' Home, and was brought to
tho institution Saturday.
Early yesterday afternoon the first
cases of illness were reported, and
when the affection became general
II. r. Mosby. superintendent Of the
home, sent out 4 call to surrounding
towns for physicians and nurses to
augment the staff of the home.
Other Lives Saved.
Relief was rushed to the institu-
ton and the attendants worked all
night AS result 1t is believed
heavier casualties were forestalled.
When it developed that the men
were victims of poisoning Supt. Mos
by sent sample of the beverage to
the laboratory at Randolph Macon,
where, it was announced, the evil
dences of arsenic were developed.
The theory that it was the keg
that was responsible, it was said
was borne out by the fact that some
cider brought in Saturday N a jug
Continued on Page 4, Column IL
Evening star., 1924-11-11
POLICEMEN ACCUSED
OF BEATING PRISONER
Formal Charges Filed by A. A
Davis Against Six in Sew
enth Precinct.

Formal charges have been filed
against six members of the seventh
police precinct, growing out of the
alleged mistreatment of Arthur A.
Davis, 3007 Cambridge place, while in
custody in the police station Septem-
ber 81. The accused are Lieut.. Joseph
W. Pierson and Privates Ralph G.
Proctor, r. B. Carroll, Clarence P.
Robinson. pealmer Milstead and j. F.
Eawen.
Attorneys P. J. Ryan and George c.
Page, counsel for Davis, filed sworn
charges against the policemen. alleg-
ang brutality toward Davis while the
latter was in the police station.
Davis and Policeman Musselman
Mefe involved in difficulty on the
street, and Davis later surrendered to
the police to answer any charge that
might be preferred against him. 1t
Is alleged that while in the station he
was Summoned from a cell, a sack
placed over his head and he was
taken TO an adjoining room, where, he
alleged, he was beaten into insensi-
bility..
A charge Of assaulting Policeman
Musseifnan was preferred against
Davis. The case was heard before a
dtify In Police Court last week and
he vas acquitted. 1t Is probable that
The six members of the force will be
Fitted to appear before the police trial
board Saturday morning. Davis claims
his alleged mistreatment was in re-
faliation for what happened to Mus
selman earlier In the night.
Evening star., 1924-11-11
MRS. HARDING NOW
AT POINT OF DEATH
Barely Alive, Doctor Reports--Had
Looked Forward to Armi-
stice Day.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MARION, Ohio, November 11.-Mrs.
Warren G. Harding was reported as
lowering between life and death to-
day by her physician, DR.. Carl W..
Sawyer, who reported her condition
as unchanged from yesterday. Little
hope was held for her recovery.
While mistress of the White House
Mrs. Harding, with her husband, in
augurated the custom of visiting the
tomb of the Unknown Soldier on each
Armistice day, and she had been look
ing forward to celebrating the sign
ing of the armistice again today, her
friends said.
DR.. Sawyer's daily bulletin on his
patients condition follows:
Mrs. Harding had poor night.
She feels weak and exhausted this
morning. Her general condition is
not so good
Evening star., 1924-11-11
Men With Hobbies,
Fat, Profane Ones.
Best Surety Risks
By the ssoci lated Press

by the Associated IreSS.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, November il.
Men with hobbies and fat men
usually are good risks for surety
companies, Fred NJ Withey, vice
president of the National Surety
Company, today told members of
the Columbus Ad Club.
The NUT or rAan with a hob
by. Mr.. Whitley said, lis good
moral risk because he is too busy
with his pet subject to take 9TH
er peoples money; the fat man
is good risk because his
thoughts center on eating rather
than dishonesty.
The married man is a better
moral risk than the bachelor by
Six-to-one ratio, and the violently
profane man is a good risk be-
cause he takes out his peeves in
swearing rather than in stealing"
Withey said.
Women as a rule are more hon
est in business affairs than men,
the speaker said. When they go
wrong. he said, their peculations
usually are not large.
Evening star., 1924-11-11
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, November II. In
the trial of Representative John
Phllip Hill in the United States court
mere today for alleged violations OF
the Volstead act, Judge Morris a.
Soper ruled that the .'one-half
OF L per cent" clause in the Vol
stead law does not apply to bever-
ages made in the home for home
consumption.
Judge Soper said:
Congress seems to have used the
word Notwithstanding differently in
one section than it did in another
To my mind, Congress plainly in
tended that persons manufacturing
cider and wine exclusively for use in
their homes should be in a class by
themselves or otherwise there is no
apparent need for this section (sec-
tion 29).
Intent Of Congress.
& "The only reasonable explanation
for Congress singing out home
made cider and wine makers is that
Congress did not intend to punish
men for such manufacture unless the
beverage is intoxicating in fact.
This opinion seems to be borne
out by an opinion expressed in the
United States Senate in September
Evening star., 1924-11-11
Courts Gaining on |'Dan Cupid''
As Divorces Increase II Per Cent

Fewer marriages and fewer di-
vorces were recorded in the Dis
trict of Columbia during 1928 than
during the year previous, the Cen
sus Bureau announced today. al
though for the rest of the United
States both marriages and di-
vorces increased in number dur
ing 1928, as compared with 1922.
There were 5,7ss marriages in
the District Of Columbia during
1923, against $3.50 in 1922, while
divorces here during 1928. num-
bering 1876, were 35 less than the
161 divorces granted during 1922.
Maryland showed 25.678 marriages
last year, against 22,92s in 1922,
and 1,605 divorces for 1928, COM
pared with 1,426 for 1922.
For the country as a whole, di-
vorces showed a more rapid in
crease than marriages last year,
the statistics showing that the
number of divorces were II per
cent more than in 1922, while the
Evening star., 1924-11-11
PICK FUNERAL DELEGATES
Hughes, Weeks and Andrews to
Represent President.

Arrangements have been made by
President Coolidge to be represented AT
the funeral, he requesting Secretaries
Hughes and Weeks and Capt. Adol-
phus Andrews. his naval aide, to at
tend in that capacity. At the same
time officials of the Senate and House
made plans for delegations to repre-
sent those bodies officially at the
services.
The Senate committee, designated
by Senator Cummins of Iowa, presi-
dent pro tenn, was announced as fol-
lows:
Walsh, Massachusetts,; Curtis, Kan
sas: Borah, Idaho; Swanson, Virginia
Mclean, Connecticut; Smoot. Utah
Ashurst, Arizona; Pittman, Nevada
Sterling, South Dakota; Underwood
Alabama; Wadsworth, New York
Fernald, Maine: Watson. Indiana
Gerry, Rhode Island; Hale, Maine
Moses, New Hampshire; Spencer, Mis-
souri,; Ball, Delaware; Edge. New
Jersey; Keys, New Hampshire; Pep
per, and Reed. Pennsylvania; Cope
land, New York; Edwards, New Jer.
sey; Green and Dale, Vermont.
The House will be represented by the
Massachusetts, delegation.
Evening star., 1924-11-11

number of marriages was only
S.4 per cent larger than the pre-
vious year.
Marriages numbered 1.223,s25, as
compared with 1,129,045 in 1922,
while divorces granted numbered
165.139, against 14S.815. Nebraska
was the only State in which there
was a marked decrease in mar
riages, it being about 25 per cent
Census Bureau officials explained
1t was due, to some extent, to an
amendment to the marriage law
in 1928 requiring the posting Of
an application for marriage Ii
censes for ten days before the Ii
cense is issued.
The largest rate of increase in
the number of divorces was in the
State of Washington, slightly
more than 60 per cent. due, ac-
cording to the Census Bureau, to a
change in the divorce law which
caused considerable decrease in
the number of final DEGREES in 1922,
the first year the new provision
was in effect.
Evening star., 1924-11-11
Cider and Wine Made IN Home
Held Legal, in Trial of J. P. Hill
Judge Rules @'HaIf of Per Cent" Does
Not Apply, But That Beverage Must
Be actually ''IntO1icating."

1919, when the Volstead act was be-
ing debated by the chairman OF the
committee in charge of the bill. He
expressed the opinion when this sec
tion was added to the bill by amend
ment that cider and fruit juices made
exclusively for use in the home must
be Intoxicating in fact"
Follows Long Argument.
The ruling was the result of a
lengthy argument yesterday by coun
sci for Hill and United States Dis
trict Attorney Amos w. w. Wood
cock
The Government chemists testified
that Col. Hills homemade wine had
an alcoholic content as high as III
per cent.
Hill's defense was based on the al
legged ambiguity of section 90 of the
Volstead act, which permits the man
ufacture of homemade fruit juices
and cider. provided they are mon
Intoxicating" but forbids their sale
to any one except those who have a
permit to make vinegar from the
cider.
Col. HILL himself, was the first wit
ness for the defense. He said. in
response to questions of his attorneys.
that he had had correspondence with
Continued on Page 4, Column p
Evening star., 1924-11-11
FIGHTS TO SAVE
S35,OOO,ODg SPENT
ON CAPITAL SHIP
Taxpayer Brings Injunction
Suit Against Wilbur to Stop
Washington's Scrapping.

Well over s35,000,0O0 of taxpayers
money invested in the superdread
naught Washington. So per cent COM
pleted, may be saved with only "a
hours to spare, or may be sunk to
oblivion in 80 fathoms of water co
miles off the Chesapeake capes by
high explosive bombs and big gum
fire from the battleship Texas in fur
ther proof to all the world of the sac
rifices this Government is ready to
make in unequaled good faith in an
attempt to safeguard the peace of the
world.
By order of Associate Justice Will
liam Hitz of the Supreme Court of
the District, Curtis d. Wilbur, Secre-
tary of the Navy. is to appear in
court Friday morning at 10 o'clock to
show cause why he should not be re-
strained from destroying this first
line battleship in conformity with the
arms conference naval limitation
treaty. Just "a hours later the wash
ington, designed to be the pride of
the United States Navy" is scheduled
to be "scrapped" by experimental
bomb and target practice.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur was
served with notice of the injunction
suit at 1890 o'clock this morning
Attorney General Stone was called
upon today by Secretary Wilbur to
present the Governments answer to
the order. Since the disposal of the
ship was determined in the inter-
national agreement resulting from
the Washington arms conference,
Secretary Wilbur said, the suit was
properly one for the Federal legal
authorities to handle, rather than
those of the department which was
made defendant.
The Secretary today maintained
that the suit could not interfere with
the plan which contemplates the de-
struction of the Washington by gun
fire and mining tests Off the Virginia
Capes next Friday. He pointed out
that the department was free to go
forward with it's program while the
court proceedings were being con-
Summated.
This last day appeai to the courts
in behalf of the taxpayers of the
country-on the ground that the de-
struction of this warship is not nee
essary because the Limitation of arm
ament treaty covering the scrapping
of capital ship tonnage is not in force
OF legal, and that other nations, not
ably Great Britain and Japan, are
far in excess of their capital tonnage
totals-waS made late yesterday by
William H. Shearer of New York, a
naval expert.
Mastering to his support an array
of legal talent including Wilton j.
Lambert, r. H. Yeatman, William T..
Leahy, and Martin ]. Mcnamara of
Washington and Edwin S. Merrill of
New York, Mr.. Shearer before leav-
ing Washington last night for New
York declared his intention of max
ing this u finish fight" for a real
showdown on the national defense.
1t is expected that Secretary Wilbur
will be represented in court Friday
by the judge advocate general of the
Navy, who will oppose the granting
of a permanent INJUNCTION to prevent
the scrapping of this brand-new super
dreadnaught.
Filed with his bill of complaint
is a report by Mr.. Shearer after an
IContinued on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1924-11-11

And has expressed the hope that Mr..
Davis will remain.
Will Act in Wallace Vacancy.
The vacancy caused by the death
of Secretary Wallace of the Agricul- =
ture Department is to be filled short
~. The law requires the term of an
Acting Secretary can run for only 80
30 days. Mr.. Coolidge may appoint
Acting Secretary Gore to the Cabinet
post to serve until March 4, however
when he becomes Governor of West
Virginia.
White House officials appear to
take no stock in numerous reports
that the President might display 4
changed attitude now that the
election is over and he has been
chosen to the chief magistracy in
his own right. Some of these re-
ports have indicated that he might
desire to ask for the designations of
some of the holdover cabinet mem
bers in order to make personal
selections
Nevertheless. it is known that at
least one or two of those who now
hold cabinet positions desire for one
reason or another to return to
private life, and it remains to be
determined whether Mr.. Coolidge
can prevail on them to stay in the
Government service.
Born in Wales.
Mr.. Davis was born October 27,
1873, in the town of Tredegar
Wales. the son of a steel worker. At
the age of he reluctantly came to
America with his family, crossing
the Atlantic in the steerage.
After his father had obtained work
in the mills of the Pittsburgh dis
trict the boy became in succession a
bootblack, messenger boy, helper in
the mills. iron puddler, tinplate
roller, city clerk, county recorder
labor organizer, philanthropist and
member of the Harding cabinet.
The great achievement of Mr. Da-
Wis as director was the founding of
Moosehart, a community in Illinois,
80 miles from Chicago. AS con-
ceived by him, the idea was to pro-
vide home and school for the chill
dren of those who died in poverty
Moose.
Mr.. Davis first entered politics
while working in the tin mills at Ell
wood, Ind At that time it was de-
cided that the tin mill workers
should have share in the muni-
cipal government, and Mr.. Davis was
elected city clerk. Four years later
he was elected county auditor, and
his ambition was to become auditor
of the State of Indiana, but by
chance he joined the Loyal Order of
Moose, which marked the beginning
of his real career. Within year he
was made its director general, re-
manning in that office from 1907 to
1921, when the late President Hard
ing offered him the post of Secre-
tary of LABOR.
Evening star., 1924-11-11
BROOKHART'S LEAD CUT
BY OFFICIAL CANVASS
Iowa Senator Has 743 Votes Over
Steck on Partial Count
of Counties.

By the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, November II.
County boards of supervisors in 40
of Iowas counties today resumed
their work of making the official
canvass in the United States sena-
torial contest between Senator Smith
w. Brookhart, Republican, and Daniel
F. Steck, Democrat.
At the close Of the tabulation last
night, official returns from SO coun-
ties and unofficial returns from 40
counties showed Brookhart's lead to
have been cut down to 743 votes.
The complete official vote from all
counties probably will not be avail
able before tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1924-11-11
MONOXIDE GAS KILLS.
Woman Found Dead in Seat of
Automobile.

PELHAM, N. Y, November IL
Mrs. Eva Robinson Taylor, socially
prominent, was found dead from car
bon .monoxide gas poisoning yester-
day in the seat of her automobile In
a garage.
Her husband, Sutherland Tayor, jr
was killed in an automobile accident
last August.
Having motored to her former
home to obtain some personal be-
longings in the house she had re-
Gently disposed of, Mrs. Taylor ap-
parently left the car in the garage
with the engine running and the
doors closed. She presumably re-
turned through a door connecting the
garage and the kitchen. The coro-
per said death was accidental
Evening star., 1924-11-11
LODGE To Be BURIED
WITH SIMPLE RITES
Government Officials Will At
tend Funeral Tomorrow.
Military Escort Unlikely.
BY the Associated PreSs.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, November 11.-Simplicity
will be observed at the funeral to-
morrow of Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge in accordance with the fam
ily's wishes.
President Coolidge directed that the
officers in command of military units
here do all in their power to carry
out the wishes of Senator Lodges
relatives. 1t was said to be improb-
able that military escorts would be
accepted, however.
AS representatives of the President.
Secretary OF State Hughes, Secretary
of War Weeks and Capt. AdoIphus
Andrews, naval aide to the President,
will attend. There will be delegations
from the Senate and the House.
Gov. Cox and a delegation of the
Legislature will represent the State.
4 suggestion by the governor that
the body be placed in the Hall of
Flags in the State House, to lie in
state until the hour of the funeral
services, was not acted on by the
family. Today friends who wished to
pay their last tribute went to the
home of DR.. William Sturgis Bigelow,
lifelong friend of Senator Lodge, to
which the body was taken from the
hospital where the Senator died.
Evening star., 1924-11-11
PRAISED IN LONDON.

LONDON, November 1.-THE pub
lie activities of United States Senator
Lodge often have filled much space
in the English newspapers, and his
death attracts corresponding atten-
ton. All the newspapers print por-
traits and lengthy obituary notices.
He was a very stalwart American,
says the Times, commenting on the
passing of the Senator. HE was OF
the type that is fast vanishing. AL
though he maintained a traditional
and, it may be hoped, obsolete an
tagonism toward England. the disap-
pearance of such a remarkable figure
cannot but be felt as a loss"
Evening star., 1924-11-11
BRITISH AND MEXICAN
PEACE MOVE BEGUN
u. S. Asked to Use Good Offices to
Heal Breach, Is
Report.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, November 1.-THE
Mexican foreign secretary, Gen.
Aaron Saenz, is unofficiaIly informed
that parliamentary steps have been
taken to bring about a resumption of
diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and Mexico through the
friendly offices of the United States
Government, he stated last night
Officially, however, he knows nothing
of the matter.
The Mexican government has al
ways been willing, the secretary add
ed, to engage in decorous diplomatic
discussions upon all points pending
between the two countries.
Evening star., 1924-11-11
Alleged Accompice Arrested.

Clayton Hubble, 20. Baltimore,
charged, with Harvey Elliott, also a
Baltimorean, with completely in al
legged improper treatment of a young
girl last summer, was arrested in
Baltimore yesterday and returned
here by Detective c. ]. P. Weber.
Harvey Elliott was arrested in Sep
tember, given a hearing in Police
Court and held for the action of the
grand jury.