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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
James D. Hobbs

Treasurer National Wood
working Co. IA-cGsttfer
Wardman Construction
Co. Second Vice Priest
deNt-Tre0S1rer Wardman
Park Hotel. Second Vice
President and Treasurer
Wardman Mortgage& Dis
count Corporation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
Thomas P. Bones

Vice President Wardman
Construction Co. V{ce
President Wardman Park
Hotel. First Vice Prest-
dent Wardman Mortgage
& Discount Corporation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
Ezra Gould

President Washington Me-
ohanics Savings Bank.
TrO0steNoY' Racquet Club.
Former Voc PreStdeSst
Merchants Bank and
Trust Co. Former Pres
tdemt Dupont National
BAnk. Director Ward
man Mortgage & Discount
Corporation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
". Wallace Chiswen

President Peoples Mutual
Benefit Insurance Co. d.
rector Wardman Mortgage
& Discount Corporation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
John Poole

President Federal Ameri-
can National Bank. d.
rector Wardman Mort
gage and Discount Cor
poratlon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
Harry Wardman

President Wardpan Park
Hotel Co, President
Wardman Construction
Co, builders Of over 500
apartments and 1000
dwellings IN Washington.
D. c. President Ward
man Mortgage ana Dis
count Corporation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
Foreign Exchange.
FAR EAST,

New York Funds in Montreal 31Ls1.
premium at $1,000.
Montreal funds in New York. $3.50
discount at $1,000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
Hubert r. Ouinter

Secretary wardrhan Con-
struction Co. Secretary
Wardman Park Hotel.
Director Wardman Mort
gage q Discount CorpO-
ration.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
Hon. Daniel Thew
Wright

Former Justice U. s. su-
preme Court, d. c., Gen.
erGI Counsel Wardman
Construction Co. General
Counsel Wardnan Mort
gage & Discount Corpo-
ration. Director Wardman
Mortgage & Discount
Corporation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23
Charles L Selecman

Real Estate Operator. Elk
pert In Real Estate VAL
ues. DirootOr Wardman
Mortgage q Discount Cor
poration.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-23

1880 K Street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
VOTE IS HEAVY IN PRIMARIES
 THREE STATES
Commanding Lead Re- ported For Senator
 Capper In Kansas

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 5.-Yoters in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma today -nonainatsd their party standard bear CTS for the fall elections
 The polls closed late in all the states
 and indications were that the ballot ing had been heavk. Long ballots were expected to slow up the gathering and tabulating of returns.
 Fair weather greeted the voters and the day passe doff quietly despite the heat of the campaigns. The Ku Klux KIan issue bObbed up in all the states and to observers was regarded as the big factor in Oklahoma, where J. c. Walton, deposed governor, and klan foe, sought the democratic nomination for United States senator against a strong field.
 4 few scattered returns from Kan sas gave Senator Arthur Capper, re- publican, seeking renomination, a two to one over his two opponents.
 A heavy vote was reported in St. Louis which political observers have predicted would be the pivital factor in the Missouri primary. The guber- material race held the spotlight in Mis- souri with a heated contest in each party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
SUN TO FUEL EARTH, SAYS NOTED EXPERT
Rays May Replace Coal And Oil,
 Prof. Moves Asserts

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Future gen. erations may use the suns rays for fuel in two ways should the coal and oil now available run out, according to William A. Moves, assistant profess sor of the department of chemistry, University of Chicago. The rays may be used to charge storage batteries or to build up some compound which may be burned, he said.
 The use of mirrors has the disadvan- tage of being available only on sun ny days, Professor Moves said. He stated that one square inch of the earth's surface receives enough heat from the sun to heat one pound of water one degree in 26 minutes and d square mile receives the same energy in an hour which could be obtained by burning 300 tons of coal.
 Replacing coal by the suns rays might be done only to limited ex- tent he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
CLOUDY DEATH FACES BANDITS
 IN MINE SHAFT
Sulphur Fumes Blown Into Workings To
 Drive Out Trio

PALISADE, Colo, Aug. 5--A yel- low cloud, laden with death; is curling its way into the Hppex working of the Palisade mine here, where three post office bandits are at bay. -s
 For 72 hours these robbers, who ob- tained S15,oOO in currency and stamps from the Palisade postoffice. have stood off a posse. When the yellow cloud reaches them, they either must run or die, for it is mass of sulphur fumes, blown into the mine from smudges.
 Men are guarding all the entrances. They are grim, determined men. They have instructions to shoot to kill if the bandits come in sight and do not sur render.
 Late Tuesday three miners made their way into the diggins, that extend for more than five miles, and posted a notice near where the bandits were SUD- posed to be hiding.
 The notice read:
 Come out or be blown out"
 If, by any chance, the sulphur fumes fail to drive the robbers out, dynamite bombs will next be used. It is believed the bandits will make a break for liber- ty before morning, as they have been without food or water since they took refuge in the tunnels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
BY HI. H. ROBERTSON

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Mind-shackles forged by the diseased imaginations of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, drew them together into a sin gle evil force and caused them to mur- der 14-year-old Robert Franks, accord ing to Dr. Bernard Glueck, of New York, defense alienist.
 Singly, Loeb and Leopold were harm less as young lambs, the physician de- clared. United, they acted in concert and committed a series of misdeeds that culminated in murder. They stimu- lated each other to excess-excesses of mind and body, the physician said Some of the stimulus was planned and deliberate, but most of it had it's ori- gin in the inner mental life of the two boys, factor over which they were unable to exercise control, Dr. Glueck declared.
 This twin-crime complex, the phy- sician explained, long has been known to students of mental processes as 'folie q deux. '5@ Together, the boys were cap able of almost any offense. Separated, they probably were incapable of any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
FIGHT ON PLAN BY COMMISSION
 IS LOOKED FOR Makes Similar Rec0nl- mendation For 14th, 18th And 24th Streets VETOES PROGRAM
 OUTLINED BY CITY Twentieth Street Situa- tiOn Threatens To
 Bring Deadlock

Although city commissioners and members of the special Chamber of Commerce committee continued Tuesday to withhold from the public the report of Gen. W. L. Sibert con- corning elimination of downtown railroad grade crossings, The Age Herald was enabled to obtain some of the major details of the gen. erals findings.
 His plan proposes 8 viaduct over the tracks on Twentieth street, thus setting at rest the re- port that an effort would be made to leave this thoroughfare unpro- tected. Viaducts at Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-fourth streets also are proposed. His plan, by inference, at least, vetoes the city's own plans to construct underpasses at Fourteenth, Eight eenth and Twentieth streets and a viaduct at Twenty-fourth.
 The city commission will meet We'd nesday morning with City Engineer A. J. Hawkins U consider Sibert's report and his cost stimates and attempt to reach a dec, This meeting will be held behind -~sd doors, according to Street Commissioner W. E. Dickson.
 Opposition Expected
 Some members of the commission will open fire on some of Sibert's findings. particularly his proposal for Twen- tieth street viaduet. They contend that the property damage attending con- struction Of a viaduct on this street would reach enormous figures, and that aTl underpaEs here offers the proper solnfi ion.
 Rislsis alrea iisepn Ees l5y the slty, calling for nnderpa sses at two other streets-F fourteenth and Eighteenth, may not be pressed, but it appeared certain that a majority of the commis- sioners would stand fast for an under pass instead of a viadUct on Twentieth street.
 The view prevailed that if the city can get the railroads to make conces- sions and agree to a Twentieth street underpass, the commission will accept the plans calling for viaduets, instead of underpasses, at Fourteenth and Eighteenth streets.
 Meeting August II
 Railroad heads, the chamber com mittee and the commission are scheduled to meet August Il to reach final un- derstanding, with a view to beginning the elimination of the grade crossings at an early date. Fear exists that the railroads will not agree to any of the plans in tOta, but 1t is reported that both the commission, the chamber com mittee and General Sibert will bend their efforts towards bringing them to terms. Only as last resort will the city enact ordinances seeking to impel the railroads to take action, as this probably would mean long court fight.
 Members of the commission and the Chamber committee said Tuesday the text of General Sibert's report would probably be given the newspapers after the meeting on Augu1t Il.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
ODD FELLOWS MEET
 TO CONTTNUE> TODAY
Lodge Reports Substantial Gain
 In New Members For Year

Lowering of initiation fees from SIP to $S and introduction of an amendment to change the meeting date from August of each year to March were high lights in Tuesdays session of the eighty-third annual meeting of the Independent Or der of Odd Fellows of Alabama. The sound financial condition of the order was given as the reason for the reduc- tion in initiation fee.
 The order in Alabama has gained more new members since the last an- nual meeting than ever before in its his- tory, and was cause for much optimistic feeling by the members and officers.
 Satisfactory progress has been made in the work of the Orphans home at Cullman, supported by the lodge, Jacob Burger, secretary of the board of trus- tees said.
 Following appointment of committees and transaetfon of routine business the meeting adjourned until Wednesday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
ONE MEETS DEATH
 IN ELEVATED CRASH
Wooden Train Plunges Into
 Steel Subway Car

NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Three per sons were killed and IS injured, four critically, late today when wooden train on the elevated division of the Brighton line of the Brooklyn-Man- haitian Transit company ran into the rear end of steel subway train at the Ocean Parkway station.
 John McNicholas, motorman of the wooden car, in a statement to Mayor Hylan declared that the handle of his airbrakc control dipped off as he tried to apply to his brakes and banned when he tried ot replace it. He told the mayor that when his brakes failed 10 work he left his cab and ran through the first car and into the second warm ing the passengers. Bernard Yachter of Brooklyn, a conductor standing on the platform between the first and second cars of the wooden train, was killed.
 Nicholas was arrested tonight on charge of homicide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
C. %. P. PLANS HARD
 NORTHWEST DRIVE
Coolidge Considers Opening Of
 Headquarters At Minneapolis

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The re- publican national committee has before it for decision, President Coolidge let it be known, the question of establishing Q regional headquarters at Minneapolis as the base for an intensive campaign in the northwestern states.
 For sometime advisors of the presi- dent have urged that an active cam paign be conducted by the republican party in the states regarded as the stronghold of Senator La Toilette, inde- pendent candidate for president and the word from the White House was taken as indicating that advice was regarded as favorable enough to have it placed before the national committee for con sideration.
 More encouraging reports were re- ceived today from western territory. Representative Johnson, of South Da- kota, calling on the executive and say ing the republican ticket would prevail in that state in November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
Harmless AsALannb, Expert ! ern1s Sldyers,
 Blaming Mind Bonds
Neither Loeb Nor Leopold, Singly, Was Capa- ble Of Murder, Says Defense Alienist, But United They Stimulated Each Other To Excess Of Mind And Body

such crime as murder. It was the ef- feet of their association together, the joining Ut their abnormal impulses, that caused them to commit crime, the physician testified late Tuesday at the hearing before Justice Caverly.
 Dr. Glueck, the first exponent of the Freudian school of mind analysis to appear in the Franks case, took the stand during the last half hour of the day. After States Attorney Grove had expended hours trying to force Dr. William Healy of Boston to say that Leopold and Loeb were insane. The prosecutor frequently demanded that Justice John R. Caverly, before whom the hearing to determine mitigating cir 'cumstances has been taking place, stop the proceedings and draw a jury. He was overruled at every step and the judge, finally impatient, cut him short and told him that he intended to hear all the evidence in mitigation the de- feIise cared to offer.
 The cross examination of Dr. Healy furi ished none of the spectacular ele- ments that had characterized previous days of the case. Grove asked dozens
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
DEBT MEET. IS SOUGHT BY FRENCH Hope For Conference To Take Up Cancella-
 tion Question GERMANS SIT IN AT LONDON FARLEY Have Equal Voice With Allies On Dawes Plan
 Operation SESSIONS TO LAST TWO WEEKS LONGER TeutOns Extremely Slow In Di-
 gesting Reports Of
 Experts
GERMANS SIT IN
 AT LONDON FARLEY
SESSIONS TO LAST
 TWO WEEKS LONGER
(By Associated Press.)

LONDON, Aug. 5.-The inter- allied conference on the Dawes plan today officially changed it's name to international confer ence" when German represents tives, headed by Chancellor Marx, took places at the foot of the big table. in the ambassadors room of the foreign office. This was the first appearance of German pleni- potentiaries at a full dress Euro pean conference since that held in Genoa.
 Although they sat at the foot of the table, with Ramsay Macdonald at the head and the French and American delegates on either side, the Germans participated as full partners in the efforts to work out program for putting the Dawes plan into operation.
 After q formal session this morning the conferences adjourned until the Germans are ready to express their views on Che work accom- liehea by flas intera1lia dale
 aseeoaaa Big E0Sles6eA.@ z
 The chief delegates will meet tonor- row morning when the tbig seven will become the -big fourteen" by the inclusion of Chancellor Marx and For eirn Minister Stresemann and an ad- ditional delegate from each of the al lied countries. Ambassador Kellogg and James A. Logan, IT,, will represent the United States.
 Mfr. Macdonald today had hopes of winding up the conference at the pres ent week end 30 he could join the an- nual English holiday trek northward, but such hopes went glimmering this afternoon when it became known that they were not likely to be ready for a plenary sessio nt0morrow. The Amercian observers expect the confer ence to last at least q fortnight long CT.
 Chancellor Marx, Dr. Stresemann and Finance Minister Luther were in conference until late tonight with ya- rious German experts discussing the protocols, and it seemed unlikely that the delegation would be ready to make a statement tomorrow of the points they desire to discuss in the altered Dawes plan. The Germans feel they should not be expected to state their attitude. in 24 hours.
 Should the conference meet tomorrow it is thought the Germans will make only a statement in part on their po- siOtiOn. Thus, Mfr. MacDonald's desire that the conference should be com. pIeted Friday seems unlikely to be full filled.
 In French circles tonight there was optimism that the present parleys
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
LETTER K 'IS BURNED INTO FLESH Hot Iron Applied To Forehead And Left
 Arm Of Victim
  SAND IS THROWN
 IN MANS WOUNDS Breaks Away When Ef- fort Made To Apply
 Letter To Chest CITY AUTHORITIES
 SEEK ASSAILANTS Sought To See How Meeting Was Conducted, Says WOcn-
 socket NGwspaperman
SAND IS THROWN
 IN MANS WOUNDS
CITY AUTHORITIES
 SEEK ASSAILANTS

WoONSOCKET, R. l., Aug. 5. With a red-hot iron, which left the vivid imprint of of the letter "K" on his wist and forehead, Lucien c. San Souci, a newspaperman, has told the police a story which set them searching for the hooded men who captured San Souci as he spied on their secret meeting Mon day night.
 San Souci, a reporter for La Tribune, a local French daily, fol- lowed his newspaperman's instinct when he followed the hooded band to their meeting place in the woods between here and North Pittsfield, but he admitted that he was not as- signed to the job by his paper.
 The branding iron was applied by masked man who wore white robe and his companions wore the saae garb, San Souci said, but he was un- able to give the police much additiou- al inf0r1nati0n that nigh lead to fhe identity of his assailants
 q had overheard several men talking about a meeting that was to be held, San Souci said, ESQ, although not as- signed to cover it for my paper, went out merely to see how the thing was conducted.
 Hiding Place Found
 "On nearing the clearing were the meeting was in progress, saw several men clothed in white robes and masks. Fearing discovery, l dropped in the grass behind bush. I had been there only few minutes when another white robbed man, presumably on his way to the meeting, stumbled over me from behind. He grabbed hold of me and called out to the others, who asked me what I meant by spying on them.
 q told them I had nothing against the Ku Klux Klan-that was what I supposed they were, from their white robes-and that merely was curious to see how one of their meetings was conducted"
 That's just what we don't want you to see," exclaimed one of the men, ac- cording to San Souci.
 Exhibits Scars
 A branding iron was then produced, and a kerosene torch, San Souci said. On the end of the iron was a square metal block with the letter K" em- bossed on it. This was then heated over a kerosene torch and first applied to his forehead and then to his left arm. As evidence of this, San Souci produced two skin deep scars.
 "One of the men asked me if my wounds hurt" he said, land when told them that they did he scooped up a handful of earth and threw it into them, saying perhaps that will help
 'They wanted to brand me on the chest, and tore open by shirt, but
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
FLYERS BATTLE GALE BIO MILES
 TO REYKJAVK
Mayor Of Iceland Capital Welcomes American
 Globe Circlers
By OTIS PEABODY SWIFT I3Y Leased WirA Tn ARa.H Harald.


 ABOARD U. S. s. RICHMOND, REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 6.--Fly- ing in the face of q biting gale, the two remaining planes in America s round-the-world flight have arrived safely at Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland.
 Despite the heavy winds which they encountered at the outset of their voy- Eric Nelson piloted their air cruisers, without mishap throughout the BIO miles of their journey from Hornaf- jord.
 The fliers landed at 3:2O p. m., bringing their craft down gracefully in the sheltered harbor behind the break water. Curious Icelanders had gather ed along the shore, watching the air men as they descended, and cheering them as they stepped from their air planes.
 The whole population of Reykjavik had turned out on the stone quay as the American planes,l with a roaring of their propellers, circled the tiny red foofed town lying on the brown plain. Above the plains tower grim mountains with white patches of snow dotting their sunfnits.
 Received By Mayor
 The airmeT were received by Mayor sssinlsan 0f Eseglr sayilEs and driven in motor cars to the private home of q leading Iceland citizen. There d re- ception awaited them, and also q hot meal of native Iceland delicacies.
 The fliers's time from Hornafjord to Reykjavik was five hours and three minutes. They hopped off at 10 1T, Greenwich mean time, and arrived here at 8 20.
 From the moment of their departure they ducked into the teeth of 40-mile gale. AS they vanished in the misty cliffs of the indented coast, behind which loOmed the unhabited, snow-cab- ped mountains and glaciers.
 The pstrol ships guarded the afrmen carefully along their route of flight. As soon as they left, the cruiser Raleight began speeding toward Reyk- jayik. The destroyer, Billingsley, sighted them at Il :12, flying over the lowlands of the coast near Portland, and at 1 :10 the Reid sighted them when 20 miles east of Reykiayik.
 56-Mile Gale
 Two hours before Smith and Nelson brought their craft to the safety of the breakwater here, the speed of the bit ter gale had risen to 56 miles an hour over the tops of the snOw-clad mOun- tain peaks. The force of the gale blew away the starboard wireless of the Richmond. The. fliers, however, plow- dthrough the winds determinedly and beyond the fact that they did not make as good time as they expected, they were none the worse for their expert ence.
 Smith and Nelson probobly will re- main here for four or five days, pend- ing. advices from the Gertrude Rask, the Danish steamer, which is carrying supplies to Angmasalik, the next ob- jective, on the southern coast of Green land. The Danish steamer will not re- port on the conditions off the Green land eoast-and at present the situa- tion there is not encouraging.
 In forcing her way through a S0- mile pack of ice off Angmagsalik, the Gertrude Rask has progressed only 15 miles in four, days. The steamer re-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-06
News From Today's s Want Ads

Shoe salesman wanted for local territory. 100 Roebuck Highland lots at auction Thursday. Furnished room with kitchenette and sleeping porch for rent. Boy experienced in printing shop seeks position. House to house sales people wanted. Good location on Auto Row for rent.
 wOOdlawn bungalow only $500 cash.
 Young lady wishes place in doc tors office. 10 acres for sale on crest of Shades Mountain, FireprOOf warehouse for rent. 5O.OOO rolls of wall paper on sale at cut prices. Ladies wanted to sell adyer- tising.
 Truck to swap for radio set. Young lady stenographer wanted. Close in 24th Street lot for s4,OO0.
 Combination salesman and ad writer wants position. Tractor and mining machinery for sale. Fivs-room home in East Lake for S2,25O. Household furnishing including piano at sacrifice. Save $20O on two months old Ford sedan. Four first-class painters wanted. Three-story building half block of goth St., s75.0oo. Turn to page 15.