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Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18
NEARLY INSANE
AT TIMES
Mrs.Saunders Tells how Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Relieved Troubles Of Change
of Life
Knoxville, Tenn. took Lydia E.
Pinkham' s Vegetable CompoundWhile

| gong through the
Change of Life. 1
was very nervous,
couldnotsleepand
had melancholy
spells. In fact, I
was nearly insane
at times and my
memory was all
most a blank. I
was so weak I
could not do my
housework half of
the time and ST1f-
Evening star., 1925-05-21
Smallpox Hospital
Patient Is Found to-
Be Without Disease
Doctors Change Diagnosis
after WOnln,, Is Con-
fined 1iUO Days.

After Mrs. Amanda Burch, 66 years
old, of $40 Fifth street northeast, had
spent 48 hours at the District Small
pox Hospital. officials of the Health
Department concluded, following con-
sultation, that she was not suffering
from smallpox and took her back
to her home.
Health Officer William c. Fowler
stated today that three physicians of
the District Health Department and
two other physicians connected with
the Public Health Service saw the
case when it was first brought to
the attention of the department.
Mrs. Burch was sent to the hos
pital late Saturday. but after she had
been there about two days the doe
tors in attendance began to doubt
the nature Of her afiment. DIR. Fowler
then went to the hospital and de-
cided that 1t was not a case Of
smallpox. A notation was made on
the Health Department records to-
day that the diagnosis had been
changed. .t
Evening star., 1925-05-21
CROWD is MISSING.
Beer ,Venders at Fort Erie Are
Hopeful, However.

BUFFALO, y. Y, May q P.-
Multitudes of thirsty Americans sup
posed to have been concentrated in
this city for a drive on the wet
Canadian shores at the start of the
sale of A per cent beer in Ontario
today failed to materialize during the
forenoon and for several hours after
the beer went on sale in Fort Erie,
across the border, the bulk of the
patronage consisted of Canadians. A
few Americans went across early in
the day. however, and from these
came back reports that the brew
being dispensed was everything that
could be wished for In the hopes
that these reports might bring greater
numbers of Americans over later in
the day, proprietors Of the Canadian
bars were said to be keeping suf-
ticient quantity of beer in stock to
take care of any rush which might
occur.
WAYNE B. Wheeler, general counsel
Of the Anti-Saloon League of America,
here for Sunday school convention
tonight, in a statement today dis
agreed with the optimistic reports
from across. the border.
Canadian A proof spirits beer is
a misnomer," he asserted. after COM
municating with Canadian cities by
telephone. This Canadian expert
ment will give the people of the
United, States a chance to see the
wisdom or folly of this scheme.
Uncle Sam will observe the expert
ment with his tongue against his
cheek and continue to speed up law
enforcement.
Evening star., 1925-05-21
Woman Who GambIed for Life, Won
And Collected, on Trial in MEXICO

life" The cards were cut and
the woman won. Saucedo handed
her his pistol and she shot him
dead.
In her trial. now under way.
thousands have sought admit
tance, but have had to be ex-
cluded. +--@-*
The defendant has had a curl
Gus career. Born of lowly pa
rents. she lived in {. small village
outside the City of Mexico. FL
nally her parents decided to come
to live In the capital. The train
on which they were passengers
was held up by bandits. headed
by the famous revolutionist. Emil
iano Zapata, and the girl was
carried off by one of his generals
to the southern part of the re-
public. Later she escaped and
gradually descended into the Mex
lean underworld.
Copyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co,
Evening star., 1925-05-21
KEY BRIDGE COST
|. HURLED At ARMY
BY CONTRACTORS
Highway Span Figures Also
Cited in Extravaganza
Charge.
SHERRILL ATTEMPTS
TO STILL THE STORM
States Positively That Competitive
Bids Will Be Asked on Memorial
Structure Across Potomac.

Emphatic assurances from Maj.
Gen. Harry Taylor. chief of Engineers
of the Army. that the Engineers would
build the proposed Arlington Memorial
Bridge through competitive bidding
and without wasting public funds, in
answer to charges hurled at the En-
gineer Corps by the Associated Gen
eral Contractors of America, provoked
another retort today from the con-
tractors.
Predictions were freely made by ex-
pert engineers and officials of the con-
tractors association that If the Army
Engineers build the entire bridge the
ultimate cost will be about $35 ,0o0, 900,
instead OF the estimated $14 600. 900.
These experts based their calculations
on the costs of the new Key Bridge
and the Highway. Bridge. both prod
ucts Of the Engineers.
Cite Key Bridge Figures.
The estimated cost of the new Key
Bridge was 81 900 900, the contractors
charged, but when the Engineers fin
ished work on the structure 1t had
cost $2,350,060. The difference be-
tween the estimate and the final cost
of the Highway Bridge, they charged.
was even greater.
The official report Of the Army
engineers, they declare. shows that
the Highway Bridge cost $3,40o,00o to
complete, while the original estimate
Of the cost Of the work was the same
as the Key Bridget, ,000, 900.
With the charges and counter
charges flying thick and fast between
Gen. Taylor and the contractors,
Lieut.. Col. Clarence o. Sheriff.. exec
uttve officer of the Arlington Memo
rial Bridge Commission, stepped into
the verbal battle and attempted to
settle the dispute over the question
of competitive bids. Col. Sheriff. was
positfvet in his declaration that com.
petitive bids are to be asked, and
produced official correspondence from
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Evening star., 1925-05-21
RANDOM DONOR OF GEMS
AND KISSES is ARRESTED
Two S1.1oO Gifts Traced to Brook
lyn Man, Who Bussed Strange
Girl in Bank.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 21-Henry Clay
Moffat, Brooklyn's man OF mysterious
impulses, who gives jewels away and
admits he never -sees pretty girl
without wanting to kiss her. Is again
in a hospital for mental observation:
Some weeks ago the daughter and
niece of Judge Reuben L. Haskell of
Brooklyf, received two mysterious
81 100 bracelets by, messenger. Detec.
tives trailed them to Moffat. who at
first denied and then admitted giving
them. He never satisfactorily ex-
planned his motives, and later on an
other charge was sent to a hospital
for observation. He was released as
sane, however.
Yesterday he kissed a 19-year-old
girl bank clerk at Brooklyn's busiest
corner. When arrested he said,
am attracted to young girls like a
needle to a magnet. She was such
nice girl didn't think she would
mind" One of the girls com.
pantons said Moffat had kissed two
other girls before he was arrested
Evening star., 1925-05-21
BRIDGE BODY BUYS
SOUTH BANK LAND
Checks Threatened Industrial
DeveIopment-Is Part of
Road Project.

Commercial development on the
south bank of the Potomac River be-
tween Rosslyn, Va, and the Pennsyl-
vanta Railroad tracks, already threat
ened, has been successfully checked
by the Arlington Memorial Bridge
Commission, which has purchased
14h acres Of land there. according to
Lieut.. Col. Clarence o. Sheriff.. execu-
tive officer of the commission. The
land will be preserved for park pur-
poses and eventually will form a part
OF the proposed boulevard along the
Potomac River from Washington to
Mount Vernon.
Will Be Approach.
1t was purchased from the Rosslyn
Development Co., and is described as
lying north of Arlington reservation
and between Pennsylvania Railroad
and the Potomac River" It will be
used as the approach to the Arlington
Bridge in the vicinity Of the Lee high.
way connection.
This area adjoining the railroad" "
said Col. Sheriff., "is a most importan
step in the Arlington Bridge project
as 1t assures the protection of this
area against the encroachment of in
Nooei AbA oSNCioptilCilt, WltN which III
has been threatened and which has
already appeared to a considera BILE
extent in the vicinity of the Kew
Bridge at Rosslyn.- This purchase is
also most important step in the
carrying out of the project for the
ultimate construction Of a boulevard
along the Potomac River from Wash.
ington to Mount Vernon.
Fort Bayard Bought.
Col Sheriff. also announced that
the National Park Commission has
purchased from Dwight v. Jones the
site of old Fort Bayard, comprising ap
proximately 10000 SO. it,. 1t Is located
on River road between Western avenue
and Fessenden street. Col. Sheriff.
said this is the first important pur.
chase of one of the old fort sites made
by the Park Commission and is i'm.
portant in that it is in the midst of a
rapidly growing section which in a
short time would be destroyed by
building operations beyond recall.
Evening star., 1925-05-21
FRONT 1e5 MILES LONG.
French to Continue Plan of Establish.
ing Advance Posts.

t. RABAT, French Morocco, May 81
@.-The French. it was learned to-
day., have $4,000 men along the 1876
mile front in the northern part of the
French zone, braced for an early at
tack by the Riffians. who, it is be-
lieved, will aim at cutting the railway
between Fez and Oudja.
fThis would indicate a drive by Add
eLKrim against the French right
wing. Oudja is near the Algerian bor-
der.)
Meanwhile the French are trying to
liberate a number of their advanced
posts in the Taouna region, which the
Riffians have surrounded and are be-
sieEing. q.
The French troops are not numer-
ous enough to hold single, solid line
and it Is for this reason that such
small posts are established. The meth
cd is to advance, establish the posts
and then retire, leaving the big masses
of troops free to act wherever neces-
sary along the front.
Evening star., 1925-05-21
Grandmother Goes
Back to Trapeses
And Sa,Udust Ring
By the Associated Press


OMAHA, Nebr., May 21.-Cnder
the big top" of a little country
circus which is assembling in
pasture south of this city today
sat a little gray-haired woman who,
after a retirement of seven years,
has hardened to the call of the saw
dust ring, where she spent more
than half a century as a horseback
rider and trapeze performer.
She is Rose Marietta to the can
vas-topped world. In private life
she is Mrs. Rosie NJ. Gerber of
Leavenworth, kans., 90 years old,
and a grandmother.
Seven years ago Mr.. Gerber ere
tired" putting aside her spangles
for the shears of the seamstress.
But being a dressmaker palled, and
this Spring, the illness which had
figured in her departure from the
arena having left her, Mrs. Gerber
looked up a show. Beginning Sat
urday, she will again balance on
the resin-backs and perch high on
the trapeze bars, she hopes.
Evening star., 1925-05-21
BR|bE IS OFFERED
SHEPHERD VEN|RE
Missing State Witness Is
Sought by Defense in
Germ Trial.
BY the. Associated Press.

BY the. Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 21.-An alleged at
tempt to tamper with a prospective
juryman is the latest sensation of the
trial of William Darling Shepherd,
charged with killing his millionaire
foster son, William Nelson McClin.
took. with typhoid germs.
Robert E. Grove, States attorney,
charged some one connected with the
defense with making the attempt and
he has directed a complete investiga-
ton. Detectives were ordered to arrest
a man named by Philip j. Barry, a We.
nireman, as having approached him
Tuesday before he was questioned for
jury service.
Barry said he was acquainted with
the man, who urged him to work your
way onto the jury" and promised to
make it well worth your while" His
story led to the brief detention of a
private detective agency head. who
was released when Barry said he was
not the man.
Dropped From Venire.
After he had told a detective that he
had been approached, Barry was ex-
cused from jury service and later
made his statement to the prosecutor.
The state attorney said BafryS was
not the only information he had, and
that his inquiry also included alleged
tampering with witnesses.
Investigation of the first sensation
of the trial, the disappearance of
Robert White, one of the States chief
witnesses, was undertaken by a spe-
cial grand jury session late yester.
day. Arthur Byrne, an investigator
for the law firm defending Shepherd
and Mrs. Sylvia Adams, who previous
ly had said White told her and her
husband that he had been offered $25.
900 and bungalow in Florida to leave
Chicago, were called before the jury.
Need for Defense.
No announcement of any action
voted was made at the conclusion of
the special session. William Scott
Stewart and w. w. O'Brien, Shep.
herds attorneys, were not taken be.
fore the jury but were questioned
by Mr.. Grove. Both denied knowl-
edge of Whites wherea bouts, and said
he was wanted as defense witness
Beyond resulting in White disap-
pearance and Barry's story, the trial
so far has made scant progress.
Three tentative jurors, the same num-
Der as selected Monday, have been
accepted temporarily, after As venire.
men had been questioned and four
peremptory challenges exercised.
Evening star., 1925-05-21
PARTISAN CONTROL
Of FOREIGN POLICY
DECLARED MENACE
Fahey Tells C.. of C. Proper
Development Hampered.
Urges Court Adherence.

Urging unQuallneQ a0nerence TO the
World Court and stating the United
States faced one of the most critical
eras in it's history, John II. Fahey.
American member of the council of
the International Chamber of Com
niece, said in presenting his report
today to the National Chamber of
Commerce that this country cannot
develop sound international policies
while they are subject TO partisan
control.
'One of the greatest menaces to the
proper development of the foreign
policy of the United States" Mr..
Fahey told the National Chamber
delegates in the Auditorium, SIS our
constitutional requirement that trea-
ties be ratified by a two-thirds vote of
the Senate. The parties cannot get
solidarity of action, even in their own
ranks. If we are to be equal to. our
opportunities in the world; moral and
financial. we cannot stand any longer
act decisiveiy on the broadest con-
siderationS.
America faces a new interest now.
In the next few years it is certain to
be one of the greatest capital-fnveSting
countries the world has ever known.
Already capital in billions is crossing
our borders. Our interest certainly lies
as one of the family of nations"
Points to Treaty Loopholes.
Mr.. Fahey pointed out some loop
holes in the most favored nation"
type of treaty which the United States
now is negotiating throughout the
world by which other countries are
able to discriminate against American
exporters without the possibility Of
retaliation. They are bound, he said,
to give the same opportunities to
Americans as to others for trade in
the same products, but in American
specialties, such as machinery, they
can put up discriminatory tariffs be-
cause no other nation exports quite
the same thing.
The result is, Mr.. Fahey said, that
a foreign exporter can deal in some
product which differs from the Ameri.
can product just sufficiently so that
1t Is not the same thing technically
while the United States exporter is
shut out.
The foreign affairs committee of the
chamber has found, Mr.. Fahey said,
that if the United States puts into
effect some provisions of the Jones act
which will allow discrimination in IA
NOI VI Alllci lSdn SnlpplilS lile SlcdtcSt
shipping war in history will result
and the net result will be rise in the
total cost of ocean traffic which will
injure the whole world.
Declares Data Inaccurate.
"Of the raw material we now ex-
port" he said, about SO per cent now
comes in subject to a very low tariff
If we undertake to put on a preferen-
tial duty for raw material brought
here in foreign bottoms We will be
open to retaliation. We ask for ma
tional referendum of the Chamber of
Commerce on this vital issue of our
future.
The great ma ajority of the Nation
want the United States to enter the
World Court. The Chamber of Com
merce must act unquaiifiedly upon
this issue.
.'One of our great difficulties is
lack of accurate information on for
eign affairs. We cannot decide on
policies without facts. We must all
Continued on Page 5, Column ~
Evening star., 1925-05-21
FIVE SHOT IN RUSH
OF MOB ON PRISON
Dallas Crowd Seeks Two Men
Held on Murder and As
sauIt Charges.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, May 21.-Five men
were wounded, one seriously, in an
exchange of shots between officers
guarding the Dallas County Jail and a
mob of about 800 persons shortly
after l o'clock this morning.
The mob. bent on taking Frank and
Lorenzo Noel, negroes, brothers. IN
dicted yesterday in connection with
two murder and criminal assault
cases, was driven back after about 80
shots had been fired. All the injured
were civilians. The only officer hurt
was Sheriff Schuyler Marshall, who
was struck by flying brick.
The wounded are Dwight Stewart,
n. T.. Duncan, j. j. Young. Tim jolly
and c. J. Pullman. Stewart was seri-
ously wounded, being shot in the side.
His recovery Is doubtful. The others
were only slightly wounded About
100 men and a woman were arrested
and placed in the jail. No charges
were filed against them.
Maintain All Night Vigil.
After the attack, the crowd around
the Jail, which began congregating
early in the night and at one time was
estimated at 5000, gradually dis
persed, although several hundred per-
sons maintained an all-night vigil.
Reports that the attack would be re-
newed kept officers on the alert, al
though they said they expected no
further outbreak.
The rush which resulted in the
shooting started when a band Of men,
armed with rocks and bottles, attack
ed the line Of policemen and firemen
guarding the west side Of the Jail
building Efforts of firemen to beat
the mob back with streams of water
were unavailing. and the mob broke
through the line. At this point firing
began and police standing by opened
fire, discharging about 80 shots, most
of them into the air. The mob imme-
diately fell back and the attack sub
sided.
pitfalls.
Adding to the nights excitement
were several fire alarms, all false.
They were considered the work of
persons who desired to divert f1remen
from guard duty at the jail
Armed with machine guns, shot
guns, side arms, tear bombs and fire
hose, about rs officers maintained
guard over the Jail throughout the
night. The Jail is considered mob
proof. The two negroes are confined
on one Of the top floors of the eight
story structure. The only access to
the upper floors is by means of small
elevator which in time of emergency
can be automatically fastened to the
top of the shaft.
The negroes were arrested last FIJI
day and indicted yesterday after one
of them was said to have confessed to
the killing of Ryan Adkins and the
assault of his woman companion on
lonely road north of the city on the
night of April u. Frank Noel also
was indicted for the murder of w. l.
Milstead and assault upon his woman
companion on the night of April 25.
Evening star., 1925-05-21
MAINE MAN HUNTERS
BAFFlED BY KIDNAPER
Firebug Who Shot Woman and
Abducted Niece Eludes Armed
Posse of Citizens.
By the Associated Press.

WINTHROP. Me, May 21.-The
second man hunt within a month
through the woods of northern New
England was in progress today for
the man who shot down Mrs. Emma
NJ. Towns at her cottage on Lake
Maranacook early yesterday and is
then believed to have kidnapped her
35-year- niece. Aida Hayward,
after setting fire to the cottage
Mrs. Towns. with two bullet wounds
in her body, was unconscious today.
and hospital physicians said she was
dying. She told a story of be-
ing halted as she entered her house
with her niece by man who
fired at her twice without warn.
ing. She fell. heard the man speak
to her niece about money and jew
elry and then saw them both leave.
The man returned. she said, and,
apparently taking her for dead, set
fire to the house. The flaming
building reused the town and sent
armed posses into the woods in much
the same manner as citizens searched
the hills of Addison County, VT, three
weeks ago for Earl Woodward and
11-year-old Lucille Chatterton, his
employers daughter.
Evening star., 1925-05-21
RY HARRY NICHOLS.

By Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
MEXICO CITY, May 21.-The
trial for murder of Hortensia
Cortes, unique in the criminal
annals of Mexico, is under way
here, with tremendous interest
centered in 1t.
Hortensia killed Conception Sau-
cedo, a railway. empolye. under
the following strange circum-
stances. Saucedo, working in an
outside state, returned to Mexico
City for holiday plentifully sup
piled with money. He immedf-
ately sought out Hortensia and
they made round of the city
seeking pleasure and drinking
freely. Finally, unable to drink
more, they began to play cards.
First they played for money,
and then, seeking more excite
ment, they agreed to play for
Evening star., 1925-05-21
RAID AMERICAN RANCH.

MEXICO CITY, May 21 Op.-A spe-
cial dispatch from Saltillo today said
bandits attacked the nearby American
owned Sabanilla ranch and killed the
Mexican manager, Jose Perez.
The dispatch says the American
consulate protested, and the military
authorities are sending troops to pur-
sue the bandits. ,
Evening star., 1925-05-21
EXPECT MASS ATTACK"
Windsor Hotel Men Prepare for Rush
Tonight.

WINDSOR, Ontario, May q P).-
The anticipated rush of thirsty De-
troiters to taste Ontario's new A
spiritproof beer failed to materialize
when the new beverage legally went
on sale at am. today. Up to 8
an. traffic across the river from
Detroit was little. If any, above nor
NAL and the ferry boats were not
crowded.
However, if Detroiters had post
poned their pilgrimage. Windsorites,
many of whom work in Detroit, dis
played more curiosity. While not
more than dozen men were on hand
when the first glass was drawn in
the taproom of the Prince Edward
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