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The Washington times., 1925-05-25
CASE
INTEREST IS
DIVIDED
Picking of Jury, Bribe Inquiry
and Missing Witness Are
Occupying Attention
BY international News Service.

CHICAGO, May 25.-The Shep-
herd -McClintock case today was
split into three separate and dis.
tinct channels.
First, in criminal court, the
dreary routine of questioning Ve-
>niremen in an effort to empanel
a jury to try William D. Shepherd
or charge of having murdered
william Nelson McClintock went
forward at it's normal snail-like
pace, with but four jurors accepted
by both sides.
Second, States Attorney Robert e.
Grove announced he would sum-
mon James c. Callan, ward poll.
tician. and cite him to show cause
why he should not be held in con-
tempt Of court for his alleged effort
to influence prospective Shepherd
juror. Callan now is at liberty under
50, 500 bonds pending disposition OF
the charge against him.
And, finally, the combined forces
OF city and county police were di.
rected toward locating Robert White,
missing witness, upon whom the
State was depending for substantial
ton OF the confession Of Charles G..
Faiman, Shepherds co-defendant,
that Shepherd was freQuenter OF
Faiman's National University OF
Science, where the State charges he
obtained typhoid germs to innocu-
late young McCIintock.
White disappeared q week ago
and witnesses have testified before
a special grand jury that White told
them he had been offered $25, 1000
IL he would fail to testify in the
case. In answer to this. the de-
Tense has testified 1t had an affi-
davit signed by White in which he
repudiated an earlier Identification
of Shepherd as the man he had
seen at Faiman's school and de-
clared his first statement was
brought by pressure from the State
A new clue to his whereabouts
a letter mailed at Philadelphia pur-
porting to have been written by
White-was being investigated to-
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
OPEN BIDS FOR
MONUMENT
ELEVATOR
Otis Company Low Bidder on
Work in Washington
Shaft

Bids for installation of a new
high speed elevator in the Wash
ington Monument, which has been
without elevator service since the
present elevator was condemned as
unsafe December Is last. were
opened today by Major Joseph C.
Mehaffey, assistant director of pub
lie buildings and public parks.
The Otis Elevator Company was
low bidder, asking $4,000 for IN
stallation of a 250-foot per minute
car, or $22,35O with auxiliary
motor control, and $24,500 for a 400
foot per minute car. or &27,4 ,450 with
auxiliary control. The company Of
fered a $5S5 deduction If permitted
to use the present guide rails.
Other bids ranged mp to $29 700.
The work is to start by the mid
die Of June and is 20 be- completed
within five months.
The present car was installed in
1901 and has been in continuous
service ever since. It was shut
down after the gears had become
30 badly worn that the car began
to jerk and slip. While the car
was not a menace to the lives of
passengers, owing to emergency
stops, IL was feared that an un-
usual jolt or slip near the top Of
the long shaft might create a panic.
Despite the lack OF elevator serv-
Ice hundreds of visitors still go to
the monument, climbing the 500
feet to the top platform and walk
ing down again.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
Big HailstOnes Halt
Traffic in Baltimore:
Rains Flood Streets

BALTIMORE, May 25.-This city
was visited yesterday by q freak
hail storm, following close on the
heels of q two-day heat wave.
The storm was as much Of dis
maying novelty as had been the 9S-
degree temperature Of the day be-
fore.
Hailstones almost as large as
the lengendary hens egg, and
much harder, pelted their way
across the center of the city. and.
pursued by a violent downpour Of
rain, drove everyone to cover. In
twenty minutes the storm accom-
plished these extraordinary results:
Covered a swath, centering at
union station, with several inches
of icy pellets.
Washed hailstones to depth Of
three feet at Charles and Lanvale
streets.
minutes while paths were shoveled
through the ice.
Derailed street cars by piling up
debris on the tracks.
Blocked sewers so that streets
were Neutrality-suspicious. and st.
Paul streets to a depth of two feet.
Tore loose several square yards
of asphalt paving and dumped it
down three rods away.
Dislocated telephone service in
certain rural sections.
Ruined greenhouses.
Stripped trees and shrubs Of
blossoms and leaves alike and COW
cred whole blocks of Charles street
with the litter.
Moved automobiles half a block.
Lowered the temperature from
81 degrees at noon to As degrees at
midnight.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
One Dead From Cold
In Chicago; Heat Got
Five "a Hours Before

CHICAGO, May 25.-The May
winter" which swirled out of the
northwest late Saturday and kept
temperatures near the freezing
point over the weekend still held
Chicago and the midwest in it's
grip today.
The low point of the present
frigidity was 81 degrees reached at
9:3O a. m. yesterday and the high
was a. degrees registered at seven
last night.
In the interim, miniature bliZ-
zard swept over the city.
One death from the cold was re-
ported. The victim was Hugh Nc
Killop, thirtyfive.
The day before there had been
five heat prostrations in this dis
trict as the thermometers climbed
to 94, making it the hottest May
% Of record.
Because of the high wind, which
accompanied the drop in temper.
ature, there was no frost theS
weather bureau reported today and
for this reason damage. to growing
crops, it was predicted, will not run
as high as had been anticipated.
The forecast today gave promise
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
H D 7 WEATHER
DUE SOON
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tifical mass was celebrated for the
war dead.
At 8 o'clock the first harbingers
of the storm appeared on the West
ern horizon, and a breeze rose, rap
idly gaining in velocity.
Ends Religious Services.
May professions, aware of the
approaching storm, hurried through
the streets to churches.
A few minutes later the skies
opened and a drenching rain, ac-
companied by lightning, ensued.
There followed another brief pc
riod of calm, during which the sun
shone feebly, intermittently.
Then the rain came down again,
more sustained than before, and ac-
companied by additional electrical
effects.
Between o'clock and 4 the mer-
curry had dropped twenty-five de-
grees. Thus started, the tempera-
ture continued to fall and fall and
fall. The city shivered.
Government observers Of the
weather say that yesterdays occur
renee was q rare freak, and prob
ably will not be repeated for many
wears. p
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
TOLL IS
PUT At 526
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to have been injured by the earth
quake.
Statistics were given as follows:
Kinosaki, 200 killed. 800 injured,
$50 houses collapsed, SIS houses
burned.
Toyooka. forty-eight killed. 200
injured, seventy houses collapsed,
1,500 houses burned.
Surrounding villages, 278 killed,
532 injured, 1,224 houses collapsed,
1872 houses burned.
Total estimate of damage, $780,
600, ,444 yen 1861, 900 ,000).
The prefectura1 statement eau
toned that the above figures were
preliminary and might be revised
later.
Danger of famine in the Hyogo
region was temporarily over today
with the arrival of sufficient food
for Immediate needs according to
reports reaching Tokyo.
Temporary Homes Built.
Temporary barracks have been
thrown up to house the thousands
of homeless. A few shops not
entirely wrecked were still open
doing business.
The Emperor made a personal do
nation of $13,500 for earthquake re-
lief: Tokyo municipality subscribing
S1O,O 900. A public subscription list
was made and further donations
were coming in hourly.
During the last twenty-four hours
twenty-four earthquake shocks were
felt in the southeastern. region Of
Nippon island, authorities here de-
clared Kyoto, ancient capital, felt
a sharp tremor last night.
An unusual phenomenon connected
with the earthquake was the re-
port that Kinosaki hot springs had
turned cold.
Late dispatches from the disaster
region indicated railroad and tele-
graph communication was partly
restored, and that conditions were
rapidly approaching normal.
Numerous fires, which followed
the earthquake, were reported
under control today.
Reconstruction Begun.
Relief workers in Hyogo pre-
lecture were well under way today,
Red Cross advices said. Doctors
and nurses from Kobe and Osaka
were attending to the injured and
sanitation measures were being
taken to guard against pestilence.
Undismayed by Saturdays dis
aster the people in the Hyogo
region were taking up reconstruc-
ton work today with the stole
calmness of their race.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
Use OF Cosmetic Now
Masculine Fad In
Europe
By international News service.

A growing use of cosmetics
and other American toilet prepa-
rations by men throughout the
world is indicated by survey
just completed by the Depart
ment Of Commerce.
Cologne waters and other
perfumes, lip sticks, eyebrow
other American-made beautihers
pencils, talcum powder and
other American-made beautifiers
are popular with the male sex
far and wide.
Badness, which is general IN
Spain, is bringing a big demand
for American hair tonics. Hair
tonic is legitimately used in
Spain, it was understood, since
there is a plentiful supply Of
intoxicants there and one doesn't
have to drink tonics.
Self shaving is becoming more
universal among the European
men and American shaving soap
producers are profiting.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
NAVAL RESERVE CORPS IS
BACK FROM SHORT CRUISE

Under the command of Lieuten-
ant Commander F. w. Jones, naval
reserve, local members of the
naval reserve returned home Sat
urday, on the u. s. s. Eagle 56,
following q cruise to the Bermuda
Islands.
This was the first foreign cruise
Of the local unit of the naval re-
serve since the world war. and
the members made the most of It.
Some Of the reservists complained
of sea-sickness on the cruise, but
this is more than likely to happen
to anyone.
While at sea slight engineering
trouble developed, but was quickly
repaired under the direction OF
Lieutenant Young, the chief en-
gineer of the boat. and the u. 8,
S. Eagle 56 proceeded to Norfolk
under her own steam..
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
New Letter from White,
BY International News Service.

CHICAGO, May 25.-Another let.
ter purporting TO have been written
by Robert White, missing witness
for the prosecution in the trial Of
William D. Shepherd. and declared
by the States attorneys office. after
a comparison of handwriting as
genuine" was received by Joseph
Savage, assistant States attorney
today.
In it, the writer charges Shepherd
IL guilty, and declares that, although
he was forced to leave town
through fear Of Shepherds agents,
he would be back in time for the
trial.
The letter was mailed at Phila-
delphia
A postscript on the letter, pur-
porting to have been written by
Mrs. White, corroborates the state
ments set forth above it.
The letter reads in part:
You will no doubt be surprised
to receive this letter from me, but
as am not guilty of anything
wrong, / wish to inform you l
will be back in Chicago to fight
this case to a finish.
Shepherd is guilty / must
admit and he knows I know 1t ard
God help him when / get back. His
bunch made a nervous wreck out
of me and also made me write d
statement against my will. Don't
think for one moment that ! am
through with this case because
am not. i am just commencing to
fight Shepherd and his gang
The postscript reads:
Just a word in regard to the
statement made by William Adams
and his wife. I wish to say it is
all false. Neither Mr.. White nor
| made any statement to them re-
| garding this case. They are MAX
ing fools of themselves and sending
you on foolish errands'
Adams is a blind news dealer,
friend Of White, who declared White
told him some one had offered
him $4,000 to leave town and not
testify against Shepherd. White.
Adams, said, declared he had
good mind to take them up if
they mean business"
The Statement against my will'
referred to in the main body of the
letter, could refer, according to the
States attorneys office, to the affi-
daVit the defense claims to hold in
which White is said to have repudi-
ated his earlier identification of
Shepherd as a visitor at the Ma
ttonal University of Science.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
Engineer Of Express
Struck By Plug
Is Dying

SYRACUSE, N. Y, May 25.-
The Twentieth Century Limited,
fastest train in the world,
hurtled through Amboy today,
at mile-a-minute clip, headed
for Syracuse.
As the locomotive roared
through the village, Edward H.
Peck, fifty-five, of Buffalo, engi
neer of the crack train, leaned
out Of the window of the cab,
watching the escape valve as
he pushed the ejector to force
water into the boilers. He was
struck by water plug and fell
back into the cab unconscious
and dying.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
HALT
INQUIRY INTO
DRY LAW
Couzens Committee Gives
Forces q Months to Make
Good in WAR"
By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON.

By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON.
The Coolidge administration
will be given four months in
which to test its ability to en-
force the prohibition law before
the Couzens senatorial committee
considers any new dry legislation,
it was learned today.
After preliminary inquiry,
the committee decided to abandon
all tentative prohibition hearings,
it was said, and to postpone fura
ther consideration of the subject
until fall. This was done to give
the Government time to determine
the effectiveness of the recently
launched rum war.
Legislation Seems Certain.
In the fallr-with the records of
the Governments dry crusade before
1.-THE committee will met again
to draft further legislative remedies.
if the rum war is successful, or to
consider modification of the Volstead
Act, If the enforcement drive has
failed.
BY abandoning hearings, the
committee also postponed decisions
on a number Of legislative remedies
proposed by Government officials.
These included:
l. Transfer of all prohibition en-
forcement from the Treasury De-
partment to the Department OF
Justice;
2. Placing all prohibition agents
under the civil service law;
8. Providing higher salaries for
dry agents SO the Government can
employ highly trained detectives, and
T. Revising the disti1lery and
warehouse permit system 80 that
internal leaks" can be blotted out.
Transfer L. Favored.
The proposal to transfer the en-
forcement bureau to the Depart
ment Of Justice was said to have
come from the Coolidge Admins.
tration. 1t was indicated that
Treasury officials favored enforce
ment and would relish its transfer
to the Government agency now
dealing with other federal crimes.
If the Governments rum drive
fails, a real rum war win be
opened in Congress as soon az it
reconvenes. =
This will be provoked by the
vets, who even now are drafting
battle plans for modification Of the
Volstead Act. These moves will
meet with bitter opposition from
the drys.
The committee itself will con-
slider modification if the Govern.
ment drive is unsuccessful
Even If this does happen. it was
said, the notifications could be
only minor in character because
Of the limitations of the Eight
eenth Amendment.
One change already suggested
to the committee was to legalize
the sale Of 2.75 per cent beer and
light wines.
Revival of 2.75 per cent beer, it
was said a could be enacted by Con-
gress in keeping with the Eight
eenth Amendment as Government
chemists frequently have declared
that liquors with 2.75 per cent al
choholic contents were not intoxica-
ting Any greater change, how
ever. would necessitate either re-
peal of the Eighteenth Amendment
or a new constitutional amendment,
both Of which steps would require
approval by three-fourths OF the
States
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
NEW SLASH
IS SOON
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cent. Suppose in 1926 the company
earns per cent. In 1927 there
will be another reduction in rates
to bring the earnings down to IA
per cent. And so on from year to
year In a few years the earnings
will be down to IL per cent. Mean
while, the public will have the bene-
fit of continual rate decreases.
During January, the first month
the new rates were effective, the
company's total profits were $685.
SS1.72, an increase of $114,085. So
over January 1924. The figures for
February and March of 1925 and
1924 follow:
February 1925. s244. .606.S1: Febr-
uary, 1924, $14S,517.91, increase
this year, $96.0S8 80.
March 1925. 500, $3.50; March
1924. $12O, 1922. an increase this
year. $S1, ,970.77.
The total profits for the first
three months of 1925 were $780,
S4S.52 as against $414.703.16 for the
first three months of 1924, an in
crease this year of S292 1856.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25

Russia" On Letters Is
Barred By Soviet
Saws u. S.

Styles change, and so do
names of countries. The latest
to pass from official records is
Russia" Official notice was
sent to postmasters today by
the Postoffice Department that
mail should no longer be so
addressed.
According to word received
by the department from Lenin-
grad, the designation which
should replace Russia is, Union
of Socialistic Soviet Republics"
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
Storm Kills Trainnan.

HARRISBURG, Pa, May 25.-
With through passenger trains run
ming hours behind schedule. and
freight traffic at a standstill over
the middle division, wrecking crews
today were working frantically to
clear away the debris of last nights
midnight crash that killed one and
injured two other trainmen.
The storm also piled an engine
and twenty-one freight cars in
wreckage, and tore out great Sec
tions of rails on all four tracks Of
the Pennsylvania railroad at Bailey
Station, twenty miles west of here.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
No Naval Expedition Now.

The Navy Department contem.
plates taking no immediate action
on the suggestion that either the
airship Los Angeles or Shenandoah
be sent to the North Pole at once
to search for Captain Amundsen
and his American aide, it was stated
today.
As no request has been made for
the navy to launch relief expedi.
ton officials said there appeared to
be no occasion for the United States
to make any move in connection
with the Amundsen expedition.
It was pointed out that Amund-
sen was. understood to have a
months supply of food and other
equipment that win enable him and
his party to exist for some weeks
in the polar region.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
EXPECTS FLIERS
IN ALASKA
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now. AS hour passed hour in the
wait for news, those most interested
in the explorers welfare entertained
fears that Amundsen, Lieutenant
Lincoln Ellsworth and their four
companions had met with disaster.
The dispatches from Spitzbergen
said the Hobby found hazardous
ice conditions in its patrol Of the
Arctic seas northeast Of the Danes
Islands.
The weather at Spitzbergen was
reported cloudy and raw, with the
thermometer below zero.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
"No one will commend
the man who gives hot
water to a friend"

SO wrote Simonodes. the Greek
noet, 488 r. G.. And in those DAYS
serving cold water was some trouble
The snow for cooling had to be carted
from the mountain tops and stored m
pits or bitches.
Today you have but to go to your
American Ice filled refrigerator 10
serve icy cold drinks as varied as
tastes may demand-lced water, iced
tea, iced coffee, ginger ale, lemonad".
grape juice all refreshing, when just
OFF ice or when shaken with pure
sparkling American Ice.
And American deliveries are
too dependable to eUer PIT
yOu to the necessity of Seru-
ing trGfm drinks to friemd
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
EX-EMPRESS ZITA WILL
WORSHIP AT LOURDES

MADRID, May 35.-Zita, ex-em-
press of Austria, left her retreat at
Irun, a frontier town in Spain, for
Lourdes today, where she will wor-
shin at the worId-famous shrines.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
Storm Warnings Up

The Weather Bureau today or
dered storm warnings displayed on
the Atlantic coast from Boston to
Sandy Hook.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
Snow Record Broken.

GLENS FALLS, N. Y. May 25.--
All records for late snow storms
in this section OF the State were
broken this morning when an inch
OF snow fell over Lake George,
Warrensburg. and other villages
north Of here.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
"ClOse-UpS''


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able, or will rent same for any
other kind of business
sIX-ROOM and bath brick house.
owner; $1,000 cash and terms.
FORD touring: speedometer, lock
wheel and all new tires; SITS.
UNFURNIsHED APT. of 3 rooms.
private bath, near Capitol on
East Capitol 81.
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for gentleman.
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AND FIND OUT EXACTLY.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
Return of Amundsen
To Base is Doubted;
Sims Search Futile

COPENHAGEN, May 25.-An un-
confirmed report that the Amund.
sen Ellsworth North Pole flyers
reached Spitzbergen yesterday was
circulated here today.
OSLO, Norway. May 25.-The
800, 900 people of this capital city
were in a state of tense excitement
today in the absence of news of the
Amundsen- Ellsworth North Pole
flyers, six in number.
i Newspaper offices were beseiged
by anxious crowds and the govern
ment put on extra workers to keep
open the telegraph. telephone and
other means of communication for
the receipts and distribution of
news.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25
chiId's Mistake Fatal

CHESTER, Pa, May 25.-Four-
year-old Jack Thompson, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Rex Thompson, Of 1880
Baldwin street, died in the Chester
Hospital after swallowing pills in
mistake for candy. The child's
mother was upstairs sewing when
he found the bottle and swallowed
the contents.
The Washington times., 1925-05-25

Of slowly rising temperatures" to
nearly normal for the season but
warned that no real warm weather
was in sight.
New Britain herald., 1925-12-02
DALFAIR CLUB GATHERS
Mir. and Mrs. $. NJ. Davidson and ir. and Mrs. \. j. Lcvcnthal Guests of Honor at Social.

The l}alfair club held an enjoyable social at Grotto hall last night with practically the entire membership present. The affair was in the ma ture of q Christmas party, and the store owners, s. NJ. Davidson, and A. L. Lcvcnthal and wives were pres Cnt as guests.
 The following program was ren- dcred: Vocal selection by Miss Els ther Sandherg, accompanied by Miss Ellen Bcrquist; Irish jig by Miss Betty O'Bricn. accompanied by Mrs. E. O'Brien; piano selections by Mrs. Bruncllc; a vocal duet by Miss Gladys Olden and Adclne Swanson accompanied by Miss Dcrquist; ukulcle selections by Miss Alquist and Miss Ellen BerQuist, and hum- orous readings by Miss Florence Guhcrnick. Speeches were given hl s. M, Davidson and A, l.. Lcvcnthal following tn" entertainment
 4 buffet lunch and grab bag party took place, The party camr 10 an end shortly after II o'clock
 The club is composed of employees Of The Davidson & LcNcnthal and Fair Department stores.
New Britain herald., 1925-12-02

The Independents have taken the honors for the high three games score, bowling l.4SS, also copping the honors for the h. h single game, rolling 544. The high individual score for three games was made by Cooney of the Berlin Construction Co, who bowled 339, while the high single game score was made by Cozy, with 136.
 East Berlin Items
 The weekly meeting of the Com munity club will be held at the Knights of Pythias hall this evening at o'clock
 The ladies of the Methodist church will hold an all day sewing in the parlors of the church Thursday.
 Mfr. and Mrs. George Diesel of New Britain were guests of Mir. and Mrs. l.. r. Turner over the week end.
 The ladies of St. Gabriel's church will meet In the parish room Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
 The weekly whist social will be given by the ladies of St. Gabriel's church in the social room of the church Friday evening at o'clock Mrs, Charles Cannon and Miss Der tha Trcyethan will act as hostcsses and all are invited to attend.
 Regular meeting and election of officers of the Modern Woodmen So- ciety at their hall Thursday night. All members are requested to attend as business of importance will be discussed.