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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26
WIFE SLAYER GIVES UP
AFTER HIDING "a HOURS
Thomas Mannion Tells Police He
Was Concealed Near Body
of His Victim.
BY the Associated Press,


PORTSMOUTH,, \. H., April 25-
Thomas Mannion, wanted by the
police for the murder of his wife
Helen on Little Harbor road here
yesterday, surrendered tonight. He
nd Police Chief George H. Quicker
hat Immediately after slashing his
&tfs's throat with razor he ran into
woods nearby and had been hiding
there, behind a stone wall a few rods
from the spot, for the last % hours
Search for Mannion had been car
ried on since his wife's body was
found in Little Harbor road late yes
terday. The walls of her 11-month-
old daughter in a baby carriage be-
side the body, brought passing
motorist to the place.
Mannion, police learned, had been
separated from his wife for six
months and she was to have started
divorce proceedings next week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26
BALDWIN IS HOPEFUL.
Looks for Security Pact to Ward
Off War.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
WORCESTER, England, April 25.-
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, ad-
dressing his constituents here today,
spoke hopefully of seeing signs of
daylight in the dark European situa-
ton. He said the British government
was convinced that the attempt to
bring the nations of Western Europe
into some sort of security pact or
agreement would succeed and thereby
avert future wars as far as it was
humanity possible to do SO.
Premier Baldwin spoke strongly
against the old idea of trying to main
tain the balance of power in Europe
by means of armed alliances, which
he said had proved repeatedly to tend
almost inevitably toward an ultimate
conflict for supremacy.
II believe we have contrived, as far
as possible, to extirpate that old idea
and to try to build on some other
foundation something leading to the
security of our people from the bloody
arbitrage of war" said Mr.. Baldwin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26
CLOUDY AND WARMER
WEATHER DUE TODAY
Last Nights Cooling Storm Purely
Local Acknowledgement Reg
istered So Degrees.

Partly cloudy and warmer today is
the result of last nights thunder
shower, according to the Weather
Bureau. The shower was pronounced
strictly local, and it was added there
wasn't any rain within a radius of
100 miles of Washington. Forty-two
hundredth of an inch was the official
measurement of the rainfall.
Yesterdays highest Temperature
was rs, and the lowest was 81 at 6
am.
Forecaster Mitchell said the tenn
perature today probably would go
over so. Richmond took honors for
the highest temperature yesterday.
with a maximum of 96 degrees,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26
MORE DRY MEN DROPPED
Total of Is Discharged in New
York in Week.

NEW YORK, April 25.--Two more
Federal prohibition agents We're
dropped from the roster of the local
dry headquarters today, bringing the
total of those dismissed in the past
week to IS. Most of the men, r. O.
Merrick, divisional prohibition chief.
said, were discharged for not produc-
ing enough valuable results" in their
enforcement work.
Some of the agents, il was said, were
unable to explain irregularities charged
to them. Mr.. Merrick refused Lodi.
yulge the identity Of .~f1
dEuupad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26
Lightning Kills Runner.

HAMILTON, n. Y, April 25.-Harry
T. Roll of Upper Montclair. N. j., was
instantly killed on the Whitnan Field
cinder track here this afternoon by d
bolt of lightning from an impending
storm. Roll. a junior in Colgate
University. had just completed 100
yard dash trial heat, and had turned
about to enter the gymnasium wher
he was hit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26
PLANE, RISING, HITS ROOF
By the Associated Press.

HONOLULU. April 25.-An Army
airplane from Luke Field. after drop
ping a message at department head
quarters, Fort Shafter, and attempting
to rise again. struck the roof of the
office of Col. H. L., Landers and rico
cheted into a tree and was wrecked.
Lieut.. Raymond Morrison, Air
Service pilot. who was plotting the
airplane, had his wrist broken and
suffered possible internal injuries.
STAFF Sergt. Hamblin. the other oc-
cupant" or the machinA. escaped In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26

After a fire at Lincoln, England. a
grandfather clock was found going al
though the clock case was badly
burned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26

The new women in China are Civ
ing themselves unsparingly to all
sorts of reform movements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26
MAY-DAY is
CHILD HEALTH DAY
Is Your Child Physically Perfect?

Child health agencies of Washington, public private
schools and the Health Department of the District
join in the observance of May st National Child
Health Day The endorsed President Coolidge
Secretary Hoover and State governors.
Health Examination Stressed
Periodic health examinations physicans
Health Clinics will be under medical
examination children
discover for family
physicians and These clinics
1. Childrens treetb 18th NV
Doctors in attendance from 10 AM. to S PM
Hospital Station Bryant
NV.
Health Education. 1854 Columbia Road 10 AM
PM.
A Elipse by ap-
pointment with tuberculosis Association.
May-Day Festivals at P.M.-The Pubic Invited
special Normal School
This Bulletin is paid for By the
Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis
1922 Eleventh S. Legal Notice Main ss2 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26

) The moH brains al man has the
less chauceshf his-heaNsr swelling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26

The League of American Pen Won
en-, in the second annual congress of
the body here. will swing into affairs
in earnest today with the poets matt
nee at $50 o'clock this afternoon as
the principal feature OF the program.
Six hundred members are in the
Capital for the congress, which will
survey the opportunities OF the day in
the fields of creative literature, art,
musical composition, poetry, sculpture
Journalism and drama, and bring
these opportunities to the attention of
it's roster.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
COL. WILLIAMS
ANSNERS.H|S
LAST CALL
Oldest of Legionnaires, a8,
and Vet of Five Wars, Dies
at Home Here

Colonel. William Noble Williams,
oldest Of legionnaires and one Of
Washington most picturesque
fighters, who has seen service in
five wars. died at 9 o'clock this morn
ing at Walter Reed Hospital. He
would have been lightweight years
old Thursday.
Notwithstanding the fact that
during the Spanish hostilities he
was declared too old to serve. he
served throughout the world was
as a colonel in the quartermaster
department.
Full military services will be held
at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon
at the headquarters Of the George
Washington Post Of the American
Legion, Nineteenth and l streets.
Members of the legion have been
requested, although it is not COM
pulsory. to attend in full military
uniform. Burial will follow in Ar
ongton.
Colonel Williams is survived by
his wife and one daughter, Miss
Lucia. Williams, employed in the I'M
terror Department. His residence
was the Cathedral Mansion. Death
was attributed to old age.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
8 ADMIT PART
IN DEATH Of
PURCELL
Brown Pleads Guilty to Sec
ond Degree Murder-2
Pals to MansIaughter

Indicted for murder in the first
degree in connection with the death
of Policeman John w. Purcell, col
ored, in October, 1923, Edward H.
Brown today entered a plea Of
guilty to murder in the second de-
gree and William Ludley and JOS
eph p. Slaughter, each pleaded
guilty to manslaughter.
Lloyd Monroe, indicted for MUIR
der in the first degree, declined to
change his plea of not guilty, and
the case against him was continued
until a later date by Justice Hoeh-
ling.
At a previous trial at which the
jury disagreed. it was testified that
the five accused were in the alley
in the rear of the Bell Public School
at second street and Virginia ave-
nue. southwest, trying to break into
a garage when Policeman Purcell
and Horace r. Crawford discovered
them. The men fired and the PO-
licemen returned shots. George Lud-
ley was killed outright, and Police
man Purcell received mortal wounds.
Assistant District Attorney
O'Leary appeared for the Govern
ment while the accused are repre-
sented by Attorneys Abner H. Segal
and John H. Wilson. Monroe's in
terests were looked after by At
-torneys T. Morris Wampler and
Robert f. Lynch.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
Nations HONOR
MEMORY OF
BURKE
French, English and U. S.
Standards Placed on Statue.
166th Anniversary

The 16Sth anniversary of the
birth Of Edmund Burke, famous
English statesman. was celebrated
today at the statue of Burke, in the
park at Eleventh and Massachusetts
avenue northwest.
Wreaths were placed by Sir Esme
Howard, ambassador to Great
Britain, and Henry Getty Chiffon,
counselor of the embassy. These
men placed wreaths for the Society
Of the Sons Of Revolution, under
whose auspices the anniversary cele-
bration was conducted.
The American flag, Continental
standards, the Bourbon emblem Of
France, and the banners Of the Sons
of the Revolution were arranged
around the statue.
A representative from the French
embassy also took part, in memory
of the alliance between France AMI
the United States in the Revolu-
tionary War. Doctor Thomas E.
Green, chaplain of the society, pro-
noUnced the invocation.
The committee Of the society in
charge of the ceremonies included
Doctor Ralph Jenkins. chairman,
and Hampson Gary, William Walker
Smith, Floyd p. Waggaman, Edward
w. Dom, jr., and Lynch Luquer,
Colonel Henry May and Colonel Her
bert J. Slocum, u. S. A., retired,
members. They were accompanied
by Brigadier General George Rich
ards, u. S. M. c., president Of the
society, and Charles p. Light, Secre-
tary.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
TWO BUNGALOWS ARE
BURNED NEAR LANHAM

Fire of undetermined origin last
night destroyed the five-room
bungalows Of S. S. Suit and F. l..
Holman, on the Washington-An-
napolis boulevard, near Lanham.
The blaze started in the Suit home
while the Suit family was visiting
at the home Of Charles A. GUIDE a
short distance away. GUIDE sum-
moned nearby fire departments.
Bad roads and lack of water handi-
capped the firemen, who were able
to save only a little furniture from
the Holman home.
Damage to the Suit home was
estimated at $4,000 and that to the
Holman home at $4,000. Both losses
are said to be partly covered by in
surance. The bungalows were COM
pleted only last summer. Both SUIT
and Holman are carpenters. Fire
responding to the alarm
included Blad1asburg, Cottage City.
Mt. Rainier, Brentwood, and River
dale.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
YARD men
OPPOSE SHORT
WEEK
S Working Days Said to Be
Considered as Alternative
to Discharge of 900 !.

Adoption Of a five-day working
week at the Washington Navy Yard,
in lieu Of the discharge Of 600 workers.
is under contemplation by officials.
it was persistently rumored at the
yard today.
While union officials today main
tanned that they had taken the
rumors up with the Navy Depart
ment and had been assured they
were without foundation at the
present time, they already have
given notice that If the five-day
week proposition is advanced, it will
be vigorously protested by Columbia
largest Navy Yard organization in
the city.
Action Depends on Bill.
1t is learned that the actual adop-
ton Of the nve-day working week or
the layoff of Navy Yard men here,
is entirely contingent upon the fate
of the Butler construction bill and
the increased gun elevation proje3t
which are being threshed out in Con-
gress.
Reason for the protest against the
shortened working week, as an alter
native for wholesale discharges, was
given by William G. Gath, president
of Columbia Lodge.
Mr.. Gath said that three years ago
when this same proposition was adj
vanced by the yard that the organi-
zation agreed to it but they later
found that despite the five-day week
three material layoffs were made.
Men Fear Worst.
s1VUn 1ax,a haon frvipc RI ha onti.
mistic over the outlook at the yard"
President Gath continued. Il can
see, however, why the boys them
selves are not in the same frame of
mind. There was layoff of fifty
eight men on January and they
naturally fear the worst for the
fa1f11re''
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
INAUGURAL
PLAN D. K.
AWAITED
Committee Ready to Go Ahead
When Coolidge Gives
Final Approval

President Coolidge probably will
call William T. Galliher, chairman
Of the inaugural committee, to the
White House tomorrow for the
last word plans for the inaugura-
ton, March 4, it was learned
today.
Other matters have occupied so
much Of the Presidents time that
hel has not had an opportunity
to confer with the inaugural chair
man.
Schedule Filled Today.
Edward T. Clark, private secre-
tary to the Chief Executive, acting
in the absence Of Secretary c.
Bascom Slemp, said that the Presi-
dents schedule today was so filled
that 1t was unlikely Mr.. Galliher
could be called.
In the meantime, the chairman
of the inaugural committee is
losing no time in marsha1Iing his
forces, to await the pleasure of
President COOLIDGE The men and
women who are to serve on the
committee will be named Wednes-
day, II the President gives his
approval to the plans for an old
fashioned inaugural tomorrow.
In any event, the names will be
made public within forty-eight
hours after the President puts his
20. X" on the arrangements, as
they now stand. Chairman Galliher
said that his choices of associates
on the committee awaited the word
Of Mr.. Coolidge.
Transportation and hotel accom-
modations are 'in the air. as the
inaugural chairman expressed it to-
day. Several quiet little meetings
have been held here and there, but
all these arrangements likewise hang
upon the will of the Chief Exec
utive.
Sentiment of Committee
There can be no mistake about
the sentiment of the inaugural COM
mittee on the quality of the inaugu-
ration. 1t is understood that those
who probably will serve in making
the arrangements are united In
their belief that the ceremonies
should be conducted with the great
est dignity, and the surrounding
celebration and parade should be
unequaled in size and splendor.
There is little doubt in the minds
of Washington business and civic
interests that the President will
approve the outlined celebration.
1t will involve comparatively little
cost to the Federal Government,
while the business men Of the city
gladly will help make the event I
success.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
CONGRESS TALKS MORE;
RECORD COSTS HIGHER

Year by year Congress has more
to say and, in consequence. the
Congressional printing bill is in
creasing annually. according to the
annual report of Publice Printer
George II. Carter, submitted to
Congress today.
: The record and journal of pro-
ceedings in the Senate and House
totaled 1915 pages and exceeded
all previous records, Carter re-
ported.
"If these pages were converted
into ordinary newspaper form they
would furnish copy for the publica-
ton of a. 1O-page newspaper of
solid reading matter for 800 days"
he stated.
There were 1851 bills printed in
the course of the year, one of these
bills alone totaling 400 pages.
Printing of committee hearings
cost $225,530.24 and there were
$3.50 pages of printed testimony.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
KAHN FIRE LOSS
BIGGER THAN
INSURANCE
Flames Still Flare Up at
Times and Firemen Are
on Guard

Value of the stock in the Kann
warehouse at Eighth and d streets
northwest, destroyed by fire Satur-
day night slightly exceeds the
$4,000 insurance, Sigmund kann
said today.
The 200 building owned by
heirs in Baltimore, which was com
pletely destroyed, is fully covered
by insurance.
No work by wreckers or salvagers
will be done until tomorrow when
insurance adjusters will convene at
the store. Columns of steam float
upward there today and firemen
remain nearby on the alert for
small blazeS
Firemen declare there is no
danger of the walls collapsing al
though the building was absolutely
Quilted.
Mr.. Kann said today that he
did not expect to salvage any of
the stock which was in the build
ing
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
Crutch Prints In Snow
Lead to Youths
Arrest

Prints left in the snow by
crutches led to the arrest last
night of Maurice James Mickey,
seventeen, a colored cripple liv-
ing at 2021 Fourteenth street
northwest, on a charge of house
breaking and his alleged COM
panion, Francis Nelson Dab
mage, colored, no address, on
nine charges of HOUSEKEEPING,
and two charges Of taking a
car without the owners consent.
The boys were arrested by
Policemen Moore and McLaugh-
lin, of the Eighth precinct, after
the Piggy Wiggly store at 2021
Fourteenth street had been en-
tered yesterday. The police fol-
lowed the crntch prints which
led to Mickey's arrest. The
youths are said by police to
have confessed several house
breaking cases.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
COL. FRAZIER WINS D. S. C.
FOR BRAVERY IN CHINA

The Distinguished Service Cross
has been awarded to Lieutenant
Colonel Joseph Frazier, retired, ac-
cording to an announcement by the
War Department today.
Colonel Frazier. then first lieu.
tenant in the ninth infantry, dis.
played extraordinary heroism in res
cuing the colonel of his regiment.
who had fallen mortally wounded
during the fight against the Boxers,
near Tien Tsin, China, on July IL.
1900. He now lives at 200 Thilly
avenue, Columbia, Mo.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
OYSTER IS
MAPPING
PLANS
Failure to Dismiss Drinking
Men One Complaint Made
by the Commissioner

Dissatisfied with the work of
the Police Trial Board, Commits
sioner James F. Oyster is PLAN
ming to reorganize that body.
Commissioner Oysters chief
complaint against the board is its
failure to dismiss police brought
before it and found guilty of
drunkenness, in some instances
intoxicated on duty.
1--WE do not want men known
aS drinking men to be members of
the Washington police force"
Commissioner Oyster said, 81 be-
ieye that men found intoxicated
on duty should be thrown. off the
force as quick as possible.
Several Suggestions Made.
"The police department has a
reputation to maintain. 1t cannot
IL such persons are allowed to con-
tinue in service" he added.
Several suggestions for feorgani-
ration Of the board has been made,
but not of them have been suitable
to the Commissioner.
Would Enlarge Board.
One proposal is that an Assistant
Engineer Commissioner, all of whom
are officers of the United States
army, be named on the board. The
board membership now comprises
two police captains and a repre-
sentative from the District Corpora
ton Counsel's office. The proposal
is not FEASIBLE because the organi-
ration Of the hoard is provided for
by law.
Commissioner Oyster has asked
Major Daniel Sullivan, superintend-
ent of police. other police officials,
and District Commissioners Rudolph
and Bell for suggestions as to how
to change the methods Of the
board.
The law gives the District Com.
missioners. power only to reduce the
recommendations of the trial board.
IF the Commissioners believe d
policeman should be dismissed and
the trial board recommends only
fine there. is nothing we can do"
Commissioner Oyster said. I'VE
must abide by their recommendation
or reduce the pena;iy. The law
prevents us from increasing the
penalty"
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
CHARGES GREAT WASTE
ON LINER LEVIATHAN

Losses in early operations Of the
steamship Leviathan by the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation was
charged today before a House in
vestigating committee by Shipping
Board Commissioner e. C. Plum
mer.
There was overstocking of pro-
visions resulting in losses Of
thousands Of dollars and ineffic-
iency in the Stewards department
resulting in great destruction of
chinaWar and linen.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12

streets recently set aside by the
Commissioners as areas where traffic
will be barred will be specially re.
served after each snowfall.
Major Sullivan today has police
men on guard at the various hills
designated. They will be set aside
for shedding purposes from to 10
p. m. on week days. all day on
Saturday, biz not on Sunday.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
BEST OF GIFTS.

written on the fly-leaf OF a New
Testament given to a little boy for a
New Year presently
hope you'll often herein look,
And learn to love this little book,
And heed the lessons you'll find here,
If you but read with proper care.
This Book will tell you what IL right,
And unto you show q true light
That you may follow day by day,
As out you go on life'S highway.
1t will reveal the law Of love,
That you should always keep above
All else, IL that you really do,
A blessing 1t will bring to you.
In Its pages you will find
A RaviOr who Is sweet and kind:
And II you follow Him each day,
You will be happy all the way.
CABIN JOHN POET.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
JEWISH CLUBS TO HOLD
ANNIVERSARY FETE

The first anniversary of the for.
nation of the Jewish Interclun
Council will be celebrated with a
play and entertainment at the Y.
M. H A. headquarters next Sunday
night, 1t was announced today.
= Miss Kate Bein will direct the
program with the assistance OF
Jack Hornstein. president of The
council; Ethel Wool. Augusta Silver
man, Paul G. Robin, honorary
members and Maurice Bisgyer, ex-
ecuive director Of the Jewish Com
ppnity Center.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
KENTUCKIANS ASKS U. S.
TO BUY MAMMOTH CAVE

A delegation from Kentucky, head
ed by Senator Ernst, today sought
the moral support of President Cool
idge for Legislation now pending in
Congress, providing for the purchase
of Mammoth Cake, Kentucky, by
the Government for inclusion in the
National Park system.
About 10000 acres Of land at an
estimated cost of $2,000.O00 IL in
xyo1Und
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
WHEN A WIDOW REMARRIEs.

She-And I don't mind telling
you that my second husband GltcGys
treated me kindly and every Christ
mas bought me q beautiful seal
skin fur coat.
Her third hnsbdnd-WeU, he
didn't need any fur coat for himself,
for, from the reports / haze of him,
they don't wedr any clothing at all
dotcn there.
She-Hou brutal Just to think
tChdt I'Ue come to. I'm going home
to mother. GENEVIEVB.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
Civitan Club to Install

New officers of the Civitan Club
will be installed at the annual
dinner. in the Hotel Lafayette, to-
morrow night. The outgoing Off
GERS will make their reports, and
other club business will be trans
acted! A program Of entertainment
will be given.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
YOUNGSTERS ASSURED
OF HILLS FOR SLEDS

Shedding with no fear of traffic
hazards was promised District
youngsters after every snowfall In
the future in an announcement to-
day by Major Daniel Sullivan, SUI
perintendent OF police, that the
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
Legion Post to Meet.

Robley D. Evans Post, No. 4.
American Legion, will meet at
legion headquartc 218 Third
street northwest. al p. m, Janu-
airy %. Plans will be made for a
post banquk to be held early next
The Washington times., 1925-01-12

Wifey-YOu don't pay q bit Of at
tentiOn to that stop, Look, Listen
sign, but II you sec q flappeP you
stop and make yourself almost blind
looking.
Hubby-Yes, but you must re-
member that I've got to do all the
listening at home.
The Washington times., 1925-01-12
Ad Club to See Film

1.-The Way to Success" a moving
picture produced by the Advertising
Specially Association, will be viewed
by the Advertising Club at it's week
ly luncheon meeting in the City
Club tomorrow.