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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
TWO ARE INDICTED
FOR KILLING MEN
Herman c. Davis Is Charged
With Robbing Drug Store
Proprietor.

Herman C. Davis, "a years old, was
indicted today by the grand jury on
a charge Of robbery. 1t is alleged
that March % Davis entered the
drug store of DIR. Harold II. Lantz
at 323 Seventh street southwest and
held up the proprietor with a pistol.
After grabbing a quantity of narcotic
drugs and rifling the cash register
Davis lowered his pistol for a moment
and the druggist and his assistants
grappled with him. Dropping the
money and the pistol Davis, holding
onto the drugs, ran from the store
and jumped into an automobile.
Policeman Harry CT. Bauer gave
chase shooting at the flying machine
Davis jumped from the car and ran
into an alley where he was appre-
hended by Bauer.
Manslaughter Charged.
Manslaughter is charged in two in
dictments. Perry Allen, colored, is
said to have caused the death of Bur
nett Blakey, also colored, April 20.
Blakey refused a drink offered by AL
len, it is charged. when Allen struck
him over the head with an iron bar,
inflicting an injury resulting in death.
James Jackson, colored, is charged
with manslaughter for the death of
emerson 4. Brown, also cOlOTeu, April
II. 1t is stated that the three men
were driving through Temperance al
ley in an automobile and called to
Brown to get out of their way. Brown
responded there was room enough. and
1t is claimed Jackson, jumping from
the vehicle, struck Brown over the
head with blunt instrument. Brown
died four days later.
Criminal libel IS charged against
Archie NJ. Murray, who is said to have
written a letter to Ralph A. Norton
secretary to Commissioner James +.
Oyster, in charge of police. rejecting
on Lawrence A. O'Dea, detective
sergeant at headquarters.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are: Adelina Jackson
Robert Dunmore and Joseph G. Jones
assault with dangerous weapon; Mary
Smith. John Haymaker, Nathaniel
Brooks. William Brooks and Richard
c. Allen, grand larceny; Lloyd F.
Jackson, John Copeland and Daniel
w. Chase, non-support of minor chill
dren; Frank Dodson. non-support OF
wife; Henry Hinckley, non-support of
wife and minor children; James
G. Glover, William Phillip Briscoe
Harry E. McVickers, James Crawford
and Theodore Johnson, alias Theodore
Davenport, housebreaking and larceny
Frank w. Steck, false pretenses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
SENATOR SPENCER'S
FUNERAL IN ST. LOUIS
Body Will Be Taken to Home
Today-Services Will Be
Held Wednesday.

The body of Senator Selden P.
Spencer of Missouri. who died at
Walter Reed Hospital Saturday night,
will be taken to st. Louis late today,
where funeral services will be con
Quoted in the Second Presbyterian
Church Wednesday afternoon at 3
o'clock. Rev. DIR. John w. McIvor
will officiate. Interment will be in
Belle Fontaine Cemetery.
Members of the family and con
gresSiona1 committee of honorary pail
bearers will accompany the body.
The following committee of Sen
ators has been named to accompany
the body to st. Louis:
Senator Reed of Missouri. Senator
Cummins of Iowa, Senator Watson of
Indiana, Senator King of Utah. Sen
ator Willis of Ohio. Senator Mckin-
lev of Illinois. Senator Caraway OF
Arkansas, Senator Ernst of kentucky
Senator Harreld of oklahoma. Sena-
tor Nicely of West Virginia, Senator
du Pont of Delaware, and Senator
Deneen of Illinois.
The delegation on the part of the
House will be the entire Missouri
delegation and Representative Sas-
nowski of Michigan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
MEANS WINS DELAY
IN FORGERY TRIAL
Case Set Over Until May Is as
Plea for Stay of Mandate in
New York Comes Today.

Justice Siddons in Criminal Divi.
sion L today postponed, until May 25
the trial of CASTOR B. Means, former
agent of the Department of Justice.
who was recently indicted on charge
of forgery in connection with signing
the name of Smith w. Brookhart.
Senator from Iowa and chairman of
the Daugherty investigation commit.
tee, to a letter relating to certain
records sought by the committee.
This delay was granted at the re.
quest Of United States Attorney Cor.
don and of I. Morris Wampler. at.
torney for Means. who explained to
the court that the mandate of the
Appellate Court in New York DENYING
Means new trial of his conviction
of conspiracy there is due TODAY.
Means. the court was told, has wired
his New York counsel to seek a. stay
of the mandate in order that he NAV
apply to the United States Supreme
Court for a writ of review. Should
the stay be denied counsel said Means
will surrender and go to Atlanta to
begin his term of two years. In that
event it is considered likely that the
Washington indictment will not be
pressed at this time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
ARMED BANDS ACTIVE.
Communist Activities Cause Wide
spread Distress.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, May IS up. A
recrudeScence of Communist activi.
ties has been noted in the last few
days. Several armed bands composed
of desperate men, all good marksmen
and possessed of a thorough knowl-
edge of the terrain, are harassine the
countryside in Central Bulgaria. They
operate only at night and thus far
have eluded the police and troops sent
after them.
A large store of explosives was dis.
covered at 1chtiman, between Sofia
and Philippopolis, while in the latter
city two machine guns and much am
rhunition were found secreted in a
Communists home.
Strong guards are being maintained
over the bridges and tunnels along the
railway lines, and military guards ac-
company all passenger trains.
The Bulgarian authorities, while re.
garding these as isolated incidents, are
apprehensive and say they would like
authorization from the allies to retain
for two months at least half the ex-
ira $4,000 soldiers allowed, if only for
the moral effect their presence would
have.
They are not sanguine of allied an
prevail, however, in view of the strong
opposition from Bulgaria's neighbor
states against a retention of the extra
military forces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
RACE TO START EARLY.
Republicans Lay Plans to Hold
Nilsson Senate Seat.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May Is @.-Re.
covered from the shock of the sudden
and unexpected demise of Senator Sci
den P. Spencer in Washington, poll
ticians have turned their interest aside
from funeral arrangements toward the
State house in Jefferson City.
Upon the shoulders of Gov. Sam
A. Baker devolves the duty of naming
not only a successor to the dead Sen
ator, but possibly the standard bearer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
DRILL TICKETS READY.
Cadet Competition Details Are
Virtually Complete.

Tickets for the closing events in
the 1925 annual company competitive
drill of the Washington High School
Cadets will be distributed this week
by school military authorities. The
drill will be held at the Griffith Stad'
ium June / and .. No tickets of. ad.
mission will be required for the first
day or the morning of the second day.
The school military authorities also
will complete the arrangements for
the drill this week. The order OF the
appearance of the companies on the
drill field has been determined and the
judges appointed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
MISS IDA ALLEN WINS
REWARD FOR u. S. WORK
Sd Years Service Recognized in
Extension of Office Two Years
Beyond Age of 70.

The Sd years of faithful service of
Miss Ida Allen were recognized today
by the Civil Service Commission,
which extended her tenure of office
two years beyond the retirement age
of 70.
Miss Allen entered Government
service here in 1871 as a copyist in
the office of the quartermaster gen
eral of the War Department. She
was promoted several times and is
now clerk in the Finance Bureau of
the department, to which she was
transferred shortly after it's organiza-
toin in 1905.
Miss Allen is a native of Washing
ton and lives at Gil Twenty-second
street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18

Illinois would keep close watch on
the proceedings through an OBJ
server" at the trial. Selection of
jury was expected to consume two or
three weeks.
Shepherd was indicted March Is in
the midst of a coroner's inquest in
stigated by Harry Olson. municipal
court chief justice, friend OF the
McClintock family. In addition TO
accusing Shepherd of causing the
death of young McClintock, the chief
Justice also termed him the central
figure in a plot 20 years old and the
slayer of McClintock's mother and
DIR. Oscar Olson. the judges brother.
Mrs. Julie Graf Shepherd, one of
the two legal guardians of McClintock,
was likened by Judge Olson to Lady
Macbeth, called a masculine woman
who dominated her weaker husband
and was named in the verdict of the
coroner's jury as equally guilty with
her spouse. She won vindication
when a grand jury refused to in
dict her.
The disinterred bodies of Mrs. Nc
Clintock and Dr. Olson, buried 16 and
Q wears, respectively, revealed mercury
in sufficient amount in Mrs. McClin-
tocks body to have caused death, ex-
aminers said.
Died on December q.
Young McClintock died December 4,
1924, a few months after reaching his
ma ioritv. and signed a Will drawn by
shepherd and attested by Shepherds
house servants. Shepherd was made
the chief beneficiary, with an $4,000
annuity for Isabelle Pope. McClin-
tocks fiancee, who waited at his death
bed with a license to marry him If
he recovered.
The first public hint that the death
resulted from other than natural
causes came when Judge Olson re-
ouested an investigation.
The body was exhumed and Shep-
herd returned voluntarily from Albu-
oueraue, n. NJ, where he had gone
with Mrs. Shepherd on visit.
Post-mortem examinations fixed ty-
nhoid fever as the cause of death.
The States attorneys office dropped
out of the inquiry and it was expected
that it would close with a finding of
death from natural causes.
The McClintock fortune was founded
bv William Hickling, a Briton, who
came to America many years ago.
Hints have been given that his sec
ond wife obtained the estate by poi
soning her husband, and accusations
that she, in turn, was poisoned by her
second husband, William McClintock,
sr., father of Billy. were made in
court, but later withdrawn. McClin-
took took as his second wife Emma
| Nelson and soon after the birth of
Billy he was killed in an automobile
accident Shortly thereafter the Shep-
herds came to live with Mrs. McClin-
took, Mrs. Shepherd and Mrs. Nc
| Clintock having been schoolday
| friends. When Mrs. McClintock died
| in 1909, her will made Mrs. Shepherd
CO guardian of Billy. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
LONGWORTH TO LEAVE.
Sees Coolidge Preparatory to Tour
of Europe.

Representative LonGworth of ONO,
who has been selected for Speaker of
the new House of Representatives,
had talk with President Coolidge to-
dav preparatory to visit in Europe.
Mr.. Longwprth will sail "Wednesday
on the Aquitania. lie expects TO be
gone about two months, visiting most
Of the European countries. He will
co first TO Paris 10 visit his sister, the
Countess de Chambrun.
Mrs. Longworth and their young
daughter will remain in America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
Famed Black Water
Fjord in Norway
Turns Milky White
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERGEN, Norway. May 1S.-
Sognefjord, longest and most IA
nous Norwegian ford. is expert
encing strange phenomenon.
The water, usually clear and dark
with the darkness of it's immense
depth, suddenly has become OPAQUE
and milky. All the fish have dis
appeared. Holland Hansen, the
oceanographer, is proceeding to the
ford to make scientific investiga-
ton. Samples OF the water will be
sent to Oslo (Christianial, for an
examination by experts.
Sognefjord is long. deep and
narrow inlet Of Norway, running
east from the sea. In places it is
1000 feet deep. with mountains be-
side 1t rising to 5000 feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
of the Republican party in Missouri's
senatorial election in 1926

senatorial election in 1926.
While Bakers appointee will hold
office only until the election. the death
of Senator Spencer, it is generally ad-
mitted will cause an early opening of
the Republican battle in Missouri for
the senatorShip.
Already the names Of several promi-
nent men have been mentioned as pos
sible candidates for next year, and it is
expected that Immediately after the
funeral of Spencer, Gov. Baker will be
besieged by politicians urging the
names of their favored candidates.
Among the most prominent persons
whose names have been linked as pos
sible candidates are: Former Gov.
Arthur NJ. Hyde of Trenton, Dwight
+. Davis of st. Louis, Assistant Secre-
tary of War; r. r. Brewster, Kansas
City attorney: Cleveland A. Newton,
Representative; Former Attorney Gen
eral Jesse w. Barrett. former Mayor
Henry w. Kiel of ST. Louis and Rep
rcsentative Charles Faust OF st. Jo-
seph.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
NEW RIFF ATTACK
ON FRENCH IS NEAR
Air Scouts Report ConCen-
tration of Troops Through
Several Roads.
BY the Associated Press.


PARIS, May 1S.-There are more
signs that Abd-el-K rim's big offensive
against the French in Morocco is
drawing near. French air scouts re-
port that reinforcements are arriving
along several roads, all well traced ana
psralleled by telephone lines
Meanwhile the French are COM
pleting their plans to cope with the
Riff move. While confident OF de-
feating it, they do not intend to make
the mistake of Understanding the
strength of the invading tribesmen.
The French describe the infantry OF
the enemy as good fighters and
marksmen, but say the artillery IS
poor, the gunners being ignorant OF
the modern methods of sighting their
pieces by geometrical calculation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
Eldridge's Car
Shoes 49-MiIe
Speed Do,onto,c,,

Sitting at the wheel of his car on
downtown street. Traffic Director
Eldridge gazed at the speedometer
and 1t was registering 40 miles an
hour,
The author OF the new traffic
code seemed to be well pleased
with the power of his motor as he
cast an unconcerned glance at Can't.
h. w. Brown of the first precinct,
who was calmly standing by.
Sounds bad at first glance, but
the machine was standing still on
a platform. Mr.. Eldridge was mere
ly testing the engine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
Wales Goes Golfng.

PORT ALFRED, Union of South
Africa, May 10 CP).-Lured by perfect
weather, the Prince of Wales spent
today playing golf. postponing his
departure for Grahamstown until to-
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
New Smallpox Case Found.

A new case of smallpox was listed in
the Health Department today. when
Mamie Church, colored, of $50 Forty
eighth street northeast, was sent to
the Smallpox Hospital. This brought
the number of patients now under
treatment up to II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
BULGAR ARMY CUT DUE.
British and Allies Favor Reduction BY
May 81

LONDON, May 18 OPT is learned
In official circles that the British gov
eminent, in agreement with the other
allies, does not feel inclined to author
lie retention beyond May 81 of the
excess troops which Bulgaria was al
loved to raise to care for the recent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
TWO HURT AS BUS
CRASHES |NTOPOLE
Driver Alleged to Have Left
Wheel While Fixing
Windshield.

A bus of the Washington Railway
ley pole in front of 2651 Connecticut
avenue late last night. injuring two
passengers, badly damaging the bus
and holding up traffic until overhead
trolley wires could be made harmless
Theodore w. Leland, % years old
Of 1928 Cathedral avenue, and Mar
jorie Baltimore. colored, go years old
of 3415 Thirty-fourth place. bus pas
sengers, were shaken and bruised.
Edward J.. Shipley. driver of the
bus. is said to have left the wheel
of the bus unattended while he ad
justed a weather strip on the bus.
The vehicle swerved and crashed into
the trolley pole before he could pre-.
vent it, police say. The pole was
demolished, pulling down live electric
wires.
Seek Hit-and-Run Driver.
A "hit-and-run' driver of an auto.
mobile Is wanted by the police for
knocking down and injuring Richard
Buckler. 81 years old. 1927 Good Hope
road southeast. on Blandensburg road
near Morse street northeast early
last night The driver was a co]ored
man. Buckler was treated at Casualty
Hospital for an injury to his head.
Mrs. Lena Wendheim, 60. 419 II
street, was knocked down by the auto
mobile of Henry l.. Coleman, 1928
Rrandywine street. in front of 423
Massachusetts avenue last night. She
received treatment at Casualty Hos
pital for injuries to her head.
Ella Hughes, colored. SO years old.
of 1888 Q street, was slightly injured
this morning as a result of being
knocked down at New Jersey and
Massachusetts avenue, by taXicab
driven by S. J. Gardner. 329 Four
teenth street northeast. Gardner took
her to Casualty Hospital.
Parked Car Hit.
An automobile belonging to Rosie
Carroll, 644 Brewer court northeast.
parked on the road near Hyattsville,
Md, early this morning, was struck
by the automobile of Harold j.
stevens, U. S. S. Swan. Quantico, Va,
resulting in injury to Irving j. Bush,
a marine, also a member of the force
of the Swan. Bush was treated at
Casualty Hospital for INJURIES to his
face, head and legs.
Paul Morgan, 13 years old, of 1871
H street, was knocked unconscious
yesterday d,teIh ooii "Heii Ills picycie
collided with a taXicab near Nine
teenth and II streets. He was taken
to Emergency Hospital, where he was
treated for an injury to his right ear
and shock.
Paul Murphy, 100 C street south
east, was driver of an automobile that
struck and damaged the safety zone
post at Pennsylvania avenue and
twentieth street last night, the fourth
time an automobile has struck the
post the past few days. The auto.
mobile was slightly damaged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18

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mote" on the subject has been re-
ceived from Washington Is regarded
here merely as the stock diplomatic
denial. based on a technicality.
Both Ambassador Daeschner in
Washington and Ambassador Her
rick in Paris have been fully advised
of the desires of the American Gov
to the Paris foreign office. Whether
Paris is disposed to regard their com
munications as a mote" is held here
to be a mere technical detail. In any
case, there remains no misapprehen-
sion In Paris as to the views of
Washington, and officials here are
Gratified that by the creation of a
committee to consider the subject
France has at least made a beginning
toward the end desired.
Dewey Leaves for Europe.
In view of important developments
in the international debt situation
within the past week considerable sig
niticance was being attached to the
departure from Washington today of
Charles :. Dewey, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, for a vacation trip
in Europe.
While It is being emphasized in the
case of Mr.. Dewey, as 1t was in the
recent tour of Garrard b. Winston,
Undersecretary of the Treasury, that
the trip to Europe Is purely personal
and that no official message is being
carried to any continental capital, it
has been reported that Mr.. Dewey will
confer informally with some of the
leading figures in the chancelleries of
Europe.
Mr.. Dewey has been a Treasury
Department official long enough to he
thoroughly conversant with the sit
uation and 1t is believed he goes TO
Europe with a clear-cut position of
the very latest angle of the American
viewpoint on international fiscal re-
lationS.
Mr.. Dewey's itinerary has not been
made public, but It is known he sails
tomorrow night from New York city,
expecting TO return June % to the
United States. With Mrs. Dewey, the
Treasury official left Washington this
afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
GROUPS BACK PERSHING.
'Laclede Citizens to Ask Appointment
to Senate.

MACON, Mo-, May 1S P).-Citizens
of Laclede, Mo-, Gen. Pershing's home
town, announced they would send a
telegram to Gov. Baker today urging
him to name the general to succeed
Selden p. Spencer as United States
Senator from Missouri.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18

had come to London to ask for an ex.
tension of the period which the addi-
tional Bulgarian militia sanctioned by
the council of ambassadors were to
serve. He said the matter was en-
tirely one for the allies to decide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18

Although Lloyd George continues to
direct the gathering of material for
his book on the war. It will not be
for possibly Two years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
SECRET ORGANIZATION
WITH MANY EXPLOSIVES
SEIZED IN BULGARIA

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
BRITISH APPROVE POLICY
America Request to Debtor Nations
Works to London Favor.

By Cable 20 The star and Chicago Daily News
LONDON, May lS.-The circular
letter of the United States to debtor
countries asking them to fund their
debts to her comes at an opportune
time so far as British foreign relations
are concerned. giving new impetus to
negotiations which have been tagging
for months.
While the polite request issued by
Washington came suddenly and ap-
pears to have been a complete sur
prise to Downing street. II is no less
welcome. Chancellor Winston Church
hill has been waiting patiently since
February for some reply TO his
debt funding proposals. but owing 10
the political crisis in France has not
pressed for an answer.
Opens Way for Britain.
Now. in light OF Americas action
II Is likely he will start "A drive of his
own to get allied as we'll as other
European debts to this country an a
sound basis. British and French
treasury officials probably will meet
this week to consider the complex de.
tails involved in the financial rela-
tons of the two powers.
Among British bankers there is a
tendency to view the pressure of the
-
move by Washington TO get a slice
of any payments arranged between
France and Great Britain. In other
words. American financiers are stalk
ing out a claim in anticipation OF the
French treasury striking pay dirt
Must Affect France.
Another more arsighted view is
that Americas pressure must eventu.
| ally affect the security pact negotia.
| lions in which France has attempted
| to force Germany TO accept her east.
ern frontiers without change, leaving
France with a military circle about
| the reich.
Great Britain objects to this idea
even more strenuously than the
United States and may use financial
| pressure If France persists upon fix
| ing Germany's eastern frontiers as
| they now stand.
| Copyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co }
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
TRIAL OF SHEPHERD
GETS UNDER WAY;
1865 CALLED FOR JURY

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
FRANCE is REPORTED RUSHING
DEFINITE PROPOSAL ON DEBTS
Had Advance Notice That United States Would Re.
quest Settlement; Italy, Through Tittoni
and MussOIini, Asks Leniency.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18
Three Contests Pending.

There are at present pending before
the Senate committee on privileges
and elections three election contests
the eck-Brookhart contest from
Iowa, the contest of former Senator
johnson against Senator Schall of
Minnesota, and the contest of former
Senator Bursum against Senator
Bratton of New Mexico. Plans for
counting the Iowa ballots have been
made and the work will be begun
within a short time.