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The Washington times., 1925-05-14
WHAD D'YOU
KNOW?

FIRST AID: The editor is puz-
zled to know whether the follow
ing matter received in the mail,
is publicity material planted by
a mail order house or by makers
of iodine. We reprint it just as
it arrived.
To Chicago again goes the laurel
for something entirely new in the
way of holdups. In fact, the per.
oo5 itb ali II the 5ee chivsry Of
the bow-and-arrow-d -doublet-a nd-hose
period. The robbery was In the
plant of Strauss-Schram Company
mail order house. Three robbers ap-
preached the colored porter, early in
shot through the hip.
After lining up the engineer OF the
plant and another watchmaln;; l; ana
tention to the wounded man, saying,
Now. mister. we got you into this
scrape. and we don't want you to
die. Is there anything here to treat
this wound WITH"
They carried the porter to the
third floor emergency hospital room
and proceeded to perform a perfectly
good piece of first aid in the home home
swab and surgical bandaBe. Then
they gathered up about $4,000
worth of watches, and left with the
comforting words I'VE are not going
to leave you boys here all day,
When we get far enough away. we
will call the police" And they dtd!
One Of our good old proverbs says,
by their good deeds shall ye know
them If those burglars believe In
proverbs they are going to remain
hidden in the deep, dark. tall timbers
for some time to come.
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
LISTEN, WORLD!

WE are about
w to dig into
The Washington times., 1925-05-14

ONE time ago Mars nearer to us than it has been
for many hundred
New Britain herald., 1925-07-17

Mrs William H Knapp, mother of the man sought, hystericaliy denied she had seen her son since the first news of hls vanishing was published
Evening star., 1925-03-28
BANK -WRECKING RING
ALLEGED BY PROSECUTOR
Missouri Official Says He Has
Found Men Who Caused Clos
ing of Many Doors.

MEMPHIS. Mo-, March 2s.-A ring
of bank wreckers, nationwide in
scope, is believed today by Charles
l.. Moore, prosecuting attorney of
Scotland County, to have been uncoy-
cred. Mr.. Moore said that, through
4s operations, the alleged ring has
obtained $1,151,748.4s. Banks in Mis-
souri, were hardest hit; Mr.. Moore
said, adding that 10 institutions in the
State that were still operating had
been victims of the ring
He said that the Bank of Puxico.
Puxico, Mo-; the Lamar State Bank,
Lamar, Mo-; the Republic National
Bank of st. Louis and the Drovers'
National Bank of East ST. Louis. Ill.
had been closed as a result of the
wreckers.
Mr. Moore named j. B. McCutchan
of st. Louis. under arrest in connec-
tion with alleged manipulations of
bank paper, as head of the ring. Roy
Myers, formerly cashier of the Citf-
zens' Trust Co. of Gorin, the prosecu-
tor said, was a member. Myers Is op-
Grating a mine in Mexico A requisi-
tion for him is to be asked, Mr. Moore
said.
Mr.. Moore said that the ring oper-
ated by ''kiting" checks and selling
certificates of deposit. One man, al
legged to have been a tool of the ring,
was placed in one of the banks as
cashier The ring, Mr.. Moore said
operated as far east as Pittsburgh
and west to the Pacific.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
C00LiDGE'S CRUISE
LASTS TILL MONDAY
Presidential Party Visiting Lower
Chesapeake Bay-Executive
Takes Books.

President Coolidge's desk in the
White House executive Office is closed
today and will remain so until Nom
day morning.
The President Is on week end
cruise aboard the yacht Mayhower,
which steamed away from its dock at
the navy yard late yesterday after
noon and which is expected to spend
the greater part of it's time on this
little journey in lower Chesapeake
Bay.
With the President are Mrs. Cool
idge, John Coolidge, their son, who
returned home Thursday from Am
herst to spend the Easter HOLIDAYS:
Mrs. A. 1. Goodhue of Northampton,
Mass; mother of Mrs. Coolidge. who
has been a guest at the White House
since {the week before inauguration
Senator and Mrs. Gillett of Massa-
chusetts; Mrs. A. T. Hert of KEN
tucky, vice chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee in charge
of women's activities; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles c. Glover. jr., of this city and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Dodd of this city
] On the way from the White House
to the. Mayfiower yesterday afternoon
the President stopped at the Congress
sionaI Library for several books
which he will read on the cruise.
I The wireless message received al
the White. House this morning from
the vessel said sall were ,well aboard
land that thegboat dropped anchor be-
fore midnight last night off of paI-
ghFen, Md, which Is almost directly
opposite Colonial Beach, and that the
Journey was resumed this mornine
shortly after I O'Clock. The trip had
been, made this far without incident.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
WHEELER GIVES BAIL,
SUM FIXED IS $1,000
Indicted Senator Makes Personal
Appearance Before Clerk of
Criminal Court Here.

Senator Burton K Wheeler of Mon
tana appeared before the clerk of
Criminal Division l of the District Su-
preme Court this morning and gave
bail of $1,000 to appear for trial on
the indictment for conspiracy report
ed against him yesterday afternoon
by the additional grand jury in con-
nection with oil and gas permits on
public lands in Montana. The Amer
lean Surety Co. of New York quail
fed on the bond.
Attorney Charles A. Douglas ac-
companied the Senator to the Court
house. Both Wheeler and his lawyer
declined to give out statement con-
cerning the Indictment, declaring they
wanted first to read copy of it and
would then be prepared to make a
statement.
Mr.. Douglas said he understands
that the case in Montana will go for
ward April 16 and that both sides are
prepared for trial. No action is like
ly, 1t is understood. under the new in
dictment returned here until the case
in Montana is concluded.
United States Attorney Gordon said
he is not advised of the intention OF
the Department of Justice in relation
to the two indictments, and any state
ment of procedure should come from
the Attorney General.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
SHEPHERD WITNESS
GR|LLED ON $1,000
BR|BE OFFER STORY
E. P. Clark Reported Asked
to Leave City-Is Prose-
cution's Star.
NEW ACCUSATION FILED
TO DISCREDIT FAlMAN
Charged With Performing Illegal
Operation From Which
Woman Died.
Rr the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 2S.-Edward P.
Clark, one of the first witnesses in
the inquiry that led to the indictmen mt
of William D. Shepherd as the slayer
OF his foster son, William Nelson Nc
Clintock, orphan millionaire, was
questioned by States attorneys today
on information that he had been Of
fered $4,000 to leave the city.
Detectives were sent out to bring in
also for questioning the head of a
detective agency, who was said to
have made the offer. Clark formerly
was a salesman of the National Uni
Versity of Sciences, whose head,
Charles c. Faiman, was jointly indict-
ed with Shepherd after he said he
had given Shepherd typhoid germs
and instructions on administering
them to McCIintock.
An affidavit charging that Faiman
once operated Illegally upon woman
in his science school, and that the
woman died, was taken into criminal
court today by Shepherds counsel.
The affidavit, sworn to by w. S.
Stewart, attorney for Shepherd, who
IS fighting to have the court recon-
slider it's decision denying Shepherd
freedom on bail, further charged that
the body was disposed of by turning
It over to a laboratory.
A declaration that Faiman never
had any germ cultures in his school
was made by Mrs. Luella RhuebeH,
who said she was formerly secretary
of the school and who yesterday OBJ
tanned writ of replevin for the re-
covery from her landlord of certain
documents she said would have a
bearing on the Shepherd case. The
documents, which. she said. had been
taken from her last Monday, would
clear Shepherd OF the charges against
him.
Another assertion that Faiman's S
testimony would be discredited came
from Stewart, who served notice on
Robert f. Grove, States attorney.
that he would apply for rehearing
on his motion, denied Wednesday, to
have Shepherd released on bail pend
Ing trial.
Meanwhile search for any poison
traces in the bodies of Mrs. Emma
Nelson McClintock, mother of VIII
liam. and DR.. Oscar Olson. exhumed
yesterday. continued today. This
was decided upon last night despite
the primary discovery that evidence
of heart disease existed in both
bodies.
A complete chemical analysis OF
the organs of the bodies will take
81 least month, DR.. William ID.
McNally, coroner's physician, esu-
mated.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
THREE YEARS GIVEN
TO MRS. BUCHANAN
Sentenced to Penitentiary
and $500 Fine for Forging
Pension Checks.

Mrs. Margaret B. Buchanan, former
secretary of Samuel A. Kendall, Rep
resentative from Pennsylvania, was
sentenced today by Chief Justice Nc
Coy in Criminal Division to serve
three years in the penitentfary and to
pay a fine Of $500. She was recently
convicted of forging the name of
Martha warfeld, an illiterate colored
woman who had been q cook in her
family. to two checks from the United
States Veterans Bureau. totaliHg
81 900, made to the Warfield woman as
compensation and pension for the
death of her son, a former soldier.
Mrs. Buchanan noted an appeal to the
Court OF Appeals and was remanded
to jail to await the disposition OF the
appeal
The indictment was in two counts,
charging the forgery of each check.
On the first count the court Inn
posed a sentence of l s months in the
penitentiary and a fine of 500 and
on the second count an additional
term of Is months and another fine
of 500.
Attorneys L. H Vandoren and Rich
ard E Wexford. for the prisoner.
called the attention of the court to
the fact that restitution had been
made, but the Chief Justice declared
the repayment of the money had been
forced and characterized the crime as
on a par with "robbing a poor box"
Assistant United States. Attorney
Burnett conducted the prosecution.
Mrs. Buchanan was acquitted in
February of a charge of forgery in
connection with a check for $1,000
sent to Representative Kendall by
Mayor Smart of Uniontown, Pa, in
payment of war material sold in Ken
dalPs district.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
AMBASSADORS QUIZ
FOCH ON REPORT
Ask Fuller Statement on vio-
Iations of Treaty by
Germany.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 2S.-The Ambassa-
dors' Council has finally agreed on
the text of the questions to be sub
mitted to the allied war committee
concerning the report of the allied
military control mission in Germany
violations of the treaty of Versailles,
Marshal Foch. head of the war COM
mittee, probabl will have the docu-
ment in hand by this evening, and the
military experts will be able to begin
work on the supplementary report
next week.
The ambassadors ask Marshal Foch
and his colleagues to classify Ger
many's violations of the treaty dis
armament clauses in the categories OF
grave" apd insignificant" and to
give a special opinion in each case
as to the possible consequences IL
Germany is allowed to continue her
present policy.
Only when the war committee has
replied to the questions put by the
council will the control missions re-
port be taken up by the ambassadors
for final disposition.-s-Wha action will
be taken depends largely on the at
titude Of the German government in
the meantime, diplomatic circles
think. If Germany shows a. sincere
disposition to cooperate for the Sc
curity of Europe 1t Is believed the
allies will be disposed to minimize
the treaty violations.
Some of the allies wanted to allow
the control missions report to SLEEP
indefinitely while the security nego-
tiations were proceeding. and it is said
in diplomatic quarter that Marshal
Foch would have been obliged to wait
much longer for the list of questions
had there not appeared In Berlin a
disposition to hang back somewhat
on Foreign Minister Stresemann's
security offer.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
DOG THAT BIT FIVE
MAD, TESTS REVEAL
Examination of Animals Head
Shows it Had Rabies-Vic-
Tins to Be Treated.

Examination of the brain of a stray
female dog that had bitten five per-
sons, one Wednesday and four Thurs
day afternoon, conducted yesterday
afternoon under the supervision of
DR.. John r. Mohler, chief of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, Depart
ment of Agriculture. established the
positive diagnosis of rabies.
Richard H. Stringfellow, IL, son of
James r. Stringfellow, one of the
operatives detailed to accompany the
President, residing at Is Bryant
street, was attacked by the dog
Wednesday afternoon while deliver
ing papers on the 240O block OF
Second street northeast and bitten
on the left ankle.
Four persons attacked the follow
ing day were Elmer D. Moubray, 80
2436 Second street northeast; James
Harms, 8, 2313 Third street north
east; Helen Brown, s, 2315 Third
street northeast, and Louis Kroutil
s., 224 Charming street northeast. All
the victims are or soon will be re-
ceiving the Pasteur treatment.
Killed by Peliceman.
Moubray and the three children at
tackled Thursday afternoon were near
Third and Bryant streets northeast
when the attacks were made. Police
man G. w Cook of No. IL precinct, who
learned of the attacks, hurried to the
scene and killed the animal.
Poundmaster Smith, connected with
the Health Department service, who
has charge of the work of looking
after biting dogs, took the head of the
recent mad animal to the Agricultural
1o&A
bray and parents of the four children
of the result of the examination of the
animals brain.
100 Bitten This Year.
Since January I, according to rec.
ords of the Health Department, 1Ot
persons have been bitten by dogs, ant
in at least three instances IL deyel.
oped that the offending animals wer.
suffering from rabies. About month
| ago a colored man named Harrison
Hall, resident of Garfield. was bitter
| by a dog that was suffering from
rabies, and as a result of the investi
CATION conducted by the Health De
partment rs dogs were killed and /,
| ordered quarantined for a period o
| one year. d
| Six dogs, found to have been ex
| posed to the dog that bit the five per
! sons this week, have been ordere,
| ouarantined for a period of a year
1t has not been ascertained that an,
| one of the six animals was actual,
I, bitten by the mad dog.
1t was said by officials of the Healtl
Department today that many dogs IL
Prince Georges County, some in tn
vicinity of Clinton, had been expose,
dogs suffering. from rabies.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
TALLY ON TRAFFIC
PLANNED IN MOVE
TO CUT ACCIDENTS
Most Dangerous Points to Be
Sought by EIdridge in
Weeks Survey.
RER0UTING CONSIDERED
TO RELIEVE CONGESTION
Boy Scouts Will Count Autos Pass
ing intersections to Aid Di-
rector's Investigation.

A comprehensive study of traffic
accidents in Washington with view
to reducing collisions at dangerous
intersections or at other points where
accidents occur frequently, will be
launched next week by Director of
Traffic Eldridge.
At the same time close considera-
tion will be given to the congestion
problem, with Boy Scouts aiding in
the plans for a traffic count at points
of greatest congestion. Rerouting
of traffic in these busy zones prob
ably will be the remedy adopted when
the results are tabulated.
The accident survey will be con-
Quoted along technical lines. Di-
rector Eldridge will have large map
in his Office on which each accident
reported by the police will be indi-
Gated at the specific location by means
of a pin. As the pins accumulate at
certain crossings, circles or other
places where accidents occur often
the director will have a visible rec
ord on which to base plans for COR
rective measures.
Will Keep Map.
a complete record or daily traffic
dSClucnlS diIcduy Is kept DS the
Police Department in statistical
form. The traffic director plans to
take these reports and locate the
accidents on his map with the pins.
When he finds that an unusually
large number of pins have been used
at a particular location. he will study
the traffic conditions at that point and
endeayor to find solution to the
problem.
In this way he hopes materially to
reduce the number of accidents in
Washington and safeguard life and
property
AS means of speeding up traffic in
the congested districts, Mr.. Eldridge
will ask the Boy Scouts to make an
accurate count at busy intersections
| and 20 report the total daily, for :
period of one week. Places where
| the traffic is found to be heaviest will
| be given special attention in the be-
! lief that by diverting or rerouting
some of the automobiles the conges-
| tion will be relieved and traffic con-
sequently speeded up.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
z UNIONS THREATEN
NATIONAL STRIKE
BrickIayers and Plasterers in
New York May Cause
Trouble Here.

With a serious possibility of a
strike in several building trades in
Washin gton, complications have been
added to the situation by the re-
ported failure of o. conference in
Bricklayers' Union and the Interna-
tional Plasterers Union over. which
should do stucco work.
Aceording to Information from
c. G.. Norman. chairman of the board
of governors of the Building Trade
Employees Association of New York,
who arranged a. meeting with a view
to avoiding the strike, there is no
settlement in sight, and the difficulty
may lead to a Nation wide strike in
these trades.
Uaity In Sought.
While matters remain about the
same in Washington today, several of
the unions are maneuvering to con-
solidate their forces to meet the situ-
alton. Yesterday william j. CALLS CHER
of Lafayette, Ind, organizer OF the
intentional Painters Union, was in
Washington for conferences with the
local union. Mr.. Gallagher, Arthur
Cham berlain, president OF the local
painters and decorators union, and
NJ. J. Click, financial secretary of the
union, held a conference with George
Guest Hedrick, head of the building
trades department of the American
Federation OF Labor. No details of
the conference were given out
Michael Mitchell, president of the
international Stonecutters' Union, is
expected in Washington today as a
result of the lockout of the local
union which was effected yesterday.
Further conferences with the stone
cutters and other unions are expected
in a few days.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
LOOK TO OWN DISPUTES,
U. S. CHURCHES ARE TOLD
Argentine Publicist Advises Reli-
gious Conferees That Their PROB
lens Demand Attention.
By the Associated Press.

Is
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, March
2S-A frank statement that churches
In the United States ought TO set.ie
their differences has been heard by
delegates from the United States to
the Christian Work Congress here.
In speech yesterday, DR.. Julio
Navarro Monzo, Argentine pubiicist'
said that since the delegates came TO
South America to solve our prob
lens" he hoped they would not take
IT amiss if he referred to their prob
lens by telling them that the North
American churches ought to bury
their differences, their quarrels over
modernism and fundamentalism
DR.. Monzo said it was vain to try
''either to Protestantize or Anglo-Sax-
onize Latin America"
What Latin America needed before
Professionalism, he said was its own
reformation, just as the Nordics had
had their reformation.
DIR. MonZo is a worker for the
Young Mems Christian Association.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
Flight From Paris
To San Francisco
Via arctic Planned
By the Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO, March IS
An airplane flight from Paris to
San Francisco, crossing the Arctic
near the North Pole. is being
planned as a feature of the dia-
mond jubilee of the State next
September. The plan provides for
the inauguration of regular
route and the arrival Of the path
finding airplane in San Francisco
during the week OF the celebration.
H. H. Hammer. associate of
Capt. Roald Amundsen in. Arctic
explorations, is the originator of
the plan. Hammer is planning a
flight this Summer from London
to Toxic by way of the North
Pole and is now in San Francisco.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
Virginia Mountains
COUered With SnO,U;
Storm, S,Ueeps State
Bx the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, March Is
Snow fell at several points in Vir-
ginia last night while other sec
tions were visited by the worst
rain and wind storm OF the season.
The mountains to the north of
Lynchburg were covered with
snow this morning and around
Bristol and in the mountains to
the west there still were signs of
the white flakes.
The Tidewater section OF the
State was contending with high
water in rivers and creeks as the
result of the heavy downpour of
rain which registered 81 of an
inch at Richmond during the
course of a few hours.
The wind was so strong here it
toppled an 1S-foot brick wall of
building under construction, pin
ioning a negro in the debris of his
shack, where he was asleep. After
several hours work by police and
firemen, he was extricated, how
ever, with only slight injuries.
His home was demolished.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
americans Find Sacred Island
Of ancient Mayas in Mexico

which still uses bows and arrows.
In addition to the sacred island the
explorers also found ruins and i'm
portant stone slabs of Piedra La
brada. They climbed Mount San
Martin and found large stone idol
on the rim of an extinct crater.
Two other expeditions have been
organized by Tulane's recently en-
dowed department of middle Ameri-
can research. DR.. William Gates,
head of the department, and Earl S.
Haskell and A. c. Hartenbower sailed
today for Vera Cruz en- route to join
Alan w. Payne, another associated
in the departments work. Mr..
Haskell and Mr.. Hartenbower will
make a two-yeaF agronomic plant
survey in Tabasco. and DIR. Gates
and Mr.. Payne will start tropical
plant research work in Honduras.
Evening star., 1925-03-28
Campbell More Worried by Poisoning
Of Dog Than by Indictment in Oil Case

nection with oil permits" Camp
bell declared.
He declined to make any state
ment concerning the indictment.
James. A. MCGOWAN. whose oil
permit in the Kelvin Sunburst
field is involved in the Govern
ment's investigation, was sub
poenaed as a witness in the forth
coming Great Falls trial of Sem
ator Wheeler.
In this case the Senator is ac-
cused of improperly representing
Campbell before a Government de-
partment after his own election
to the Senate.
The case has been set for trial
on April Is.
Evening star., 1925-03-28

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, La, March %.
Discovery of a sacred island con-
tanning ruins in the ancient Maya
Indian civilization in Lake Catemaco,
in the Mexican state of Vera Cruz.
has been made by the archaeological
exploring expedition of the depart
ment of middle American research OF
Tulane University.
A brief report from the local uni
Versitys two explorers, DR.. Frans
Blom, formerly of the Carnegie Insti-
tuition, and DR.. Oliver La Fargo,
made public today, also told of other
discoveries of Importance to arche-
ologists. 1t said that the two. while
in the Mexican state of Vera Cruz,
had been the first archeologists to
cross the Tuxtla Mountains, and had
visited the Popoiuca Indians, a tribe