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Evening star., 1925-01-11
HELD HOUR AFTER
HUSBANDS BURIAL
Maryland Woman Charged With
Murder Pending Inquiry in
Poison Evidence.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md, January To-
Less than an hour after her return
today from burial services of her
husband, William Merryman of Ow-
ings Mills, Mrs. Willy j. Merryman
was arrested on a charge of causing
his death by poison.
A charge of murder in the first de-
gree was placed against her toni ght
when she was locked up without bail
in the county Jail, pending a prelimi-
nary hearing Wednesday.
Baltimore chemists have been or
dered by II. Courtenay Jenifer, State s
attorney of Baltimore County, to
make an analysis of Merryman' 5
stomach for traces Of poison.
Investigation into Merryman's death
was begun on Wednesday, when the
coroner was notified by hospital staff
physicians of strange circumstance
attending the death. An autopsy per
formed on Wednesday by the city
post-mortem physician revealed that
Merryman's death was caused by any
one of four conditions which might
have resulted from poison
Evening star., 1925-01-11
WOMAN is ARRESTED
ON JEWELERS. CHARGE

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, January 10.-Charged
with obtaining under false pretenses
two bracelets valued at $4,000, Mrs.
Mable Moore, 20 years of age. who,
police said, is the stepdaughter of
Edgar Lyon, president of Lyon, Conk-
lin & Co., is being held in Los An
geleS.
Mrs Moore was sought by local po-
lice as a missing person, and it was
not until after word of her arrest was
received that the fraud charge was
placed against her. The bracelets
were obtained December 2 from a
local jewelry firm.
A member of the jewelry firm today
told a magistrate that Mrs. Moore
came to the store and asked to see
an assortment of bracelets. She said
her father had instructed her to make
a selection for him, to be given to
her mother as a Christmas present,
the jeweler said, She was permitted
to take the presents home. Later her
father said he knew nothing of the
transaction.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
Births Reported.

Births reported TO the Health Department
within the last "a hours
Antonio and Rosa scuderi, boy and gir
(twins).
Francis " and Naomi d. Gray, boy.
Herbert W. and Helen Berry, girl.
Robert s. and Ruth Marsh, girl.
George L. and Katharine NJ. Lttlefeld, girl
Joseph T.. and Mary c. Dove, girl
Walter A. and Rose Woodhouse, girl.
John J. and Cecilia NJ. MeNaney, girl.
Charles Z. and Dorothy Burr, boy.
Douglas B. and Gladys w. Diamond, boy.
Richard and Beatrice Veney, boy.
James f. and Matte Proctor, boy.
Theodore and Carrie Z. Grout, girl.
Caspar L. and Elizabeth j. Saunders. boy.
Harry and jamie Jackson, boy.
Walter and Thelma Johnson, boy.
Isaac and Mamie Stanfeld, girl.
Leroy and Burzela Robinson, girl.
Andrew and Beatrice Hawkins girl.
Grant w. and Mary E. Shellman, girl.
Ace and Mary Green, girl.
Joseph u. and Florida Wright, boy.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
.NOTAbLESATTEND
GRANGE SESSION
Secretary Gore Among Off
ciaIS at Installation of
Body's Leaders.

Representatives OF the agricultural
interests in Washington, including
the cabinet, Congress, financing
agencies, national farm organiza tions,
agricultural newspapers and colleges,
gathered last night at the City Club
on the occasion of the installation Of
officers of Potomac Grange, No. l, Pa
irons of Husbandry.
distinguished list of speakers
was headed by Secretary of Agricul-
ture Gore, Governor of West
Virginia, and Gov. Robert p. Robinson
OF Delaware, master of the State
Grange and treasurer of the National
Grange.
New Officers Installed.
The installation, following dinner
at the club, placed in Office for the
new year, A. NJ Loomis. as master
was Louis ]. Taber of Columbus
Ohio, master of the National Grange
He was assisted by Gov. and Mrs
Robinson, and by regalia and emblem
bearers, Miss Emily Z. Clark and
Miss Grace L. Leonard.
The new officers installed aside
from the president include: L. E
Reynolds. J. Clyde Marquis, DR.. H. c
Taylor. c. w. Holman, L. II. Goddard
William NJ. King, >. >. McCloskey, l.
S. Tenney. Mrs. ]. Clyde MarquQis, Mrs
H c. Taylor, Miss Mary Meek Alike
son and Mrs. A. N. Loomis.
]. Clyde Marquis, lecturer ot
Potomac Grange, was master of cere-
monies after the installation. Other
speakers We're: Representative JohT
c. ketcham, past master of the
Michigan State Grange; DR.. T. c
Atkeson, Washington representative
of the National Grange; Robert Carey
chairman agricultural conference
Gilbert \. Haugen, chairman House
committee on agriculture; c. c. Ham
lin, member Federal Reserve Board
j. II. GULL, jr., member Farm Loan
Board; DR.. H. J. Patterson, director
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station and past master Maryland
State Grange; Carl Williams, editor
Oklahoma Farmer Stockman; o. C
Bradfute, president of the Farm Bu-
reau Federation, and Charles Barrett
president of the Farmers Union.
Music of the evening, including
several songs by the group, was led by
Mrs. Reba Z. Bridges.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
NEW COAL RATES HALTED
I. c. c. Suspends Tariff on Ala
bama Product Four Months.

Proposed new freight schedules on
the Illinois Central Railroad, protect
ing the through rate on coal from
certain Alabama mines to various
points of destination when the coal
is made into coke in the Birmingham
vicinity, yesterday were ordered sus-
pended from January IL to May 13. by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The suspended schedules provide
that the difference between the coal
rate and the rate protected will be
refunded to the shippers of the out
bound coke. The schedules were
published by the Illinois Central
Railroad with a view to establishing
rates by which it could compete with
other roads serving competitive dis
tricts on the protective basis.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
CLUBS TO SEE PLAY.
Jewish Council to Open Fiscal Year
With Entertainment.

An amateur play will open the fiscal
year of the affairs of the Jewish In
terclub Council of Washington. The
show will be held Sunday evening
January IS at o'clock at the Young
Mems Hebrew Association.
The clubs which comprise the eoun.
ell are: Crescent, Naomi, Mard~tle
Young Friends, Social Workers, Nor,
dau Zion, Shulamith, Herzl, Sodalis
and Les Amis clubs.
The officers of the council are: JacR
Hornstein, president; Miss Sarah
Oscar, vice president; Miss Lillian
Kaminsky, secretary; Abe Wolf, treas
urer; Miss Pearl Gimble, financial sec
retary, and Norris Temin, sergeant,
alarms.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
MRS. LAURA JONES DIES.

Mrs. Laura Z. Jones, widow of Wal
ter Jones, died yesterday at her home,
224 South Carolina avenue southeast.
Mrs Jones was born in Prince
Georges County, Nd, but had been a
resident of the southeast section or
the city 50 years.
She was a sister of the late James
Ryon. She leaves three children, Mrs.
Herbert Curtis, Mrs. r. H. Anderson,
and Walter Jones. The funeral Will
take place from Christ Church Tues
day afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
ROndOut Bandits
Present Gun Used
In HoId-up to Ne,O

The gun, whose shots resulted
in furnishing the clue leading to
the solution of the 100000 mail
train robbery. at Rondout. Ill, last
June, became the personal prop
erty of Postmaster General New
yesterday for use in hunting either
mail robbers or more docile game
to which he is better accustomed.
Brent Glasscock, now serving
12-year term for his part in the
crime, remarked, when being sem
fenced, that since the rife would
be of no further use to him, for
some time at least, he desired to
present 1t to the Postmaster Gem
eral with his compliments. Yes
terday the weapon reached Wash
ington with a bright silver plate
on the stock bearing the inscrip-
ton: Presented to Postmaster
General Harry S. New by Brent
Glasscock and Avis Glasscock,
1924"
Evening star., 1925-01-11
MRS. W|LLEbRANDT
OPPOSED AS JUDGE
California Senators Have Diff
ferent Candidates for
Federal Bench.

Seleetio nof Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney Gen
eral in charge of prohibition enforce
ment, as a compromise in the contro-
versy over the Federal district Judge
ship in northern California is under
consideration by President Coolidge.
This became known yesterday after
Mrs. Willebrandt had been summoned
to the White House for a conference
with the Chief Executive. Soon after
her departure Senator Shortridge, Re-
publican, California, called to renew
his recommendation for the appoint
ment of Judge A. f. st. Sure of San
Francisco, now a member of the Dis
trict Court Of Appeals of California
Has Heard Rumors.
Beyond saying that he had heard
vague rumors" that Mrs. WILLIE
brandt might get the appointment
Senator Shortridge declined to discuss
the matter or to say whether he
would interpose any objection to her
confirmation by the Senate. Mrs.
Willebrandt's only comment was that
the appointment would be very
gratifying to her.
Should Mrs. Willebrandt be appoint
ed she would be the first woman to be
named to the Federal bench. Her
home is in Los Ang sles, and she has
been an assistant Attorney General
since the beginning OF the Harding
administration.
In her prohibition enforcement
work she has become a storm center
of a number OF controversies in which
Senators and other Government Off
GERS have taken part. She has caused
the dismissal of d number of district
attorneys and assistant district at
torneys, the latest incident being
that of Assistant District Attorney
Van Riper of New Jersey, who was
forbidden by her to have anything
to do with the Weehawlen rum case,
and who subsequently was forced out
of Office.
Others Are Mentioned.
Besides Mrs. Willebrandt and Judge
st. Sure the names of several others
have been put forward for the Judge
ship. They include Judge William
II. Langdon, also a justice of the
California court, who has the indorse-
ment of Senator Johnson, Republican,
that State, and A. l.. Graupner of the
board of tax appeals, and a former
State commander of the American
Legion.
In addition to renewing his recon-
mendation for the appointment of
Judge st. Sure. Senator Shortridge
presented to the President letters of
Endorsement of his candidate from all
of the justices of the California court,
the judges of other courts and promi-
nent members of the California bar.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
THIS FORD JOKE FAILS,
Berlin Court Convicts American
Despite Story.

BERLIN, January 10.-"I came to
Germany as Ford's representative to
organize the importation Of CHEAP
automobiles on grand scale" was
the defense of DR.. Albert Petersen.
alias DR.. Allan of New York, alias
DR.. Morgan of Pittsburgh, when he
was hailed before a local court on
charges of fraud and larceny. The
jury, however. failed to be impresse d
and found him guilty. The judge
sentenced him TO six months imprison-
ment.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
Must Introduce Him.

From the Edinburgh Scotsman.
A Supposing l decide to let you
have the money, how do l know that
/ shall get it back at the time you
mention?
B. 1 promise it, my boy, on the
word of a gentleman.
"Ah, in that case l may consider Il.
Come around this evening and bring
him with you"
Evening star., 1925-01-11
Deaths Reported.

Deaths reported to the Health Department
within the last "a hours:
Thomas E. Lynch, sr., 81, 1910 22d ST.
Catherine b. Cannon, SO, 1912 Rhode Island
ave.
Robert J. Mcneil. 8s, 101 d st. Sc.
Elizabeth Atzel, 81, 1919 New York ave.
Annie W. Osborne. IS, 300s 18th ST. ne.
James Conner, 81, 625 ST. ne.
David Brand. so, Emergency Hospital.
Lutte Cox, 90, stanton Park Hospital
Henry Anson, 45, tuberculosis Hospital.
Infant of Burt and Helen Johnston, 8 days,
Sibley Hospital.
Henry Fisher, As, 2I27 Stevens ct.
Minnie c. Louder, 90. Gallinger Hospital
John Holmes IS, I74O MontelIo ave me-
Evening star., 1925-01-11
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued to the
following
Emory L. Davis and Rosa L. Swiggert.
Mack Dawkins and Hattie Summers.
Harry E. Vogler and Annette NJ. Smith.
Guy L. Weeks of Radford, Va, and Emma
Smith of Baltimore.
Clarence w McGeorge of Walkerton, Va,
and Inez l.. Clary OF Richmond, Va
Frank Jordan and Nellie e. Mahoney.
William stepney OF Philadelphia, Pa, and
Matte v Colbert of Fort Washington, Md.
Albert Fletcher of warrenton Va, and
Grace b. Richardson of Dendron, Va.
Roy King and Emma Hendree.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
l0CATELLI PLANS FLIGHT

ROME, January 10.-Lieut. Lo-
cateili, the Italian aviator who last
summer attempted transatlantic
flight in the wake of the American
ound-the-world flyers, is planning
to fly from Italy to Argentina next
Summer. He will fly first from Italy
to Gibraltar, then TO the Cape Verde
Islands, from where he will Jump 10
FernamDuco, thence TO Bueuos Aires.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
World Var Cause
Probe by Board Is
Proposed by O,Oen

All authentic and important
evidence bearing on the inaugu-
ration and causes of the World
War would be gathered for the in
formation of the Senate under a
resolution introduced yesterday by
Senator Owen, Democrat, Okla
homa.
The chairman of the Senate for
eign relations committee would be
authorized to appoint commits
sion of seven citizens to perform
the task.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
Ordered to Boiling Field.

Capt. Otto G. Trunk, Army Air
Service, at Atlanta, Ga. and Sergt.
william H. Fox, 21st Infantry, at
Williamsport, Pa, have been ordered
to Boiling Field, Auacostia, d. c., for
duty.
Evening star., 1925-01-11

The lecture to be given by Miss
( Grace Leigh Scott, national director
& of social morality, w. c. T. u, at $3.50
Z pm, today at the Calvary Baptist
EGhurch, on Parents of Yesterday
and Today" is open to both men and
women.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

- The Takoma Park Citizens Assoc
! ciation will meet tomorrow at 1880
3 m, at the library, Fifth and Cedar
streets.
Evening star., 1925-01-11

EPSON salts, comparatively harm
less in the stomach, is declared q vio-
lent poison In the veins.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
The Maryland state Society will

mold a card party at the Washington
Club, Seventeenth and X streets,
Thursday evening, January %. The
!. card party win take the place of the
regular monthly meeting of the
society.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
The spanish-American Atheneum

will meet next Wednesday evening, at
o'clock, in Corcoran hall, George
Washington University. H. d. Har-
ridan of the Carnegie Laboratories,
will speak upon his visit to France,
Spain and Italy, during the past year
ILLUSTRATED. There will be other
speakers. The public is invited.
Evening star., 1925-01-11
BANKING BILL VOTE
DELAYED IN HOUSE
Measure to Come Up Again
Observation-Disclosures Warm
Iy Debated.

The House completed general de-
bate yesterday on the McFadden
banking bill and considered several
sections under the five-minute rule
which opened them to amendment. 1t
failed, however, to reach a final vote
as leaders had planned and the
measure will be taken up again on
Tuesday.
Sharp differences OF opinion devel-
oped during the debate, particularly
among Democrats, as to the advisa
bility Of enacting the bill. Represen-
tatiYe Stevenson of South Carolina,
Democratic member of the banking
committee, joined with Chairman Nc
Fadden, author Of the proposal, and
other Republicans, in advocating it's
passage, while Representative Stea-
gall, Alabama: Goldsborough, Mary
land and Black of New York, Demo-
Gratis, led in the attack
Most of the discussion centered on
the section which would permit ma
tional banks to maintain branches in
cities where the parent bank is To-
Gated wherever State laws accorded
branch banking privileges TO State in
StitutionS
Evening star., 1925-01-11

Parent Eskimos never punish their
hhldxens
Evening star., 1925-01-11
Branch Banks Debated.

Notice was given by Representative
NJ. ID. Hun, Republican, Illinois, and
others that they would seek, when
consideration of the bill is resumed
10 amend the branch bank provisions.
Mr.. Black also announced he would
offer number of amendm ents spon-
sored by George Mclaughlin, New
y ork State superintendent of banks.
Declaring his opposition to the
principle of the bill, representative
Wingo OF Arkansas. ranking Demo-
crat on the banking committee, said
he saw little possibility of prevent
ing its enactment. He criticised its
branch banking features and declared
Congress should pass legislation pro
hibiting branch banking at a date
within decade
Evening star., 1925-01-11
The Piney branch Citizens, Assnci-

alton will meet tomorrow at s pm
at the Hamline NJ. L. Church, Emer-
son and Fourteenth streets.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1925-03-26
INK FROM OTHER
PRESSES
Humorous and Serious Topics
From Leading Editors
of the Country
A FABLE FOR BUILDERS

Last summer good citizen of a
certain town, not over a hundred
miles from almost anywhere built
a wooden house for woman and
her children. He built the chimney
of brick because he had to do so.
The chimney was able to stand
alone, so he did not have to prop
it with wood. But the floors of the
house would not stay up without
prop. The good citizen saved dol
lar by using the chimney as a sup
port for the floors. He nestled the
ends of the floor joist nicely into
the bricks of the chimney. He then
covered up the job and got his
money.
The rains fell and the winds blew
in the most Biblical manner and
winter came after it's usual fashion
The chimney settled a little and
there was tiny crack.
One morning the woman woke
up with fire all about her. She tried
to get to her children. If she got
to them, no one ever knew it. The
good citizen who built the house
was not arrested for manslaughter
He is still building other houses of
the same kind for other women and
children.
He makes his living by it.-Na-
tional Fire Protection Association.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1925-03-26
FINGER PRINTS SAVE
MARINE FROM BLOT
OF KIN,S DESERTION

Washington, d. C.-"The value of
getting good finger print impress
sions on your federal adjusted COM
pensation applications cannot be
overstressed.
1.-TWO men apparently brothers,
each having the same address and
next of kin, enlisted in the Marine
Corps during the war. They were
discharged the first with an excel
lent record, and the second with
only fair record.
1.-THE second man re-enlisted in
1920, and later deserted. Using the
irt veterans name, the second man
again re-enlisted in 1928, and de-
serted second time. He has not
yet been apprehended.
e "This duplicity on the part of
his kinsman was revealed~when the
first man made application for COM
penesation. A search of the records
showed the finger prints on his APP
plication and original record tailed
perfectly. The other finger prints
attached to his record were those
of his impersonator, the deserter
Steps are being taken to clear the
record of the first veteran and to
forward his application to the Vet
Grams Bureau"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1925-03-26
THE GLORY THAT
WAS THE SENATE

Vice-P President Dawes, in his in
auguration address, shattered lot
of senatorial presidents. 1t was such
an unusual event for an incoming
public official to hold up for public
gaze the shortcomings of one branch
of our national law-making body
that it brought storm of pro-
test from some political quarters.
Why shouldn't Vice-President
Dawes endeavor to shake the Sen
ate into realization of its duty
to the public? The Sixty eighth
Congress has ended and at the
close of its three months session
the enactment of vital measures fell
ed utterly.
The cold truth about the United
States Senate will benefit that body
and the nation owes General Dawes
vote of thanks for his effort to
shake it into activity and awaken
some of it's members from the
self-satisfed and "holier than thou
attitude which they have adopted
toward the public and industry dur
ing recent years.
Commentino on the Senate. the
New York Times says. editorial'v
Largely through its own fault. is
is coming to be thought of as the
branch of CONGRESS- which is either
unable or unwilling to transact the
public business in an orderly mar
ner; that has too MANY members
ready to insist with mulish obstin-
acy that if they cannot have their
own way, the Senate will not be
permitted to have its way; that al
lows mean, personal motive and pet
ty partisan animosities to creep in
to it's proceedings; that is afflicted
with longwinded speakers whom
there are no rules to choke off
"a few senators cannot, by them
selves, change the rules and trans
form the Senate into an assembly
where the majority can, after rea-
sonable debate. have it's will, but
they might speak out their minds
about the intolerable conditions
which exist, might make appeals
within the Senate and outside it.
and be more active and efficient
than they are in endeavoring to
win back part at least, of the
glory that was the Senate"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1925-03-26
THE JOKE ON THE SENATE

1t is just as well that the con-
flict between the President and the
Senate ended in joke-and a
joke at the expense of the Senate.
Such an impasse as that over Mr..
Warren holds no good for the bus
mess of the nation, which de-
ponds upon the cooperation of all
three branches of government for
its successful conduct. The sooner
the naughty and ridiculous obstruc-
tionists of the upper chamber per-
ceive their situation and begin to
nibble at their humble pie the bet
ter.
Nothing could have made them
look so ridiculous as the contrast
between their treatment of Mr..
Warren and of Mr.. Sargent. They
examined the former by all the mi
croscopic tests known to political
science and rejected him because
he was not the right tint of cor
poration-baiting progressive. Mr..
Sargent, of Ludlow, VT, they gulp-
ed down without a glance-only to
discover after it was too late that
the new Attorney General was both
corporation attorney and wet, a
thorouehgoing chip of Vermont
Granite.
1t is pathetic TO think Of tho
solemn constitutional ARGUMENTS
that rolled from the Inns Of Sena-
ton of the cheap snite vented
AGAINST the President. The admirable
brains of the gentleman from Idaho
have been used for the worse cause
unon plenty of earlier occasions.
We doubt If they have ever been
unlimhered in more patiently
absurd one.
The country has been with Mr..
COOLIDGE from the start of the
controversy. 1t is Joining with him
now in his little Joke on the SEN
ate-that incidentally promises to
yield the nation hieh-minded and
rugged Attorney General, who will
pay exactly as much attention to
a Senator of the United States as
he deserves.
A sense of humor is an excellent
thing for a President of the Uni
ted States to possess. One might be
prescribed for the Democratic party
as sure cure for more of its
ailments. The possession of ore
MIGHT even make useful public
servant out of Senator Borah.
N v Tr;huna
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1925-03-26

My rdOorlte Stories
By lRulN S. coBB
In Permanent Storage

Once upon a time, in the middle part
of the state of Georgia, there lived a
banker who was known far and wide
as the Human Safety Clutch. In his
day he was accused of many things.
but nobody ever charged him with be.
Ing spendthrift. His home was on a
plantation mile from town. one Sun.
day he remembered that he had left
some important papers ON his desk,
and he gave an aged negro servltor on
the place his keys and sent him for
the documents.
II was hot day and the road was
dusty. but in an hour the old darby
had returned with the papers intact.
The owner felt in all his pockets, one
after the other
That's too bad, Uncle Jim," he said
finally. Il thought ! had a nickel here
that was going TO give YOU"
'Cap'n Henry" said Uncle Jim. "you
look again. Eff ever you had a nickel
you got 1t yit"
(ccpyright by the Central Press Assoeiation.)