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Evening star., 1926-05-30
10. 7. BOYD DIES
IN PHILADELPHIA
Former Washingtoniap Was
General Passenger Agent
of Pennsylvania Lines.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 90
Oliver T. Boyd, for six years general
passenger agent Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, died at 10 am. today in the
Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Mr.. Boyd had been confined to the
hospital since March. when he was
forced to give up his business duties
following general breakdown and an
infection Of the blood. after many
months Of failing health. Mrs. Boyd
and two daughters were at the bed
side when the end came.
He was born in this city October
20, 1873, and was the son Of the late
George w. Boyd. Mr.. Boyd entered
the service Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road as clerk in the advertising de-
partment on December /. 1897. His
rise from then on was steady until
he was appointed to his present posi-
ton in 1920.
Mr.. Boyd is survived by his widow.
Mrs. Mary g. Boyd. and two daugh-
ters. Maranda N. Boyd and Mary q.
Boyd. The funeral will take place
Tuesday.
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RIVER-HARBOR VOTE NEAR

General discussion of the $36,000,0o0
omnibus rivers and harbors bill ended
in the House yesterday after another
dispute over the question of water di-
version from the Great Lakes.
will be resumed Thursday, with the
possibility of a final vote by the end
Of the week.
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Passenger Agent Here.

Mr.. Boyd was we'll known in Wash
ington, having been a city passenger
agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad
for three years. about IL years ago.
He left this city to become general
passenger agent for the William
Gibbs McAdoo Subway System in
New York City. From New York he
again aligned himself with the Penn.
sylvania Railroad at Pittsburgh. to
be transferred later to Philadelphia.
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Bill Would Change Street Name.

A bill proposing to change the name
of Dent place between Forty.fourth
street and Foxhall road northwest to
Greenwich Parkway was introduced
in the Senate yesterday by Chairman
Capper Of the District committee and
referred to his committee.
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For Aut0ists and Vacationers.
Beautiful free pictorial book of Delaware
Water Gap and Pocono Mountain region.
Tells of delightful places for week end Jour-
County Publicity Bureau. Stroudsburg. Pa
Advertisement.
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Flowers Via Telegraph
To friends or relatives back home.
Consult Guide, 1912 F. st.-Advertise.
ment.
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FARM RELIEF STAND
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PRESTIGE IN WEST

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Contractor and Builder

Special Prices on Summer Homes.
Architectural Service Free.
CLARENCE E. WILLIAMS,
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The General Convention of the
Northern Baptist Church, having de-
cided many vital questions of policy
and administration, approved a finan-
cial budget covering the next years
work and determined upon a Nation
wide evangelical program to last six
months, will adjourn tonight to meet
next in Chicago. The Washington
convention will be brought to a close
with three great mass meetings OF
an inspirational nature at the Wash
ington Auditorium this morning, aft
ernoon and evening.
Other attractions this morning will
be Bible class meetings conducted by
two of the most famous class leaders
in the United States. Miss Jessie l..
Burial, formerly of Washington. who
has won a wide reputation through
the Middle West for her work among
students at the University Of Mis-
souri, and Woods Baptist College for
Girls. will speak at $50 at the Rialto
Theater, under auspices of the Bur
rail- Glass. AT the same hour Rev.
David J. Evans Of Kansas City will
address mems Bible class at the
Washington Auditorium. DIR. Evans
is said to have the largest mems BIZ
BILE class in the world at his church
in Kansas City
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
INQUIRY PROMISED
into GRABBING WAR
Virginia Official, Lacking
Confirmation, Believes
Shooting Justified.
BY the Associated Press.


NEWPORT NEWS. Va, July 81
Col Harry r. Houston, head of the
Virginia commission of fisheries. has
no official report concerning the alleg-
ed renewal of hostilities between
Maryland crabbers and the Virginia
patrol boat Marguerite. II have heard
nothing except what / saw In the Bal
tinloTe papers" Mr.. Houston said.
land / am inclined TO believe the re-
port an exaggeFation. Had there been
serious trouble / feel confident that
the captain OF the Marguerite would
have let me know"
Mr. Houston does not believe that
the Marguerite fired on the Maryland
crabbers without cause, as charged in
dtspatch from Crisfleld IF our
men used their guns feel certain that
they believed they had every right to
do Sc, he added
Mr.. Houston and other members of
the commission expect to mako an in
vesttgatfon of the latest trouble re-
ported. The commissioner said a few
days ago he was afraid the trouble
was not at an end. the Maryland crab
bers for several years having come
down in Virginia waters to- take a
peeler crab which rises at the mouth
of a creek near Smith Island, and
usually disappears before reaching the
Maryland boundary line.
The Virginia laws prohibit the TAX
ing of crabs and other shellfiSh in Vir-
giIAia waters by any persons other
than citizens of the Old Dominion.
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TREASURY To TAX
ALL ILLICIT LIQUOR
So Assessors Added to Care
for Difficult TaSk-Cut in
Expenses Seen.
By the Associated Press.


The Government new weapon
against Illicit nquor--taxation--w
ordered into operation yesterday by
the Treasury.
Instructions were issued to prohibit
ton administrators regarding the
form of taxes and penalties which
may be assessed against liquor manu-
facturers and others under the new
revenue law and the prohibition act.
Just how the liquor is to be traced
back to the manufacturers and proof
of their liability established is not
clear. but 60 assessors" have been
added to the staff for that work.
Expects to Save Money.
The taxation drive is in line with
Assistant Secretary Andrews policy
Of concentrating on the sources of IL
licit spirits, and he believes the results
will more than Justify the effort. He
told Congress at the last session that
he expected to collect enough from
LIQUOR taxes to materially reduce ap-
preparations for prohibition enforce
ment
The instructions issued to prohibi-
ton administrators yesterday point
ont that double and triple taxes on
Illicit liquor can he assessed as penal
ties.
Tax Is S649 Gallon.
Under the new revenue law the di-
rect tax is $6.4o a proof gallon on all
distilled spirits diverted to beverage
use, and sc a barrel on beer con-
tanning more than one half of one per
cent of alcohol. sold for beverage con-
sumption. A special tax of $1,000 is
levied on any person carrying on the
business of a brewer. distiller, whole
sale liquor dealer, retail liquor dealer
or manufacturer of stills.
All of these assessments are in addf-
ton to the regular stamp taxes which
are required under the revenue law
on all distilled liquor. wine and beer.
Most of the new staff of 81 assessors
will be assigned as deputy revenue col
lectors, and will work with the Fed
eral district attorneys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
FOUR OUTINGS PLANNED.
Several Thousand Will Visit Ches-
apeake Beach This Week.

Four organizations will hold out
ings this week at Chesapeake Beach.
Local No. 140 Of the National Fedora
ton of Post ONCE Clerks will go to
the resort Tuesday. w. Suter Reich
enback is in charge of arrangements.
On the same day the employees OF the
Review and Herald Publishing Co. of
Takoma Park. D. c., publishing plant
of the Seventh-Day Adventists, also
will hold their annual excursion at
the beach. r. w. Conard, super1n-
tendent of the plant will be in
charge Fifteen hundred are expected
on the two outings.
The Knights of Pythias will visit
the resort Wednesday, carrying 1900
excursfonists. j. w. Cherry of 1858
Maryland avenue northeast, heads the
committee.
Forest Lodge. No. Al, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows of Forestville,
Md. will hold its annual excursion
Thursday Two thousand Odd Eel
lows from Maryland, Virginia and the
District are expected. LIE Roy Pumph-
rey of the Woodward Building. will
he in charge
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LOVE OF JOHN, r. LOVE
LANDS Him IN TOLLS
Baltimore Youth Misrepresensed
Wife's Age, Father-in-Law
Charges, Asking Arrest.

The. matrimonial bark Of John r.
Love, 20 years old. of 2o33 Hollins
street. Baltimore, Nd. which had been
sailing smoothly for two months was
wrecked yesterday when Headquarters
Detectives Kelly and Serivener went
to the Monumental City and arrested
the youth on the complaint Of his
wife's father, James McKillop, that
the boy had represented the age of
his daughter as 81 years when she is
but II.
Love brought his wife, then Theresa
McKillop, to this city on June fol-
lowing a courtship of many months.
The McKillops are second-door neigh
boFs of the Loves in Baltimore living
at 2029 Hollins street. Police say he
went to the courthouse and obtained
a license on the assertion that Miss
Kiilop was 81 years and the pair were
married here on the same day.
No explanation was given the police
why Mr. McKillop waited two months
before he decided TO swear out a war
rant for his young son-in- laws ar
rest on the perjury charge.
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who is forced to put 1t up again. The
chances are, according to vraious Of
ficials of the court, that the Govern
ment would not bring up these cases
again, being more than satisfied to
look after the new ones.
1t was two days ago that Mr.. Elmer
son issued his challenge, declaring
that inasmuch that Congress, on
July 8, specified that the jury service
should be lenthened to three months
and should be chosen 10 days before
the first of July, 10 days before the
first of October, and SO on, it was
Illegal for the jury commission to call
any one for jury except on the dates
mentioned by Congress
As it was impossible for a jury to
be chosen 10 days before the t1rst OF
July, when Congress did not pass the
amendment until July 8, the. commits
sion had jury impaneled July for
two weeks and another July 10 for
the same period OF time.
Mr.. O'Leary arguing for the Gov
ernment, eontended at the hearing be-
fore Judge Hit that the action OF
Congress did not repeal any law,
merely amended it, and that its intent
was to have the jury go on as in the
past until 1t was. possible to impanel
one under the new law.
Mr.. Emerson stated that intent
could not be read into the law which
was clear in itself and lacked any
ambiguity He cited the Clark case
Of 1901, which, he declared, ITO be on
all fours'' with the present situation.
At the conclusion Of the hearing,
briefs were ordered submitted by the
court, and the Jude signifed the inte!f-
ton to give his opinion early this
week.
In the meantime the jury is still ex-
cused without pay.
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MRS. SCOTT DEFlES PLEA
TO DISCONTINUE FAST
VIII Engage New Doctor, Says
Wife Of Condemned Slayer, on
21st Day Without Food.
Special dispatch to The Star.

Special dispatch to The Star.
DETROIT. July 31.--Heedless or
her physicians warning that serious
consequences might follow, Mrs Cathe-
rine Sect, now on the twenty-hrst day
of her self-imposed fast at the New
Detroit Opera House, said today that
she intends to continue 1t indefinitely.
Mrs. Scott announces through her
manager that she intends to engage q
new physician.
The avowed purpose of the fast is
to raise funds for the defense of her
husband. Russell Scott, under sentence
of death in Illinois, and to care for. her
three children Mrs. Scott said to-
day she is making Just enough money
to pay expenses.
Her weight was given out today as
100 pounds and her physical condition
as very weak.
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LETTER PRODUCES CLUE.
Gives Detectives Tips on whereabouts
of McDermott's Pals.

CLEVELAND, July 81 Rp.--A
letter found in a torn recess of a
battered suitcase in Summer cottage
at Brady Lake, in Portage County,
NAV mark the end of the trail for
the fight of Red" Patrick Eugene
McDermott, sought as chief of the
slayers of Don r. Mellett, Canton
newspaper editor.
The letter, uncovered in raid early
today by Captains of Detectives Enl-
NETT Potts and Joseph Sweeney was
the first hint as to the whereabouts
of any Of the fugitive's outof-town
friends and resulted in wire To police
at Perth Amboy, n. j., by Detective
Inspector Cody on the theory that
McDermott was likely in hiding there.
McDermott received portion of the
$3.50 which is alleged to have been
publisher, Detective Captains Potts
and Sweeney declared today
The officers announcement came
after an investigation of McDermott's
movements since the Staying. They
declare that MeDermott was here on
the afternoon of the MelIett Staying,
and that he made trips to Akron and
Massillon, Ohio. to get the money
before going to Pittsburgh.
Potts and Sweeney say they re-
ceived their information from a COM
panion of McDermott. They were
told, they declare, that McDermott
left Cleveland for Pittsburgh Wednes.
day, after failing to get the money in
Akron and Massillon the day before.
He was accompanied to the two Ohio
cities by girl and the youth who
gave the detectives their information.
The detectives learned that McDer-
mott paid sos to clear up bad check
that he had issued. This was done,
they believe, because he feared the
claimant might report the matter to
the police, reveal his hiding place and
cause complications that might even
tually result in his being linked with
the Canton assassination.
BOSTON WANTS PSTLIAS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

information which might lead to the
solution of the Hall-Mills murder mys-
terry, declined to be interviewed late
today. She said her story was only
for the sheriff. to whom she had COM
municated everything of Importance.
Mrs. Harding said verification of
what she had told the sheriff might
be had from Warren F. Francis, man.
ager Of the Asbestos Hotel at Man
vile, N. j., in September, 1924. She
told him the story of being accosted
by a man, at spot which she de-
seribes as near the place where the
bodies or Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall
and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were found.
1t was not until Mrs. Hall was re-
arrested recently that it occurred to
her that the information she has
might be useful in solving the mys.
terry.
The identity of the man who ac-
costed her has not been made known
by Mrs Harding, except that she
had since seen g. photograph published
in connection with the case which
appeared to be that of the man who
talked to her.
after the man stopped me and
warned me not to relate anything
had seem" Mrs. Harding said, II drove
away saw three men. am posi-
tive that there was no woman.
heard one of the men say something
about parishioner.'
81 am positive that the man, who
stepped out into the road is a prom
inent factor in the case. Mrs. Hall
was not there"
Mrs. Harding, before her marriage
here two years ago was Miss Virginia
de Leon, a social worker at the Johns
Manville Co. plant at Manville, N. j.
on the night of the murder, she
said she had driven an official of the
firm from Manville to Newark, and
on her return, driving alone, lost her
way.
When aceosted she was driving
slowly along side road near New
! Brunswick.
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BOSTON WANTS PsTLIAs.
Seeks Mellett Case Suspect on Feloni-
Gus Shooting Charge.

PITTSBURGH, July 81 lP).-George
PsiliaS, alias George the Greek" who
has been questioned by detectives in
connection with the staying of Don r.
Mellett, Canton publisher, is wanted
in Boston. Two Boston detectives
who arrived here today to serve war
rants on Psilias said he was charged
with felonious shooting and assault
and battery, the result of an attempted
robbery there on May 3, 1920.
Psilias took refuge in the Allegheny
County Jail several days ago in an eff,
fort to Illustrate what his attorney
termed a plot by private detectives te
''l1idnap" his client and take him to
Ohio in connection with the Mellett
case. Psilias was remanded to jail
after bondsman had Withdrawal bail
posted some time ago on an assault
charge.
The Boston detectives said Psilias
would be arrested and extradiction
proceedings started the minute he
stepped from JAIL
The warrants charged Psilias and q
companion shot two men in a Boston
coffee house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
BODIES MAY BE ExHUMED.

NEW YORK, July 81 R,-The
bodies of the Rev. DR.. Edward w.
Han and Mrs. Eleanor r.. Mills. muir
dered in September, 1922, at New
Brrnswiek, n. j., will be exhunled. IT
was learned today from supposedly
authoritative source.
The action was said to have been
decided upon as one OF the first steps
IN the new investigation OF the crime.
a searching inquiry will be made into
the conduct Of the first investigation
Of the murder four years ago, officials
'Raid.
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Continued from First Page1
New Brunswick. home with friends
and relatives to comfort her. She had
been confined for 40 hours following
her arrest Wednesday. She is charged
with the two murders.
During the day she was visited by
two sisters of her husband. The
curious no longer congregated on
her lawn, and the windows were open
and blinds raised
The $4,000 bail of William Phil
lips, held as material witness. was
said he expected to procure his re-
lease soon.
Hotel Man Now Dead.
Warren F. Francis. to whom Mrs.
Harding said she related her expe-
rience on her return to Manviile,
where she resided at that time. died
about a year ago, it was reported az
the Asbestos Hotel, Manvtlle, of
which he was manager. Mr.. Francis
Daughter is dead, and his only known
Mving relative Is a brother who lives
in Brooklyn. 1t was not known at
the hotel whether Mr.. Francis had
told his brother of Mrs. Harding
experience.
County Detective Hanfon denied re-
ceipts, of a message from Mrs. Hard
ing.
Mrs. Jane Gibson, farmer woman.
who lives near the spot where the
bodies of Mr.. Hall and Mrs. Mills
were found, and who told authorities
she was an eyewitness of the MUIR.
ders. never was sure OF the number
of automobiles she saw in the road
near the crab apple tree under which
the bodies lay
Her testimony was that she had
come up the road aStrlde her mule
Jenny unexpectedly, to see the MUIR
derers at their tasks. She had been
following a wagon that she thought
contained corn stolen from her cribs.
Besides the car with the extinguished.
headlights, she said, there was an
other, the lights of which furnished
the illumination by which she saw
the murderers' faces. Beyond this.
she told authorities, they said, she
thought there was a third car. a road
ster. The roadster was parked on
Easten avenue near De RusSey's lane,
she thought
Every Bit of Data Sought.
At the time Of the FIRST investiga-
ton detectives said they were anxious
to get information from any one who
might have knowledge of this road
ster'S occupants.
Although the statements of Mrs.
Gibson, to which have been added
the statements of Mrs. Harding, that
there were men at the scene eff the
crime, only one person.. and that a
woman, has been directly charged
with the murders. That wornan is
Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Gibson said she had
recognized two men she saw. one of
them holding a revolver that flashed
in the night.
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PERSUADING POWER
OF PRESS DOUBTED
WiIIiamStoWn Speakers Dis
parage Written Word as
Great Opinion MouIder.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, July 81.
Denying the assertion yesterday OF
New York Tribune that the
press is the greatest influence In
nolding public opinion, Sir Frederick
Whyte, first president Of the Indian
legislative assembly maintained today
that radio and the platform are
equally potent.
Speaking before the Institute Of
Politics, he declared that radio in par
ticular, through it's freedom from
business influence, might be. an uf-
naitigated benefit In promoting inter
national understanding. where the
press would fail because of the high
concentrations of ownership in it.
Admits Opinion Factor.
He acknowledged that public opinion
was a powerful factor in determining
the course of events, citing the British
coal strike settlement as the most
outstanding evidence of the fact. The
strike was defeated, he said, not by
the government, but by the working
of a public opinion that seized upon
the one salient fact that the strike
was an Legitimate effort to influence
the ponies OF the country.
Concentration of newspaper. owner
ship, he held. might be harmful TO
international relations, since it limited
the scope of expression of public
opinion, and he beIittled press in
f1uence in internal political matters
by citing the numerous cases when
the press has fought solidly the
measures that the voters have over
whelmingly Endorsed.
German Also Dubious.
DR.. Moritz j. Bonn of the Uni
versity of Berlin also questioned the
power of the press. Public opinion
is changed by Industrial groups, he
said. and these groups are not being
influenced by their newspapers but
by their professional leaders.
DR. Leo s. Rowe, director general
elect of the Pan American Union,
held that governments can do little
In the developement of closer inter
national understanding, and that the
power of the press of the United
States and Latin America was aug
mented to a position of supreme I'M
portanee in the affairs of the West
ern Hemisphere.
w. B. Welles, London correspond
ent for the Herald Tribune, declared
sthat the Irish revolution was made
by newspapermen, and that il was
settled by public opinion and the
pressure brought to bear by the
press, particularly the American
press.
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ARREST AROUsEs PUBLIC.
New Brunswick Indignant at Haste
of Prosecutor Bergen.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., July
s1.-Public indignation ever the mid
night arrest of Mrs. Hall and her
being Jailed without being indicted is
aroused to a high pitch.
It was said when Prosecutor Bergen
drew up the warrant at 10 o'clock
at night he had no idea it would be
served at once but the prosecutor
would not explain why the warrant
even was made oaIt at such a late
hour and in such apparent haste.
State troopers in Sonerville today
examined a youth of about 20, dress.
ed in farm clothes, and a man around
so, who wore overalls, and was said
to live near Freehold. Their names
were not made public.
Down in Old Point Comfort, Va,
detectives were searching for another
material witness He was the man
originally reported as friend of
Peter Tumulty. the Hall chauffeur,
and It. was suggested might have
driven one Of the family cars.
It was reported he enlisted in the
Army.
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cant after all? Do they, count a great
deal in determining whether people
are satisfied or disgruntled under
prohibition? A boy of IL may
be told that if he eats candy he
will get sick. But if the boy wants
candy no amount of emphasis on
the dire consequences will prevent
him from eating it. and perhaps get
ting just as sick as he was told he
would. The prohibitionists in Cana
da have found their greatest prob
lem in human nature. Human
nature has defeated them. Changes
in human nature are wrought through
the years. not through the legisla-
ture.
Editors note: This is the closing
article of Mr.. McKelway's seTies.l