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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
ITALY EYES BALKAN
DISPUTE ANX|0USLy
Ready to Help Rumania, Bul.
garia and JugosIavia Adjust
Their Differences.
By the Associated Press.


ROME. August 5.--Italy views with
intense interest and concern the re-
ports of tension between Bulgaria
and Jugoslavia, government spokes.
man said today, and is prepared to
do everything automatically possible
to improve the situation, short of act
ing as a formal arbiter.
The same attitude holds good for
the relations between Bulgaria and
the little entente Rumania, Czecho-
slovakia and Jugoslavial. Italy hav-
Ing decided TO support the granting
of5a Bulgarian loan.
Italy's relations with Rumania are
friendly, despite the absence Of a
treaty of amity such as this country
has with the other mideuropean ma.
tions Premier Averesco Is coming
to Rome to confer with Premier Mus.
solini next month.
Regarding rumors that Italy would
step In between Russia and Rumania
in the long standing dispute over the
province<eof Bessarabia, the spokes.
man -1emphatically denied that Italy
Intended 10 reopen the question or
that she had assumed any RESPONSE
bility regarding 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
CAvE-IN KILLS MAN,
INJURIES TWO MORE
Laborer Buried at Terra Gotta, An.
other Held Half Hour Un-
der Machine.

One man was killed and two others
were injured today in cave-in of a
bank of earth under excavation on the
premises of the National Brick Com
pany, Terra Gotta, d. c.
Randolph Rector, colored laborer, of
754 Morton street, was suffocated un-
der the great slide before he could be
dug out by members of Chief Wat.
sons rescue squad.
John Matthews. II years old, a resi-
dent of Terra Gotta, employed by the
brick company, was rescued with
much difficulty after half an hour Of
frantic labors by the firemen., who
we're forced to use acetlyene torches to
cut away portions of steam loading
machine imprisoning the workman.
Albert Griffith, another employe,
was only slightly hurt.
Matthews did not lose conscious.
ness, although he was pinned beneath
a heavy piece of the excavating ma.
chinery. He talked with his rescuers
while they worked to release him. AT
Freedmen's Hospital physicians found
he was suffering from cuts and
bruises with possible internal injuries
The rescue squad, under Lieut.. w.
@. Parater, made a record run to the
scene OF the cave-in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
CASE DEVELOPS RAPIDLY.
Woman Gives Prosecutor New Clues
After 4-Year Silence.

SOMERVILLE, n. j., August 5 up.
Warrants for two more arrests in
connection with the murder four
years ago of the Rev Edward W.
Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were
today in the hands of Assistant At
torney General Simpson as a result
OF what he described as IAN amazing
story" by a new witness.
One warrant charges a man fire.
quently mentioned in the case with
being an accessory to the murder
MIR. Simpson said he would recon-
mend that this man be held without
bail when arrested.
Warrant Out for Negress.
The other names Mrs. Nellie /.
Russell, a negress. as a material wit
ness. Informed OF the warrant, she
waited most of last night on her front
porch, about three-quarters of a mile
from the crab apple tree under which
the bodies were found, to be arrested.
Newspaper men watched the home
of the man named in the warrant
Mrs RuSSell's testimony in the pre-
vious investigation did much to dis
credit that Of Mrs. Jane Gibson, who
swore that she saw Mrs. Hall bending
over the two bodies. Mrs. Russell, aft
er conversation with attorneys for
the slain mans widow now on bail
charged with the murder. made af-
fidavit that at the time in question
Mrs. Gibson was at the Russell home
discussing a stray dog.
Detectives today were checking the
statement made 10 Mr.. Simpson yes
terday by the newly discovered wit
ness, middleaged married woman,
who called at his office after being ad-
vised by her husband to tell what she
knew.
WOman's Name Withheld.
Mr.. Simpson refused to disclose her
name. but declared there would be
four arrests within IS hours If her
testimony was verified.
She told me-" he said that she
knew two men who were present when
DIR. Hall and Mrs. Mills we're slain.
She gave an accurate description of
what happened on the night of the
murder. / asked her why she had not
told her story TO the authorities before.
Her reply was that she had been
reading the newspapers at the time
and she had concluded that any wit.
ness who had any testimony favorable
to the State was badgered by the de-
tectives and made practically a de-
fendant."
Mr.. Simpson declared he had OBJ
tained an affidavit from George Tot
ten, former Somerset County detective.
stating that Mrs. Hall changed her
story of her movements on the MORN
ing after the crime, in connection with
the hour of her return to her home,
after a discrepancy had been pointed
out to her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
DISTRICT TO SWELTER
WITH RELIEF DENIED
High Temperatures Will Continue,
Probably for Some Days,
Says Forecast.

Higher temperatures were expected
to prevail here today, with the heat
wave rolling forward undiminished
and no relief in sight.
Forecaster Weightman expected the
official thermograph at the Weather
Bureau to register a peak of about
So degrees before the day was over.
providing clouds do not interfere too
much. Street temperatures should
hover around the 100-degree mark.
The weather will continue fair and
warm tomorrow, and probably for
some time after that, the forecaster
declared, there being no marked dis
turbances looming in other parts of
the country.
The maximum temperature recorded
officially yesterday was 9I degrees,
between and pm, but the Penn.
sylvania kiosk showed a peak of 81.
One heat prostration occurred yes
terday John Murphy, so years old,
an employe of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing, was stricken at
Ninth and l. streets and was taken to
Casualty Hospital. His condition to-
day was reported as favorable"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
V|RG|N|AN SHOOTS
SELF IN HOTEL HERE
Holds Bible in One Hand
While Firing Shot-Dies
Shortly After.

Holding Bible in one hand and a
38-caliber Spanish revolver in the
other, C. w. Poole, so years, owner
of the Brunswick Motor Sales Co., or
Lawrenceville. Va, shot himself In
the head in a room on the third floor
of the Raleigh Hotel at 1890 o'clock
this morning. dying three hours later
The shot hastened the steps OF
bellboy whom the man had summoned
just prior to pulling the trigger. When
Headquarters Detective Larry ODea
and an inferno from Emergency hos
pital arrived they found him still un-
conscious and rushed him to the hos
pital, where it was said that his death
was a matter Of a short time.
At Mr.. Poole's head lay a Bible,
blood shattered, which had evidently
fallen back over his head as he shot
himself. 1t was opened to the 10Sth
Psalm, one of the verses of which Is:
Give us help from trouble. for vain
Is the help of man"
Investigation of the effects in the
room where Mr.. Poole is said to have
registered shortly before midnight re-
vealed a series of letters which caused
police to wonder at the Fermentation
of his act.
In these letters. addressed to his
wife and a number of business asso-
ciates. Mr.. Poole named six friends
whom he wishes to act as pailbearers,
the time and place of his burial,
check for $349 made payable to his
wife and instructions for his wife not
to go in mourning for him or re-
marry.
Inability TO work was given as the
cause for his act in letter addressed
to Dear Sweet Wife and Our Little
Tots"
"I hate to leave you." this letter
continues. but can see no other way.
as you know 1 am not able to work
and so 1 am going to leave this morn
ing.
al hope you will get along ok, Hun.
| take care of the tots and pay Eugene
Gillian $3.50 My love TO eSerybody at
home. l am going to die with good
WILL
At the conclusion of this letter he
said, II have my thumb on the trig-
GER and signed 1t &C. w. Poole, at
rest"
On one of the letters was pinned a
SIS BILL with instructions for the police
to use It to send kilograms he had in
structed to his wife and business as
sociates.
NES. fOOlS 10 iISll III IlIAS 4Ck-
ter to hold funeral services in Rich
mond at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon
and to bury him between two relatives
he designates, leaving room for her
own grave. The pallbearers named
are: P. L. Huse, Fl. H. Harrell, v. p.
| Richards, z. b. Gillian and G. E. Bar
han.
A secnd letter addressed to Mrs.
Poole, and sealed, bore the following
on the envelope: From your dead
! husband, who loves you," and the in
structions, please keep with body and
deliver to Mrs. c. w. Poole" The po-
! lice did not open this letter. The other
letters, including one to a business as
sociate making the dying request"
that the Brunswick agency to be turn
ed over to one of the men he names
as pallbearer, were written on hotel
stationery and lay open on a desk in
his room. The open letter to his wife
was timed 5:10 am. In the latter let
ter he expresses the wish that Il meet
you in Heaven"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
12ARE ARRESTED
IN DRY ROUNDUP
II Doctors, Druggists and
Others Under Indictment in
New York Campaign.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August 5.-Eleven
men and one woman from the Broad
way night club district were under
arrest today and II doctors. druggists.
drug corporation heads and whisky
agents were under indictment, all for
dry law violations.
The arrests were made late yester-
day in raids conducted by Federal
agents and the police. and the in
dictments were returned by a Federal
grand jury that had been investigat-
ing alleged prescription bootlegging
for several. months. The indictments
charged conspiracy to violate the ma
tionaI prohibition act.
Investigators who submitted evi-
dence to the grand jury said that
last year alone druggists in New York
withdrew 100000 gallons of whisky
"over and above the quantity for
which legal prescriptions had been
issued" More than 100000 fake
liquor prescriptions were said to have
been issued also.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
RUSSIA TO COLONIZE
ICY WRANGEL ISLAND
Land Once Considered Part of q. S.
Selected as Soviet Capital
in Arctic Regions.
By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily

By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
MOSCOW, August 5.-Wrangel
Island, once considered part of Amer
lea. has been selected as the capital
of all the Soviet islands in the Arctic
Ocean.
Through the unbroken Winter night
radio will talk over the frozen polar
wastes, hitherto disturbed only by
bears. sea lions and wandering
Tchuktchi tribesmen. A steamer now
is being loaded at Fladivostock with
portable houses, food. dogs and fish
ing, hunting and scientific instru-
ments sufficient for three years.
Several Russian families have vol
unteered to pioneer the island. whose
last white settlers were Americans.
The colony expects to trap as well
as establish a meteorological station
to determine whether Wrangel Isla nd
icebound for 10 months out of the
year, is actually an island or O. por.
ton of the mainland.
tcopyright, 1929 by Chicago Daily News Coz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
Ban on Spooners
Lifted by Chicago
Park Police Force
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 5.-Spooners
now may view the Summer moon
in Lincoln Park unmindful of the
passing bluecoat. The park board
has lifted it's ban and extended
welcome to all lovers to the park.
"Spooning 'should be done In a
wholesome atmosphere. where ro-
nance comes naturally" said
Emil Johnson, "and where is
more natural place than among the
beautiful trees In the park?"
The South Park commissioners
applauded the action, but West Side
Park officers declared they would
not permit spooning in parks under
their Jurisdiction.
"Give the young people good ex-
ercise and sports and they VIII
forget about spooning." said Capt.
William Stocker Of the West SIDE
police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
Z. $. GUARDING AMERICANS.
State Department Declares That AL
Charges Are Referred to Envoy.

reiteration that every precauuon
was being taken to safeguard tne
treaty rights of American nationals
in Mexico was the only State Depart
ment comment today on the statement
of the Knights Of Columbus relating TO
the Mexican religious situation
The department has received hun
dreds of communications from Catho-
liz organizations and individuals in
connection with the controversy, some
calling attention to specific cases In
which the rights of Americans in
Mexico were alleged to have been in
fringed. These cases have been re-
ferred invariably to Ambassador Shelf
faeld in Mexico City for investigation.
MANY of the more general commu-
-nications have urged action of some
sort by the Washington Government.
So far as known there has been no
hint of any departure from the policy
the Administration has pursued of
combining it's connection with the crisis
to the protection of the treaty rights
of American nationals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05

ing, and dining room capable of
seating SO at a time.
Engineers say the airship will be
able to average 20 miles an hour, but
they expect that when the winds are
favorable the speed will be easily in
creased to 120 miles an hour.
As soon as its trial trip is com.
pleted the new liner viii be put on
the London Bombay Sydney route. 1t
is expected the trip from London to
Cairo will take pa days. from London
to Bombay 4 days and TO Australia
working on special wind charts, and
the trips to India and Australia will
be made in accordance with the di.
rec4ion Of the winds in each season.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
|EDERLE TO TACKLE
CHANNEL TONIGHT
Attempt to Swim to England
From France to Find Her
in Tip-Top Form.
By JULIA HARPMAN.
By Cable to The Star.

BY Cable TO Inc star.
CAPE Girls -NEZ, France, August
5.-Weather permitting, Gertrude
Ederle, world champion woman
swimmer, will attempt to swim the
English Channel from Cape Girls Nez
to Dover tomorrow morning, accord
ing to present plans. She will take the
water at 6:45 am. Q2:45 am. East
ern standard time), to reap the bene-
fit of westering tide.
The 19-year-old Staten Island,
N. Y, butchers daughter. who turned
professional in Florida last Winter.
has been training at this small Artois
fishing village for two months for
this. her second attempt, to breast the
90 miles of rough, cold water that
separates France from England.
Last August Is she made her first
attempt, and although she failed and
was taken from the water when six
and one.half miles from Dover, sea-
sick, but not exhausted, she had eS-
tablished a record for speed in chan
mel swimming She had swum more
than two-thirds of the distance, under
highly unfavorable circumstances, in
8 hours and 46 minutes before her
trainer, Jabez Wolff, ordered Ishak
Helmy, the giant Egyptian swimmer,
to go into the water from the tug ac-
companying her and bring her out.
Trainer Is Confident.
When Hellny touched her, she was
DISQUALIFIED in so far as that attempt
was concerned. Miss Ederle was
enraged by Wolffs action, declaring
she was in no danger and could have
gone on-how much further, not even
she could say. This year Thomas
William Burgess, the Englishman,
second of the Ave men to swim the
channel, has trained Trudie, and he Is
as corNident as is she of her success
this time.
Dependable upon how favorable the
winds, tide and weather generally
NAV be. Miss Ederle expects to negoti-
ate the difficult crossing IN from ~
to 141k hours.
She win be accompanied by a sea-
gninp ting on board which will be her
father. Henry Ederle; Helmy, possibly
Nine. Jane Sion and other channel
q asnirants. who have been training at
or near C,ris Neg; few other friends
of the American girl, this correspond.
ent and chaperone of the swimmer,
and photographers, making the ON
cial picture record of her effort.
Burgess and Trudie's sister. Mrs
Margaret Deuschle, also swimmer
will go alongside Miss Ederle In
rowboat IL the seas are not too high
A photograph will be used to cheer
the girl in the last stages of her swim
From time to time Mrs. Deuschle
Helmy and possibly others will enter
the water. singly, and swim for q
time beside Miss Ederle to lend her
encouragement.
There is little prayerful grour
OF people here tonight known a.
! "Trudie's Gang" That includes Cert
rude's father, sister, chaperone and OF
fetal photographer, who have beer
| with her since she sailed from New
York early in June: Burgess, the
gray.haired. rheumatic student OF
| tides OF winds. and also the fan1iia
of the proprietor Of her hotel, who
have known and loved this. sturds
(Continued on Page 3, Column 4.)
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ARREST Of SINGER
ORDERED IN PROBE
|OF -M|LLSCASE
Vestryman and Choir Mem.
Der, GorSline, Faces Charge,
Nature of Which Is Secret.
SECOND WARRANT OUT
| FOR MATERIAL WITNESS
Mystery Woman Gives Facts That
Will Accuse Four if Story
| Is Sustained.
By the Associated Press.


JERSEY CITY, ". j., August s.
State Senator Simpson, special prose.
cutor in the revived HALL Mills murder
inquiry. today said he had ordered
the arrest of Ralph v. NJ. Gorsline,
vestryman and choir singer in the
late Rev. Edward w. Halls New
Brunswick church.
The nature of the charge was not
made public by the prosecutor. Gors.
lines whereabouts were not disclosed.
Simpson also ordered State troopers
to bring to his office for questioning
four servants and former servants in
the Hall home.
Mrs. Louise Geist Riehl. whose hus-
band caused a reopening of the in
vestigation by statement he filed in
his divorce suit, was one of the num-
Der.
Five Jersey City detectives were as
signed today to check up on the story
Of new woman witness who yester-
day told Mr.. Simpson that she had
seen a man and a woman bending
over the bodies of the slain couple.
This woman was quoted as telling the
prosecutor that she would be able to
identify the two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
Trunk From Russia
Packed With Drugs
Seized in New York
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 5.-A black
steamer trunk that was unloaded
with other baggage from the Mont
real express at the One Hundred
and Twenty-fifth Street Station OF
the New York Central Railroad
early today was seized by Federal
agents and found to contain $780,
600 worth of narcotics.
The trunk was sent out of Russia
to Switzerland and thence to Mont
real, the Federal agents believe.
Two similar trunks are believed to
be en- route to New York and a
watch was set at all the railroad
terminals in the city. The total
value of the contraband in the
three trunks is thought to be about
$3,000,000.
Government agents had been
working on the clue for two monthss
it was. said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
SOFIA DEFENDS COURSE.
Doing All Possible to Restrain Irreg-
ulars, Says Bulgaria.

SOFIA, Bulgaria. August P).-
The Bulgarian government, replying
to protests from Jugoslavia against
raids by comitadji bands drregularsl
into the latter's territory, states that
Bulgaria is doing everything possible
to compel the irregulars to cease such
activities.
The Bulgarian reply asks why her
neighbors, with their relatively large
standing armies compared with Bull
garia's limited force. are not allowed
by treaties to police their frontiers
themselves. Rumania has agreed to
do this and Bulgaria suggests that
Jugoslavia do likewise,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
Giant lOO-Passenger British Air Liner
Will Take Off for Australia in 1927
By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. /

By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
LONDON, August 5.-Great Brit
aims new air liner, which is said to
be the largest and most perfect air
ship in the world, is now almost com
pleted and will take the air early in
1927.
The new airship, designed for ex-
ciusively commercial purposes, Is 765
feet long and is propelled by six 400.
horsepower motors. 1t is capable oil
carrying 100 passengers, a crew OF 81
men. 90 tons Of luggage and tons of
mail.
outside the two 4-berth cabins there
will be a large lounge with large win
dows, enabling the travellers to see
the country oyerl which they ara ny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
K. Of c. HOLDSU.S.
IS AIDING GALES
Declare Embargo Assists
Leaders-Urge Withdrawal
of Recognition.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. August 5.-The
Knights of Columbus in annual con:
vention today unanimously adopted
statement protesting against the
policy of President Gales in the re-
ligious situation in Mexico.
After stating that religious and civil
liberties have been denied in Mexico.
the statement asserts that "all this
| system in Mexico has been created
under American auspices, sustained by
American executive authorities, which,
in the first place. while refusing to
! recognize Lenine and Trotsky, have,
by executive order OF recognition. ac-
cepted Gales and Obregon, who are
the enthusiastic supporters OF the
Bolsheviki concept. of government.
/ I'VE further point to the signifi-
canoe of the patronage bestowed upon
these military desDots by the continu-
ance of such recognition" the state
ment continues. land particularly by
the discriminating favoritism shown
to Gales by the continuance of the
embargo which makes the CaLes
ascendency possible"
Holds Americans InSulted.
The statement called the attention
of the American Government TO re-
mind it that the representatives OF
Gales have insulted and degraded and
expelled American citizens, men ana
women. under circumsta noes that are
abhorrent to our conception OF con-
stitutional government.
I'VE warn our fellow American
citizens" the statement said, that
they cannot endure at their very door
step. with impunity, the Russianlzlng
of Mexico.
I'VE call upon the President and
the State Department to put an END
to this ignominious contempt whicn
has been shown by Gales for Ameri-
cans appeal and to resolutely demand
protection for American citizens and
that thew be treated with the same
consideration and respect which is
shown to Mexican citizens in this
country
Asks A. F. of l.. Aid.
The statement calls upon the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor and its
affiliated organizations to cooperate In
safeguarding not only American rights
but the hard won NlCloFleS VI ioooi
itself TO protect it from serVile SUD
mission to despotic authorities.
I'VE hereby authorize our supreme
hoa rd of directors to assess our mem
bership to the extent of $1.000,000 for
a campaign of education" the state.
ment said. ito the end that politics OF
Soviet Russia shall be eliminated from
the philosophy of American life. and
the ideals of liberty of conscience and
democratic freedom may extend to our
afflicted fellow human being beyond
| the Rio Grande."
ITO this end the statement con
cluded. 1--WE pledge the support ano
cooperation Of SOC, 900 men who love
God who respect lawful authority
/ and who, in the discharge or their
duty. fear not the force of evil, either
on earth or from hell"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-05
FOURTH OF JULY PRANK
CAUSES KILLING OF BOY
Lad Dies From ofiicer's Bullet
After Father Resented Beat
ing by Victim.
By the Associated Press.

CHANUTE. Kans.. August 5.-As
the indirect result of playing a
Fourth OF July prank, Voicie Percy.
Is, died here last night from a gun
shot wound inflicted by Roy Spickard,
deputy sheriff, at Kimball, near here.
At celebration Percy threw a
lighted fire cracker which lodged in
the cuff of a bystander's trousers,
setting them afire.
Two days later, the man met the
boy and gave him a beating.
Percy returned with his father.
Browd Percy. The deputy sheriff
arrested the father, but the boy ran
to his motor car and obtained pistol
Snickard said. SpickaI'd fired, strik-
ing the boy in the abdomen.