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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25
FREED RYiEQI!ICT
Of COURT

Walter w. Weaver, 42-year.old
Maryland farmer, who was con-
victed in Criminal Court No. /, on
June 8, 1922, of statutory oftense
and subsequently, sentenced to
serve twenty years in prison for
the offense only to have the Court
of Appeals reverse the conviction
and remand the case for a new
trial, will not have to stand trial
again.
Today Raymond Neudecker, as
sistant district attorney asked JUS
tice Jennings Bailey to dismiss the
case against Weaver in the light
of the opinion Of the Appellate
Court, which held that the story
told by the prosecuting witness was
80 inherently improbable, so full
of Inconsistencies and 50 directly
discredited as to be unworthy OF
belief" Neudecker stated that by
reason Of the Superior Courts ac-
ton in limiting the degree OF proof
that might properly be introduced
at new trial the Government
could entertain no hope of con-
viction
Weaver was convicted on the
testimony of Ruth Acton, 2237
Chester st. S. E., and others who
declared the defendant had abused
the girl from the age Of four years
until April of 1920, when Weaver
married her in El1icott City, Nd
After residing in this city as hus.
band and wife for a time Weaver
and his girl bride separated and
their marriage was annulled. An
indictment against Weaver was
filed in the local courts December
%. 1921.
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Head Of Movie School
Held on Charge
of Larceny

NEW YORK, March 25.-
Colonel" Walter Lannoy Brind,
who taught school" to about
200 boys and girls who wanted
to be moving picture stars, was
arrested at his home here yes
terday.
Miss Helen Arrnrick, one of
his pupils. caused his arrest on
a charge of larceny. She de-
clared She had paid him $35 for
Is lessons in the art of being
a movie star-and that he
closed his school without giving
her a diploma or completing her
course of lessons.
Brind was held in 5000 bail
for hearing March 81. His
school was known as the
Lyceum Studios.
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BY JOHN GOETTE
international News Services

PICKING, March 25.-With the ma
tional army drawn up for battle be
fore Picking. Chang Tso Lin and
WI Pei Flu are in conference today
to decide whether to attack the
capital or to enter into peace
negotiations.
Leaders Of the national army
have announced that they intend
to defend Picking and hold it, until
satisfactory peace terms are con-
cluded.
The situation has been made
obscure by the sudden resignation
of General Chang Chih Kiang, COM
mander Of the peoples army. The
government has declined to accept
the resignation.
The cabinet met today for the
first time in many weeks and dis
cussed ways and means of raising
funds to pay the police and troops,
responsible for maintaining order.
There has not been a pay day in
the army or police force for several
months.
The diplomatic corps has made
representations to the foreign office
demanding the protection of foreign
citizens, who up to now have been
unmolested.
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This Is no excited rockies police.
man talking. 1t il Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Ferdinand Pecora.
who has never before spoken in
superlatives of any criminal or band
of criminals.
But he had been reading the 22:
page confession Of Anthony Palla.
dino, one OF the Whittennore candy
kid" gang of robbers and murderers,
and Ii shocked him 50 much that
he would not reveal its contents.
2 IT that confession ever were
published" he said. st would in
fluerce q lot OF weak.minded young
men to initiate them. and New York
would be at their mercy.
1.-THE Whittemores rehearsed their
crimes many times before they
staged ti1emf. They surveyed and
plotted and planned for days in adj
vance,.
They secuted and made detailed
reports, and then they acted quickly
and without mercy.
Each man knew exactly what he
was to do, and exactly when to do
it--their watches synchronized TO
the secondhand then did It.
Jacob Kraemer, Of PetrOgrad, was
the brains of the outfit: but White.
more was the physical strength, the
man. who dominated the weaklings,
who used gun or blackjack TO sttne
arguments or qualms.
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ARRESTED FOR SPEEDING
IN AUTO RACE WITH STORK

Herman Seth Barghausen, %, of
1928 G st. N. E.. was arrested for
speeding today, but when he told
Judge Mattingly he was on his way
to get doctor because he was
about to become proud father, his
personal bond was taken at once
and he went home to greet his first
child.
Sergt. w. d. Vaugan. of the
Traffic Bureau, stopped the young
man on Pennsylvania Avenue 60
ing 80 miles an hour, he claims.
Before taking him to court, how
ever, Sergeant Vaugan let him get
the DOCTOR
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N. Y. Plot to Stop Girls
From Bobbing Hair
Unearthed
Photos ~ Internatisnal

ALBANY, N. II, March 25.
a conspiracy To stop girls from
bobbinr their hair, even If II IS
necessary To prevent the vogue
sbv law. was limited today when
the KarIe hair dresser cos
netOlogy bill was up for :
hearing before the public health
COMMITTEES.
A small army Of BARRIERS from
all parts Of the State said the
bill would put an end TO bobbed
hair.
The bill Is backed by organ
ized hair dressers and beauty
parIor owners and calls for .
special board Of examiners to-
license and regulate the beauty.
profession. The BARRIERS say
the bill will create monopoly
III the hair cutting business.
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Observatory, Flagstaff. Arizs. where.
by means OF q delicate tlermocoupIe
radiometer, DR.. Coblenz discovered
that Marian temperatures range
from far below zero to the balmy
weather OF New England spring.
His Ideas Of Martlans
The bic question as 20 whether Or
not there is life on Mars rs not the
primary objective Of the planetary
Investigation, although information
obtained as TO conditions may sup
port the life.tl1eories Of the bolde..
scientists
DR.. Coblenz's conception Of the
Marian man-if he existsis this:
Al strange creature equipped
with wings, or one who has means
of rapid locom0tion that he may
migrate quickly from one part Of
the planet to another as bitter win
ter freezes away summer.
Or the Marian may be q man
whose feet are like sfovels. en-
abling him to bore into the heart
Of his planet through the frigid
periods.
Any vegetable or animal life that
may exist must be adapted To with
stand great extremes In tempera-
tllre and humidity" Coblenz said.
While life on Mars appears 70 be
possible IL must be Of the kind
that can undergo prolonged drought
and Intense cold. With tempera-
lures changing In six hours from
freezing to halfway to the boiling
point Of water. evidently the re-
actions must be rapid
Always Freezing and Thawing
with much OF the surface of the
planet at frigid temperature Coblenz
assumed that IL vegetable life like
that Of the earth exists it must be
similar to mosses and Nchens
thriving In cold weather
Animal life must be able to bur-
row deep and hibernate. or able
to withstand intense cold in q be-
numbed state, Coblenz declared.
Apparently life in the equatorial
region of Mars Is d continuous pro-
cess of thawing out and limbering
UP In the forenoon and a reversal
in the afternoon.
"On the other hand in the polar
regions where the Marian day is
from to IL terrestrial months, the
temperature rise may. not be as
high as on the equator.
Living matter, If present, will
not be subject to such short periodic
changes as occur on the equator.
DIR. Coblenz believes that in the
polar regions the cycle of reproduc-
ton, and growth of the living cell
would not be subjected to the haz-
ards that occur on the equator. The
Quiescent period of winter, it was
pointed out, would be free from
interruption.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25
WAR DEPARTMENT ORDERS
8 OFFICERS TRANSFERRED

Orders have been issued by the
War Department changing the
stations of six officers of the Army,
as follows:
Second Lieutenant Michael p
Guida, ordnance reserve. of Wash
1ngton, has been ordered to active
duty at the Watervliet Arsenal.
Capt. Percy G. Hoyt. finance de-
partment, Z. S. A. from Washing.
ton to Brooklyn, n. Y.
Capt. Charles s. Hammond,
.. S. A, 18th Engineers, Fort
aumphries to ST Louis.
Capt. Wesley c. Cox, L. S. A.,
medical corps, from Washington TO
Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Capt. William 3. Foster. ir.,
u. s. A. Medical Corps, from Wash.
ington to Fort Worden. Washing.
ton
Capt. Alfred Fl. Thfessen. u. A..
Signal Corps, from Washington TO
Wright Field, Ohio.
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BY International News Service

BY International News Service
NEW YORK, March with
The police promising further reve-
aations, Richard Reese White
more, the .Candy Kid leader Of
the daring band of tiesperadOes,
to-day stood accused Of six ruth.
less murders. ,.
The gang, nine of whom are
under arrest, are said to have
stolen more thar $f,00O.OO0 in
holdups IN and around New York.
Members Of, Whittemora's gang
are 'sqaealfng' and new. dis
closures are being made almost
hourly.
Guard Anh6ng Victims
Here are the murders that. the
swarthy. dappsr y.atttsnfors Is .ac-
cused of llssilis committed:
The slayiug of robert Hoffman.
81. a guard. when tEliittemore es-
capped from the Maryland. State
Penitentiary. on February Is, 1925.
The killing of Charles warrington
and George Clifford, two guards
who died at the hands of gunner
in Buffalo, ~. Y. on October u.
1926. while protecting $4,000 in
hank certificates.
Whittemore was identified as one
OF the killers in this hold-np.
The Staying of Chicago Tony"
I1angrelIo in Newark, n. j.. on
January 49,. Langrello was q
former associate of WhitteTnore.
The killing of Joseph Ross. =
gang, near Elizabeth, n. j., last
December Ross was shot to death.
The murder of Simon Gilden, a
former pal of Whittemore's, who
was found shot dead near the steps
OF Trinity Church in New York.
Worse Than Chapman
New York police say the crime
record of Writtemore overshadows
by far the deeds of the notorious
Gerald Chapman.
young wife, Margaret Whittemore,
known as 1.-The Tiger Girl" are
taking their plight calmly. however.
Both are reticent. Mrs. White
more, when arraigned with other
members of the gang on highway
robbery charges, wore jewels and
expensive clothes.
Police today were searching for
certain New York jewelers. who
they say have disposed of a con.
siderable amount of loot brought to
them by the Whittemore gang.
They expect to shortly bring
about the arrest and indictment OF
several jewelers., one of whom has
skipped the city.
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At TACK IS.
EXPL. AIMED
BY III. il. REYNOLDS
Fnsernn tionaI News service

LONDON. March rs. Winston
ChurchiiIs attack upon the Amer.
lean policy Of debt collection, made
in the House 81 Commons yesterday
was deliberately planned for the
purpose Of calling to the attention
of the American public the harm
resulting to Europe from the AFner-
lean debt policy, 1t was explained
officially today.
has no hopes that the attitude Of
the American government toward
debts win Be changed, ii was stated
but he is anxious fhaaf the Amer.
lean people shall know his views
regarding the effects OF the Amer
lean refusal to cancel debts.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25

and her mother sat at the counsel
table with their attorney, Thomas
J. Ryan. Whiteman sat alone.
Before the jury was completed
the trial was halted. A settlement
had been effected.
Nellie Stack Whiteman was
iubilant when she learned the
terms of the settlement
"Oh, I'm so happy" she said.
Eat last my poor mother will get
some of the good things she should
have had long ago. The settlement
was entirely satisfactory to US
both. This ends all between Paul
and me. He can so his way and
will go mine
Paul's way, it was announced,
will be via fast liner to Europe.
He expects to sail next week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25
HIGH SCHOOL TO STAGE
"ARMS AND THE MAN.

Arms and the Man." by Ber-
nard Shaw, will be given tomorrow
and Saturday night in the Eastern
High School auditorium under the
direction of Miss ella NJ Monk
The play begins at o'clock.
Fridays cast includes Albert
Nicholson, Edward Andrus, George
Finger, Eldrid Wilson, Roberta
Harrison, Mary Burns, Myrtle
Posey. while on Saturday William
.Heintz. Kingsland Prender, James
Wiley. Carl Hoffman, Beryl Edmis-
ton, Betty Basin, and Nelly Dali
rymple will fill the roles.
A special matinee for graded
school children will be given to-
morrow afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25
Arrest Anyone in Need
Of Bath, Mexican
Cops Ordered
&c InternatlonaI SOL service

MEXICO CITY, March 25.-
Bathing has become compulsory
in Mexico City.
The police and health depart
ment have combined and issued
instructions that their agents
arrest on sight any person who
Enthusiastically needs bath.
Public bath houses are doing
q rushing business. One man
fled when informed by the police
that he was due for q bath, but
q shot from the revolver Of the
police officer brought him to his
senses quickly and he rushed off
for soap and towel.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25
WH|TEMAN PAYS
To BURY son

NEW YORK, March 25.--The
dead past of Paul Whiteman, jazz
king, which was disinterred a few
weeks ago when the mother of his
first wife, Nellie Stack Whiteman,
sued him for $4,000 to pay for
the care and burial of an infant
son he had never seen. was inferred
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25
Line UP
At PICKING
Photo q InteFnaIionaI

LONDON, March 25.-PrOmIi-
nent Chinese, under the leader
ship Of Chank Kai Shell, have
brought about q coup d'etat in
Canton and have secured control
Of the city from Chinese and Rus
sian Communists, according 20
dispatches received here.
Many of the Russian and
Chinese Communists have been nm
prisOned and some of the Rus.
sian leaders have been killed, the
dispatches state.
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Cops Must Have Real Teeth

plicants for admission into the Phil.
adelphia fire and IN
have at least twenty sound teeth.
the municipal civi
sion has ruled. No false teeth WIN
be allowed.
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THE PRESIDENTS
ENGAGEMENTS

10 a. m.-Representative Ad-
olson T.. Smith.
1915 a. m.-SenatOr William
b. Mckinley.
1915 a. m.-RepresentatiVe
John Phillip Hill. :
ii a. m. - Representative
Harold KnutsOn.
1880 a. m.-SenatOr William
j. Harris and party.
l1:45 a. m.-LOuis X. Llg-
gett.
12 noOn--FOrmer Senator
Thomas Sterling.
12:45 b. m.-On South POr-
ticO. delegation Of Republican
women from Baltimore to pre-
sent a flag.
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again yesterday when the case
was settled out Of court.
Neither Mrs. Celia Stack, the
first Mrs. Whiteman's mother, nor
Whiteman would discuss the terms
Of the settlement. 1t is understood.
however, that Paul paid $500.
The trial opened yesterday IN
supreme court. Nellie Whiteman
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25

DR.. w. w. CobIenz. Of the United
states Bureau Of Standards, who
two years ago determined that
Marian temperatures will support
lie, declared today that astronomers
win make the best Of this favorable
opportunity in the attempt to delve
farther into the planets secrets.
Studies would be made at Lowell
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25
Mars Going to 7rdDel
SO Years After Visit
By ROBERT s. THORNBURGH

Mars the glowing planet which struck fears into the
hearts the ancentthe celestial wlo thewhsp drawing
astronomy the quest for the unknown
will CLEAN supreme glory late this summer and then journey
from the hearth return for nearly 30 years
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Today's Scratches

At Tampa
FIRST RACE-Rose II, Bunbury.
SECOND RACE-Lugs.
SEVENTH RACE-Lady Finnell 10
doubtful starter.
EIGHTH RACE-Maude Harvey, Bush
Buck
Weather, clear: track. heavy.
At Mobile
SECOND RACE-Rags Anderson,
SIXTH RACE-Servitor
Weather, cloudy; track. heavy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25
Billion Loot Planned
By Crime Syndicate

NEW YORK. March 25-' Here's syndicate OF criminals
out to make billion dollars and actually getting away with
until luck throws them into the hands Of the polcea crime
syndicate that has and be equaled Why
of crime ever read. III. x@ ##
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25
81 New Cases of Measles

Eighty-one new cases of measles
were reported to the Health Depart
ment today bringing the total for
the year to 1.456 cases.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25

The robbers Of thy people
akau exalt tken1selves to estab-
aish the Ufsfon; but they she'd
fall. DANIEL ALA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-25

The blind harness maker of
Bridgeport, Conn. Panzer has been
a circus harness maker all his
life, his sight gradually having
failed i'm later years. but he is
still OH the job, his clever fingers
serving almost as well as his
once good eyesight.
Evening star., 1926-09-15
M Mysterious Sweetheart
'H@ BY ELLA WISTER HAINES
fConyuRh
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE
Y ELLA WISTER HAINES
Copyright. 1926.


Carohta Menendez. beautiful young
Spanish girl brought NJ. in south Amer. r.
can convent. is travelling alone to Los
Angeles, at the command of her GUARDIAN;
whom she has never seen. During the last
lap OF her Journey between Chirago and
Los Angeles she wakes suddenly in the
night 10 pee riutching the curtains of the
berth opposite. white hand wearing
gorgeous ruby In the morning she learns
that man has been found III one of the
discovered that Carolita made the Journey
from South America on the same steamer
with the dead man and that he annoyed
her with his advances Paul Reynolds q
f,uaintnd with CaroIita on the train. claims
the strange ruby ring, when 1t is found
on tho floor. in order to protect Caroltta.
because he fears it belongs to her, But
when. he attempts to return IT TO the girl
she declares it is not hers, and later he
perceives that the ruby Is half of a heart,
Suggesting that there must be a companion
ring. Reynolds admits acquaintance with
a Mr.. and Mrs. Brown. who left the train
late in the evening after being seen in con
learned that the so-called Mr.. Brown is
vcally Walter Reynolds a brother of Paul
Reynolds. although they had not met IN 0
wears: due To family quarrel Walter
before about the. fathers second wife.
Frank, Hyatt. the Los Angeles. attorney for
Reynolds firm boards the trails in answer
10 wire and relates that Walter. Reynolds
brother. has notified the firm he mas an
important clue concerning their father
viii about which there is some mystery
Hyatt fears that Reynolds may become con
He"ted with the murder both because OF his
'aiming the mysterious ring which did not
belong 10 him and because his brother was
seen talking with the dead man.
continued from Yesterdays Starr
Evening star., 1926-09-15

stepmother in Santa Barbara. does
he?" Gaines repeated slowly. Well.
well--it has gone pretty far, hasn't
it,"
What was the dead man to her?
Why won't she tell" Where is she
going?'
You're making a good many ques
tions. Hyatt: sorry | can't answer
them all. but ] can satisfy YOU about
the last one if can depend upon you
Evening star., 1926-09-15

this train and felt sure that you
wouldn't come on his say so! That's
all there is to that. He sent you that
wire when he changed trains at the
junction"
Where did he go?'' asked Frank.
DO you know that the conductor of
this train has copy of the messages
he sent from there? That is how he
knew that he was Reynolds and not
Brown. What is the conductors atti-
Evening star., 1926-09-15

Quite smash. isn't it? How old is
Reynolds, anyway"
"Old enough to know better. I ask
ed YOU who she was, Gaines. Come
now, you know everybody
You asked me if she were ansad
ventures or a movie star. DO / look
as if dealt in those commodities? My
line is investigation, not heart throbs"
You're keeping something back"
'In my profession we have TO keep
Evening star., 1926-09-15

tude. Gaines? I don't like to ques-
tion him too much"
"He is inclined to think the man
died a. natural death, being robbed
first, but I happen to know that he
has sent out trailers after Reynolds
and his wife"
What Is his reaction to the little
South American? isn't she telling a
pretty tall story?"
Young Reynolds doesn't think so.
Evening star., 1926-09-15

our aces we'll up the sleeve.'
"Oh. roti Have it your own way. /
don't have to know. but as you say.
young Reynolds is hard hit. I'm hav-
ing a time to make him see reason.
He wants to take her home to his
stepmother in Santa Barbara, but
what he proposes to do with her in
Los Angeles in the early hours of to-
morrow's dawn is another question:.
"He wants to take her home to his
Evening star., 1926-09-15

not to mention the matter-,to young
Reynolds ~
You can depend upon me abyolute-
ly." promised Hyatt. unspcakable re
lief in his tone.
"Mr. Gaines and Mr.. Hyatt. sah""
the negro porter from the Pullman
came rushing in. de boss done want
You bof in the Cyah sab. right quick
now sab. suthin' awful done happen
CONTINUED in Tomorrow Star)
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-09-02
BAKERY CHANGES HANDS

Monday August 80 negotiations
were completed whereby Evert Gal
lea of Redwood Falls, became the
owner of the Home Bakery now OPP
Grated by C.. A.. Marks. Mr.. Gallea
will return to Sank Centre Monday
with his family. He will take possess
sion Thursday, September 9. The
gentleman is an experienced baker,
having been in the business for the
past 25 years. He states he will main
tain the high standard of quality
and service which was enjoyed by pa
irons of the Home bakery under the
management of Mr.. Marks. He con-
templates the installation of steam
baking equipment which will enable
him to compete with the leading Twin
City bakeries in quality. Mr.. Gal
lea is also an expert in baking fancy
pastry and will endeavof to fill ord
ers of any desirious Of attractive
and dainty pastries for certain soccas-
sions. sss's -
Mr.. Marks purchased the business
nine weeks ago. Since the Marks
have resided in Sank Centre they
have made many friends. The gen
tleman is undecided as to what line
of work he will follow but hopes to
continue to make Sank Centre his
home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-09-02
Important Gathering at
Com. Club Rooms Tonight
Civic Organization and Fair Associa-
ton Hold Joint Meeting-Fine.
Program Arranged

This Thursday evening there will
be gathering of more than usual
importance at the Sank Centre Com
munity Club rooms as it will be q
joint meeting of the Club and all of
the shareholders of the Agricultural
Society Of Stearns County. Presi-
dent Sigurd Holme of the Club has
arranged an informal program OF
more than passing interest. j. w.
Plant Of Los Angeles, CAL, father OF
Robert Plant of this city, has been
invited to give an informal talk, and
there will be other Interesting fea-
lures.
President Schoenhoff of the Fair
Association has several matters OF
great Importance to bring to the at
tention Of the stockholders Of the
fair. If you are interested IN the
success of the fair you will attend
this meeting whether you are mem
Der of the Community Club or not.
The activities of the evening will
start promptly at eight o'clock.