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BANDITS GET HAUL FROM
PORTLAND THEATER VAULT
ny United Press Leased Wire

PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 20 Tho
strong box of the Broadway theatcr,
Portland's new million dollar play.
house, was burglarizcd last night
and $4,000 in paper money taken, it
was revealed when the thcater open,
cd for business today.
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WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
r. and A. M. No. 384, Mason
ic hall.
Eagles lodge meets, Davis
hall.
THE Unseen Way Brunk's
tent theater.
Tin Hats Palace theater.
The -Four Horsemen, Val
ley theater.
TOMORROW
Ladies day, FL Centre Golf
Club.
Emmanuel Circle, all day
2 meet, Baptist church.
Lions club luncheon, Hotel
Barbara Worth.
Methodist mems luncheon,
Hotel Barbara Worth.
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OAKLAND BANKER SHOOTS
SELF WHILE DESPONDENT

OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 20. -
Frank Crawford, 40, local banker,
today killed himself while his wife
and daughter lay sleeping in an adj
Joining room. Dependency was he
lieved responsible.
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Allison Reports

Allison Reports
Allison, engineer for the
River Land company, the
n syndicate operating south
|cali, reviewed briefly the
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MARINES GUARD
NAILS HERE

All trains leaving Washington to-
night with valuable mail will be
guarded by detail OF at least three
Marines, in uniform and armed with
a shotgun and pistols-the first def
mite move in the assigning of the
Devil Dogs to protect the United
States mails.
Travelling on three special trains
five minutes apart, ! 800 Marines left
Ouantico, Va, today at ! o'clock and
were scheduled to arrive in Wash
ington about o'clock.
Forty will be assigned to duty IN
the main Postoffice here. and will
work under the direction OF the
postmaster.
The Marines will make their trips
in the same way as a railway mai
clerk, on regular shifts, with In,
structions to shoot to kill. II
necessary. to protect money and
valuables on the trains.
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CIRL-MOTHER BAILED
AT SWINDLE HEARING

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 81. -
pretty. young mother. implicated In
an alleged 100000 charity swindle
with six men, today won her free
dom under low bail when she plead
ed with Magistrate Holland that she
be allowed to care for her 4-year'old
daughter.
she is Mrs. Betty Swan, a sister
Of one of the six men arrested and
now held under $4,000 bail each or
charges of selling tickets to myth
ical charity benefits.
Assistant District AttorneyThomp'
son demanded bail for the youns
woman be set at $1,000.
"You might as we'll set ball at
81 900 900" protested Attorney Har'
ris w Watkins. representing Mrs.
Swan; this young woman must take
care OF her child"
A side-bar conference followed and
Magistrate Holland set bail at
81 900. ct can't be cruel to an in
nocsnt child Of l." he said.
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Soviet War Commissar
Expects Attack
On Russia

MOSCOW, Oct. 21.-Prophesy-
ing war in the near future
against Soviet Russia, Clement
Voroshiloff, soviet conmissar
Of war, urged 5000 newly grad
uated Red Officers to "curl
your mustaches and be prepared
to meet the menace.
eve passionately desire peace"
said Voroshiloff, "but we have
no doubt that we are going
to be attacked. The facts at
our disposal prove that the war
against US will be started with
very small excuse
Commissar Voroshiloff praised
the Red army highly, but re-
vealed the fact that. its com
handing staff is not satisfied
with its discipline. He cited
the bad effects Of too much
familiarity between officers and
men.
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GIVES UP LAW
To BE NUN

Miss Marie A Easby-Smith, 80,
one of Washington foremost Won-
an lawyers, has renounced her
professional career and withdrawn
from the Capitals social life to
become a nun, 1t became known
today. She has entered st. Agnes
Convent at Mt. Washington. Balti-
more.
Her decision to renounce the
world and pledge her life to sacri-
flee, first made known to her fam
lily several months ago, came as
a shock to her parents, who re-
side at 1882 Newton st. N. W.
She had always been religiously in
clined, however, and was active in
Catholic circles.
Miss Easby-Sm began her law
career 16 years ago when she en-
tered the offices of Attorney Rosa
F. Downing as a stenographer.
She graduated from the Washing.
ton College of Law in 1917 and was
later admitted to the bar and to
practice before the United States
Supreme Court. She associated her.
self with Attorney Downing in her
law practice.
The postulant, who will take her
final VOWS as a nun in three years,
is a niece Of Col James S. Easily
Smith. leading Washington attorney
and counsel for the defense in the
Veterans Bureau scandal q few
years ago. She was active in social
circles and was supreme advocate
of the Catholic Daughters Of Amer
lea, a member Of the Women's City
Club and other organizations.
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WOMEN TOLD To
FORGET SEX

Women should step forward In
the business and professional world
az individuals and not particularly
as representatives Of their sex
several speakers told the Sorop-
timist Club last night.
Until women can forget their
sex and be taken as a matter OF
fact they will never be successful
in the business world" said Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt. assist
ant Attorney General.
Judge Mary O'Toole declared that
women were unjust to themselves
by moot insisting to be allowed to
sit on juries.
Nine. Zorah X. Heidary, Persian
envoy to the Sesquicentennial Elk
position, described the progress an I
the future needs of her sex in Per-
STA.
other speakers included DIR. Louis
Stanley. director Of the bureau Of
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CREMATION
FOR DEBS'
BODY
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Scene, - and not the fiery
spokesman whose eloquence
had kindled the flames of
Socialism in the breasts of mil
lions throughout the world,
simple funeral services will be
held Saturday. The body then
will be taken to Indianapolis
for cremation.
kilograms Pour In
Accompanying the body will be
she widow, Katherine, and the de-
voted brother, Theodore.
Debs died yesterday at the Lind
lahr Sanitarium at Elmhurst, near
here, to which he had gone two
weeks ago to recover from gen.
orally rundown condition. He
was II years of age.
Today, kilograms OF coincidence
from men. and women in all stations
OF life and in all parts OF the world
poured in to relatives here.
Mr.. Debs, leader of the Socialist
party for 35 years, and five times
its candidate for President, would
have been II years old November 5.
His stormy career, covering what
he termed 1.-The battle for oppressed
mankind" won him numerous warm
friends as well as many bitter
enemies. His labor activities caused
him to serve several terms in
prison.
Friends declare the aged leaders
health broke during his latest in
generation in the Federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta. He was pardoned
Christmas, 1921, by President Hard
ing after serving three years of a
1O-year sentence.
Debs' career had been
stormy one. particularly since he
directed the strike on the Great
Northern Railroad in 1894. as a
result of which he was sent to
Jail for six months. This was
the strike that called for the in
tervention of President Cleve.
land and the operation Of trains
by Federal troops.
Debs was five times the So
cialist nominee for President, re-
ceiving nearly 100000 votes in
1920, when he was serving a
1O-year sentence in the Atlanta
penitentiary for obstructing the
war.
After the World War was end
ed he became the storm-center
Of a nationwide movement for
communication of his sentence.
Countless thousands OF persons
many of whom professed they
were not Socialists, nor pacifists'
but were for the release of all
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6 NOW HELD IN
HALL CASE
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bv that time she will have been
indicted.
The Somerset county grand Jury
meets today to hear evidence on
which Simpson plans to ask indict-
ments against Mrs. Clark. Felix Di
Martini, private detective for Mrs.
Hall, and one or two unnamed per-
sons, charging them with being ac-
cessories to the murders.
The six so far arrested in the
case are: Mrs. Clark, Di Martini.
both charged with being accessories,
and the four principals who Will De
tried soon for murder. Mrs. Hall.
her brothers, Willie and Henry
Stevens, and her cousin, Henry De
La Bruyere Carpenter. Mrs. Hall
and her two brothers are to go on
trial November 8. Carpenter later.
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KHAN CHOOSES
SEN. WATSON
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supreme aspiration to name its own
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. James K. Watson
(R) Of Indiana--to the Presidency in
1928.
Reed recalled Hugh Pat Emmons
former cyclops of the South Bend
KlaVern.
Political Aims
On the witness stand, Emmons
created a series Of sensations by de-
claring, on the authority Of Imperial
Wizard Evans. that:
1. The goal OF the khan Is to com.
pletely dominate American elections
and make Senator Watson Presi'
dent in 1928.
2. The khan seated Senator Earle
3. Mayfield Oem) of Texas, a
klansman, by enlisting the aid of
Republican Senators through the in
fluence Of Senator Watson.
Reed Pushes Washington Probe
CHICAGO. Oct. 81. - Senator
Charles l.. McNary (R.), OF Oregon
telegraphed Senator James A. Reed
Cd. Of Missouri, slush fund chair
man, that he would prefer to post
pone the Washington State inquiry
until after the November election.
Reed. wired McNary, however,
urging him to cancel his campaign
engagements and conduct the hear
ings.
The Missouri Senator also tele-
graphed Senator William II. King
Cd. of Utah, asking him to con.
duct the Washington inquiry II
McNary could not.
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QUEEN VISITS
n. !. LIBRARY
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with writing briefly for her maya
zine and syndicate clients and send
ing a cablegram to King Ferdinand
expressing her delight with America
Prince Nicholas emerged from the
hotel to receive a present OF an
automobile from a middle West
manufacturer.
RaIxish Model
The automobile was a raklsh road
ster model with gray body and red
arms of the Rumanian royal family
with the single initial IN" for
Nicholas below the crown.
The Prince at once took his place
behind the wheel and. accompanied
by the donors representative and
the Quen's spaniel Craig" started
for a spin through the traffic Of
the roaring forties,' returning
half an hour later, he seemed some.
what overcome by the congestion
well" he said, Its lucky I'd
driven in Paris before coming ia
New York, Whew! What a jam.
The Prince said automobiles were
his hobby and that he hopes to
have an opportunity to drive IN
some races while here.
The royal party's trip to the
Philadelphia Sesquicentennial be-
gins at p. m.
Marie Interested
The Queens automobile had a
hard time getting to the Library,
so great was the jam OF people
trying to get a look at royalty. At
each corner the policeman on traf.
fic duty stood at attention and sa-
luted, the Queen smiling and nod
ding in acknowledgment.
Queen Marie was much interested
In the books and paintings in the
Library, and in the fact that many
Eumanian books are kept there.
I'D like to stay here a week. "
she said.
Queen Marie wore a beige velvet
dress, with gold spangles and a
light blue stripe. The famous triple
rope of pearls was around her neck.
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"LOVE PHILTRE" DEATH
CASE IN JURY'S HANDS

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 21.-
The jury which will decide the fate
Of Emil "Frenchy" Balanescu,
charged with manslaughter. In con
nection with the death Of his sweet
heart, Dorothy Kirk, began its de-
alterations here at II o'clock today.
The youthful medical student, is
charged with manslaughter, II being
alleged that he administered poison
Gus love philtres" to the girl.
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MOTHER OF 2 CHILDREN
KIDNAPPED BY YOUTHS

NEW YORK. Oct. 21.-Kidnaped
by two young men in an auto
mobile while she was waitinC for
a trolley car. Mrs. Nina Gibbons.
4s. mother Of two children. es'
capped by jumping from the auto
mobile.
After two park guards had fired
shots at the youths in van ef'
fort to halt them. the machI.. Q
overturned. Kreim. a park guard.
arrested Peter O'Connor,~| of Ma
plewood Ave-. Germantown. and
Vincent Collins. of Ashmead ST.
near Shelton. They were held
under $500 bail for a further hear
ing next week.
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Won MUELLER
IS |RED
BY international News Service

BERLIN. Oct. 21.--Admiral Won
Tirpitz's book, "Germany's Policy
Of Impotence" attacking some OF
Germany's war-time\ policies. has
aroused Admiral Won Muellere. who
is called by his enemies 1.-The Ras'
putin of the German navy" to
reply.
Admiral Won Mueller. long the
chief opponent of Admiral Won Tir'
pity. announced that the Tirpitz
book "provokes me to publish my
own memoirs for the sake OF my
family and children and i'll the in
terest of historic truth, although l
would have liked to remained 81
lent"
Admiral Won Mueller. in a review
az the Tirpitz book. charges Ad-
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war. and Debs was released from
Atlanta on Christmas Day, 1921.
His conviction followed the de-
livery Of a speech at Canton, Ohio,
in 1918, in which he denounced our
participation in the war and that
part Of the selective service act relat-
ing to the raising Of our Army.
When he finally left the prison
he made an address to the prisoners.
in which he repeated the remark he
made following his interview several
months before with Attorney General
Dougherty, who had summoned him
to Washington. unguarded, for a
conference. It was: Il have nothing
to take back; did not ask them to
release me-"
Debs was born in Terre Haute on
November 5, 1855.
Worked as Fireman
From 1871 to 1874 he was employed
as a fireman on the Terre Haute and
Indianapolis Railroad.
He quit railroading to accept a
position in wholesale grocery house.
but in 1880 went back to railroading.
He served as city clerk OF Terre
Haute from 1879 to 1888, and was
elected to the Indiana legislature in
1885. From 1880 to 1898 he was
grand secretary and treasurer Of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen.
In 1894, as president Of the Amer
lean Railway Union. he directed a
strike on the Great Northern rail-
way, which the men won. During
the course of a larger strike by
workers on Western roads hat
year, charges Of conspiracy were
brought against Debs, but he was
acquitted. Later he was sent to
taii at Woodstock, ILL.,. for six
month. for contemyt OF court.
In 1900. a the party's Presiden'
tial nominee, he polled 1854 votes.
He received 901, S72 votes In 1912.
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OHIO ELECTRIC COMPANY
AWARDED COFFIN MEDAL

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct 21.-The
Pennsylvania & Ohio Electric Com
pany has been awarded the Charles
A. Coffin award as the local trans
portation organization which in 1896
has done most for the industry.
The award, consisting Of q gold
medal for the company and $1,000
in cash for the employees benefit
fund, is each year contributed by
the General Electric Company and
is awarded by the American Electric
Railway Association.
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political prisoners" petitioned
President Wilson for either a par
don or communication.
But Wilson refused to order his
release. on the grounds 1t would
seriously affect the morale Of the
people.
Released Christmas Day
President Harding finally com
muted Debs' sentence and the SEN
fences Of % others who had been
convicted on charges of hindering
Governmental operations during the
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Named To Inspect

A REAL WAR HERO. Charles
Nj. Young, Of Des MOines, Ia. to-
day took office as chief of air in.
spectiOns and regulations of the
Commerce Department. While
serving with the United States
air forces on the Italian front,
YOung's plane was shot down
and he was held a prisoner Of
war for five months In Austria.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
PARDON SLAYER JAILED
% TO SO YEARS IN THEFT

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21.-Common
Pleas Judge Harry Rowand today
sentenced Albert Carelli. alleged
member of the "Blue Bandanna'
bandit gang. to % to SO years in
the Western Pennsylvania penitcn-
tiary for his part in robberies.
Carelli was convicted Of first de
gree murder two years ago and
sentenced to life imprisonment, but
the governor pardoned him. The
other charges were pending then.
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$50 U. S. VESSELS
HELD IN RUM RUNNING

Capture of $50 American vessels
engaged in rum.running in the year
ending June 30. was announced by
Attorney General Sargent today.
Last year SIG American vessels
were captured on this charge.
Seizure of foreign vessels totaled
3S. a decrease Of two from last
year. One British schooner was
captured three times.
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GALE KILLS 80
IN HAVANA
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an extra section was added. There
were not enough Pullman cars to
supply the demand. SO those who
ordinarily would dlsdain coaches
were forced to ride in them here.
Reaching Jacksonville today to
hear that the threatened hurricane
had passed off the lower Florida
east coast without causing any
serious damage many of the thous-
and extra passengers sheepishly
purchased tickets to return.
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West Palm Beach Lashed

PALM BEACH. Fla. Oct. 81
Light, telegraph and telephone
facilities in West Palm Beach were
crippled today by severe transforms
which dashed the city early TO-DAY.
The rain was accompanied by winds
of high velocity.
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Miami Escaped

MIAMI, Fla, Oct 21.=Miami.
devastated by the Florida storm
last month, appears to have escaped
the fury Of the West Indian hurri-
cane which swept Cuba yesterday.
Newspapers published extra edi-
tions stating that the fear of the
hurricane had passed.
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oh, Cheer Up, Connie!
Photos 81 Underwood . Underwood

NORMA Qeft) AND CONSTANCE TALMADGE are
back on the coast with Comics latest marital venture
shot to pieces She has not filed divorce papers how
ever and says she won't be bothered until she finishes
her next picture
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miral Won Tirpitz with having sys-
tenlatically undermined the authori-
ty Of the Reich government
Admiral Won Tirpitz was too old
and physically unfit for the supreme
command of the German navy, Al
miral Won Mueller Declares, stating
also that Admiral Voon Tirpitz
lacked front experience"
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Marie Is a Mode1r1ist

THIS is THE FIRST PICTURE showing the bobbed
hair of Queen Marie, of Rumania. The jeweed head
dress in the picture by the queen at the state
dinner rendered her by the President and Mrs: Cool
idge The picture also shows her favorite pearls.
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home economies; Miss Lucy Mimi
gerode, superintendent of nurses,
public health service; Mrs. Mary
Hickey, superintendent OF nurses
of the Veterans Bureau. and Miss
Mary Stewart, acting director gen
eral of the United States Employ
mept Service.
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Queen Did11 Forget

David
Robertson,
second
stewart on
the Leviathan,
was pre-
sented with
engraved gold
watch by
Queen Marie
in token
Of apprecia-
ton for
handling
her business
affairs while
aboard
ship.
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YOUNG ENDORSED
BY A POWERFUL
VOTING GROUP
Comprise 17-State Or
CARNATIONS Whose In
fluence Is Wide.

LOS ANGELES, Jun" .l.-At a
conference representing seventeen
different progressive groups, whose
voting membership totals approx
matolv 1G7 900. Lieut.. GoN. {, G.
Young was unanimously endorsed
for the governor ship, Lew Head,
, cl. Hartman of the conference, All
rounccd today.
.This progressive conference,
, Head explained, comprises q We
large labor organizations, the Ger
Hal-Amcricap league, the ProgrcS
Svn alliance and the progressive
raltv of California, together with
rjHe smaller bodies.
''Somp Of them had already en-
! don srd Young for governor, ndlvId-
uallv. but this is the first time tina
all Of the progressive organizations
I have met in formal delegated COT
; ference. not alone to pick out SAT
! isfactorv nominees for the govcrno"-
/ shin but for senator. members ot
! other offices, to recommend to az
! tic legislature, congressman and
! progressive voters in Sout hcru Cal
, n"rnia.
eve will also pass upon and rec
unmcnd united action on all lnltIa-
tive propositions aad amendments
to the constitution. We are going
right down the line to secure for
California the most progressive gov
crrmcut V" can for the people of
J Z IS state.'
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The Marks Home
Destroyed Early
This Morning

Fire alarms coming with regular
ity the past few days, have kept the
tircmen bus. At 6:30 this morning
the department was called out for II
iazc which destroyed the home OF
Ms. Marks in the Bucna Eista tract
in the northwest section of the city.
The fire was caused by an cNplod-
ing oil stove and because of the long
rum which WAS necessary, there was
no chance to S,tvc the dwelling
house. Mrs. Marks was painfully
scorched about the head while try
ing to save some OF her property.
Owing to the absence Of hydrantS
IN the section it was necessary for
)hc fircncn to pump water from m
open ditch. In this way they wegH
able to save two large water towers
which were threatened by the
flames.
At 1 clock yesterday afternoon
a truck belonging to Mrs. Pauline
lluddleston of South Fourth street,
was badly damaged ON broadway.
y small quantity of hay IN the body
ct the truck was ignited from tira.
works which youngsters III the Vi.
cinitv were using. The firemcn put
cut the blaze with chemicals Tut not
before the cab and sideboards of che
truck had been badly burned.
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ADMISSIONS
ARE ALREADY.
At $l,|05,000.
MELONS Nephew Admits
100000 Spent For
Peppers Campaign.
WARE TO BE OUSTED
So Say Democrats Who
Hope to Use Newberry
Case Tactics.

Grundy's admission of the
amount he advanced brought the
total already revealed By wit
nesses before the committee oil
expenditure IL the campaign to
S1,105,000
witnesses for Clifford Pin2hot
told the/committee his cXpendl-
lures amounted TO about $780,
OOOO. Senator George wharton
Pepper informed the committee
his personal campaign expendl-
tl,res amounted to Sl25.000.
W. l.. Mellon, nephew of the
secretary of the treasury, SAID
that about S3O6,000 had been
spent in Peppers behalf III the
western part Of the state.
William 8. Ware, succesSfui
candidate, filed : statement
that he had contributed $1,000
TO his campaign.