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Evening star., 1926-12-16
RELIEF IN GOD is STRONG.
New York and London Share Same
PrOporti0nate Greed.

NEW YORK, December 16 R.-
Residents of New York and London
annarently share the same proper
tionate belief in God, religious CEN
suses conducted in the two cities re-
veal. =
The New York survey was made In
connection with the religious census
sponsored by the international Adver-
tising Association through question
naires in 160 newspapers. In New
York City the questionnare was print
ed in the World and final figures pub
I,shed today showed $500 persons who
answered in the metropolitan dis
trict believe in God and that 1924
do not.
In London a similar question asked
readers Of the Daily News brought
,99l affirmative replies and 1855 in
the negative. Responses from read
ers of the Nation and Athenaeum,
however, gave TAB believers in God
and 1924 agnostics. These two
papers circulate among the so-called
intellectuals
A comparison between the percent.
age of belief in God in the United
States as a whole and. .the percentage
indicated in the returns of the London
Daily News. however, showed Is per
cent greater belief in God in the
United States.
On the question of immortality the
returns indicate that there is more
belief in the survival of the soul in
London than in New York. The vote
in New York was 6,292 yes and 1854
no. while the Daily News returns
showed lO.161 yes and 3,178 no.
Evening star., 1926-12-16

ter weather that has held sway since
Sunday but the forecasters promised
no general return toward seasonable
thermometer readings until tomorrow.
Even with the advances recorded
into the Central States. the mercury
was uncomfortably close to zero over
wide areas. and additional snow was
predicted in Western States and the
Great Lakes region.
Communication and traffic move
ments, madly disrupted in many places
by billiards., We're on the mend, but
suffering from the cold continued and
further additions to the waves death
toll were counted.
Searching parties went out from
Sioux Falls, S. OAK, last night i'm
quest of four persons believed lost in
drifts. radio stations aiding in the
search. AT Sheridan, Wyo., a Civil
War veteran Sc years old was found
frozen to death and q storm fatality
at Sidnaw, Mich, added to the score
already reported.
The wave reached down to south
ern Florida today, but in modified de-
gree. Navigation on the Great Lakes
was officially closed, and the giant ice
crusher Saint Marie was ordered into
Winter mOorings.
The Weather Bureau at Chicago Of
fered consolation to a shivering Mid
west by revealing that 25 years ago
today the mercury went to IL below
here and never passed Il minus all
day long.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
SEEKL|TTLEU.S.A AID
FOR LIQUOR PLAN
Treasury Officials Set Maxi
mum Needed in Medicinal
Project at $35, 900, 900.

The proposed corporation for pur-
chase. manufacture and distribution
of medicinal liquor under a "benefi-
cent monopoly" would involve a
capital of about 500, 900. 900. it was
explained today by Secretary OF the
Treasury Mellon, but under the
terms of a bill almost ready for sub
mission to Congress, the Government
would not be asked to loan funds un-
less private capital failed to float the
enterprise.
The maximum new financing neces-
sary. it was explained, would be
about $35 ,000, 900 which the Govern
ment might be asked to advance. This;
was expected to be necessary, how
ever, only in an emergency, and OF
ficials of the Treasury, including As
sistant Secretary Andrews, who was
said today personally to have initiated
the project, are hoping that no Gov
ernment loans will be needed.
Name Is Selected.
In return for the purchase of their
huge stocks of medicinal liquor now
on hand, the present owners would ~
paid some cash and some stock. The
maximum amount of preferred stock
which it is planned to issue would be
about $50, ,000, 900, according to the
best indications.
The name of the proposed corpora
tion has been selected by Treasury
officials, but has not been disclosed.
Although il was said in the official
announcement that the corporation
would be d private" enterprise under
Federal control, the name itself, it
was learned today, will include a
definite Federal designation. 1t may
Medicinal Liquor Corporation"
Would Bar Customs Men.
Customs Service men must not be
drafted by the Treasury for prohibi-
ton duty, the Senate finance commit
tee decided today in attaching an
amendment to that effect to the pro-
hibition reorganization bill.
The bill, which was approved by
the committee as amended, would
create separate bureaus of prohibition
and customs distinct from the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau, under which
prohibition enforcement is now placed.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers had expressed fear that the
reorga niZation would permit the use
Of customs agents as prohibition men.
Assistant Secretary Andrews, chief
of the dry forces, informed the COM
mittee that he had no intention of
using customs personnel as dry
agents, and sanctioned the change in
the bill. Customs agents are used
now, he said, only in enforcing the
smuggling laws relating to prohibit
ton work, and they can be used in
the same capacity under the bill.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
'SCHUNEMAN IS AIDE
|. CHOSENBy MELLON
New Assistant Secretary Will
Be in Charge of Big Build
ing Program.

Carl y. Schuneman of St. Paul has
been selected by Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon to be Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury in charge Of
the huge Government public building
program. and certain other miscellane-
Gus activities of the department. Mr..
ScnunemanS name has been recon-
menGed to President Coolidge, but 1t
has not yet been sent to the Senate.
Announcement of the selection of Mr..
SChuneman was made last night by
Senator Thomas ID. Schall of Mime
sofa, and confirmed today by Secre-
tary Mellon.
The post for which Mr. Schuneman
has been selected is of the utmost
importance to the District of Column
bia, as it Is the assistant secretarysh1p
in charge of extensive building here.
and Washington, according to present
prospects, is to be the scene within
the next few years of one of the most
far-reaching Federal building projects
in it's history.
Lawyer and Merchant.
Mr.. Schuneman is a lawyer He
has been engaged in mercantile pur-
suits. however. and is now head of
! Schuneman, Mannerheimer & Evans
! department store. at st. Paul. 1t was
recently announced that he expected
| to give up the active leadership of
| this enterprise.
He is graduate of Yale of the
class of 1908 and during the World
War; served for IS months as a COM
miSsioned officer. He is a director
/ r 40 owl q ltlFl
the Morris Plan Bank of st. Paul
Mr.. Schuneman has been actively in
terested in civic activities of his
home city.
The post for which he has been
selected is known as the Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury in charge
of internal revenue and miscel-
laneous."
Now I'm City.
The miscellaneous includes the
office of the supervising architect,
through which the great building
, program will be handled: the Public
Health Service. the Bureau of Supply,
the General Supply Committee, the
chief clerk of the Treasury, the Di-
vision of appointments and the DiVi-
sion of Printing.
Mr.. Schuneman is now in Wash
lnRtUn ana mas Deen IN conference
| with Secretary Mellon and the as
Sistant secretaries.
When appointed and approved by
the Senate, Mr.. Schuneman will take
over the public building work which
has been i'm charge of Charles s
Dewey, Assistant Secretary. but this
change will not take place at once
as the project is so far reaching.
Secretary Mellon confirmed this
Mr. Schuneman is to succeed Nc
Kenzie Moss. who, several months
ago, was appointed to the United
States Court of Claims.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
THREE i. S. SHIPS
SE|zEDBY Chinese
Removal of Vessels From
Ichang Prevented by
American Gunboat. :
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, December 16.-A wire
less message from Ichang, Hupeh
province. says Chinese have seized
three American river vessels, but that
the American gunboat Elcano is pre-
venting their being moved.
The dispatch states Gen. Yang-Sen,
northern commander, seized the
ships to transport his soldiers back
to Ichang after they had been routed
by the Cantonese. However, after
Gen. Yang had packed his troops on
board, the Elcano moved alongside
and notified him the Elcano would
open fire If an attempt was made to
move the commandeered craft or un-
less the soldiers were removed soon.
The message declared also that sew
eral Japanese boats were seized by
the Chinese and that q British gun
boat was standing guard over two
British vessels in the vicinity.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
Acceptance of McKinley's Post Taken
for Granted.

DWIGHT, ILL.,, December 16 R).---
Col. Frank L. Smith, Senator.elect OF
Illinois, today was formally appointed
to All the unexpired term of the late
Senator william Il. Mckinley.
Braving the cold. Col. Smith left
this morning for a tour Of his farm
property about the time Gov. Len
Small signed the appointment. He
was soon far from the reach of scores
who sought to congratulate him or to
counsel with him on the new post.
and his office attaches declared that
he did not plan to return until late
tonight.
Acceptance Expected.
His acceptance Of the appointment
Is taken for granted, because Of his
known desire to be named, despite
warnings of friends in the Senate that
his credentials might be refused in
order to avert until the next Congress
the impending struggle over his seat
ing, objected to by Democratic leaders
because Of his large primary cam
paign fund.
Senator Smith has made no state
ment since the five-word comment on
his election in November, expressing
gratitude to the voters. He took
cognizance, however, later in his Fall
campaign. of objections to acceptance
of $125,000 in his behalf during the
primary campaign from Samuel In
sull, utilities magnate, and $45, 900
from two other utility chiefs; and de-
clared that such contributions to his
primary war chest were no more rep.
rehensible than contributions to a Re.
publican presidential campaign by
beneflciaries Of a protective taI
Evening star., 1926-12-16
M'DERMOTT TWICE
|DENT|F|EDATTR|A
Defendant Said to Have
Watched Slain Publisher
Through Window.
BY the Associated Press.

c% tnc hSSottdteu FFeSS
COURTHOUSE, CANTON. Ohio De-
cember .16.--Patrick Eugene McDer-
mott, on trial for the murder of Don
r. Mellett, publisher of the Canton
Daily News. was identified twice by
State witnesses today.
Charles Castor testified McDermott
came to the Canton Daily News office
the day before the murder and asked
to see Mr.. Meliett. CASTOR is circu-
lation manager of the News.
Previously O. T.. Grouse. Canton
sinking fund trustee, had testified he
had seen McDermott go into police
headquarters the Sunday night pre-
ceding the murder.
Castor declared McDermott came to
his office the afternoon of July Is and
asked to sec Mr.. Mellett.
Watched Through Window.
McDermott was told Mr.. Mellett
was in the business office. McDermott
went out, and Castor said he saw
him watching Mellett through a win
dow.
u. l.. Mills, on croSS-eXaninatiOn OF
CASTOR, inquired about the campaign
Mellett is said to have waged in the
News against vice conditions in Can
ton.
He also asked CASTOR if the News
had not paid a bootlegger's fine" and
printed stuff from disbarrcd attor-
nev."
CASTOR replied he did not know.
Frank Woods, Massilon, told of
having a conversation with Ben Rud-
ner, also charged with the murder,
several days after the murder, in
which Rudner told him he expected
"to be framed in this case
Woods said Rudner told him he was
going to be framed because he and
Burton detective ri. r.. Burton Of
Columbus, had had words in front
of the Canton police headquarters
and he had knocked Burton down
John Van Altman, the next witness,
said a man under the name of Charles
Thompson roomed at his house in
July and left on a Friday. Mellett
was killed shortly after midnight on
the morning of Friday, July 16. He
identified McDermott as Charles
Thompson" He said Thompson"
left without making his departure
known.
We're Van Gunten then testified. He
corroborated Van Allman's story and
also identified McDermott as 'Thomp-
son."
Peggy Cavanaugh, pretty waitress.
who was expected to add formid-
able link to the chain of circumstan-
tial evidence against McDermott,
proved disappointing witness.
Her Answers Vague.
Peggy gave vague answers to
questions of Prosecutor McClintock
when he brought up the subject of
pats" trip to Massilon, week after
the Staying, when the defendant was
alleged to have received money from
the "pay off, man who plotted the
murder. This pay off" man, the
State charges, is Ben Rudner, Mas
sillon hardware merchant, and co.
defendant with McDermott.
Miss Cavanaugh admitted accom-
panying Pat on that trip, but with
that her testimony was limited to II
don't know" and Il don't remember"
Peggy testified when they reached
Massillon Pat stopped at store to
see "a friend" but she didn't know
which store it was or who the friend
was. When he returned to their auto
mobile he had $40 bill in his hand,
she said.
McClintock tried to elicit further in
formation from her, but upon defense
Interruptions she declared that she
knew nothing more about the case.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
Today in Congress
SENATE.

Appointment of Frank l.. Smith
by the governor of Illinois to fill
the unexpired term of the late
Senator Mckinley was brought up
on the floor of the Senate as soon
as it met by Senator AShurst,
Democrat. of Arizona.
Treasury-p post office appropriation
bill remained the pending business
of the Senate.
Senate and House conferees on
radio legislation held a meeting and
reported some progress. Senator
Dill, advocating one plan of con-
troll, will confer with Representa-
tive White, author of the House
plan.
The special Senate committee on
campaign expenditures held an
executive session.
Finance committee considered
minor changes in the bill to re-
organize the Customs Bureau of
the Treasury.
Commerce committee continued
hearings on proposed sale of Ship
ping Board vessels.
HOUSE.
House considers alien property
restoration bill. with provisions for
five hours general debate.
Severe criticism of ST. Eliza
beth's Hospital contained in report
by Controller General McCarl. pur-
suant to a direction in law by the
last session of Congress.
Delegation from House commit
tee on public buildings and
grounds makes personal inspec-
ton of ground south of Pennsyl-
yania avenue which it is proposed
to acquire under the Smoot-Un-
derhill bill.
Subcommittee of appropriations
committee, in executive session.
continues hearings on War De-
nartment. independent Offices,
State, Justice, Commerce and La
Dor appropriation bills.
Naval affairs committee In eX-
ecutive session on state OF the
Navy.
Committee on agriculture con-
tinues hearings on Jones' cotton
bill.
Indian affairs committee contin-
ues hearing on oil leasing OF In
dian land.
immigration committee in ex-
ectiye session at regular meeting.
Military affairs committee con-
tinues hearing on retirement and
promotion.
Foreign affairs committee con-
tinues hearing on erection of
monument to Columbus at Santo
Domingo.
Veterans committee conducts
hearing on sale of hospital sites
at Broadview, Ill.
Post office committee continues
hearing on admission of certain
publications as second-class mail.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
BURNS MAY BE FATAL.
Colored Mans Clothing Ignited al
Stove in Southeast.

David Henson, colored. rs years old,
who lived alone in a frame house on
Fort place, Garfield, a short distance
from Good Hope southeast, probably
was fatally burned shortly before 10
o'clock this morning when fire &C.
Cured in his home.
Henson, who is said to have been
feeble, is believed to have fallen while
starting fire in stove, his clothing
igniting. His niece, Carrie Coates, re-
siding nearby, discovered the fire and
went to the assistance of her uncle.
Mrs. Coates and neighbors assisted
the burned man from the house, and
he was taken to Providence Hospital.
The fire did only about $40 damage
To the house and contents.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
TENNIS EXPERT SUICIDE.
w. A. Larned, Once Champion,
Shoots Self in New York.

+. NEW YORK, December 16 R).-
William A. Larned, former national
tennis champion, committed suicide
by shooting in his room today at the
Knickerbocker Club on Fifth avenue.
A nervous breakdown from which
Mr.. Larned had been suffering. for
the past two years was believed to
have caused his act. His last APP
pearance in a tennis match was at
Forest Hills. n. Y, in 1922. during
the Metropolitan championship play.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
DR.. T. E. MCARDLE DIES.
Retired Physician, in His 18th
Year, Was Widely Known.

DIR. Thomas E. McArdle, retired
Washington physician, died shortly
before noon today at his apartment,
in the Blackstone, Seventeenth street
near X street, following a long ILL
ness. He was in his seyenty-fifth
year.
DR.. McArdle gave up a large prac-
tice in Washington several years ago.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Marion v. McArdle, and two sons,
one of whom, M. McArdle, is a law
yer in the Colorado Building. Funeral
services have not been completed.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
Massey Due in January.

OTTAWA, December 16 @.-Vin-
cent Massey, Canada's first Minister
to the United States, Is expected to be-
gin his duties in Washington late In
January.
MIR. Massey has been in Ottawa for
several days arranging with the gov
ernment details for the Washington
legation. 49, d.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
Midshipmen Contribute $42O75 to Save
Old Ironsides; Represents 100 Per Gent

the "save old Ironsides drive he had
invited donations and that the mid
shipmen had raised $420.75, represent
ing a 100 per cent subscription of the
student body.
1t was remembered at Annapolis
that from 1860 to 1871 the friSate
served as the academy school ship,
and at the outbreak of the Civil War
carried a contingent of midshipmen
who went into the service of the
Union to the temporary training sta
ton at Newport, r. |.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
OIL VESSEL FIRED ON.

PEKING, December 16 R.-Au-
thoritative foreign sources at Han
kow say the Standard Oil Co.'S steam
er Meifu was fired upon heavily near
Shasi, about $50 miles up the Yaogtze
River from Hankow. by kweichow
troops. who entered into an allegiance
with the Cantonese. There were no
casualties.
Evening star., 1926-12-16

more besmirched by the contributions
TO his campaign from public utilities
than Is a President whose campaign
is partly financed by contributions
from manufacturers interested in hay-
ing the tariff rates increased. Just
prior to the election in November, Col.
Smith gave out a statement saying
as much.
The second course would be to de-
cline the appointment. declaring that
he did not wish to embarrass the Re-
publican leadership in Washington or
TO upset its plans for the present ses-
sion, and in a statement outlining his
case say that he would fight it out
in the next Congress. to which he has
been elected.
The probabilities, according to
those in Washington who know Col.
Smith, is that he will determine to
make his fight now, and will accept
the nomination.
Probable Procedure Outlined.
The opinion was expressed by SEN
. ate leaders that in the event Col.
Smith accepts appointment and his
credentials are presented TO the SEN
ate, the contest would come over the
seating of Smith and a subsequent in
-AeSI1SdIlOtl, ana the alternative Oh re-
ferring his credentials Immediately to
a committee without allowing him to
take the oath of office. In all prob.
ability the latter course will be fol-
lowed
Whether the credentials will be re-
fcrred to the Reed committee or the
committee on privileges and elections
is another matter that will have to be
decided later There seems little
probability that the Ashurst resolu-
tion, to prevent Smith taking the
oath of Office, will be acted upon
prior to the presentation of the Smith
credentials.
If Col. Smith accepts the appoint.
lnent and comes here. a motion will
be made to seat him and then to in
vestigate his case. This motion prob
ably would be made by Senator
Deneen of Illinois. Sentiment ap
pears to have set strongly against
this course of action, however.
the report of the Reed COMMITTEES
2on the Illinois primaries showed q
Evening star., 1926-12-16
PRETT|EST NURSE
SECOND MATE
Returned From dead" After
She Married Again, Former
Russian Princess Says.
BY tho Associated Press.

! BY tho Associated Press.
| BOSTON, December 16.--Princess
! ida Troubetzkoy, member of the
| Russian Battalion of Death and once
described as the most beautiful nurse
in France is seeking IL divorce from
| the second of her three husbands.
Now Il nurse in Il New York City
| hospital she is suing Capt. Victor A.
| Turin, variousIy identified as an Off
Ger in the Imperial Russian Cavalry,
a French or American officer and a
| motion picture actor, whom she mar
ried in 1917.
When she married Turin he was
| supposed to be member of a Russian
| war mission. and she was affiliated
| with the Red Cross. They went to
| Milwaukee to live, but the captain left
! her to return to France and the war.
Hears He Is Dead.
/ Later she heard he had been killed,
| she testified but although she went to
| France to search for proof, she was
| unable to obtain an official record.
| Then in 1920 she married Capt. Wal
| lace S. Schultz of Milwaukee, whom
she had met while he was a patient.
| Soon. she testified before Judge Hall
! yesterday, there came q letter from
| Turin dema hding $4,000 in return
| for his self effacement, and when she
| showed it to Schultz she told him:
| 'Wally, l have no right to live with
| you. l must go to my husband. My
| place is with him."
| She has not seen Capt. Schultz
| since, nor did she succeed in locating
| Turin. Capt Schultz had their mar
riage annulled i'll Green Bay, Wis.
The present divorce case is COM
plicated by records showing that
| Turin sued the princess for divorce
here in 1921, naming Capt. Schultz.
| This action was never tried.
| In March of this year a Victor A.
| Turin, who gave Tifflis, Ga, as his
birthplace, was married in New York
to Miss Anna Hearons, former over
seas war worker, who came from
MillerstoWn, Pa.
Escapes From Siberia.
The princess says she escaped from
! Siberia by way of Japan when the
Bolsheviki forces overturned the
cZarist army in Russia. She was
! several times wounded in battles with
the Reds, she declares.
She says her first husband, the
! prince, died before catastrophe en-.
veloped the imperial house.
| In her present action her name
appears as Mrs. Nadine Turin. The
case has been continued by Justice
Hall, who has requested further docu-
mentary evidence.
Red Cross officials recalled today
| that the Princess TroubetZkoy was in
| Washington during the World War
and sought permission from the Red
Cross to visit the military and naval
hospitals, stating that she had been
| a Russian Red Cross nurse. Since
she did not have the formal creden-
tials in her possession required by
| the Red Cross, she was not accorded
permission by officials to visit the hos.
| pitfalls, it was stated.
Evening star., 1926-12-16

By the Associated Press.
Old Ironsides. the hoary warship.
which years ago carried mitishipmen
of the Naval Academy on many a
''shalSedown" cruise, but is now a
victim of decay and needs money for
repairs, has touched the charitable
chord in the hearts Of present naval
cadets.
Rear Admiral Mutton, superintend-
ent of the academy. reported to Sec
retary Wilbur that in connection with
Evening star., 1926-12-16
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Marine Band
Orchestra, at8the Marine Barracks.
$40 PM, William III. Santelmann.
leader; Taylor Byanson. second leader.
Evening star., 1926-12-16

orga nization and it's operations in the
States covered by Investigations on
the part of your comittee."
APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED.
Evening star., 1926-12-16
SMITH APPOINTED
SENATOR; ASHURST
Z ACTS TO BAR HIN

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