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The Washington times., 1927-08-22
OUT
OF CAVE
Nv International News Service

NICKAJACK CAVE, SHE'LL
MOUND, Tenn. Aug. %. - In a
semi.hysterical condition, Lawrence
Ashley. geologist,explorer. lost in
the myriads of subterranean pas
sages. lakes and rivers OF Nickaj jack
Cave for almost a week. was rest
ing easily today after having walked
from his living tomb through new
exit in Georgia.
Emerging from his living tomb
yesterday after having spent five
days burrowing through the sub
terranean passages of Sand Noun
tain, Ashley stumbled into the sun
light and fresh air again at d wild
and desolate spot known as Castle
Rock on the Georgia side. about
five miles from the entrance of
the cave.
His face black with a. weeks
beard. his clothing torn and caked
with clay and his battered and
torn knapsack upon his bent back,
Ashley came upon the child of John
Campbell, local farmer, who
screamed the news to her father.
Refusing help. he made his way
towards his home, babbling wildly
and ineoherently.
After a hearty meal, Ashley
narrated a brief account of his ex-
periences to newspaper men and
went to sleep.
III started Monday morning to
explore the new opening which Il
had discovered and which thought
must lead to. chamber of inner
Continued on Page 8. Column gil
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Question Of Respite
Put SquareIy Before
Mass. Governor Again
n international News aervIea

BY International News aervIea
BOSTON, Aug. 22.-The question
Of life or death for Nicola, sacco
and BartoIomeo vanzetti was put
squarely up to Governor Avian +.
Fuller again today bare twelve
hours before the condemned radi.
Gals were due to march to the
electric chair at midnight.
Counsel for the two men an.
peared at the State House at noon
and formally petitioned the Gov.
,ern0r TO grant another respite on
the ground that the case IL now
In litigation In the Supreme Court
of the United States. This action
by counsel followed swiftly on the
heels Of the formal docketing Of
the case in Washington this morn.
ing. They have applied for writ
OF certiorart from the nations
highest tribunal.
At the very hour that counsel
were appealing to Governor Full.
Ter, Arthur d. Hill, another de-
Tense attorney, was engaged In a
dramatic and periIous boat trip to
Isle Au Haul, Maine, in a vain
attempt to secure from Associate
Justice Harlan r. Stone Of the
United States Supreme Court, a
stay of execution,
In addition TO the plea made to the
governor. defense attorneys had six
other attempts pending to save the
lives of Sacco and Vanzetti.
These moves were:
l. Associate Defense Attorney M.
A. Musmanno tried to arrange an
Interview with Chief Justice Will
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EUGENE FISH SETS NON STOP
BICYCLE RECORD HERE

Eugene Fish, 15-year-old messen.
ger boy, established new nonstop.
bicycle record today when he rode
20 hours around the circular road
way that skirts the Potomac Park
polo field. Fish covered 289 $40
miles, starting his long grind yester.
day morning at $40 o'clock and dis.
mounting at 1910 o'clock, ii
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tntsrnational Newsreel Photo

ton Albert Smith, 17-year-old cyclist,
who travelled ESQ miles in "a hours
and 81 minutes last Wednesday.
Smith was on the scene today and
congratulated Fish when he dis
mounted. Smith, however, am
,nounced that he would make an at
CONTINUED on Page 8, Column 81
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NamedI In Divorces Suit,
Pretty Girl Sues
Wife For 1000

NEW YORK, Aug. is. "A
pretty blus-eyed brunette with
the temperament Of I brown
eyed blonde, Miss Maud Boerun
has exercised her temperamental
prerogative and brought 3 suit
for $4,000 libel against the
woman who named her ~ co.
respondent in 1 divorce suit.
Mrs. Lillian Weisgerber, the
defendant in the suit in Brook
lyn Supreme Court, had alleged
that Miss Boerun had been
friendly with Louis Weisgerber
for 10 years.
Miss Boerun, on the other
hand, charges Mrs. Weisgerber
forced her to resign from the
bank where she was employed,
by going to officers of the I'M
stitution with "slanderous
stories"
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So good was his narrowing story
that hard.boiled detectives swora
violently at the inbumanity OF
the mythical Capt. Samuel Thomas
Hayes and the niatron Of st.
Georges 0rphanage at Liverpool.
John Paul even touched the sym.
pathies OF hard.boiled reporter
and collected 81.
unfortunately. Detective spang.
Ter when the questioned the young.
ster at the Welfare Bureau,
smashed the story by asking .ona
question: What part OF South
PHILADELPHIA do you como from7''
BETRAYED BY LIMP
John Paul Jones" then ad,
mItted he was really Richard Cody,
II years old. and that he had
ran away. A slight limp be
trayed him to the detective.
The younRstsr was picked up
by George Regain while he waa
standing at Tenth Street and sny'
der Avenue. The boy told his
story for the first time and II
touched Regain 90 much that he
brought him to the detective hu
reau, where Captain OF Detectives
Wood questioned him.
The story started with the or
phanaga which, he said. WAS 10
Gated on Liverpool Avenue. Liver
pool. He said he Was brutally
treated and that his limp wal
1,,a - S4AaAH-n. So taS ,naai.,nS
from an attendant.
II was hit with the rlng Of
chair" he stated, "and my leg
broken. II wasn't set right wheT
went into the hospital.
IT made up my mind to run awaS
and one day when ! was supposed
TO be going to the HohenzollerH
School. which Il q few squares awaJ
from the orphanage, I went down
to the waterfront, where ] saw the
ship that brought me to this coun
try. the Quebec.
CAPTAIN BEAT HIM
II stayed there and that nigh
the captain took $50 Of US orphans
on the ship. 1t was q green boa
with three tunnels. When We go
TO Portland. Me-. the captain tool
so of the kids and put them off
One was my 9-year-old brother, Sam
wanted to get off with Sam, bu
the captain wouldn't let me. II,
beat me- when I tried to sneak Of
the ship.
At New York my other broth
srs. George and Harry, were pu
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NEW YORK COTTON

S NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE con.
ttnuatton Of unfaverable weather
conditions In the cotton belt, coup.
led with higher Liverpool cables
and encouraging reports from the
textile manufacturing districts,
brought out additional buying in
the cotton market today and the
list displayed a firm undertone.
Trading continued only fairly ac-
tive. however, and prices moved
within relatively narrow margins.
]. New advances. which later were
erased, were chalked up on buying
by the trade, Wall street, New
Orleans and commission houses.
Firms with continental connections
bought near and sold distant posi-.
tons. Offerings were supplied by
the South and spot houses. Also
houses usually operating for Jap.
anese interests. Heavy rains and
high winds were reported in the
Mississippi Valley and around
Arkanhas and EOklahonaa, The
growth Of the cotton crop was
gaod during tho week.
Noon prices were: October, $fs.72.
up o.; December, 1899, up o.;
March, $2018, down OF, and May.
$20.Ss, down %.
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sHoRT TERM SECURITIES
FoREIcN BONDS

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~ EbfAI9Hed uy W. ,. AIbbB Q COL
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Belgian Restoration Be sss........ 8
Belgian Premium 6a ..,...s...... 2
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MANIAC
IN BATTLE
NliaceIlananna Rnnlln

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. H.
WELDING q large cement trowel,
Michael Sawa, 81. patient who
escaped three weeks ago from the
Pennsylvania Hospital for the In.
sane. tried to kill Frank J.. Clayton.
head Of the Standard Detective Blu.
reau. in his office here.
sawa, who il six feet tall and
built proportionately. had almost
beaten the detective unconscious
after climbing on his chest, when
Clayton reached q pair Of handouts
on his desk and manacled his ~.
saiIant. Clayton then telsphoned to
the hospital which is at Forty.
ninth and Market Streets ana was
informed that sawa had escaped
from the hospital with another man
and had evaded q city-wide search
for the past two weeks. Sawa was
sent back to the asylum under
guard.
According to Clayton, Sawa was
composed when he entered the Of
flee Of the detective agency. As
he talked he became more excited
and said:
Il want to get the captain OF the
Trenton Avenue and Dauphin Street
police station. He's been bounding
me and I'll kill him."
Clayton then tried to quiet his
visitor, but the man suddenly drew
the trowe1 from his pocket and
jumped on Clayton's chest, bearing
him from q revolving chair to the
floor. Then began the struggle,
Clayton said, which lasted for is
minutes. Clayton was losing con.
scioysneSs when he manag0d TO
clap the handouts on eawas
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-17

saTR0ubIe seekers won't appreciate the
sssHFlA0'e Who columns. hut II yOu want
the solution TO many business services
commit them today.
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STOCKS
GAIN GROUND
~ IntsFnatlonai News Beryiee

BY international News BePViee
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-stranEth
and activity In the motor stocks
and highspricad specialtiea was the
outstanding feature OF early trad.
ing today. The dividend rails con.
tinned TO move forward in the face
81 . disappointing freight traffic
rapport Tor the week Of August s,
while al Of the low.prlced motor
stocks betIefed their previous clos.
ing prices
Walter ChrysIef's mystery"
Atatement, due on Saturday, Ii OK
psctad 70 diselosa details about q
new car that will make 4 bid for
tha Ford business, and the stock
has been Ii demand ct the highest
prices Of the year. = Hudson lold
up points, while Packard and
Atudebaker continued to attract at.
tsntion.,
Baldwin was lacked up to another
nav high level around $50 to the
accompaniment of reports that the
Usher Brothers were preparing. to
take an active interest and partici.
patton in. the affairs Of the COM
nany. Radio Corporation, Ameri.
can Linseed, International Conbuy.
tton and other specially and mer-
camille stocks which have recently
atepRad into the lime-light. moved
upward q point or two. The oils
We're firm, with Lago Petroleum
duplicating its best previous price
Tor the year above. 80. Vanadium
was the leader of the independent
steel group.
Commodity markets were steady,
with cotton up 20 points on good
home and foreign buying. Sterling
cables were quoted at 4.S6 3.16 and
french francs at S.s21S. Call
money unchanged at az per cent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-17
Boys Bad Aim at Kin
Breaks 500 Window

johnnie Digs, colored, 20S o st.
N. W., had a dispute with his step
father, and to lend emphasis to It
began to lombard him with cobble-
stones and bricks.
One Of the missiles crashed
through plate glass window Of the
Arthur Jordan Piano Company
branch at 635 New York Ave.
N. w.
The manager told Judge Mattingly
that he would be satisfied Il the
accused paid for the damage,
amounting to 500, provided it was
paid inside Of six months. Judge
Mattingly today gave Diggs . sls-
pended sentence Of six months.
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AND QUOTATIONS. OF THE FINANCIAL Markets
War Department Quits
Tenth Street Building

The war Department has aban-
doned the old thrse-story brick build.
ing on Tenth Street. adjacent to
Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was
assapsinated, pending an inVsStiga.
ton aS to its safety,
The structure has been occupied
by the Army Recruiting servtcs and
its walls have been damaged, II II
believed, by building operations ad-
jacent to It.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-17
LIBERTY BONDS
War Hero Is Named
TT. s. Bank Examiner

Appointmert OF Alfred p. Ley
burn a. chief bank examiner for
the Fourth Federal Reserve Dis
trict, It Cleveland, was announced
today by Comptroller Of the Cur
rency Mcintosh. Leyburn was a
war veteran, and was one Of the
Few soldiers credited with bringing
down q German plane with ma
chine gun fire from the ground.
Leyburn was q private In q ma
chine gun company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-17
WALKER TIT L0ND0N

LONDON, Aug. 17.-MayUr James
J. Walker Of New York city ar
rived in London late today after q
journey by automobile from South
snpton, whore he landed from the
liner Becengaria q : o'clock this
INet6FHSen.
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off and / was given another beat.
ing when said / wanted to 20
with them. There were only so Of
US left, and when we got here the
captain says to me: You want to
be = farmer, don't you? / told
him that I did and he put me of
the ship at South Philadelphia, and
told me that there were plenty Of
farms down in the neck"
While irate detectives started the
search for Captain Hayes. Captain
Wood started TO get in touch with
the British authorities.
While he was sitting in the de-
tective bureau, young zones" de,
seribed Westminster Abbey and
points Of interest in England "a the
detectives, whom he quickly called
by their first names. He said his
father had been killed In the world
war.
Everything was going smoothly
and the yonngster was sent to thu
Welfare Bureau with the promise
that those responsible for his plight
would be punished,
Then followed the crash OF the
yarn. Spangler, who had been de
tailed to clear up the case and t.
locate the captain, began talking tc
the boy.
When he noticed the limp, span
gler remembered the case OF thu
missing downtown younster and
put the question as TO what part n
south Philadelphia he came from
FATHER GOT HIM
Again John Paul Jones" re
peated his tale, but auestionina
broke It down and he admitted thai
his name was Cody. When hi,
father, James Cody, came to claim
him, the fear OF the paternal razoI
strop brought tears to the eyes o
John Paul Jones'" ana he prom
ised never to run away again.
The father said the boy has reat
practically all Of the travel book,
in the family library and has beer
interested in foreign countries. Thi
father IL q marine engineer ana hal
served is years In the Navy.
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Boy Spins Fine Story
But Is Betrayed

s PHILADELPHIA Aug 17.Gven three youths like John
Paul Jones' who told tale OF mistreatment and brutality
in British orphanage and British ship this country
would be at war with England inside Of three weeks
Evening star., 1927-10-31
WOMAN IS KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Mrs. Kennedy Dies When Car
0verturns-Husband
Is Injured.

Mrs. Diane Kennedy, 81 years old
134l l. street. was killed yesterday
afternoon when the touring car in
which she was riding overturned on
the National Defense Highway, near
Annapolis. Her husband. John Ken.
nedy. who was driving the car, sus-
tanned nervous shock and decorations
Of the head and hand
They were both pinned beneath the
wreCkage when the car overturned,
and were extricated by passing mo.
forist who drove them to the Emer.
Pency Hospital. in Annapolis, where
Mrs. Kennedy was pronounced dead
Mr. Kennedy said that the accident
occurred when car ahead Of him
suddenly stopped as he was driving
toward Annapolis, and in his effort to
avoid crashing into ii he swung
around and his car rolled over three
times.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kennedy came to
Washington several years ago from
New York City. She was employed at
Erlebacher. Inc, 12l0.l212 + street
He is an employe of the Palais Roya,
Co
Mrs. Kennedy leaves two married
daughters and two brothers. The body
was taken to the undertaking estab
iishment Of John NJ. Taylor. in An
napolis. a verdict of accidental death
was given by the coroner.
Evening star., 1927-10-31
ASSETS DIVERTED,
RECEIVER CHARGES
Predicts "SubstantiaI Loss
es" Due to Kansas City
Land Bank "Chaos."

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, October 31.-Diver.
sion of assets and obscure dealings
with interlocking directorates Of allied
companies placed the Kansas City
Joint Stock Land Bank in chaotic
condition." from which Substantial
losses may be expected. w. r. Comp
ton, st. Louis, receiver, declared in
a preliminary report to the Federal
Farm Loan Board, issued last night.
Quoting from the report Of an
auditing firm, which required more
than year to audit the bank, that
our investigation was prolonged be-
cause Of the thousands of obscure
entries on the books Of account :"
Compton said that due to the ''in-
volved and complicated condition" it
was impossible to make more than a
preliminary progress report at this
time.
Walter Cravens, former president of
the bank; r. Harold Cravens, Richard
p. Cravens, Russell G. Cravens, Miss
Alice B. Todd and Ralph w. Street.
former officers and directors, who also
were officers or directors of allied
companies, are under Federal indict-
ment in connection with the affairs of
the bank.
The bank went into receivership un-
der Compton, May a, 1927, the imme-
diate cause being inability to meet in.
terest payments on outstanding bonds.
Evening star., 1927-10-31
BERLIN MAY APPOINT
ROME ENVOY TO U. S.
Friedrich Won Prittwitz, 80, Now
Counselor There, Also Is
Likely Choice.
BY Radio to The Star and Chicago Daly
News COpyrigbt 1927

By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1927.
BERLIN, October 31.-Thanks to
the unwillingness of Peter Reinhold,
former finance minister; State Secre-
tary Schubert and Johann Won
Welczik, German Ambassador at
Madrid, the new German Ambassador
to Washington seems almost certain
to be drawn from the German en-
bassy at Rome. Here youth and age,
democracy and conservatism, are
struggling.
The more likely candidate is the
counselor of the embassy at Rome,
Friedrich Won PrittwitZ. 80 years old.
a descendant of an old noble family
in Silesia and a nephew of Gen. Pritt-
WITT Of the German army. The
younger PrittwitZ is convinced
Democrat and is favored by German
reublicans. His rival is his own supe-
riOr. Ambassador Constatine Won
Neurath Ga years old and the sup
posed friend of Fascism, with a long
consular and diplomatic career behind
him.
Won Neurath is favored by the Ma
tionalists and the Conservatives, who
are stronger in the foreign office than
they are throughout the country.
Evening star., 1927-10-31
PARIS APACHE is FREE,
YET STILL A CONVICT
Prisoner Who Escaped Devils Is
land Cheered by Crowd on
Return to France.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. October 31.-LegalIy still
an escaped convict, Eugene Deu.
donne, once notorious Paris apache
who escaped from Devils Island last
year, arrived from Marseilles after II
years absence and was greeted by a
huge crowd, which pressed forward
and cheered him. With the greatest
difficulty, he was able to reach the
stationmaster's office and sign the
necessary papers for the police.
1.-THE only fly in the ointment" he
said, lis not to have an official notice
of my pardon"
Despite the fact that the French
government announced that it would
pardon him if he waived extradition
and returned from Brazil, where he
was captured after his escape, no
official document attesting his pardon
has been signed. Dieudonne finds
himself in the position of being able
to circulate freely around France and
hobnob with his friends, while he is
still legally only an escaped convict.
Evening star., 1927-10-31
MRS. KNAPP BALKS
At PRIVATE QUIZ
Commissioner Reuuestinu
Appearance in Census Case
Told So by Attorney.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 31.-Mrs
Florence f. S. Knapp today declined,
through her counsel. Alexander Otis,
the opportunity offered by Commits
sioner Randall J. LeBoeuf, jr., to ap-
pear before him in connection with
his investigation of the 1925 state
census, which she conducted as Sec
retary of state, because of his refusal
to allow her to be represented by
counsel.
Otis made public copies of a let
ter declining the commissioners Of
fer, which he said was mailed this
morning to LeBoeuf, and which said
in part:
Your letter addressed to Mrs.
Knapp has been referred to me for
answer. In reply thereto, | would
state that she declines to appear be-
fore you, either on the date sug-
gested or at any other date, or to
request any witnesses in her behalf
to SO appear. This is because you
have declined to extend to her the
constitutional privilege of being pro-
tected by counsel when charged with
crime"
The letter asked also for the re-
turn Of the affidavits made by Mrs.
Knapp in her defense and forwarded
to the commissioner if it was a fact,
as stated in newspapers, that the
commissioner had declined to incor-
porate them in the records.
Mrs. Knapp was reported at her
hotel as slightly indisposed" The
strain of the past few days was
given as the probable cause of her
illness.
Evening star., 1927-10-31
GREEK PRESIDENT
SHOT, RECOVERING
Communist Roundup Ex-
pected to Follow Attempt
ed Assassination.

BY the Associated Press.
ATHENS, Greece, October 31.--
President Kondouriotis, who was
wounded in the right temple by the
bullet of a would-be assassin yester-
day. passed good night and his con.
dition was reported as satisfactory. No
fever had set in this morning and the
President appeared in his usual good
humor.
The cabinet council held immediate
ly after the shooting decided to adopt
necessary measures to suppress all
subversive tendencies against the
state. The foreign minister advo-
Gated that measures be taken re-
sembling those against anarchists
in France in 1924, when subversive
elements were rounded up by the
wholesale and many deported. The
minister of war told the cabinet that
the crime was wholly Communist in
its inception.
Communists Are Blamed.
The 25-year-old youth, Zafisigs Gous.
sios, who fired at the President while
the latter was entering his automobile
in front Of the municipal building, is
stated to have been tie Larissa cor
respondent of an Athenian Communist
newspaper. Police said they had
learned of a conversation two weeks
ago in which Goussios told his Com
munist comrades that he intended to
assassinate the President. Various
Communist books were seized in his
room here. He had come to Athens
for an operation to cure deafness.
The assassin was saved from a
lynching by a mob. Lodged in Jail, he
told police that the attempt was made
because the Greek state refused to
support him during the time he was
without work
AS the President entered his auto.
mobile in front of the municipal build.
ing, where he had just opened for.
mally the Congress of Greek Mayors,
Goussios drew a revolver and fired
two shots.
One Of the bullets passed through
the windshield of the presidential au-
tomobile. shattering the glass in Pres.
ident Kondouriotis' face and striking
him in the right temple. AS the
crowd rushed at the assailant police
surrounded the youth and hurried
him off to Jail.
Surgeons Issue Bulletin.
After President kondouriotis was
treated at hospital surgeons issued
this bulletin:
1.-THE President was wounded in the
right temple, the Bone being splin.
tered. The President bore a slight OPP
Grafton very well: his condition is
satisfactory and he was able to return
home"
Ministers Of state, diplomatic rep.
resentatives and high officials fastened
to the hospital to express their sym.
pathy. Some were permitted to speak
with the President, but others signed
the visitors book.
When Greece became a republic, in
1924, Admiral Kondouriotis became
it's first head as provisional Presi-
dent. Gen. Theododrdus Pangalos,
who Is now under arrest awaiting
trial on charges Of treason, executed
a coup d'etat in June, 1925, and Kon.
douriotis was deposed. A counter.
coup was carried out by Gen. kon-
dylis in 1926 and kondouriotis as
sumed the presidency again on Kon-
dylis' request.