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Evening star., 1927-10-29
LANCASTER TO REBUILD
HOTEL AT ROCK POINT
Maryland State Senator Estimates
Loss by Fire at Between $4,000
and $4,000, Insurance $4,000.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LA<PLATA, Nd, October 2O.-.
State Senator s. S. Lancaster TODAY
estimated at between $4,000 and SIT.
goo the loss sustained by him in the
fire. which destroyed Rock Point
Hotel, at Rock Point. Nd, Wednesday
night. He carried $4,000 insurance.
He said he would rebuild at once,
Mr.. and Mrs. Stonestreet, tenants.
were the only occupants of the place.
Awakened by the flames late at night
they were unable to save much Of
their belongings. The hotel was built
IA years ago. 1t was on a point where
the Wicomico River empties into the
Potomac. Boating, bathing and fish.
ing attract many guests each year.
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Smith.Vare Question.

Commenting on the announcement
OF Senator Wheeler, his colleague. for
denomination to the Senate next wear
Senator Walsh said that he believed
Mr.. Wheeler would be renominated
and reelected.
Senator Walsh said that he had
not changed his position in any wav
toward the seating of Senators elect
Smith of Illinois and Ware of Penn
sylvania.
Il do pot believe that either Smith
or Ware will be seated" said Senator
Walsh. II do not see how any Senator
who voted against seating Mr.. Smith
when he came to the Senate under
appointment by the governor in the
last session could now vote to seat
him. The reasons against the seat
ing Of Mr.. Ware are similar to those
involved in the Smith case. The
Senate has been officially informed
in both cases. For that reason I do
not believe they should be seated"
Senator Walsh said that the people
OF Montana were greatly interested in
water power development and in the
Great Lakes and st. Lawrence River
waterway projects. He said that he
would reintroduce his resolution pro.
viding for an investigation of the
water power trust and would press
1t at the coming session. The wheat
farmers of Montana, he said, would
benefit greatly by the construction of
the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River
waterway. He estimated that It might
reduce the freight charge on Montana
wheat to Liverpool from to 10 cents
a. bushel
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has been drawn up with a view to
squeezing out existing economic losses
In operation Of the companies, which
would be accomplished chiefly through
changes and arrangements in the
tracks or the street railway lines.
Mr.. Wilson Is putting tho merger
plan in final shape for submission to
the Utilities Commission and indicated
that 1t would be completed Monday.
Modelled After Boston Plan,
The merger plan, it was intimated,
has been modelled principally after the
one that is said to have given salts.
factory service in Boston for the last
Is years coupled with the best work.
able features of the system under
which the Cleveland street railways
are operated.
BESIDES the two street railway lines,
Mr.. Wilson, 1t was revealed, has plan.
ned to bring the Washington Rapid
transit Co. into the consolidated COM
pany without any profit whatsoever to
himself, in keeping with his promise
to the North American Co. Of New
York. it's former owner and the Pub.
lie Utilities Commission.
These features of the merger plan
leaked out following the speech of
William G. McAdoo, former Secretary
or the Treasury, who has been advis.
ing Mr.. Wilson on the legal phases of
MS plan, at luncheon forum yester.
day of the City Club.
Mr.. McAdoo spoke principally on
the probability Of unification Of Wash
inglons transportation systems and
the benehts that would accrue the
punllc should It be brought about.
Since Mr.. Wilson withdrew the
tentative outline of his scheme from
the Utilities Commission about 10 days
ago because he feared it would EN-.
oarrass the members as result of
agitation for its publication, he has
conferred with a number of civic
leaders. members of Congress and Off.
c1als Of the traction companies for the
purpose of obtaining their ideas as to
certain details that should be included
IN plan OF consolidation.
Many Suggestions Offered.
Some of those with whom Mr.. vii.
son has discussed his ideas for merg.
ing the companies offered Every val.
liable" suggestions, it was said. and
led to revision Of certain features
of the tentative plan. When the plan
is submitted to the commission, Mr..
Wilson's advisers pointed out, it will
be published before it is acted upon.
The commission plans to hold public
hearing on the plan. at which any
interested group or individual will
have an opportunity to express their
views.
Civic leaders who were taken into
Mr.. Wilson's confidence and shown
the tentative outline of the plan in.
cluded Jesse G. Suter. former presi-
dent Of the Federation of Citizens
Association; Charles I. Stengle, dele.
gate to the federation from the Pet.
worth Citizens Association; George
r. Wales, vice president of the fedora
tion. and William NICK. Clayton, chair.
man of the federation's public utili.
ties committee.
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Wealth Placed at 100000.

The variety Of theories put forward
included the possibility that pain had
driven a patient to slay DR.. Gross.
Bootleggers were also mentioned as
the possible slayers.
The 40-year-old dentist was known
to have been in the habit of making
deposits Of from 5000 to $500 a day,
although his practice, partly theatri-
cal and partly drawn from the negro
section, was said to have been small.
His wealth was estimated at more
than 100000.
Evening star., 1927-10-29
ARCHBIHSOP HARTY DIES,
Omaha Prelate Succumbs to Com
plication of Diseases.

LOS ANGELES, October 20 UP).-
Archbishop j. G. Harty of the Cath.
olic Archdiocese of Omaha, who has
been critically ill at the st. Agnes
rectory here for several days, died
early today.
The prelate's ailment was described
as complication of pneumonia and in.
huenZa. He suffered a turn for the
worse wednesday evening, gradually
SINKING into a state of coma. He had
been in i'll health for several wears.
Funeral services will be held Sun.
day at st. Agnes rectory. The body
will be taken to Omaha.
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dry. He is from the West and for
that reason might have considerable
packing in that section of the country.
he did not, however, vote for the
McNary.Haugen bill in the last Con.
tutional.
Some Of the active Democrats in
Wisconsin are suggesting that Senator
Walsh be the party nominee for
President. Senator Walsh was born
in the Badgar State and has a sister
living now in Madison.
Montana. in the opinion of Senator
Walsh. is likely to send a delegation
to the Republican national convention
favorable to former Gov. Frank O.
Lowden OF Illinois for the presidential
nomination. The farm organizations
In Montana, he said, are still strongly
insisting upon the passage of the
McNary. y.Haugen farm bill, and Mr..
Lowden's advocacy Of that bill has
given him support among the Rennh.
licans Of the State.
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WAS NOT "NOMINEE."
Mrs. Clara McCrone Resigned a!
President-Elect Of Foundation.

Mrs. Clara O'Brien McCrone, former
president of the Susan B. Anthony
Foundation, who resigned as presi.
dent-elect for second term Wednes.
day evening, points out that she was
not q nominee" for the second term,
as stated in The Star.
Mrs. McCrone was elected by the
foundation last Spring to serve
another term as president and was
awaiting confirmation by the founda-
ton board when she resigned, ex-
planning that she could not give the
time necessary to the conduct Of the
office.
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Havana Damaged by Storm.

HAVANA, Cuba, October 20 R.-
A torrential rainstorm swept Havana
yesterday and widespread damage is
reported throughout the countryside.
The Mayabeque River overflowed and
cattle perished and crops were ruined,
No loss Of life has been reported.
Evening star., 1927-10-29

years old. His first job was as mes.
senger for the Illinois Trust & Saw
ings Bank, and In six years he climbed
to high place in the councils of the
bank. In 1870 a financial furry all
but wrecked the bank, and when it
was tottering it's destiny was placed
In the hands Of Mitchell. He insti.
tuted series of reform principles.
one of which was that no loans were
to be made unless covered by full
collateral.
On one occasion it is related that
p. d. Armour sent to the bank from
the floor Of the Stock Exchange a hur.
ry call for loan of 100000, but the
young bank president sent back word
that h could not recognize Mr.. Ar
mour's request without sufficient guar
antee for the loan. The transaction
finally was consummated on Mr..
Mitchell's terms and his determine
ton to stick to the banks rule made
a firm friend of Mr.. Armour.
Recalled From Retirement.
The Illinois Trust prospered under
the guidance of Mr.. Mitchell and in
20 years its deposits grew from 81 .000,-
009 to 500 100000. lie retired from
the active leadership Of the bank in
1919. Four years later it was merged
with the Merchants Loan & Trust Co.
and the Corn Exchange National
Bank under the name of the Illinois
Merchants Trust Co. This merger
made the new bank the second in rank
in Illinois and Mr.. Mitchell was called
out ot retil ement to become its head.
He was member of the boards OF
several other Chicago and New York
financial institutions and was a di.
rector of five railway companies and
many large business enterprises.
Mr.. Mitchell in 1890 married Mary
Louise Jewett of Bristol. r. I. They
had three sons and two daughters.
A son, John j. Mitchell, jr., in 1920
married Miss Lolita Armour, daugh
ter of j. Ogden Armour, and grand.
daughter of the Armour to whom Nit.
chell refused to lend money without
collateral.
When his friend, Victor r. Lawson
owner and editor Of the Chicago Daily
News, died on August 19,1925. Mitchell
virtually took charge of the financial
affairs of the Lawson estate, esti
mated at more than $20,000,000. OF
which the bank was trustee.
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Other Matters of Importance.

Other legislative matters which Sen.
ator Walsh regards as important in
the coming session are farm relief.
flood control and the reduction of
taxes.
Montana's crops have been good this
year, Senator Walsh said, and the
State is in good condition.
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The combined length of the rural
mail routes in Ahe United States is
A.24s.s7s milek
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BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, this
evening at $40 o'clock:
March, 1.-The American Legion"
Vandersleet
Overture, "Schauspiel". ........ Bach
Morceau, Chapel in the Mountains"
Wilson
Excerpts from musical comedy, "Oh
Kay .GerShWln
CHARACTERISTIC, "The Doll Dance"
Brown
Waltz suite, 'Valerie". ...... :. .Linka
Finale. "Dawning". .............S Silver
"The Star Spangled Banner"
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LURAY M0SBY BAND
SURVIVOR PASSES
Edward T. Brumback, 81 Years
Old, Was Banker and Prominent,
Page County Man.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LURAY. Va, October 29.-Edward
L. Brumback, 81 years old, last of
Mosby's famous guerilla warriors in
Page County, died here this morning
Of complication of illnesses. He was
president of the Farmers and Mer.
chants National Bank and prominent
throughout the county.
He was the youngest of 10 childksn
the only survivor Of whom now lis
Mrs. John w. Stoner Of this city. y
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MITCHELL, BANKER,
KILLED WITH WIFE
IN AUTO ACCIDENT

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COST PLUS SYSTEM
CALLED BASIS OF
CAR LINE MERGER

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PRESIDENT GALES
RECEIVES MORROW
AS new U. S. ENVOY

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More than $4.000.000 in gum arabic
was gathered in the Sudan in the
past years
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SENATOR DEGREES
TALK OF DRY ISSUE
IN NEXT CAMPAIGN

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Lea Angeles has a wouan.s bank,
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
GRAY DENIES CONNECTION
 WITH JOHNSON ROBBERY
yermonter Who Was Assaulted and Rolled" For $50, duplicates
 Allen Street Man.

Although he was identified by Vic tor Johnson of Brattleboro, Vt, as his assailant in a lonely spot in Wethersfield Friday night, William Gray of Allen street will not be prosecuted. it was said today. be- cause the prosecuting attorney in Wethersfleld refused to issue a war rant, on the ground that the absence of witnesses to the alleged assault and robbery. and the fact that Gray insisted that he was innocent would make the case a difficult one to prove.
 According to the local and state police, Johnson admitted that he had been drinking prior to the al- legged assault and went riding with | man and woman on an under standing with the latter. Before they left the car, the woman is said to have asked Johnson for $1O and when he showed a roll" containing $50 to prove that he was able to pay $2, he was struck and knocked senseless. When he awoke he miss ed his money and complained to the local police. State Policeman James Parrott assisted Detective Sergeant w. P. McCue and Sergeant P. J. O'Mara in the investigation. the To- cal police having notified the state authorities because the alleged of lenses were committed outside the Jurisdiction of New Britain authori- ties.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29

but detectives said . woman. whose name was withheld. had called head quarters to say she saw an officer in the car with the holdup victim. She was said to have identified the po- liceman as Graham.
 l The district attorney said that his office had learned that Graham had gone to an automobile agency yes terday afternoon and paid $1600 cash for a new roadster.
 A short time later, Graham was said by detectives to have met an other patrolman whom he invited tc make a night of it." The patrol man said they went to Coney Is- land club where Graham spent more than $200 and tipped cabaret per formers lavishly.
 Failure of Graham to appear for medical examination in connection with his sick leave started detectives on his trail.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
.C|TY TYPLAYGR0UNDS
 HOSTS TO l25,000
Popularity Demonstrated in Im-
 preSiYe Attendance Figures

Saturdays rain failed to keep the youngsters away from the city play grounds, many turning out to assist the directors in the final dismantling and storing away of the apparatus. once more to gather dust and cob- webs until next season. The Willow
 Brook playground will prove haven and Mecca for large numbers as 1t will be kept open until Labor Day. That the playgrounds were appre- ciated by the youngsters and even the older folks was clearly demon strated by the numbers who daily attended. Attendance checks showed that more than 125.000 during the
 season, visited the. grounds, this cov- ering total attendance at morning, afternoon and evening sessions.
 There were many who spent almost
 the entire day on the grounds. while others would come for an hour or
 so to enjoy game of paddle tennis, baseball, folk dancing. ride on the
 and swings. Others
 found their interests centered in the
 Junior Achievement clubs, where they were able to show their skill in handwork. The older girls made clothing, table covers. napkins and
 other fancy work while the young
 CT ones outftted their dolls. The boys constructed handy household articles and toys.
 Special activities were carried out
 at the grounds under the direction
 of the directors. A few of these
 events were as follows: a bathing beauty contest, peanut hunt, hare and hound chase. sand box competi- tion, in which the entrants matched their skill in sand modelling, and an- other-that of working with Taffia
 in which the youngsters showed their ability along the lines of elementary stages of basket making, producing such articles as brush brooms, hot
 dish mats, picture frames. simple baskets. etc. playground com-
 petition in various forms such as the
 Rotary Baseball league. boys and girls playground baseball league, paddle tennis tournaments and athl- etic track meet, kept interest and
 rivalry at a high point throughout the season.
 Combining their forces the play
 ground and Junior Achievement or
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
sl00,OOO JEWEL
 THEFT IN NEW YORK
No Clue to Robbers Found,
 Police Report

New York, Aug. 29 Rl-The theft of jewelry valued at s1O0,00O from the summer home of Mir. and Mrs. James Hastings Snowden at South ampton, L. l., was revealed today when private detectives and police said that after "A hours secret in |vestigation they had been unable to pick up a single clue to the identity of the thieves.
 Although the theft was discovered by Mrs Snowden at noon Saturday she concealed her concern so that it might not affect the Hampton Fol- lies." a society fete in which she took a prominent part. At Saturday nights performance she wore imita- ton replicas of the two ropes of pearls, two rings and several brace lets for which detectives had already begun quiet search.
 Investigators for insurance com- panies, as we'll as city and county po- lice, failed to find any trace of fore ibly entry into the Snowden home. They advanced the theory that the robbery might have been an inside job and interrogated twelve serv- ants in the house.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
VICTIM OF ATTACK DEAD AT HOSPITAL
Death Deepens Mystery; Six Al-
 ready Arrested

Providence, Ky, Aug. 29 R- Death in an Evansville. Indiana, hospital early this morning of Miss Pauline De Armon added to the diff faculties of officers seeking to solve the mystery of an attack upon the sixteen year old orphan girl and the murder of Fred Russell, her 21 year old hance.
 Although the attack is believed to have taken place on Wednesday night or Thursday morning of last week, Miss De Armon still was alive yesterday when a searching party found her lying near the body of Russell at a point just off an un- frequented road leading to the old fair grounds, now abandoned, near here. She was rushed to the hos pital at Evansville but died at 1915 o'clock this morning without re- gaining consciousness.
 Meanwhile six persons, including two brothers and a sister. were held in the county jail at Dixon. near here, in connection with the crime. Although all denied any implication when taken into custody yesterday. officers planned to question them further today. They are: Claude. John and Ethel Stevens. Joe How ard, Harland Reynolds and Homer Winstead, all of Providence.
 It was Winstead and Howard who, on last Friday, discovered the auto- mobile in which Russell and Miss De Armon were riding Wednesday night. They found it abandoned near the spot where the couple were discovered. Each of the other four was reported to have been with Miss De Armon and her flancee sometime Wednesday or Wednesday night. All six were to be arraigned before the county judge at Dixon today.
 Miss De Armon lived with an uncle, Charles Gansler. who led the party which found her and the body of Russell after two days search. Russell had borrowed an automobile Wednesday afternoon and called at the Gansler home that night to take the girl for a ride When they did not return home Gansler. knowing of their engagement, thought they had eloped, he told officers, and did not worry When no word was re- ceived from them the following day, however, he began the search which ended yesterday.
 The body of Russell was found lying about 300 yards from where the automobile had been located. He had been badly beaten and shot through the head. Seventy-five yards further on the searching party came upon Miss De Armon, bound and gagged and stripped of most of her clothing. She too, had been beaten as if by some heavy instru- ment and her lower right jaw was fractured. Trampled weeds in the vicinity indicated there had been a struggle.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
POLICEMAN HELD
 ON MURDER CHARGE
Victim Found in Auto With Payroll Gone

New York, Aug. 2s R-A patrol man who was accustomed to guard Judson Hewitt Pratt, construction engineer in the transfer of the week .ly payroll money for his firm was arrested today charged with the murder of the paymaster and theft of $47Oo.
 Pratt was found dead in his auto mobile shortly before noon yesterday under a viaduct in the Bronx, a bullet through his head and the pay roll money with which he had start ed from the office of the T. E. Rhoades company. builders, missing. Daniel Graham, 25, a patrolman attached to the Fifty-First street station is the man accused oe the murder and robbery. He was arrest ed today when he returned from an all night party in 8 new automobile. which he was said to have purchas- ed few hours after Pratt was found dead. He denied all knowledge of the crime.
 The patrolman's arrest was or dered by District Attorney John E. .McGeehan after detectives had traced Grahams movements for a week before and several hours after the crime and had rounded up sev- cral witnesses who they contend connected him with the crime.
 Graham, police said, had been the patrolman usually assigned to ac- company Pratt when the construc- tion man took money to pay em- ployes of his company engaged in tho building of an apartment house on East Fifty-Second street.
 Last Monday. police records show, Graham asked and was granted a sick leave. Detectives told the dis trict attorney that during the week the patrolman told several persons he was going to Albany to collect him by an aunt.
 Say Graham Was in Car
 Graham, who was known to fellow patrolmen and persons on his post as Handsome" being off duty an other patrolman was detailed to accompany Pratt with the payroll money. but, detectives say, before the substitute arrived, Graham, in civilian clothes came up and step ped into Pratt's automobile, as though he was taking his regular assignment.
 Just when the shot that killed the construction man was fired detec- tives did not know, but they said they believed Pratt was shot near the new building which was his destination. They said four children in the neighborhood. who recognized the patrolman as Handsome" told of seeing the policeman shove Pratt from behind, the steering wheel of his automobile less than 200 feet from the construction job put the engineers hat on the right side of his head and drive away.
 Identified by Woman
 First reports of Pratt's staying said he had undertaken the trip from his company's office on Madi- son avenue to the Fifty-second ,treet job unaccompanied by guard
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29

ganizations planned parade for the purpose of giving the children . final get together. in which they could demonstrate their ability and
 originality, as well as bring home to the grownups. their appreciation for the opportunities the city has given them for recreation. With but a week to prepare for the big event,
 the youngsters went to their task
 with such keen enthusiasm that clos ing hours were forgotten in the bustle of getting things ready, direc- tors going home to cold meals. and
 for once the children were not scold- ed for tardiness as the parents were
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
Identified by Woman

First reports of Pratt's staying said he had undertaken the trip from his companys office on Madi- son avenue to the Fifty-second ,treet job unaccompanied by a guard
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
Baby Thrown to Death
 When Auto Turns Turtle

South Harpswell, Me-, Aug. 29 R) Lillian Ratte, three months old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Ratte of Waterville, was killed when she was thrown from the sedan driven by her father as it skidded and turned turtle as it proceeded down Scofield's hill here yesterday afternoon. Mir. Ratte accompanied by his wife and eight children, the oldest of whom is about 12, was on his way to a picnic when the acci- dent took place Mrs. Ratte sus- tained numerous cuts on the face and was severely shaken up as were all of the children.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-29

spectacle offered by the younEJters in every imaginable costume-from the little queen on her moving throne to the ragged tramps depict ed by the youngsters in ill-nttinS clothes with bright colored patches. Witches. old fashioned styles. sol- diers, sailors. and other get-ups brought many hearty laugh from the onlookers. The event was . hugs success, with 500 actually in lino.
 Dick Anderson has been general administrator of the playgrounds for the summer. William W. T. Squire is director of Junior Achievement Foundation work in this city.