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Evening star., 1927-11-30
MORE BLOOD STAIN
TESTIMONY IS GIVEN
LiIIiendahl Witness Corrobo-
rates Evidence of Partner
That Spots Were Human.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MAYS LANDING, N. j., November
30-Further testimony regarding
blood stains found on the clothing OF
Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl was pre-
scented by the prosecution today at
the trial of Mrs. Lilliendahl and
Willis Beach, who are charged with
the murder Of the woman's huspand,
DIR. A. William Lilliendahl.
John Arleth, Atlantic City chemist
and partner of witness who testified
Yesterday that stains on the clothing
were of human blood, corroborated
the testimony of his partner, DR..
Louis Meyers.
Exchange Kisses.
Mrs. Lilliendahl and Mrs. Beach
kissed in open court today. 1t was
Mrs. Beach's first court appearance,
and she expressed complete conf
dence in the innocence OF the widow
and her husband.
Mrs. Beach told reporters she did
not believe the stories" that have
been circulated about her husband and
Mrs. Lilliendahl. Asked II she liked
the widow, she answered simply,
Yes"
Testimony that human bloodstains
were found on several SIS bills and a
program taken from the purse of Mrs.
Margaret T. Lilliendahl today was be-
fore the jury trying her and Willis
Beach, her 52-year-old admirer, for the
murder of DIR. A. William Lilliendahl,
the womans aged husband.
Human Bloodstains.
DIR. Louis Meyers, Atlantic City
chemist, so testified and also said
stains on Mrs. Lilliendahl's clothing
had been made by human blood. In
cross-examination the suggestion was
made that the bloodstains were due to
mosquito bites.
Frank Harold, chief Of detectives
for Prosecutor Hinkle, described inter-
views he had with Mrs. Lilliendahl
when her story of the killing was
being Investigated, and denied that he
had tried to trick her into a damaging
admission by telling her that the slain
man had survived his wounds long
enough to tell a story different from
her own.
Cashed SIS Check.
Testimony of employees of a bank
where DIR. Lilliendahl had cashed a
S25 check the day of the killing tended
to show he had only a small amount
with him when he was slain.
Dean NJ. George, Vineland real es-
tate man, and Mary Huston. Vineland
neighbor of Mrs. Lilliendahl, testified
that they had never noticed any rings
on the widows hand.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
REMUS CARETAKER
TELLS NEW STORY
Witness Says Slayer Was in
Charge During Time Home
Was Stripped.
By the Associated Press.

CINCINNATI, November 30.--Re.
moval Of the furniture from George
Remus' Price Hill mansion here, cited
by one witness as the thing which
sent Remus off on an insane tangent
which ended in the Staying of his
estranged wife, was said by another
witness today in the Remus murder
trial to have been done while the
defendant himself was in personal
charge of his property.
William Mueller, for eight years
caretaker-watchman at the Remus
show place, admitted under cross-ex-
animation by Charles p. Taft, II,
county prosecutor, that the expensive
furnishings and statuary were sent
away while he was on a three-week
vacation. Remus himself had charge
of the property at the time, Mueller
added.
Crazed by House Stripping.
Benton S. Oppenheimer, former
Judge of the Superior Court and for
merly counsel for Remus in the
divorce suit pending when Remus last
October shot and killed his wife,
yesterday traced Remus' alleged in
sanity to the time 2emus discovered
that his mansion had been stripped.
Oppenheimer described how Remus
wandered apparently dazed from room
to room of his 31-room house. Pemus
wrung his hands and uttered cries of
amazement that his wife could have
treated him in that manner while he
served a peniteniiary sentence for
violation of the prohibition law. Muel-
Ter admitted that some of his testi-
mony of yesterday concerning things
the defense pleads drove Remus in
sane had not been relayed to Remus.
Mueller said he had seen Franklin
l.. Dodge, jr., three times at the
Remus home and that twice he was
driving Remus' automobiles.
Didn't Tell Remus.
Today he stuck by that part of it
as having been relayed to the de-
fendant, but he admitted under Taft's
cross-examination he had not told
Remus Dodge tried to hide his identi-
ty mort that Dodge had lodged behind
a motor car when Mueller approached.
Judge Chester r. Shook warned
that the unruly scenes of yesterday
were not to be repeated. The lawyers
repeatedly got out of control yester-
day in angry exchanges.
Judge Shook ruled at the opening
of court this morning that hereafter
no witness would be permitted to
have affected Remus' mind unless the
witness said he himself had told
Remus those things.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
JOHNSON RITES SET.
Spanish War Veterans to Conduct
Services Tomorrow.

Funeral services for J. Edgar John
son, Spanish-American War veteran
and former New England representa-
tive of the Texas Oil Co.. who died at
his residence, 1888 Spring road. Mon
day, will be conducted in the Shrine
of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Inter.
ment will be in Arlington Cemetery,
in charge Of the United Veterans of
the Spanish War.
Mr.. Johnson Is survivd by his widow,
Mrs. Maud Johnson: a daughter, Miss
Frances Johnson; four sisters, Mrs.
Mary Sweeney, Mrs. Carrie Poore,
Mrs. Emmett Carr and Mrs. John N.
Browning, all of Washington, and two
brothers, John johnson Of this city
and Louis johnson Of New York City.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
r. p. HOLMES DIES.
Retired Police Sergeant Served
With Marines Years Ago.

desk sergeant in the Police Depart
ment from January, 1900, until Aug
ust, 1917, when he was retired, died
ut his home. 706 Longfellow street
about o'clock this morning.
Mr.. Holmes, native of this city,
was born March IA, 1853, and as a
young man entered the United States
Marine Corps, his service taking him
around the world.
Eight children survive. He resided
with a daughter, Mrs. Frank G. Read,
at the Longfellow street address. Fun
eral services will be conducted at the
Church Of the Nativity, Friday morn
ing at 8 o'clock. Interment will be in
Congressional Cemetery.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Will Address Business Men.

Rev. Walter s. Smith, pastor of
Park View Christian Church, and Ray.
mond l.. Schreiner. president of the
Bank Of Brightwood, will deliver ad-
dresses at meeting of the Georgia
Avenue Business Mems Association,
in the Park View Christian Church,
tonight at s o'clock. Music will be
furnished by the Walter Holt musi-
clans.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Hunters Blamed for Death of Two Famous
Carrier Pigeons Highly Prized by Army

Hunters guns are blamed for the
loss of some of the most priced car
rier pigeons Of the Army. Among
the casualties during the past several
days were added two famous birds
with equally famous names. They
are Colonel Lindbergh and General
Harbord," both fatally wounded.
The two carrier pigeons were loaned
to the American Woman's Associa-
ton in New York to carry messages
Of greeting to President and Mrs.
Coolidge via Fort Monmouth. They
were released from the old Ovington
Building, Fifth avenue, at 11:20 am.
Monday and should have reached Fort
Monmouth the same afternoon.
General Harbord came in at 10
Evening star., 1927-11-30
De VALERA EXPLAINS TRIP.
Plans to Raise No Funds in Amer
lea, He Says.

DUBLIN, November 80 N.-
Eamon de Valera, Irish republican
leader, who will shortly make a trip
to the United States, will have confer
ences with political friends there, but
does not contemplate addressing public
meetings.
my trip Is not designed to raise
funds, but to maintain close co-opera-
ton with the American Association for
the Recognition of the Irish Republic,
which is the basis in America Of the
Fianna Fail organization" Mr.. de
Valera told the correspondent today.
Evening star., 1927-11-30

am. Yesterday badly wounded, but
faithfully carrying his message. Col
onel Lindbergh is still missing and is
believed by Army officials to have
been killed by hunters.
The message brought in by the
wounded bird was relayed by Signal
Corps radio to Washington. 1t
wished the President and Mrs. Cool
idge a happy Christmas season in the
name OF the association and bore the
signature of Mrs. Gertrude Robinson
Smith, as president. a
The two pigeons were among the
crack message carriers of the Army.
Since the opening of the present
hunting season II birds are missing
and have come into Fort Monmouth
fatally wounded
Evening star., 1927-11-30
DIRECT PHONE TO ALBANY.
Increasing Number Of Calls Leads
to Special Service.

Telephone calls between Washington
and Albany, the capital Of New York
State, have increased so rapidly that
it has been necessary for the Chesa.
peake & Potomac Telephone Co. to
establish direct service with the New
York State capital, it was announced
today by Charles T. Clagett, general
commercial superintendent.
The calls have previously been
switched at New York.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Woman Swallows Poison, Receivers.

Lillian Smith, % years old. 72s
Eleventh street southeast, was treated
at Casualty Hospital last night after
swallowing a small quantity Of poison
by mistake. Police reported that the
young woman was taken sick while
entertaining friends at a party in her
home. She was not seriously affected.
according to hospital physicians. and
was able to return home after receiv.
ing first aid.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Newest Invention
For Deaf in Town
Dime-size ear-piece nosc being
demonstrated FREE by expert

Coincident with the FIRST public show
ing Of the latest scientific achievement
for the recreation of hearing--the Sill
yer Anniversary Model Acousticon--Wil-
lard Mears of New York City. represent
ing the Acousticon's maker. 10 now IN
this city for the purpose Of demonstrat-
ing this newest and most advanced of all
hearing-ai with tiny earpiece no BIT
ger than lime. Mr.. Mears has been
making a study of deafness and its relief
for twenty-five years. and his demonstra-
tions of the ACQUISITION are without
charge or obligation. He will be at
Edwin H. Etz.. Inc. 1917 G st. NV,
Washington. D. c.. December /. 2 and g..
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
PLANTS MANY TREES.

District Department Takes Advans
tage of Unreasonable Weather.
Taking advantage Of the unseason-
able warm weather. employees of the
trees and parkings department of the
District are making unusual progress
for this period of the year in planting
new trees. it was announced today by
Clifford L. Lanham. superintendent.
The department has just completed
setting out saplings on several of the
streets recently widened, Mr.. Lana
ham said, and now plans are being
made to plant about 1900 trees along
Georgia avenue and in Takoma Park.
This project, he explained. will practi-
cally exhaust the departments nursery
stock. and when Spring planting be-
gins trees will have to be purchased
from private nurseries.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
HARD FIGHT IN MEXICO.
20 Rebels and 90 Federal Soldiers
Reported Slain.

NOGALES, November 80 R.-Dis-
patches to the Nogales Herald from
Guadalajara yesterday reported 20
Mexican rebels and % soldiers were
killed and many injured in three
hour battle at Atotonilco Sunday.
Maj. Jose Maria Castro and two other
officers were said to have been among
the Federal dead.
The Government is conducting a
concerted drive against small rebel
bands, described as religious ia
natics" in the district
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Creditors Charge Insolvency.

Creditors of Max Kramer and Oscar
Friedman, trading as the National
Hat G Cap Co., at 42S Ninth street,
today asked the District Supreme
Court to declare the firm bankrupt.
Insolvency is alleged and the claim is
made that payments Of claims Of other
creditors have been made. Attorney
Lunsford L. Hammer appears for the
complaining creditors.
Evening star., 1927-11-30

In walking mile the average man
takes 2,270 steps.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Sweden Has First Woman Judge.

STOCKHOLM, November 80 @.-
Sweden's first woman judge, Miss
Mary Traugott, has made her debut at
the county assizes in Svartlosa, near
Sf0ckholrn
Evening star., 1927-11-30
SENATE ELECTION
IN KEYSTONE STATE
IS DEFENDED BY WARE

CONTINUED from First Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
KAHN SONS COMPANY
PLANS HUGE BUILDING
Will Construct Department Store
at 18th and F Streets to
Cost Near 100000.

S. Kann Sons and Company will
construct a building costing between
100000 and $4,000 900 at Thirteenth
and + streets to house their depart
ment store, it was officially made
known by the officers of the company
today. This bore out the announce
ment in The Evening Star two weeks
ago that Kann's would move from
it's present location at Eighth and
Market space and take over the
Homer building, on the northeast cor
ner of Thirteenth and F streets.
The remodeling and enlargement of
the Homer building, as we'll as the
building next door, 1919 f street, will
begin early in 1929, when all the
leases on the present structure will
expire. The organization will move
the latter part of 1929, it is expected,
according to the official announce
ment.
The plans for the new store are
being drawn by Starrett Van Week
architects, who designed Lord Taylor's
and Saks department stores in New
York. They will collaborate with
Appelton p. Clark, jr., of this city,
designer of the Homer Building. C.
A. Wheeler of Chicago will be the In
terror decorator and fixture architect.
The entire structure will be Of the
latest design and equipment.
All deliveries will be made through
the new warehouse recently built at
Delaware avenue and c street south
west to avoid traffic congestion, it
was stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
ANCIENT VIEW TREE TREASURE OF
CATHEDRAL GARDENS HERE
Giant English Plant Found Among Ruins
Of Old Port Royal Estate Dug Up and
Brought to Capital on Truck.

An ancient yew, the finest known
specimen in the new world, which
probably was brought from England
as a sapling during the seventeenth
century, now is one Of the most treas
ured of growing things in the bishops
garden at Washington Cathedral
This old tree, beautiful in itself
and given a. semi-human personality
by the richness Of medieval tradition
which surrounds 1t, was found this
Fall growing in a ruined garden at
Port Royal. Va. The garden itself
and It's owners long since had van
ished and the yew was left standing
alone.
The yew in English tradition is the
tree Of ghosts and forgotten wars.
1t shades messy churchyards. From
it's boughs were fashioned the long
bows of the wars of the roses. 1t is
very rare in the United States.
1t was brought to Washington late
in November under the direction of
the All-Hallows Guild of the Cathe-
dral, the organization primarily in
terested in identifying the landscape
of Mt. ST. Adams. The transplanting
was an adventure in itself, it is re-
vealed by Mrs. Florence Bratenahl.
chairman of the garden committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
$50, 900 SWINDLE Baked
BY PRIVATE DETECTIVE
Alleged Confidence Man, Nabbed in
Wisconsin, Also Implicated in
$314,OOO Florida Fraud.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUPERIOR, Wis, January "a
swindle involving $4,000 was frus
trated yesterday by a private de
tective. who nabbed an alleged con.
fidence man in Superior who had
chosen as his victim wealthy Du.
luth widow. Search for the con.
fidence man began in Florida last
February, when a Miami widow was
f1eeced of $4,000.
Three, possibly four, men, high in
banking and mining circles in Duluth,
had been marked as prospective vic
tins, r. e. Mason, st. Paul, superin.
tendent Of a private detective agency,
said.
Traced from Minneapolis Friday
n. II. Wheeler, about so, alias 4.
Randolph Atkinson, is in Jail in Su-
perior waiting to be returned to
Miami, Fla, to face an indictment
returned by Dade County grand jury
charging conspiracy and fraud upon
complaint of Maude f, Brickell. He
will not fight extradition, Wheeler in
formed Mason.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
GOODWILL FLYERS
REPORT PROGRESS
At Guatemala City Ready for
Next Hop on 10000
Mile Journey.
By the Associated Press.


GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala,
January "a short hop of SIS miles
to San Jose, Guatemala, and then the
10 miles to San Salvador are the
next stages ahead Of the u. S. Army
good will flyers.
The five amphibian planes came
down on the flying field here at los
o'clock yesterday afternoon, complet-
ing the 383 miles from Salina Cruz,
Mexico, in hours SIS minutes.
With the completion of the sixth
leg, the flyers have put a little over
1.400 miles behind them in their
20,000mile journey which began at
San Antonio, Tex, December 81.
Their route will take them down the
west coast of South America, across
Chile and Argentina to Buenos Aires,
and thence northward, to end at
Washington, d. G.
Welcome by President ChacOn.
President Chacon of Guatemala, sur
rounded by cabinet officials and mem
bers of the diplomatic corps and o
great crowd of citizens, welcomed the
American flyers after they landed.
They were presented by Arthur III.
Geissler, the American minister.
II am very pleased you accom-
plished the journey to my country
without mishap," the president de-
clared. Your visit is matter of
great satisfaction to the government
and people of Guatemala, in whose
name / welcome YOU"
Mai. Herbert A. Darque, command
er of the fight, who landed first in
his plane, the New York, thanked
the president and presented letter
from President Coolidge. Then the
band played 1.-The Star Spangled Ban
ner" and the crowd cheered loudly.
President CooTidge's Message.
President Coolidge's letter, which
has made a deep impression on the
government and people of Guatemala,
says, in part:
II trust that your excellency will
see in the visit of these American
aviators another evidence of the ar
dent desire of the Government and
people of the United States to pro-
mote understanding and better ac-
quaintance between the two govern
ments and peoples-an object which
was the chief motive inspiring the
undertaking of the voyage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03

After week of packing and Grating
the caravan, a powerful truck and
trailer, started from Port Royal at
daybreak and kept on all day over
the Tidewater trail. They stopped
all night at Quantico and started
again early the next morning. The
whole weighed IS tons, far too
heavy a load for the bridge at Deco
guam Creek, which was marked for a
capacity of only six tons. There was
no other way to get to Washington
and the truck and trailer finally were
speeded across. with the bridge bend
ing under them.
1t required a whole day to maneuver
the tree on rollers to it's location In
the lockwood garden at the Cathedral,
a distance of about 500 feet. Then it
was necessary to wait two days be-
fore it could be planted. 1t finally
was placed in the mole dug for it on
bitterly cold day.
a dedication service was held on
Monday, November 20, when the
Dean Of Chester, then a guest at the
Cathedral, threw seven shovelfuls of
earth on the yew. Bishop Freeman
opened the service with prayer.
The ancient tree seems to be thriv.
ing III it's new location.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
Part of Brain Gone
Boy of 10 Retains
His High Mentality
BY the Associated Press

DS the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 3.-Despite
the fact that he recently lost five
ounces of his brain in an accident,
Alfonso Bedra, 10 years old. is de-
scribed as above the average men,
tally.
r., The boy suffered a cut in his
head when struck by an automo-
bile and lost part of his brains
from the occipital region. He re-
covered after an operation and was
given an examination by DR.. Fran
els Gerty, superintendent of the
Psyoopathic Hospital.
DIR. Gerty said the boy is above
the average mentally and described
his physical condition as excellent.
The youths only difficulty is that
he is unable to see when he looks
to the right because Of an injury
to the left occipital lobe of the
brain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
NEW LEAD PR0BED
IN MCPHERSON CASE
Inquiry CenterS on Woman at
Ell PaS0 Hotel Before
Aimee'S Return.


LOS ANGELES, January "a new
investigation of the movements OF
Aimee Semple Mcpherson last Sum-
mer, during the time she declares she
was held for ransom by kidnapers,
has been started by the district at
torney's office, the Times says. The
inquiry centers on hotel registrap
ton in Ell Paso, Tex, two days prior
to the evangelist's temperance in
Mexico.
A woman who registered at an
FL Paso hotel remained there a day
and a night after June 81. and de-
parted on a westbound train which
went through Douglas, AriZ., approx
mately 10 hours before the evangelist
was found in Aqua Prieta, Sonora,
across the boundary from Douglas.
Check OrlnistOn's Movements.
The Investigators are attempting to
determine whether the woman who
registered at the FL Paso hotel was
alone or accompanied by other per-
sons.
They also began a check Of the
movements of Kenneth G.. Ormiston,
former Angelus Temple radio man,
and a co-defendant with Mrs. Nc
Pherson; her mother, Mrs. Minnie
Kennedy, and Mrs. Lorraine wiseman
SIeldI, on Charges OF COnSplrlng TO
obstruCt justice and suborn perjury.
The officers said they believed that
Ormiston had parted in Chicago with
the woman whom he has identified as
Miss X" mad about June 20 re-
turned to Seattle, and from there
came to California.
The route backtracked that which
they charge the radio man and his
mysterious woman companion had
taken when they left Carmel, Calf,
May 20.
Records to Be Produced.
The authorities last night took
steps to obtain the original registra-
ton books of the FL Paso hotel for
June 10, 20. II and %, to submit them
to handwriting experts.
II don't care what they claim to
have uncovered in the way Of trans
continental jaunts." said Mrs. Nc
Pherson when informed of the new
developments. "Mr. Ormiston may
have travelled about the country while
was in the hands of kidnapers.
have already stated that 1 was not
Miss X He said his companion
was Miss x was not at Carmel.
and that settles that"
The State in the conspiracy case
has contended that the woman with
Carmel was Mrs. McPher-
ION.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03
NEW FIGHT LOOMS
ON GUN ELEVATION
House Naval Committee
Drafts Bill to Increase
Range of Warships.

BY the Associated Press
A renewal of the old fight to have
guns on American warships elevated
to increase their range to equal that
of British ships was forecast today
when it developed that authority for
the work probably would be sought
In a bill drafted by members of the
House naval committee. .
Two years ago the House voted an
appropriation for such changes. but
they were held up on the ground that
the agreements reached at the arms
conference might be violated. Later
the appropriation was withdrawn.
Butler FavOrs Measure.
Chairman Butler. who disclosed the
, plan of committeeman to authorize
the gun elevations, said he would
vote for the proposed bill. He sup
ported the administration position
two years ago. he said. because of
the prospect of world naval disarma-
mept. Now, he said, they have had
their meeting and have walked away
with their hands in their pockets"
The chairman agreed with other
members of the committee, he said,
that the British navy, with it's first
line guns at a higher elevation than
those of the United States Navy, has
n 1000 or 5000 yard advantage and
could "outshoot us in battle"
Early Action Planned.
Early action will be sought by Mr..
Butler on his own bill to authrOize 10
new cruisers for the Navy. He intro.
duCed the measure with the support
of his committee when il was found
the Navy Department appropriation
bill did not provide funds for con
struction Of three cruisers already au-
thoriZed.
Other members of the committee
indicated they will seek TO amend the
appropriation measure when it reaches
the House floor to include funds al
least TO begin construction of three
ships.