The Washington Post
October 19, 1927

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morning: The only newspaper in Washington with the Associated Press news every in the year. & r lowest, 47. 2 Weather—Cloudy today; tomorrow fair; with slowly rising temperature; fresh northwest wind. » Temperature yesterday—Highest, 50; Weather details on page 10. NQ. 18.752. POSTOFFICE ENTERED As SECUND CLASS MATTEB WASHINGTON. D. C WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 19, *% 1927. COPYRIGHT, 1927; BY THE WASHINGTON POS CO. ae TWO CENTS, | POST-SCRIPTS By GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN L 0 j “What is thy news? Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.” & " ~ President Coolidge discovers that the business depression is over sake fore the Democrats got around to finding out that we had one. Earl Carroll obtains a parole with a puritanical string to it that will take all the fun out of the welcome- home by Broadway. And this is what is now, in America, called free- dom! What’s delaying Attorney General Sargent in demanding that before he let’s Earl Carroll out he must promise not to violate the Fordney- McCumber law and the interstate Commerce act? = © » Now that Pepys’ Diary has been dramatized it is understood that Dave Belasco will produce “The Telephone Directory.” * And where‘ could Channing Pol- lock find more admirable characters than in Who’s Who? +s * * The anniversary of the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne has been cele- brated in New York for the third time this year. Big Bill Thompson’s crusade against King George ap- pears to be bearing fruit. ” uM + mo Dr. Ballou invents a system where- by every pupil in school will be pro- moted at the end of the year. Who said we would not live to see the millennium ? Our own private guess as to why the Western radicals have deserted the Lowden boom is that they were actuated by the instinct as described in the proverbial desertion of the ' sinking ship. e * 4% Senator Borah, who is reported to ‘be interested in having»any informa- tion that the Fifteenth amendment is being violated, is respectfully re- ferred to the little editorial entitled “Can You Answer These?” which we have just read, on page 6. * 4 7 EF The argument of the Defenders of the Constitution seems to be that if a State by legislative enactment nullifies an amendment, . that’s all right, but if a bootlegger with a pint of gin does it the Coast Guard must be called out and $30,000,000 per annum appropriated. Watch your step, Dixie! * ed . - Lindbergh discovers. that going to Baltimore is not suck an easy thing as hopping to Par‘s. But if Mr. Vic Berger is as keen for the overthrow of prohibition as he seems, why doesn’t he have the Socialist party put its O. K. on King Al? 6 a * Indianapolis mechanic is convict- ed of obtaining whisky on his doc- for’s order for his 12-year-old daughter, who was ill. Our crim- inal classes should let their off- spring die. 2 - . * President Coolidge admits there has been some falling off in the net receipts of the railroads. However, conditions ought to improve pretty soon now—we note that the Erie has filed suit against a commuter at Hackensack, N. J., for 92 cents. “Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!’’ ‘We trust that the Antisaloon League doesn’t read this cheering bit of news to the effect that the British sailors on the visiting cruisers in the Eastern Branch are served their grog regularly at eight bells. Many American citizens in Uncle Sam’s Navy are said to be visiting his Majesty’s subjects on the British fleet. ““My country, tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty— God save the King!”’ We gather that from now on the “Dogs of War” are going to be re- quired to wear their muzzles. “‘Can’t ’00 talk?” Doc Copeland feels the palpitat- ing pulse of the West and finds it suffering from a severe attack of alsmithitis. ‘ Dr. Howard retires as chief ento- ‘mologist of the Agricultural Depart- ment to devote himself exclusively to research. He has quite a bug on the subject. - te Maine defeats the al af the primary law, and the chances are that the country as a whole will stick to it until it can think of some- thing worse. + ~ te ro) Eo It is something of a shock to cur . military pride to learn that the chief of staff of the German army has come to the United States to study our methods of tatting and basket weaving. . 7 oe Our Marines in Nicaragua cut a a few more wlohe in thgtr gunstocks. ue thank the Rockville Chamber "167 BANDITS: FALL BATTLING MARINES -AND CONSTABULARY Four of the Nicaraguan Force Are Killed in Hot Encounter. GROUP OF 40 FIGHT OFF 300 ATTACKERS Machine Guns Are Silenced by Americans, Who Lose All in Making Retreat. Managua, Oct. 18 (A.P).—American Marines and Nicaraguan constabulary, in search of the missing Marine Corps aviators, Second Lieut. E. A. Thomas and Sergt. Frank E. Dodell, have en- gaged in battle with bandit contingents, killing or wounding 67 of them. Four members of the constabulary were among the Marines. being formed to be dispatched against Gen. Sandino, whose activities are in- creasing in Nueva Segovia. It was near Quilali, in this department, that the machine in which Thomas and Dowdell were flying some weeks ago crashed and was burned. The two men were seen to run from the wreckage, but attempts to rescue them were frustrated by large numbers of bandits. Searching for Airmen. Lieut. George J. J. O’Shea, U. 8S. Marine Corps, commanding a constab- ulary detachment at Jicaro, with Lieut. J. B. O’Neil, Marine Corps, U. S. Navy, sends a report of a forced march to Quilali in search of Lieut. Thomas and Sergt. Dowell with joint forces of 40 Marines and constabulary. On account of the long distance, from Jicaro the report has been delayed. It tells of terrific fighting between the bandits and Marines, when the rescuing patrol of 40 was suddenly attacked by bandits numbering 300 from three sides. Heavy execution was inflicted on the bandits by several of the Marines in individual engagements, and Lieut O’Shea’s life was saved' by Private Ken- neth, who killed a bendss at close quarters, The report just received tells of the expedition which went immediately in search of the missing American avia- tors, after they had presumably: been carried off by the bandits, Report Tells of Battle. The report reads: “The patrol early in the morning of September 9, advancing cautiously in the vicinity of the crashed plane, on Supotilla Mountain, 6 miles northwest of Quilali, was suddenly attacked from three sides by a bandit force of 500, well armed and with plenty of ammunition anc dynamite bombs, “The patrol fought courageously against the sup-rior numbers, but was forced to withdraw and fight its way to the rear. Lieut. O’Neil and Private Henry McKenzie, at the rear, effectively used hand» grenades and automatic CONTINUED ON PAGE 8, COLUMN 2. Menjou in Hospital Following Collapse Special to The Washington Post. Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 18.—Follow- ing a collapse due to stomach trouble, Adolphe Menjou, Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky star, Wus taken to the California Luthern Hospital today. No visitors were permitted to see him. Dr. P. G. White, in charge of the case, denied that Menjou’s condition was in any way alarming, but said it required confinement to bed for two or three weeks. Monkeys Given Virus Of Infant Paralysis New York, Oct. 18 (A.P.).—Four monkeys isolated in cages at Willard Parker Hospital today were prospective martyrs to science, although they did not know it. In their veins were the germs of infantile paralysis, injected in an attempt to discover a cure for the disease. Dr. Josephine B. Neal, in charge of the experiment, said they had recelved the virus Saturday in secretions from infantile paralysis patients and, al- though there had been insufficient time to observe the effect\of the in- jections, the monkeys appeared to have. a fever and from time to time would pass their hands across their low brows Sixteen other monkeys are candidates for similar experiments which probably will be conducted Within a few days, she said. Republican in Lead For Crumpacker Seat Portland, Oreg., Oct. 18 (A.P.).— Scattered returns from 24 voting pre- cincts tonight gave Franklin F. Korell, Republican, a slight margin over Elton Watkins, Democrat, in a contest for representative in from the Third Congressional District. _ The post was left vacant by the death of Maurice E. Crumpacker. Early returns gave Korell 920; Watkins, 690. 3118 3 a. eee! killed, but there were no casualties! A contingent of 600 constabulary :s, | GIVEN LIBERTY Cc ARROLL. ARROLL GETS PAROLE CONDITIONED ON ARIDITY Producer, of Bathtub Party Fame, Also Barred From Places Serving Liquor. EARL SARGENT SIGNS RELEASE (Associated Press.) Earl Carroll, New York theatrical pro- ducer, will be released from the At- lanta Penitentiary within the next few days. The recommendation of the parole board for his release was approved yes- terday by Attorney General Sargent and papers were forwarded immediately to the warden of the penitentiary direct- ing him to liberate the prisoner. Carroll began serving a sentence of a year and a day June 8 for perjury in connection with his famous bath tub party on the stage of a New York thea- ter. He became eligible for parole on October 8, and on Monda, the board passed favorably on his application This action, however, did not become known until yesterday, when it was an- nounced by the. Attorney General. In addition to his prison sentence. Carroll was fined $2,000. He was de- scribed in the parole application as a model prisoner with a marked improve- ment.in health after his collapse on his way to prison, when he was removed from the train and kept for sometime in a Greenville, S. C., hospital. Conditions under which Carroll’s. pa- role was granted include one that dur- ing the term of his parole he is not to frequent saloons or other places where intoxicating liquors are “sold or fur- nished, and that. he will not drink in- toxicating beverages.” Carroll also will be required to ab- stain during the time of his parole from associating with persons of bad reputa- tion, in all respects to conduct himself honorably and work diligently and hon- estly for himself and his employer and to avoid “violating the law.” Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 18 (A.P.).—Ear! Carroll probably will be released from the Federal penitentiary here. rhurs- day, Warden John W. Snook said to- day when informed of the Attorney General’s action in approving the New York theatrical producer’s parole. Snook explained that the Attorney General’s order, of “immediate, parole” for Carroll meant simply that.mo spe- cific date was set for his release. Under the usual procedure, he will, be freed as soon ag formalities are completed, This will entail Carroll’s signature to his parole papers and, since they must be forwarded by mail from Washing- ton, it probably will be Thursday be- fore his release is arranged.- | PRIMARY LAW REPEAL DEFEATED IN MAINE Returns:From 592 Out of 633 Precincts Show 2 to 1 - Against Change. Portland, Me., Oct. 18 (A.P.).—The voters of Maine in no uncertain terms today repulsed a movement to repeal the direct primary law and return to the caucus and convention method of nominating candidates. for public of- fice. The law was enacted in 1911. In a special State election, held on a referendum seeking repeal of the pri- mary system, the vote, with returns missing from 651 election precincts, maintained the existing law by a 2-to-1 majority. The returns from 582 elec- tion precincts out of. 633 in the State, representing 468 citiés and ‘towns’ out of 1,519, gave:. For repeal, 19,424; against repeal, 35,353. The fight to retain the primary was headed by Gov. Ralph O. Brewster, while the leader of the opposing forces was former Gov. William + hee of Rock- land, Texas aaa. 97, Hurt in Fall O Out of Bed Childress, Tex., Oct. UES (ahead Barton, 97 years old, who says he is the oldest active cowboy in the world, met his first serious accident here when’ he fell out of bed and broke his collarbone. RE 1 vod i | a ; . @ lin the city when the ‘BERGER SAYS OMIT WILL BE NOMINATED; PREDICTS ELECTION Third (Radical) Party Is} Still Needed, Holds Socialist Chief. URGES STRONG FIGHT ON PROHIBITION LAW Would Withdraw Federal En- forcement, Trusting Rest to. Inertia. Special to The Washington Post, New York, Oct..18.—Victor L. Berger, veteran Socialist representative from the Milwaukee district, whose election as successor of Eugene V. Debs as head of the Socialist party of the United States, was announced today, says he sees nothing to prevent the nomination of Gov. Smith of New York by the Dem- ocrats in 1928, and predicts Smith’s nomination. Mr. Berger says the overthrow of prohibition is so sufficiently important to warrant a strong wet plank in the Socialist platform next year. Unless the Nation soon has a President of progressive principles and policies it will, in Mr. Berger’s own words, “go to hell.” To bring about the overthrow of prohibition he wants to see Federal enforcement of the dry law withdrawn, and enforcement left wholly to the States, in which case enforcement will die of inertie and prohibition will be ot no effect. “All the radicals don’t think and all who are dissatisfied with prohibi- tion will vote for Al Smith if he is the candidate next year. All the radi- cals who think will vote the Socialist ticket,” said the Milwaukee representa- tive, who is at the Hotel Astor. Smith to Carry South. “If nominated next year Al Smith not only will carry the solid South, despite its religious prejudices against a Catholic, but he also will carry his own State, New Jersey, Maryland, Con- necticut and probably Kentucky and Illinois, even if Coolidge is renom- inated,” said Mr. Berger. “He may carry one .or two more close States if Hughes runs and he surely would if Dawes or Lowden should be thg¢ Re- publican candidate. Lowden would be impossible. He is the son-in-law of the late George M. Pullman, the oppressor of labor. Pullman, unwittingly, was the main factor in making Eugene V Debs a nat&onal leader. If the Demo- crats don’t nominate Al, their candi- date will be hopeless, and it would make no difference who they chose to head their ticket. “I don’t see anything that will pre- vent Smith’s nomination. After he is elected I’would urge him to bring about legislation that would throw the burden of dry law enforcement onto the various States, and withdrawal of Federal enforcement altogether. This would be adherence to the theory of States’ rights, to which the Demo- cratic party is supposed to be devoted. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 3. Man and 4 Children Killed at Crossing Cambridge, Ohio, Oct. 18 (A.P.).— Five persons, four of them children, were killed and a fifth child was seri- ously injured this afternoon when a Pennsylvania passenger train struck an automobile south of here. The dead are: Russell I: Cox, 38, driver; Ralph Cox, 7, Russell’s son; Raymond Kostelenki, 7; William Gooden, 7; Williard B. Bree- den, 7. H. Stephen Gould,.7, suffered frac- tured skull and is in a serious condi- tion. The accident occurred in a rainstorm. The elder Cox, cashier in a Byesville bank, had driven to a school and: was taking the children home. Index to Today's Issue. Pages. 1—Marines Kill 67 Bandits. Passing of Business Letup Is Seen. . Berger Predicts Smith’s Election. Fall-Sinclair Oil Trial Is Begun. Earl Carroll Is Granted Parole. 2-3—News and Sidelights on Oil Case. 4—-Trade Group Wars on Council. Woman Released in Herner Case. Auto Title Law Proposed. 5—Nye Explains West's Position. Urged to Back U. S. on Tariff. $250,000,000 Tax Cut Looms. 6—Editorials. 7-10—Society. 8—Assassin Tells of General’s Death. 9—Curb on Officers Enforced. 10-21—Legal Record. 10—Vital Statistics and Weather. 11—Bridge and Cross Word Puzzle. 12—Magazine Page. 13-14-19—Financial. 15-16-17—Sports. 18—Comics and Radio. 20-21—-Classified Advertising. 22—The News in Pictures. Three Capital Masons Honored. German Movie Director Here, GERMAN MINE STRIKERS BOMB RAILROAD TRACKS Reds Strengthen Control of Movement; British and Poles Giving Aid. BERLIN FEARS DARKNESS (Special Cable Dispatch.) Berlin, Oct. 18.—Serious news reached Berlin from the strike area tonight. The pit owners of the Elbe River district sent an S O §S to the government stat- ing that strikers had blown up the rail- way track with hand grenades and were terrorizing the countryside. The Saxony government dispatched police and emer- gency service men to Boehlen and Hirschfelde, with orders to supply coal to hospitals and public institutions at all costs. | ‘The right wing Christian MinersUnion issued a manifesto guaranteeing to each member striking four weeks’ full pay. The reds, numbering a third of the strikers, strengthéned their control of the strike movement today. The miners’ organization in the Ruhr dis- trict are assisting the strikers of cen- tral Germany by framing new wage de- mands and threatening also to strike. British miners expressed their soli- darity, while the Miners International will hold a meeting at Warsaw Thurs- day to devise means of supporting the Germans in their struggle. They plan to. prevent the movement..of coal into Germany from surrounding countries The main battle centers at the Golpa works, which: provide one-third of Berlin’s electricity. Reds succeeded in inducing the Golpa men to join the strike, Berlin officials assure the .pub- lic that they can bring the necessary electricity to Berlin from other sta- tions, but Halle and Hi Halberstadt already CONTINUED ON “PAGE 8, COLUMN 6. Trusty and 9 Prisoners Break Jail in Ohio St. Clairsville, Ohio, Oct. 18 (A P.).— Ten prisoners escaped from the county jail here today by sliding down a rope made from blankets after Russell Gil- more, trusty, sentenced yesterday to one to seven years in the State peniten- tiary for larceny, picked a lock to the cell block. Eighteen other inmates refused to join Gilmore in his break. Most of the escaped prisoners were awaiting trial for burglary. Roumanian Cabinet ss Member Sent to Jail Vienna, Austria, Oct. 18 (A.P.).— Dispatches from Bucharest report that the Roumanian minister of public health, Dr. Nicholas Lupu, has been sentenced to imprisonment for 40 days for assaulting a policeman at the time of the recent elections. When Premier Bratianu learned of the verdict he remarked laughingly, “our next cabinet council will have to be held in the minister's cell.” All Pupils to Be Promoted Under New School System Child Failing in One or Two Subjects Not to Be Left Back, Ballou Explains, but to Advance in Group of Similar Mentality. . Every school child in the District will be promoted when the system of group- ing pupils according to how bright they are is thoroughly established here, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, declared yesterday at the open- ‘|ing meeting of the season of. the Dis- trict Congress of Parent-Teacher Asso- ciations, in the Depakeanos of the In- terlor Building. — ‘Under this system, which is grad- ually being put into effect in the Dis- trict, “Johnny” will begin the new school year at the point where he left off in June. He will not have to back-} track over ground he had previously mastered just. because he happened to fail in one or two auhiee Dr. Ballou ‘| explained. The new system will be established have grown large enough that all grades may aetebtap te ae hcthec or gy aac children are divided into “homogeneous groups,” according to rapidity of prog- ress. > Every child, Dr. Ballou explained, progresses in something, or to some ex- tent, and the idea is to keep the pupils moving, either slowly or rapidly, ac-. cording to their ability, but neverthe- less moving constantly. This is the am- bition of all the big school systems of the country, Dr. Ballou saif The child who is kept back becomes discouraged. All incentive to go ahead ts cooled by having to go back and do over again what was previously done. Dr. Ballou commended the round-up of preschool children for physical ex- amination conducted by the congress during the summer. Such work in- } creases efficiency of. the schools, he lop ‘body uiaaa half-fare for COOLIDGE CONSIDERS BUSINESS RECESSION PAT, OUTLOOK GOOD Reassures Country on Basis of Data From Cabinet Members. DECREASE REPORTED AMONG UNEMPLOYED Drop in Railroad Earnings Attributed to Prosperity and Wider Use of Autos. By CARLISLE BARGERON. Reassurance on business conditions was given the country yesterday by President Coolidge. Information given to him by members of the cabinet are to the effect that the temporary re- cession has been passed and that the outlook for the future is encouraging. All factors considered — improved business conditions, a decrease in the number of strikes as compared with last year, lessening of the number of unemployed—indicate to the President that the country is in fairly good eco- nomic condition and no material change is expected. There has been some falling off in the net receipts of railroads, according to the President’s information, but no decrease in the volume of business done. There has been some diminu- ‘tion in passenger traffic, but rather than indicating a lessening of pros- perity it reflects just the reverse, in his opinion. What it does mean, as he sees it, is that more automobiles are coming into use and an economic condition that permits this is a healthy one. And a considerable increase is looked for in the automobile industry he made known. Coal Decline Explained. Shipments of coal have not been so heavy, but the explanation for this lies, in his opinion, in the fact that consumers, fearing strikes and resultant shortages, had the foresight to stock up, and are now using up these stocks. The coal strike, on the other hand, has largely been settled, according to Secre- tary of Labor Davis’ report to the Presi- dent. Settlement has been effected in Illinois, most of Indiana and a con- siderable portion of Ohio. The number of strikes as a “whole for the first nine months of the year were only 27 as compared with 50 for the corresponding period last year This, in the opinion of the President. indicates a feeling of general content- ment on the part of labor. Unemploy- ment is reported decreasing. Crops with the exception of cotton. are fully as good as last year, the President believes, The corn crop was reported as having increased very ma- terially over what had been expected because of warm weather in the last two weeks. Prices for corn are not as high as had been expected but are fully as good as those last year. Cattle prices, he made Known, are very high, and the sheep and hog rais- ing industries are in fair condition. Wheat prices he considers are fair. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 5 Blowing Rock, N. C., Is Visited by Snow Blowing Rock, N. C., Oct. 18 (A.P.).— This section had its first snowstorm of the season today. Driven by 2 high wind the snow fell. throughout the day, but melted as fast as it hit the ground until nightfall, when the temperature began to grop sharply. EDDIE STINSON MISSING WITH FIVE IN AIRPLANE Machine, Overdue in 100-Mile Flight in New England, Is Believed Down. Boston, Oct. 18 (A.P.).—Five hours overdue on a short 100-mile hop from Hartford. Conn., to Boston, Eddle Stinson, Detroit airplane designer and builder, and a party of five friends, including his wife and a German baron, were missing late. tonight, presumably forced down somewhere by a cold, blustering northeaster, which has lashed the New England Coast all day. They hopped off from Hartford at 4 p. m. today on the last lap of an 18,000-mile air tour in the interest of airport promotion. They should have reached Boston in two hours, but at 11 p. m. they had not been heard from. At that hour State and local police of Natick, Framingham and Sherborn were investigating reports that a big}. plane had gone down ‘in the woods near Natick-Sherborn line. Besides Stinson and his wife the plane carried Philip Ashby, J.°T. Whittaker, Stinson’s mechanician; Fred Koeler and Baron Ravene Barnekow, a German aviator. Wife Jumps to Death At Mate’s Command. Litchfield, 1, Oct. 18 “Jump!” cried Charles Brewer to his wife yesterday wher he ‘aw that a | Wabash trair was about to strike the tuck in which they were riding near Mount Olive, Ill. Mrs. Brewer, 34 years old, jumped, her head struck the pavement and she LAWYERS IN FALL AND SINCLAIR CASE | Jury i in Oil Case (A.B.) | No. 1. JOHN P. KERN. Age, 32; route supervisor, Holmes Bakery; address, 1315 ° North Carolina avenue northeast. No. 2. BRADNER W. HOLMES. Age, 34; floor manager, Woodward & Lothrop; address, 203 P street northwest. No. 3. JOHN J. COSTINETT. Age, 61; tailor; address, 1442 Fair- mont street nor. hwest. No. 4. NORMAN L. GLASCOCK. Age, 47; clerk in a plumbing sup- ply company; address, 1013 Eighth street northwest, No. 5. EDWARD J. KIDWELL, Jr. Age, 31; leather worker; address, 1637 U street southeast. No. 6. CHARLES HOLT, Age, 63; retired brick mason; ad- dress, 1104 Four -and-a- half street southwest. No. 7. MRS. A. L. BAILEY. About 30; clerk, Arthur Jordan Piano Co.; address, 2700 Connec- ticut avenue. No. 8. MISS BERNICE &. HEATON. About 30; chief instructress, long distance, Chesapeake & Po-. tomac Telephone Co.; address, 1228 1 street northwest. No. 9. GARDNER P. GRENFELL. Age, 26; electrical: cable splicer; address, 1916 H street northwest. No. 10. WILLIAM H. GOUCHER. Age, 39; tire repairer; address, 1408 Franklin street northeast. No. 11. CONRAD J. HERZOG. Age, 56; automobile sales manager; address, 36 New .York . avenue sortheast. No. 12. ROBERT C. FLORA. Age, 39; salesman, American ice Co.; address, 76 T street north- west. OPEN LEGAL FIGHT | The Women and Ten Men Chosen on Jury for the Teapot Dome Trial. ROBERTS PRESENTS. PROSECUTION VIEWS Statement of Position Taken by the Defense. BRIEF SPEECHES START BIG COURT CONTEST Panel to Pass on+ Charges Represents Cross-Section ‘ NOT ASKED FOR PLN, ‘SAYS ADMIRAL MAGRUDER Will “Give Them Something to Think About” if Called On, He Is Quoted. CHANGE IN WIRE ALLEGED Philadelphia, Oct. 18 (A.P.).—Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, com- mandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and author of a magazine article on the Navy which created a stir in naval circles recently, was quoted today as saying he had not been asked to submit plans to reorganization to ef- fect. economy in the Navy,” as he ad- vocated in the article Speaking before the Knights of Columbus Luncheon Club, the admiral asserted that he “doubted” that he would be called on to furnish such plans. “If ‘they’ do ask for them maybe I'll give them something to think about,” Admiral Magruder was quoted as saying. “I am going to stay out in the open rand keep my mouth shut—playing a waiting game. “Many of the things ‘they’ have done 1 consider very small. Soon after my article appeared I received a telegram from. Washington which in effect asked me to ‘submit’ immediately details of plans for reorganization of the Navy as you have now. “When this telegram to me was given out for publication ‘they’ omitted the words ‘as you have ney’ ‘They’ knew 1 didn’t have details ready then.” Admiral Magruder left here for Washington late today. Father Killed and Son Dying in Aero Crash Portsmouth, Ohio, Oct. 18 {A.P.}.— William Cottrell, 50, uf Cleveland, Ohio, was fatally injured here this afternoon when the biplane in which he and his son, Chester, 27, crashed in making a forced landing in a corn field near the county infirmary. It was said in- juries to the younger Cottrell probably would prove fatal. Cleveland, Oct. 18 (A.P.).—William Cottrell, 50, killed, and his son, Chester, 27, seriously injured, in an. airplane crash near Portsmouth today, were on their way to Miami, Fla. They were making their way to that city by tak- ing up passengers. They had several ge operating in and around.Cleve- and. Stork Pays Woman . 2 Visits in 5 Days Spokane, Wash., Oct. 18 (A-P.).— When Mr. and Mrs, Albert Springer be- came the parents of a 414-pound girl last week they were happy, but when five days later another daughter, weigh- ing a pound more, was woeny: they were happier The father is a twin and there are four sets of twins in the mother’s own family. ¢ Crisis in Albanian Cabinet Is Reported | (Special Cable Dispatch.) _ Athens, Oct. 18.—Dispatches from Ti- rana announce a ministerial crisis to- day in Albania as a result of the vio-' of American Life. me ae By “ALBERT W. FOX. With dramatic suddenness the pre- liminaries in the Fall-Sinclair conspir- acy trial were cut short at fifteen min- utes past 12 o’clock yesterday, and the great legal battle is now on full blast. was finally selected at that hour, and opening statements by the Government and by the defense outlined the salient features involved in the charge of con- spiracy against Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, New York oil magnate, as well as the basic facts which will form the groundwork of their defense. Owen J. Roberts, of Government's special counsel, fired the opening broad- side for the prosecution, summarizing the essence of the indictment in a 20- minute address to the jury. All the persuasive power that Roberts. possesses was employed in well-modu- lated conversational tones by which he suught to carry conviction to the “ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” as he, himself, phrased it. And the two attractive young women jurors viea with the ten men in following every word until the noon recess, at 12:45, brought the Government’s open- ing presentation to a close. Littleton Opens for Defense. Martin W. Littleton went into action at the beginning of the afternoon ses- Sion and had scarcely warmed up to his task of laying the groundwork for the defense when adjc: rmment came at 3 o’clock. It was clear that the defense counsel had the rapt attention of all the jurors, and that the twelve individuals in the jury box are enter- ing upon their duties with earnestness and a determi.ation to master the basic facts as presented by both sides. Neither Roberts nor Littleton attempted more yesterday than to present to she jurors sufficient background for the testimony of the witnesses to he in- telligible and to become co.i.nected up in the jurors’ minds with the vclum- inous evidence to be later judged and assessed. The jury, as finally chosen, repree sents a fair cross-section of average American life in any given community. There are two men of mature experile ence past 60,. Charles Holt, w retired brick mason, and John J. Costinett, well known men’s tailor. Two othets are well over 40 and engaged in the sort of useful pursuits that are typical of city life. Conrad J Herzog is an Ford car at the Universial Co. here bee fore graduating to his present position of sales manager. cock is in the plumbing business ant. is 47. v Members of Jury Cautioned.” nt The youngest juror—aside from” the two young women, who may be anye where from 20 to 30—is Gardner Pe Grenfell, electrical cable-splicer, who>w 26 John P. Kern, route supervisor, and Edward J. Kidwell, jr., leather ee Holmes, floor manage? repairer, are 39. The composite ime pression which the jury makes is that the members will be quite capable and complicated questions interwoven Congress, oi] leases, drainage, &ec. This is the sort of evidence wiltie | is to come up at once in the trial, — and the background for testimony along — that line will be laid today when George — Otis Smith, chief of the Onited States former Assistant Secretary of the i versity, are slated to take the stand. jury against talking to outsiders about the case or reading the newspapers but; 4 the jury was no. locked up. Sinclair Arrives Early. expectedly after the morning had seemingly made a slow start. sine clair, attired in a neatly fitting blue — suit, was again among the early ares) ¥ rivals, accompanied by his Martin Littleton and George P. on terior; Capt. H. A Stuart, ‘vu. Ss. N,, : and K. C. Heald, geologist of Yale Unie a cou 4 ee da one » ii ‘Martin W. Littleton Begins His The jury of ten men and two women © et 4 ce a ay automobile salesman, who sold many @ — _ Mag ‘ aa: Justice Siddons has cautioned the — a The completion of the jury came. wae - have just turned 30, and Bradner W. © for Woodward ~ & Lothrop, is 34. Both Robert C. Flora; salesman, and William H. Goucher, tire — of mastering the somewhat difficult ~ in’ the evidence dealing with acts of q Geological Survey: Edward C. Firiney, — : i ae Norman 8S Glase- q :