The Washington Post
October 10, 1929

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# ¢ fe SSecondo game—Philadelphia, 9; © ae Xi ~ WASHINGTON; THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1929. THREE CENT yl A aad se A Foxx and — Hit] Home Runs and Drive. in Seven Mates. 13 CUB BATSMEN AGAIN STRIKE OUT Grove Disproves Theory Chicagoans Prey on _Left-Handers. M’CARTHY IS FORCED: TO USE 4 HURLERS Victory Marks. Tenth in Row for. American League i in ‘World’s — SERIES STATISTICS - (asedehaet Press.) STANDING. OF THE CLUBS. - Team. Won. Lost. Pct. Philadejphia ...... 2 ® 13,000 Chicago ....6.:05+. 0°. 2 000 — GAME SCORES. ‘First +‘game— Philadelphia, 3; . Chicago, 1. ‘ Chicago, 3. SECOND GAME FIGURES. Paid attendance, 49,987. Players, $117,347.94. Each contending club, $19,557.99. : Each league, : $19,557.99. TOTALS FOR TWO GAMES. Paid attendance, 100,727. Receipts, $437,049. ..° ~ Commissioner's share, +s, 104.90 Players, $236.006.46. | ‘anes league, $09,334.41. By SHIRLEY. L. POVICH (Sports Eattor. of —2— — hoped * in the * —** blasts “The Cubs: went ‘down: ‘toa 8-to-3 Gefeat this afternoon “literally be- tween strike-outs at’ the hands of George. Earnshaw... and. Lefty. Grove. . For the second. succesive :day. the former world series record. of twelve | sttikeyouts was: broken asthe pitch- ing aces of the Athletics breezed :the | ; Dall by the vaunted Cub array, ehar-.| ing in the honor. of thirteen strike- outs which yesterday fell exclusively | | ‘to Howard Etmke. ‘Fifty thousand wind-swept, chill- racked fans who stormed Wrigley Field for the second gate of the series saw the Athletics whee] their heavy artillery into action . against four Cub pitchers with devastating effect; saw Pat Malone, the spedd- __ ball. king, pounded from the box; saw Jimmy Foxx hit his second home run of the series .with two on base, and saw Al Simmons. hit a home run with one on. “* — Chicago Fans Discouraged. They saw their own favorites in the Chicago line-up again reduced to comparative impotentcy by: the su- perior pitching of ‘Barnshaw and Grove, and they saw Grove strike out six and shut out the Cubs for the last four and a third “intiings, when by all the orthodox, tenets of the game this stellar southpaw should have been a set-up for the sight right-handers “ the Cubs’ ba‘ting order. Ther is much Aeubt tn the hearts of Chicago fans tonight and among the fans of. the. entire Na* ona! League circuit for today's victory of y the Athletics signaled the tenth suc- cessive triumph of an American League team over the National Leaguers in the world series of 1927, "28 and ‘29. One brief bid for victory was made by the Cubs this afternoon—in the fifth inning when they batted Earn- shaw from the box to score three runs and reduce the six run lead of the Athletics. Then it was that Grove stopped the attack so consum- mately while his mates continued to. pile up runs, The Cubs’ offensive silent until the fifth, lapsed there- after against the southpaw slants of Grove, who added six strike-outs to the seven compiled by Earnshaw in the first four and two-thirds innings. A’s Produce Telling Blows. ~The Cubs could make eleven hits off the cémbined efforts of Grove and Earnshaw, but the Athletics were the first to strike and they struck harder. what with twelve safeties off Malone, Blake, and Nehf, including the salient home runs of Simmons and Poxx. , The. 21-year-old Foxx, who received _ his baptism tn world series play yes- terday when de knocked his first homer, today established himself as a positive menace with a homer, double and single, his four-base knock being the first productive bi blow of the game. | _ GONTINUED ON PAGE 21, COLUMN 6. Fe _Y F — * EE — — phoeee Simmons, If. ...... — 8 WO mh OPO | — SON SVS S| Comtemeorem mos — CHICAGO. MoMillan, 30, 5 SB. Ph. cccces . — « eeeeeeee es ——— | sugniiibancanense % POSCOSCCOOHOMHOS ., © SOCOCOMOWIMOWMMOS SOSSCOOSONMAWM Mew SDOOOO Mm OSONES Seeoocoooosooscoous P © » the fifth. ; Heat fifth. ted for Carison in the eighth. Philadelphia, AL.) 00330012 oe esses 00003000 Run soir si Simmons — — ‘Home es alae ae Foxx. —— poley to he: Malone, Rp . (Entnshaw) (Bugiish: — orns ne); ye (23, lor, Malo kn? 3 inhitigs. with om Binke ake, can eich nat ati om Car!so —* in sel re ——— — 2 at bate 5 no hits. runs n 3 apices Mrs. Elinor Beakley Turns On Jets “in Kitchen . at “Fifth Street Home. BOY READS STORY BOOK The lives of Mrs. Elinor .Beakley. 35 years old, and her 5-year-old son, Gordon, were snuffed out -yesterday afternoon when the mother, despon- dent: over continued illness, locked herself and the boy in the kitchen of their home on Fifth street near Sheridan street northwest, and turned on five gas jets in the stove. . The tragedy was discovered late yesterday afternoon by the husband and father, George Beakley, an torney with the Federal Tax Commis- sion. Unable to enter the home by the front door, Beakley went around to the kitchen, where he smelled gas. Mrs. J: N. Browning, living in the same block called police, Fire Rescue Squad No. 2 and Dr. Melville Linwood Heiges, of 7228 Blair road. When police crashed their way into the kitchen, Mrs. Beakley was found lying. on the floor in the center of the ‘room, dead; while the boy Jay huddled beside a chair from which he had spparently fa fallen when over- CONTINUED ON ‘PAGE 3 COLUMN 6. ol esesescoosce™ at-, TAKING’ ANAL , CST LL oSTER THINKS “Ghost” Sweetheart to Bar Proposals. JEALOUSY OF SLAYER PLUS LIQUOR BLAMED Dayton, Soer in His Cell, Still Refuses to Hire Lawyer. TELLS HOW HE KEPT HER BODY FOR HOURS Suicide Effort Failed as Pistol Jammed, He Says | in Varying Recitals. Dexter Churchill Dayton; 25-year- old insurance salesman, was driven to strangle pretty Miss Marjory O’Donnell in a room in the Roosevelt Hotel by a mad jealousy, distorted by ie | liquor and which was wholly un- a founded, as the gir] had no serious af- fair with any vther man. Her ref- erences to “another man” were made 1) merely to stay the repeated proposals 4} of Dayton to marry him. At least, such is che theory of mur- der’ to which Eatherine O'Donnell clings tenaciously as she tries«to un- ravel the hazy circumstances which led to her sister's violent. death. Moreover, she Joes not believe that 16| Marjory went to the Roosevelt Hotel for a ptearranged love tryst but was ‘tricked into the affair on a pretense of meeting some friend of Dayton. The actual killing. was committed, according to Dsyton’s story, early Tuesday morning. Then for almost 24 hours the slayer had been in the — Ge tot he WOula tales 2th inn’ life, The sleek young. confessed slayer awaited the inques’’ im a ceil at. the Etghth Precinct Station. He talked | only in answer to insistent questions and séenied to have abandoned hi:m- | self tos sort of indifferent despair. Doesn't Want’ Lawy>r. | The young man ha been allowed to change his. clothes, ridding him- self of his blood-stained evening shirt | and clothes. Whilé a guard kept con~- stant watch to prevent him from re- peating an attempt to take his own life, the slayer sat gazing into — spiritless. Dayton still maintained last night that he has no neéd.of a lawyer. “What's the use. he asked list- lessly. “They can’t do me any good now.” A tragic sequel to the killing was enacted last night in the heartbroken story of the elder sister’s love for the slain girl, as she awaited their —— and an uncle. Victim Not His Sweetheart. Katherine O'Donnel] was not bit- ter against Dayton, though she tn- sisted that Marjory was “the dearest thing in her life.” Instead, she was mystified—unable to comprehend how such a quiet, well-bred young man as Dayton had always appeared to her could do such a deed as he had ad- mitted. “I don’t know what to think,” she said, as tears rose in her eyes, “We were both s}.fond of Dex. Of course, I knew that Marjory had been con- tinually refusing to marry him be- CONTINUED ON PAGE 3. COLUMN 2. Lindbergh Discovers Four Forgotten Cities of Mayas White Temples’ Glimpsed Through Jungles as Plane Passes. Aboard Linbergh’s Plane, Oct. 9 (A. tion, on its last day of search for Maya ruing and already homeward bound, was more succeasful today than on any previous flights. The crumbling walls of a majestic Maya temple pyramid, estimated to be 60 to 70 feet in height, was the fourth ancient city found by Col. Charlies A. Lindbergh within two o— — — — — MONEY ! How Women — Can Make It — — 7 A NEW SERIES OF IN- FORMATIVE ARTICLES ON. THIS SUBJECT. BY MAE SAVELL © CROY WILL INTEREST EVERY WOMAN IN THE CAPITAL. Starting Sunday | IN THE WASHINGTON POST Marjory O’Donnell Told of | was considerably sobered but still in|. somewhat of » dane: lést night: rae seer et, — "PRINCIPALS IN LOVE ‘SLAYING F] MISS MARJORY O:DONNELL, DEXTER CHURCHILL DAYTON. 0 EPSON Ph HURTS THREE BOYS Making Toy Weapon in Cellar of Home. TREATED AT HOSPITAL = Three boys, members of well-known families, were injured at 7 o'clock last night in the explosion. of a toy cannon they were making in the basement at the home of one of the boys, William Dorsey, 10-year-old son of Herbert Dorsey, chief electrical engineer of the United States. Coast and Geodetic Survey, at’ 3708 —— third place northwest. The most seriously injured of .the trio was John Chambers, 12-year-old son of Lieut. Col. John Chambers, attached to the offices of the quar- termaster general of the Army, of 3325 Rowland place northwest. The youth received serious injuries in his abdomen and was taken to Walter. Reed Hospital in its ambulance. His condition there was characterized as critical, due to his somewhat —— t Willis Crittenberger, 10-year-old son -of Maj. Willis Crittenberger, U. &. chest’ which hecessitated. — ‘aid “at his home. . The Dorsey youth received -injuries on his face and to the right eye, whose sight was said to have been endan- gered in the accident. The.boy was taken in the automobile of his par- ents to Emergency Hospital, where at- tendants declared his condition was not serious except for the undeterm-~- ined nature of the eye injury. According to Maj. Crittenberger, the accident occurred while the boys were making thelr third and final toy can- non in a small mold of their own de- sign into which they had been pour- ing molten lead. With two of the small toys having been completed successfully, the youths were insert- ing an epparently empty regula‘ion Army rifle shell into the front end of the molten metal to hollow out the interior as a gun when the explosion, produced in an unexplained manner, suddenly hurled -fragments of the broken rifle shell and the hot metal in all directions. Grouped about the little toy with their faces close to the cannon, the boys received virtually the full force of the explosion. * The’ accident occurred a few mo- ments after Dorsey's father had ‘called down to the boys that the family’s evening meal was ready and that the boys should conclude their work. Anxious to finish their product to allow one cannon for each of the three, they hastened to eng their work when the explosion occurred. Maj. Crittenberger declared the sudden reaction of the molten metal on the steel shell apparently produced the explosion. He discoun a sug- gestion that the shell might have contained any gunpowder. Philippine Issue Out of Tariff Bill Senate Blocks Amendment by King; Vote Held Not Test on Question. (Associated Press.) By a vote of 45 to 36, the Senate yesterday rejected an amendment to ‘the tariff bill which woulda have granted independence to the. Philip- pines after a constitutional conven- tion in the islands had set up self- government, — . Members of both parties contended the vote was not a test on the inde- pendence question, but was aimed to prevent it becoming tangled in tariff consideration. The proposal was offered by Sena- tor King (Democrat), Utah, as a sub- stitute for an,amendment backed by Senator Broussard (Democrat), Louis- fana, which the Senate refused to esl Sle ly Ba hy Mra The Broussard proposal was to levy tarifis on imports from the Philippines and Army Officers’ Sons Injured {PANTAGES PAID NIN TD TESTIFY, CHARGE Prosecution Reveals Alleged Attempt of Magnate to Bribe Witness. | SENSATION IS CAUSED Los Angeles, Oct. 9 (AP.).—Jay Sheridan, a State eurprise witness, created a sensation: today at the as- sault trial of Alexander Pantages by testifying that the theatrical magnate had attempted to obtain paid and perjured testimony from him. The witness named amounts he said were received from the defendant. Sheridan, formerly a theatrical man, said that Pantages had planned to use him as a witness when he be- lieved Sheridan could give testimony damaging to the reputation of Eunice ‘Pringle, the ‘37-year-old coed dancer who accused Pantages of attacking her int his small private office. The wit- ness said he. had spent some nights in Tig Juans, a Lower (alifornia re- town, with, other petsons, includ- — — sault, ‘Stieritin “Baia he believed “Skidds” Pringle and Eunice Pringle wefe the s&me. He said “he learned from & newspaper photégraph of Eu- nice that they wéré different petsons. | Then, Sheridan testified, Pantages dis- missed’ him as a possible witness, and he came to District Attorney Buron Fitts and told of Pantages’ alleged at- ‘tempt to bribe him. Sheridan had admitted during the morning. under cross-examination, that he had voluntarily told the the- atrical magriate that he had informa- tion about Miss Pringle that would help him. Under cross-examination this after- noon by Jerry Geisler, defense attor- ney, the statement regarding his of- fer to help Pantag?s was amplified. Geisler asked the witness if it were not true that he threatened to go to the district attorney if Pantages’ son, Rodney, did not pay him 8300. He denied fhis. Under direct examination District Attorney Fitts asked Sheridan: “Why did you come to the district attorney’s office last Friday?” “I knew I would get._in trouble for what I was expected to do in this trial if I did not come to you.” “Now at whose request did you bring two women and a man from Tia Juana to Los Angeles?” “Alexander Pantages.” “How many times did you see Pantages concerning your possibie part in this trial?” “Eight or nine times.” “Has Pantages paid you anything?” “He has paid me. $60 expenses, $140 expenses at Tia Juana; all the gas and oll from San Diego, and all expenses in Los Angeles.” “Now concerning that $300 which the defense claimed you asked Rod- ney Pantages for.” Fitts continued. | “tell the jury the purpose of that.” “It was as the result of Pantages telling me he did not expect me to spend my own money.” “Now regarding ‘Skidds’ Pringle. Was or was not Eunice Pringle the Skidds Pringle whom you had known previously?” “She was not.” Fitts then drew from Sheridan «4 reiteration of his testimony that yes- terday, October 8, was the first time in his life he had seen Eunice Pringle “Did not Alexander Pantages as« you to identify the newspaper picture as that of Eunice Pringle?” Pitts per- sisted. “Yes, he did.” “Sheridan had testified that he lived in San Diego, Calif., that his business was operating the Pine Hills Lodge, near Ramona, Calif., and that he had known Pantages about fif-- teen years. Under cross-examination Sheridan testified he had been in Pantages’ office, where he was asked to identify the newspaper. pictur. “Did not you thn and there state it was a picture of Eunice Pringle?” Geisler demanded. “I only said it looked like her.” “Now, in a telephone conversation with Rodney Pantages did not you tell him you had given your personal check for $200 to two Agua Caliente +0 | (Mexico) women | witnesses?” LOONTINUED ON PAGE 2% COLUMN 1, IVISIT IS DESCRIBED Former Hospital Chum ‘tion might seem at the moment, it FIR TH FRIEND OTATES Mrs. McPherson Seemed in Good Spirits to New Witness. TO JUSTICE AGENTS Says Slain Woman Was Optimist. INQUIRY ON POLICE | TEMPORARILY OFF Special: Board Exhausts Its Efforts to Get Jurors to Give Data. Mrs. Virginia Hurley McPherson was in excellent spirits and showed no sign of fear or other depression shortly before her death, agents of tH® Department of Justice were told last night by an intimate friend of the dead: nurse who was a frequent visitor at the McPherson apartment in the Park. Lane. Thies new witness, like the girl whose body, strangled with a pajema cord, was found on the floor of her apartment on September 14 by her husband, Robert A. MoPherson, jr., who is now under indictment for murder, is alao a nursé, employed in a hospital in the District. Virginia McPherson and this friend chummed together during their training-school days at Gallinger Municipal Hospital, and although their paths led in slightly different Girections after their graduation, they still managed to remain on terms of intimacy and visited each other frequently. This girl was one of the first whom Virginia Hurley told of her marriage to — Mc- "| Phetson.. This girl scouted the possibility thet Virginia McPherson's death might have been suicide, but she also expressed atrong doubt that the murderer could have been the hus- bend: whois now in the District jail 4 awaiting trial for murder. “Virginia Hurley was always happy, and naturally of a cheerful disposi- tion,” her nurse chum told The Post last night. “Even under circum- atances which would have a depress- ing effect upon the average girl, Vir- ginia. seemed to practice a code of philosophy which comforted her with the belief that worry was futile and that no matter how dismal a situa- might always be worse and could be counted on to improve. “Not even the disputes which she and her husband may have had alter their marriage could shake Virginia from this philosophic attitude,” the girl said. “I do not know how se- rious tuese disputes or arguments be- tween Vifginia and her husband may have been. They were none of my business, and naturally I did not feel called upon to delve into the matri- monial affairs of any one. But I do kniow that I have never seen Virginia seriously affected by any family quar- rel.” The nurse said she had visited Vir- ginia McPherson, upon invitation, at the Park Lane on various occasions, the last being during the week which terminated with the finding of the body on Saturday morning, 36, nous after death had occurred. “On that evening Virginia seemed | in particularly ..good _-spirits,” her friend said. “We laughed and chat- ted over old times, and discussed the things wé had been doing since we had seen each other last, and, alto- LEAD] WAR BANISHED Joint Statement Made By Hover, MacDonald The following joint statement was issued yesterday by President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald. During the last few days we have had an opportunity, in the informal talks in which we have engaged, not only to review the conversations on & naval agreement which have been car- ried on during this summer be- tween us, but also to discuss some of the more important means by which the moral force of ou countries can be exerted for peace. We have been guided by the double hope of settling our own differences on naval matters and so vsteblishing unclouded good will, candor and con- fidence between us, and also of con- tributing something to the solution of the problem of peace in which all other nations are interested and which calls for their cooperation. In signing the Paris peace pact 56 nations have declared that war shall not be used as an instrument of na- tional policy. We have cgreed that all disputes shall be settled by pa- cific means. .Both our governments resolve to accept the peace pact not only as a declaration 01 good. Inten- tions but as a positive obligation to direct national policy in accordance with ite pledge. The part of each of our govern- ments in the promotion of world peace will be different, as one will never consent to become entangled in Eu- ropean diplomacy and the other is re- solved to pursue a policy of active cooperation with its European neigb- bors; but each of our governments will direct its thoughts and influence toward securing and maintaining the peace of the world. Our conversations have been largely confined to the mutual relations of the two countries in the light of the situation created by the signing af the peace pact. Therefore, in a new and reinforted sense the two govern- ry CONTINGED ON FAGE 4. OS ‘PAGE 2% COBDIAN - 4. FRANCE. TO ACCEPT. |= Plans to. Avoid Appearance of Obstruction, but Will, Demand. Submarines. SEES SUPPORT BY ITALY Paris, Oct. 9, (N.Y.W.N.8.).—France will a¢cept the British invitation to a five-power naval conference at Lon- don. .No exception appears likely to tion. The French answer to the in- vitation will be forwarded to London in about a week. There are indications that France will carefully avoid doing anything which might provide grounds for the accusation that she is obstructing the movement for nava] disarmament. The program which the French del- égates will follow at London is al- teady taking form. France will en- ter thé London parley with the as- sumption that its task will simply be completion of the work initiated at the Washington conference and pre- liminary to a general discussion of naval, land and air disarmament at Geneva. The Prench spokesmen will pre- sent what this country considers its CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 4. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2. COLUMN 1. Warren Wins Fight of Years For His Louvain Inseription ADVENTURE IN EVERY FORM IS TO BE FOUND IN ANCESTOR JORICO LATEST NOVEL BY WILLIAM J. LOCKE WHICH BEGINS SUNDAY IN THE WASHINGTON POST | Belgian Officials Order Reference to Germans Cut on Library. Brussels, Oct. 9 (N.Y.W.NS.).— Whitney Warren, American architect who designed and rebuilt Louvain Library, destroyed by the German army on August 25, 1914, has won his subborn fight to have inscribed on the balustrade of the bullding “Furore Teutonica Diruta—Dono Americano Restituta” — “Destroyed by German Madness—Rebuilt by American Gene- rosity.”” The authorities here today issued a finding in favor of the architect and against the university authorities, who have fought to have the inscrip- tion changed to “In Bella Relucta: In Pace Restituta”-—“Destroyed in War: Rebuilt in Peace.” The funds with which the library was rebuilt were subscribed by Ameri- ments not only declare | war. ber. qjstrusts and suspicioda sfising from ARMS PARLEY Bid be taken to anything In the invita-/ RS HOL! D TALK SUCCESS, RP |Hoover and MacDo na ale Issue Statement on: 24 Peace Plans. : ON KELLOGG PACT U. S. Refusal to Become = Entangled in —— Affairs Accepted, - | — * Controversy to Be St Premier Will Leave This Morning. By CARLISLE BARGERON. . With an acknowledgement that the” United States will never become. en- tangled in European. diplomacy —— that success of the forthcoming limitations parley depends upon’® attitude of the other powers, Prest- dent Hoover and Premier Raiisty MacDonald figuratively shook.hands yesterday on the results of their cote” vetsstions, the most unusual that: — 2 country has ever known. ; Last night there .was a stag aia ner at Secretary of State Stimsong ~ house, at which the President, the premier and other notables sat around =~ and talked. as do men at a club, as a though they were all born under the © same sun. It was a fitting climax s@ the manner in which the visiting ~~ statesmen has been received, and, cording to the joint statement ss he‘and Mr. Hoover issued, a apting be the basis for auch hopes as they have, - “ This statement was. — — * | seized upon, by international experts and observers as presaging an ‘agrees — ment. on ‘the old coin of ean a ‘of the seas: “we cits ne Sees ae tions from a new angle and in as atmosphere. On the assumption: re war between us is banished *” — these problems have changed ‘thelt — meaning and their character, * their solution in ways satisfactory to both countries has become possible.” Some senators, principally Senator -| Borah, have insisted that an agreé- - ment on freedom of the seas was essential to any real naval redyetion- Premier MacDonald said before the — President Hoover got undef way, thed a he favored such an agreement, ‘but. sumably because . its ——— would be far distant and injection. of - the question might mar the naval , ar 0 bargaining. yee Hh Old Problems to Be Studied,. ‘ — “old historical problems,” tng" goin statement said: ee aR “we have agreed that — hopeful results if the visit aa * now terminating officially has & that our two goverhments will Beg conversations upon them folk the same method as that wh been pursued during the sum London.” During the day and before suance of the statement m ae —— Sy | 4 : and the — — — — y * : ; ay ie be a . * F ‘| > 4, * 4 rT B € ai 8 on nal a ad: Ay - - * * — F — . > 8.5. ae : —— a, | x aoe F * * — * o¥p <A Sag en oy es a 5 a4 ‘ —— oe Ae pp a — re —— Pile ne Es, oe Ac Gee aS oie oe * * a are