ENGLAND TO TRY SMITH
NEXT TERM FOR MURDER
Scion of Canadian Railroad Build
ers, Committed for Killing.
, Denies Guilt.
By the Associated Press.
CANTERBURY, England, Septem
ber 4. —Charged with the murder of
John Derham. member of a
wealthy British family, Alphonse V. A.
Smith, grandson of Sir Frederick
Smith and Hugh Ryan, noted in Ca
nadian railroad history, has been com
mitted for trial at the next assizes.
“I have nothing to say except that
I am not guilty.” declared Smith after
the inquest into the shooting of Der
ham in Smith’s villa and in the pres
ence of Smith * wife on August 12.
HOPES GLOVES MAKE THE FIGHTER Killy Fly Hie (left) is wearing
a pair of boxing gloves given him by Jack Dempsey, heavyweight
... : , , ..f .. . , .. ~ . ... ,
champion, in this bout with his campmate, Emery, at the Wood
row Wilson Camp for Boy Scouts of Washington.
Copyright by Hams 4 E»iiu
46 Yankee Doodle’*
Is an Irish Tune,
Authority Says
By the Associate Pits:-.
LONDON, September 4.—The
tune of “Yankee Doodle” is, not
American at all—-it’s Irish.
So says Dr. Gratton Flock], an
Trish authority on music history.
He asserts that “Yankee Doodle"
was originally an Irish air known
as “All the Way to Galway.”
“God Save the King,” the Brit
ish national anthem, Dr. Flood
says, also is an old Irish tune,
which originated somewhere about
155*5, and has been going *strong
ever since.
MYSTERY ENLIVENS
MOSES-BASS FIGHT
Purported Dry Survey Turns
Into Expense Probe —Third
Candidate Inactive.
