Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1921, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 5 1921 BRITISH TAKE UPNAVY PLAN Guestipns on Defense by Sea Discussed at Sessicn’ of . Conference Today. By the Associated Press LONDON, July 5.—Questions rela- tive to the naval defense of the Brit- 1sh empire were discussed at today's session of the imperial conference. Prime Minister Lloyd George and the dominion premiers resuming con- sideration of the subject where it was left off at yesterday's meeting. Opposition to the discussion of this subject by Premier Meighen of Can- ada and others seemed to have broken down, and the admiralty laid before members of the conference a con- fldential memorandum, which was un- derstood to have been the basis of yesterday's debate. Naval authorities in the Britieh cabinet have been in- sisting that the dominion's contribu- tion‘ to the naval strength of the em- pire ‘should be defini fixed. It was expected that at the conclu- slon of today's meeting an official summary of the proceedings would be issued to the press. Heretofore the conference has not made public any of the discussions that have taken place. Treaty Not to Lapwe. London, July 4 (Canadian Press). So much confusion has resulted from confiicting statements as to what has really taken place in connection with the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese al- llance that a statement of the precise positibn, gleaned from authoritative 8S0urces, Seems necessary. Briefly, the situation is as follows Last Jgly the British government in- formed the league of nations that the treaty with Japan would be adapted to the terms of the league. That dec- laration appears to have been ac- cepted by the dominions and. indeed. by the British foreign office, as a de- nunciation of the alliance.” It was with this understanding thiat Arthur Meighen, premier of Canada, entered the conference and made his case against renewal of the treaty. He was under the impression that unless that alliance was renewed it would lapse July 13. ord Curzon and A. J. Balfour. who preceded the Canadian premier in statements on the subject, were un- der similar impression. On this assumption, therefore, ar- gument for and against the new al- liance proceeded and it was not until Friday last, after the question had bepn under debate for m week, that Lord Birkenhead, lord high chan- céllor, appeared before the confer- ence and gave the information that the note to the league did not consti- tute denunciation and that, therefore, the present treaty remained in force another ‘year. REDUCTIONS IN PRICES OF STEEL ARE ANNOUNCED PREMIERS | Krupp Gun-Making Machinés May Be Delivered to France I Chicago Daily News. Copyrizht, 1921, July §. BERLIN, is what Col. Everett, head of the al- lled commission that is disarming the Krupp works, at Essen, calls the gi- antic shed where millions of death-| caling projectiles were manufac- tured during the war. Everywhere there are indications of the destruc- tion and complete razing of the large installations. There are holes in the ground already filled in part with concrete, large gaps in the rows of machines and big piles of debris from the brick furiaces, all of which make it look as if the war lord’s own hordes had swept through this work- | shop. The whole thing is rather sym- bolic of the destruction of Germany's militaristic war machine. Locomotives Belng Bullt, But the “cemetery” is only one phase of the work, destructive and put the Krupp factory, with its 50,000~ constructive, which has been done to ymore than 1,000 machines of revery kind, and furnaces, presses andtools welghing more than 60,000,000 younds, while at the same time they’ have placed at the disposal of the com- mission 1,700 machinés for repara- tions purposes. -Most of theSe will be turned over to France and- can be used by her for the manufacture of war material. The Krupps. how- ever, through the German minister of reconstruction, have launched a pro- test against the destruction of.these turning lathes or their delivery to France on the ground that all these machines can be used for peaceful purposes. They will have to be re- placed at preat expense, as ‘other- wise neither the Krupps nor any other German manufacturer will be able to turn out the various types of tools necessary for steel products. In addjtion thousands'of working- men would be thrown out of em- ployment. Protest Gets Some Support. Neutral observers with whom the wri cussed the matter de- clare that the Krupps' protest is very reasonable and that the reparations commission i going too far when it makes these demands. One of these men declared: “The Krupps are unable to turn out big guns on these lathes at the present time, a8 many other ma- odd workingmen, on a peace basis. All of these 50,000 are now making pe: material, from locomotives to milk cans. The writer suw more than 100 locomotives in all stages of con- struction. In another shop, where locomotives and railroads cars are repaired, twenty-four turn weighing more-than 2,000 tons | and worth 20.000.000 marks (normal- ly $4,760.000) were pointed out to me L ng with the remark that the allicd com- | mission demanded” that they be de- | stroyed or turned over’to Frane These machines during the war were | used to make Germany's largest guns, l‘"‘“ ne ording to establis 1 fi ures, are used in manufacturing CARE OF SCHOOL Ry the Associated Press. DES MOINES, lowa, July 5.—In- stitutions of higher education are placing too much emphasis upon Latin and Greek and not enough “on the industrial problems which the students will have to face after leaving school,” Albert Bushnell Hart, professor of government at Harvard University, told delegates to the National Education Associa- tion convention in session here to- day. Seventeen separate meetings of departments of the association were In progress today. with edu- cators from all parts of the coun- | try in attendance. . Tublic schools of the United States are wasting enormous sums in try- ing to educate children who are | handicapped by ill health, when the | expenditure of much smaller | amounts in a judicial health pro- gram would produce an extraor TAFT MEETS DELAY. | | { [ [ | Bethleheri Company - Says Its Action Is Not Warranted "By High Costs. BETHLEHEM, Pa., July 5.—The Beth- lehem Steel”Tompany has announced further reductions in the price of steel, effective today. Pregident Grace of the company, in making the announcement, said that ‘“‘present matufaCturing costs do not in any sense ‘warrant these reductions, but | member of the arbitration board, had | this company. desires to contribute even | expected more than its full share to re-establish | Weanesday. conditions in the steel trade on what might be regarded as a normal basis."” The company recently announced a 15 | will be extended at least until thegend per cent wedyction in wages, effectiv July 16. ) 5 Corel The new following c! es: Bars, from $2.10 to $1.90; structural shapes. from $2.20 to $2; Iates, from $2.20 to $2: sheet bar, 39 to $35; billets, four by four, fro 37 to-$33: s labs, from $3% to $34: blue an- nealed sheets, from $2.85 to $2.65; black |One Dies From Prostration and sheets, from $375 to $3.5 sheets, from $4¥5 to $4.50; from $6.25 to $5.75 IG:SZ. “The new prices represent a reduction of 34 a ton on bars, structural shapes, plates, skelp, billets, sheet bar, slabs and biue annealed Sheets: $5 a ton on black and galvanized sheets, $10 per ton on-tin plate,” said the announcement. galvanized tin_plate, ; skelp, from $2.20 Mr. Grace explained that steel prices |the excessive temperature, committed had not been reduced to pre-war levels | 8ulcide by jumping into the reservoir because of increased freight rates and costs of material and labor. ““Those items account for an Increase | reported in the oity, while numerous In present day costs over pre-war cos of 320.59 per ton on finished products,” he added. “The new price of $44.50 for structural steel is equivalent to a pre- war price of $24.21 per ton, or $1.08 per | fireworks. poynd.” FALL FROM DIP FATAL. Man Drops 100 Feet From Glen [resorted to yesterday fn an efort to Echo Coaster. ‘Thrown from a car of the coas! at Glen Echo Tast mghts James & Share holtz of Glen Echo Heights, Md., was o | severely injured that he died several hours later in Georgetown University Hospital, where he was rushed in an ef- fort to saye his life. It i& said that Shan- holtz, wha occupied a front seat In one of the cars of the amusement device, stood up just as the cars started on their dash down a steep incline, and was pre- cipitated from the car at a height of Ehanholtra bod anholtz's y was removed f) the hospital this morning and L’\ker:’n:; Rockville, Md., where an autopsy is being conducted this afternoon. COKE WORKERS GET CUT. Approximately 7,000 Are Affected in Connellsville Region. CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., July 65— Approximately 7,000 coke workers in | the independent plants of the Con- | nellsville cokp region were affected | today by a 19 per cent reduction in wages, the second announced this year. The new rate is about 331-3 Per cent below the rate paid January 1, but according to coke men. some 45 per cent, higher than the prevall- | ing rate in 1912. Only about 7 per cent of the independent ovens are in operation. There are now two scales for the same work in the Connellsville feld— ‘that pald by the independents and the scale of the H. C. Frick Coke Com- pany, the latter having become opera- five May 16, and somewhat higher than the new independent scale. None of the coke ovens of the Frick Company Is In ice schedule showed the | finished. trom | SEVEN DROWNED IN N. Y. operation. e coal being mined is shipped to (ficw}b“uct coke plants. Grand Trunk Arbitration Case | Postpones His Departure. MONTREAL, July 5—William H. Taft, newly appointed Chief Justice | of the United States, will be com- | pelled to postpone his conference at | Washington with President Harding | and Attorney General Daugherty con- cerning his appointment: it has be- come apparent. Argument Has been resumed in the Grand Trunk arbitra- tion proceedings. - Mr. Taft; who Is a to leave for Washington The argument, from indications at the conclusion of the hearing today. of this week. Mr. Taft said he in- tended to remain here until it was Many Are Overcome. NEW YORK, July5.—Seven men were drowned yesterday at beaches in the vicinity of New York as hun- dreds of sweltering thousands fled from the intense heat that has en- veloped the city since Saturday. An unknown wman, believed demented by in Central Park. One death from prostration was persons, overcome during the day's festivities, were revived at hospitals. Several minor. accidents resulted from the premature explosions of OFFICER GIVES BLOOD. A second transfusion of blood was save the life of Edward W. Thomas, warrant clerk at Police Court, who is under treatment at Sibley Hospital for typhoid fever. Policeman J. A. Hunt of the ninth precinct gave a pint of blood to the patient vesterday, a similar quantity having been given by Sergt. Philip Browne of the same precinct some time ago. It was said at the hospital today that the patient's pulse was slightly stronger, but that his condition was still critical. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 5 (Special). —Independence day was celebrated at Kensington, this county, on rather an elaborate scale. In the afternoon ath- letic events for children were; held, which were followed by a base ball game between the Kensington and Boyds teams of the Montgomery Coun- ty Base Ball League, and a band con- cert in front of the municipal build- ing. Under the direction of Mrs. Grace Ryan, principal of the Kensington Grammar School, a pageant was given by the school children In the evening. Rev. Thomas D. Windiate. rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Kensington, read the Declaration of Independence, and there were community singing and dancing. The celcbration at Silver Spring| took the form of the annual carnival for the benefit of the Silver Spring volunteer fire department and a base ball game in the afternoon between the Silver Spring and Rockville teams of the Montgomery County League. | chines necded for making other parts of the bix xuns have been destroyed. The Krupps have shown th good will and can become dangerous once more only as an industrial concern. ut it is quite unnecessary to de- Krupp machines to com- cern’s comvetition in the industrial markets. Tle Krupp con- rn is only one of the very few ‘rman industries on a large basis, andl a8 such must be preserved in order to enable Germany to pay the stroy all the bat the con PUPILS’ HEALTH DECLARED DISGRACE TO NATION dinary saving in geonomy and effi- ciency, Dr. T. D. Woed, professor of cducation of the Teachers™ Col- lege of Columbia University, told delegat Dr. Wood declared cent——16,000,000—of the dren of the country:Lave pkysical defects which are potentially or actually detrimental 'to health. Most of these defects, he sald, are remedial, bug very few of them are being remedicd. “The business of keeping the school children of this country in good physical repair is. as now conducted, a disgrace to the na- tion,” he said. “No communit state, no nation can be cons! civilized which fails to furnish an adequate program of ,child care, providing for every eseentlal need of heulth and education for every child. Sensible and universal pro- gram of physical education tor all girls and boys was never, in the history of mankind, more profound- ntial than just no KILLS DOG WITH HOE. Animal Slain by P. E. Heffner Showed Signs of Rabies. Wielding a hoe with which he was gardening in Potomac Park yester- day, P. k. Heffner. 1521 East Capitol street, killed a dog that had shown signs of madness. When Mr. Heffner discovered the animal it was in his automobile where three children were seated. Fearing the dog might att the children, Mr. Heffner knocked him out of the car with the hoe and then killed him with the gardening tool. Officials of the health department were notified today and Poundmaster Smith was sent out for the body of the animal to have the head examined that 75 per choo! chil- | by the bureau of animal industry to determine if the dog was suffering from rabies. P COASTAL SHIP_IN CRASH. Munalbro’s Captain Wires §he Is Not Seriously Damaged. NEW YORK, July 5—The Munson line freight ' steamship Munalbro. which left Baltimore July 2 for Bos- ton, was reported today to have been damaged in a collision. A wircless message from the cap- tain.of the ship stated the damage was not serious and the Munalbro would reach Boston tonight. No in- formation as to the identity of the other vessel was given VINEYARD HAVEN Mass,, July 5.— An unidentified three-masted schooner, with her bowsprit torn away, an- chored today off Vineyard sound light. The -vessel appeared to be lumber laden. She displayed no distress sig- T Specinl Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 5.—For the first time since his appointment as judge of the United States court for the eastern district of Virginia, Judge D. Lawrence Groner presided at the opening of the July term of the court here today in place of Judge Waddill, who was promoted. There is an unusually heavy docket of both civil and criminal cases. The grand jury is composed of the following: W. H. Sweeney, foreman; V. Ward Boswell, U. S. Lambert. Thomas Priest, Thomas Chauncey, Charles Corbett, Francis H. Fannon. Graham Winn, W. S. Linn, A. R. Pem- berton, H. M. Gibson, Wellford Lim- erick, R. L. McGeorge, M. C. Yancey, David H. Hulfish and John H. Trimyer. Frank Daley, sixty-elght years old, died last night at his residence at Ballston, Arlington county. The fu- neral will take place at 7 o'clock to- night from his late residence and the body will be shipped tomorrow to Orange, Va., for burial. The deceased was well known in this city, where he was a frequent visitor. Miss Eva Bower, fifty years old. who lived at 510 Prince street. died last night at Providence Hospital, Washington. The deceased was a na- tive of Pennsylvania. The body was brought here and taken to Wheatley's mortuary chapel. District Deputy Grand Master J. F Haverty and a delegation from Falis Church Lodge of Odd Fellows will to- morrow night visit Sarepta Lodge and install the newly elected officers of that lodge. All Odd Fellows in the city At Rockville the principal diversiongp 1% 0r¥8 § 5 JHC 4 was a Montgomery County League base ball game in the morning be- tween the Rockville and Silver Spring teams. The Community League of Pooles- ville, ‘this county, has appointed the following committees to_serve one ear: Program, Mrs. O. B. Sellman, hairman, and Mrs. E. P. Wroth and Rev. E. W. Aaron: recreation, Rev. E. P. Wroth, chairman, and Miss Elizabeth White ana G. R. Gray; school buildings and grounds, Dr. A. G. Elgin, chairman, and Mrs. Albert Wootton and Clarence Offutt; mem- bership, Mrs. W. W. Poole, chairman, and Mrs. Isaac Fyffe and Mrs. W. W. Willlams; library, Mrs. George D. Willard, chairman, and Mrs. Honore Clagett and Miss Alice Beall; town improvements, Harry Willard, chalr- man, and Miss Lulu Hoskinson and Mrs. William A. Hempstane: Rublic health, Dr. E. W. White, chairman, and Miss Ruth Beall and Mrs. S. E. Jewell; publicity, Mrs. Thomas R. Hall, chairman, and Miss Florence Brooks and Minter Stout; judiciary, Judge Willlam L. Chambers, chair- man, and Byron W. Walling and Rob- ert W. Stout. The Noyes Library Association of Kensington. this county, has selected trustees for_the ensulng year as fol- lows: Orin J. Field, Frank T. Chap- man, J. W. Townsend, B. W. Kumler, | Charles R. Hughes, Lewis Merriam, W. P. Hay, E. L. Noyes and W. B! Pugh. 5 = Roman candles are said to have been responsible for a slight fire on the roof of the residence of John Henderson, 122 South Peyton street, at 9 o'clock last night. The fire was extinguished before the arrival of the department. ! T With Back Probably Broken by Fall, Girl Weds on Hospital Cot MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 5— Lying on a hosj cot, with ck prob: ed to prove hill, nineteen, was married midnight to George Holtsclaw, Popular Grove, Ark., a dental ntudent at the . University of Tennesnee. ree hours ‘before the girl had either jumped from a fourth-story window in a local hotel to the pavement below. She and Holtsclaw had Dbeen sweethearts for a year, and moon after the girl had been taken to the hospital it was de- cided that the marriage take piace at once. A magistrate and relatives of sirl were -t.;.t-:-. .‘h g eeremeny .. per emergency ward of the BLAZE ‘AT PAPER WAREHOUSE CAUSES DAMAGE. Scene at the disastrous fire in the Company, in rear of the Creecy home, PAPER WAREHOUSE FIRE CAUSES $35,000 DAMAGE W. B. Creecy Company’s Establish- ment in Northeast Washington Visited by Destructive Blaze. Flire which occurred in the ware- house of the W. B. Creecy Paper Com- piny. aear of th v home, at 1 H street northeast, about 10 o'clock this morning, did damage estimated at $35,000. The blaze started in the west end of the structure. adjoining the plant of the Electric Sanitary Laun- dry, and at first it did not appear as if much damage would result. When members of No. 10 engine company reached the building, how- ever, the fire had gained so much headway that another alarm was sounded, summoning several addi-| al companfes of firemen, and so a crowd gathered near the scene | of the fire that it was necessary to summon police reserv Firemen worked hard In an effort to | save the big stock of paper stored in the building, but did not succeed. They did, however, prevent the lames from spreading to other structures.| An examination of the premiscs failed to disclose the origin of the fire. The loss is covered by insurance. HYATTSVILLE, Md. July 5.—In- dependence day was celebrated in Prince Georges county on an un- usually elaborate ale. At Hyatts- ville a crowd of several hundred at- tended a plcnic and outing in Zant- zinger's Park, under the auspices of Company F, local National Guard. assisted by its ladies’ auxiliary. The proceeds, estimated at more than $200, will go into the company's fund, to be used_at the annual en- campment July 17-31, at Glenburnie, Md. The program was opened with a parade through the principal streets to Zantzinger's Park, headed by Mayor J. Frank Rushe and partici- pated in by Company F, Capt. John N. Brooks, commanding. and the vattsville fire department, with gayly bedecked apparatus, headed by Chief Stephen Kelly. A base ball game followed between Snvder-Far- mer Post, local American Legion, and the Brightwood Athletic Club, which resulted In an S-to-7 victory for the legionaires. They won in the elev- enth inning, when McClay hit a homer to right with one on. The next feature was an exhibi- tion drill by Company F, Capt. Brooks commanding. An elimination drill, to determine the hest drilled man in the company. was won by First-class Private Samuel Crosthwait. —Miiton Gordon won the 100-yard dash for members of the company, and_also won a similar event open to all. Kiler Royse won a pie-eating contest. In the afternoon Company F was de- feated by Laandover, 12 to 10, in an interesting game. A ball in the local Natlonal Guard armory in the even- Ing brought the ceiebration to a close. At Riverdale a community cele- bration was held in Bennett's woods under the auspices of the Riverdale Ctilzens' Association. There was an attendance of several hundrec. The program was opened with & baby parade. For the best looking babies four prizes were awarded as fol- lows: First, Reginald Donald Yauch, jr.; second, Robert Baldwin; third, Mrs. Flla_Hardesty: fourth. Mrs. J. R. Eggleston. For the.best decorated carriages in the parade prizes went Mrs. A. S. Thurston and Mrs. B. to G, Baldwin. In the dolls' parade for little' girls little Miss ~Anderson, | daughter of Charles E. Anderson, won i Holmes second. first prize and Helen Prizes in the boys' vehicle parade Wwent to Thomas Wansleben and Mas- ter Mitchell. At noon a basket picnic dinner was served. In the afternoon patriotic exercises were held, when Representative Box of Texas spoke. Dr. J. S. Caldwlel, president of the Riverdale Citizens’ Association, was master of ceremonies. The address of welcome to the “new patriots. newly enfranchised voters, was madey by Dr. S. M. McMillan, mayor of River. dale. The Declaration of Independ- ence was read by Mrs. J. Fletcher Moulden,@ There was a community sing under the direction of Mrs. Eva C. Chase and J. G. Rdabm!on. jr. Ath- letic events followed. e e ball game between the mar- ried men and single men of the town resulted in a 11 to 10 victory for the Lenedicts. A feature of the celebra- tion was the playing of a volunteer band. composed of ladies and gentle- men. of the community. They were Albert M. McMillan. saxophone; Miss Louise Geren and Theodore Roberts, violinists; Mr. Kinsey, cornet; Fred Worley, cornet; Mrs. W. A. Cookman, pianist, and Mr. Olear, trap drum, etc. The executive committee In charge of the celebration’ was composed of Mrs. Charles E. Holmes, chairman; Charles A. Magoon, treasurei; Mrs. Edna Reinohl, secretary; Dr. J. S. Cald well, J. G. Robinson, J. Burrows Waters.” Counciiman_E. B. McBath, Mrs: W. E. Thorne. John Bush, R. B. Baber, Mrs. D. W. Worley, Tom Mont- gomery, H. F iMtchell, Mrs Will C. Chase, Charles E. Holmgs. Mayor 8. M. McMillan, Mrs. Arthur Blaisdell and Harold Cranford. Citizens of Berwyn, Berwyn Heights and_Branchville staged a community celebration_on the carnival grounds at Berwin for the benefit of the Ber- wyn schools. Among the features were athletic events which were in charge of T. Raymond Burch. A feature of:the celebration was the olaying of the Berwyn-Branchville and, under direction of Prof. J. G. Hunt. A fine country. dinner was served from 1 to 8 p.m. by ladies of the community un direction * of/ Mts. Annie ‘C, Burnette. A display of fireworks and a dance last evening ended the program. : the stock In extimnted at $30,000 and to the building, $5,000. in $35,000 warehouxe of the W. B. Creecy Paper 1337 H street nort! . Damage to NINE PEGPLE INJURED AT CAPITOL HEIGHTS Fourth of July Celebration Has Serious Wind-Up—Officer Blames Spectators. Indepcndence day celehrating at Capitol Heights broke up In a row last night. lasting about fifteen minutes. in which three women and six men were injured. William Beavers. the most ~'~Ir|<nusl,\' hurt, suffered three broken ribs. In the melee Mrs. Charles Davis, an innocent bystander. lost three front teeth. Policeman Henry M. Darneille of the sixth precinct, who, with his brother, Joseph Addison Darneille, were declared involved in the fracas, appeared for duty today with hands lacerated and fa scratched. arneillc said it was evident that a ber of the men at the carnival had obtained bootleg liquor and were feel- ing the effects of it. He and his brother, he said, had been at the carnival since early in the evening, and were enjoying the festivities when eral young men came along, one of them purposely shoving him. Then the trouble was on. It would have amounted to hut little, ha said. had it not been for “butting in," and when the trouble was over he and his brother went home. If any warrants were issued, said Darneille. he could ily have been found at his home. He will remain on duty in the city to- night, he said, and probably will not reach home until tomorrow morming. Darneille said Constable Kelly Harris tried to put handcuffs on him, and that he would not let him. TYPHOON STRIKES MANILA ‘W. Cameron Forbes Forced to Shel- ter in Terrific Storm. By the Associated Press MANILA, July 5.—A typhoon early today caused heavy damage in Ma- nila and its environs. The city's pow- er supply cut off and the city was in carkness, Houses were uproofed and several small vessels in Manila bay driven ashore. Street car service was paralyzed. ‘W. Cameron Forbes, a member of the mission which is investigating in- sular affairs for President Harding. was cruising southward from here and is believed to have taken refuge in a port on the Island of Mindoro. No word has been received from him since the typhoon broke, but this is explained. it was believed here, by the fact that all telegraphic commu- nication has been broken. In Manila the wind reached a veloc- ity of eighty miles an hour. No loss of life was reported. —_— WILL ACT ON SALES TAX. ‘Washington Chamber of Com- merce Meets Tonight. Action on the sales tax referendum being conducted by the United States Chamber of Commerce, with a view to ascertaining the attitude of business interests in this connection, is ex- pected to be taken tonight by the board of directors of the Washington Chamber of Commerce at a meeting in the Homer building, 13th and F streets. Other business of a routine nature is scheduled to come up for dfscus- slon. President Albert Schulteis of the chamber will preside. ‘The joint committee on plans for a convention hall in Washington will meet tomorrow afternoon -in the chamber headquarters, with Chairman Robert N. Harper presiding. RING AND MONEY STOLEN. Three Report Thefts to the Police Authorities. Mrs. Marie Green, 1336 1ith street, asked the police to Investigate the 10ss of a diamond ring valued at $100. The ring was stolen from her room Sunday. Amos Haines, 3028 M street, reported the taking of $25 from his pocket while asleep in his barber shop yes- terday. Carl Christensen, 729 6tlr street; told of the picking of his pocket of a pocketbook containing $40 and re- ceipts while on & Great Falls car at 8$6th and M streets yesterday. —_— FASCISTI SLAY SIXTEEN. Fifty Others Wounded in Attack on Tuscany Town, By the Associated Press. <) ROME, July 4.—Sixteen persons were found dead and fifty others wounded after an attack by Fascistl on the town of Grosseto, Tuscany, Fri- day. The Fascisti, who made their at- tack in military fashion, are said to have been secking revenge for the death of & comrade killed the previous day in an encounter with communists. Systematic search of the houses in Grosseto was made and the Fascistl were fired upon from some of them. They then began an assault upon all homes where they belleved radicals lived. The socialist municipal coun- il was forced to resign for fifteen days. Of those kjlled fifteen were communists. 4 11861, POWER WIELDED Waéhingto;l Chosen BY SEVERAL * . PRESIDENTS AFTER RETIRING Army Leader and Others Were Legislators—Three Died On National Independence Day. Former Presidents of the United States, after laying down the heavy burdens of their office, ordinarily have retired to the quiet of private life. There are notable exceptions to this rule, how- ever. One former President was later com- mander-in-chief of the armies of the nation, another was a leader in the lower house of Congress for a consider- able period, a third was elected to the United States Senate, another was prominent in the congress of the Con- federate states and scveral others re- mained active in politics after reliquish- ing their posts. George Washington retired in 1797 after serving two terms. In 1798, how- ever, the French, under Napoleon, had become so overbearing and Insulting to the young American republic that & state of war existed. The great Wash-g ington was induced to become the com- mander-in-chief of the provisional army | which was formed to fight the Frenc| and he re-entered public life for a son. He died the next year—on Decem- ber 14, 1799. When John Adams retired from the presidency he withdrew from public life | for all time. Adams was a great scholar | and his lagt vears were spent with his | books, He ilved for a quarter century after leaving the White Hous and saw the day when his son was in- augurated President. Strangely, he died on the fifticth anniversary of the Decla- ration of Independence, and on the pre- cise day when his great political foe, Thomas Jefferson, passed away. Founder of University. It was on March 4, 1808, that Jefferson left the White House after forty years; of public service. Jefferson in his de-| clinmg vears founded the University of and he regarded this work ag ! as Virginia, ¢ 80 important that on his tomb he had written the following words: “Here author of | was buried Thomas Jefferson. of American Indepen- of Virginia for the Declaration dence, of the statute religious freedom and father of the| “niversity oY Virglnia.” h James Madison retired to his Mont- pelier estate in Virgipia in 1817, and his home became a rendezvous for literars folk. He emerged into public life for a scagon when in 1529 be became a lead- ing member of the Virginia constitu- tional convention. He died in eighty-five the ol L age ttained 4 President of the United States. After his retirement in 182 Monroe held two public post 1836 at by James ne as regent of the University of Virginia and the other as delegate to the Vire ¥inia constitutional _convention —of 1829. He was the third President to die on July 4, the year of his death being 1831 1t remained for John Quincy Adams to demonstrate that a man can aily come into greater fame as a memper of Congress than as Presi- dent. Adams was defeated for re-ele tion by Andrew Jackson and he re- tired in 1820, In the following vear he was elected to the national House of Representatives from his Massa- chusetts distr In Congress he became a leader. es- pecially of the anti-slavery movement. He died in the public service. drop- ping dead in the House in 1848. ‘Andrew Jackson, on his retirement in 1837, withdrew to the Hermitage at Nashville, Tenn. He continued to take an active interest in his party. but held no pubiic office and died in 1845, at the age of seventy-eight. In Politics Many Years. Martin Van Buren was in politics from his earliest years and he re- mained in the public eve long after Lis retirement from the White House in 1841. Defeated by Harrison in 1840, in 1844 he again sought the democratic nomination. He had a majority of the vote on eight ballots. but seeing the impossibility of mar- shalling the necessary two-thirds. he Withdrew from the contest. In 1848 he was the presidential nominee of the Free Soilers, but he failed to get a single electoral vote. He died in actu- Woodrow Wilson. He continued to be a political leader with a vast follow- ing, however. When the world war came Roosevelt became an apostle of ;\m:rlcan preparedness. He died in 919. William Howard Taft in 1913 left the White House to become a law lecturer at Yale University. He re- mained in the public cye, and has been in wide demand ax a speaker and writer on problems of govern- ment. Roosevelt and Taft were the first Presidents to write in large vol- ume for magazines and newspapers. Woodrow Wilgon, the last president to retire, has announced the for- mation of a law partnership with ? inbridge Colby, his last ecretary of tate. Former Presidents, in this latter dav, seem to have no difficulty In rning their llvings. Their pens alone in some instances have kept them from the financial difficulties that beset Jefferson and Madison. Taft and Wilson are the present living former Presidents. Since the death of Grant, not more than two former Presidents have been aliv. at the same time. In 1826 there were four living—Jehn Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. In 1862 the mber was five—Tyler, Van Buren, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan. —_—— BEACH PRICES PROTESTED Representative Woodruff Complains to Col. Sherrill. TRepresentative Royal Woodruff of Michigan, a member of the House Dis- trict committee, complained today to Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, in charge of public buildings and grounds, against the pric harged at the municipal bathing beach. Representative Wood- jruff said that a friend of his yester- day had to pay 50 cents for the use of an old fiimsy cotton suit, 10 cents for a towel @nd 5 cents for checking his money. A street car protested vesterday that they charged as high 5 cents for suits at the bathing beach presentative Woodruff also com- plalned that if a person went there, his suit under his arm, he was given locker rcom for nothing. but that it {a person went to the bathing beach | with his suit on he was not allowed {in unless he had a raincosd to be checked at 10 cents. He argued that the person who went to the beach wearing his suit relieved congestion in the dressing room. presentative Woodruff said that. being a municipal bathing beach, there should be no profiteering and services should be given as cheay as by priyate corporations for a sim! lar privildge. Representative Woodruff said he found Col. Sherrill very sympathetic and agreed that he would investi- gate the complaint and see what re- lief could be afforded. PUSH CHAMBERLAIN CASE. Senate Investigators Study Court Record in Aviator Probe. Senate investization of the dis- missal of Capt. Edmund G. Chamber- lain, former Marine Corps aviator, turned foday to the proceedings of the naval court-mar at London which found him guilty of “scandal- v tion with his story of participation in a thrilling air battle in July, 1918, on the western front. Chairman Ball of the investigating committee announced that the court- martial proceedings and other records in the case would be examined thor- oughly before the hearings of wit- nesses which Capt. Chamberlain has told the committee will substantiate his story and testify that the court- 62 at the age of eighty. laDemh removed William Henry Har- rison soon after his inauguration, and he was succeeded by John Tyler, who failed to obtain nomination from hi party and left the presidency in 1845 Tyler was against disunion in 1860 and he presided over the “peace con- ference” in Washington in February. He was elected to the Virgini tion and he there ad- vocated secession as the only logical course for the south to take He served in the provisional Confederate congress and wnshplet‘:edd‘lod!rnc 1:1!%:- ess, but he dle 2, manent Congr e dleaitniises secession conven before it convened. farmer President to support the Con- acy - !e.;i:r:uayk. Polk died in the June fol- lowing his relinquishing of the presi- dency. in 1849, and Zachary Taylor, his successor, died in office. Candidate of Know-Nothings. Millard Fillmore failed to win re- nonlunnum\ at the hands of the Whigs, and in 1853 he left the White House to travel in Europe. While absent, in 1856, he was nominated for the presidency by a mmhinslionboz u Whigs and Know-nothings. A\:nhrx}gllnd was t‘he&n\y state he car- . Wdled in 1874, rlgranll-(llein Pierce laid _down the duties in 1857, lndhafter hree years of travel in Europe he re- tired to s New Hampshire home, nd died in 1869. AN ames Buchanan took no part in public affairs after he turned his Sffice over to Lincoln in 1861. He was the only bachelor President, and he lived at his Pennsylvania home until his death in 1868. "Abraham Lincoln passed away in his prime as the result of the as- sassin’s bullet while he was President. ‘Andrew Johnson left the national capital in 1869. He went back to Tennessee in 1875 and was elected United States senator, following several Qefeats for that post. His career there as short, as he died the same year. T. 8. Grant, after he quite the presi- dency, made a triumphant tour of the World' following_the expiration of his ferm in 1877. His friends attempted to renominate him in 1880, but the move failed, and Garfield was nomi- nated. Grant then entered the bank- presidential business in New York. He also i?fo:e his momoirs. ‘The soldier President died in 1885 at the age of sixty-three. Rutherford ,B. Hayes was active in semi-public affairs aftel leaving Washington in 1881. He was promi- nent in social work and served as president of the National Prison As- sociation. He Iived until 1893. James A. Garfleld died in office, and Chester A. Arthur, who succeeded him, passed away the year after his re. tirement in 1886. Cleveland’s Professional Life. After his first retirement in 1889, Grover Cleveland went to New York city and practiced law, and he was so prominent before the people that the democrats made him their nominee for a third time, and he was re-elected in 1892. Cleveland's second term ex- pired in 1897, and he retired to Prince- ton, N. J.,, where he became a trustee of Princeton University and a lec- turer. He also found time to write two books, “Presidential Problems" and “Fishing and Hunting Sketches.” Later he reorganized several large life insurance companies, and died in 1908. Benjamin Harrison left the presi- dency in 1893 to become one of the leaders of the American bar. In 1898 he represented. Venezuela in its boundary dispute with Great Britain. He also wrote, his output consisting of “This Country of Ours” and & Vol unre of essays under the title, “Views of an Ex-President.” Harrison died in 1901. - Roosevelt Party Founder. William McKinley died in office and Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him in 1901. Upon quitting the White House in 1909 Roosevelt went on a hunting trip to Africa. On his return he be- came the spokesman of the progres- sive movement. In 1912 he was the_ D e_of the progressives for President, but was defeated by martial was unfairly conducted. _— TWO BURNED TO DEATH. Maid and Cashier Trapped in His- | toric Inn. GOOD GROUND, L. I, July 5—Trap- ped fn their rooms in the Canoe Place Inn, where John L. Sullivan trained for his' fizht with Corbett, Miss Florence Whittington, a malid, ‘and Richard Heineman, cashier, were burned death today when' fire destroyed the hostelry. There were only three guests and they escaped without injury. Miss Whittington appeared at a win- dow while the fire was at its height and the crowd urged her to jump. but ap- parently she was overcome with smoke. The nn _was built in 1635. When Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany, acquired a summer place here many po- litical conferences were held at the fnn. DRY LAW ARRESTS IN JUNE Ninety-eight arrests for violations of the prohibition law were made by the local police during June, accord- ing to a report submitted to Commis- sfoner Oyster today. As a result of these arrests the fol- lowing wet goods were confiscated: One hundred and seventy-eight gallons of whisky, twenty-eight quarts of gin, 124 gallons of alcohol and two stills. The sixth precinct headed the list @ith thirty-five arrests. The fourth precinct_was second, with ' thirty-one, and the fifth precinct, third, with four- teen arrests. NSTANT conductor | ous conduct” and falsehood in connec- | CHILDREN CROWD SUMMER SCHOOLS Heavy Enroliment With Open- ing of Vacation Term This Morning. Hot, sultry and faniess classrooms did not deter several thousand chil- dren from enrolling today in the sum- mer or vacation schools which form- ally opened for the prescribed six- week intensive course. In some of the school buildings the temperature at noon hovered around ninety degrees Fahrenheit, but the heat ostensibly did not faze the puplls, a great ma- jority of whom are taking the course to make up studies in which they were deficient during the regular school term. Expect Record Figures. Exact figures of today's initial en- rollment will not be available until tomorrow, but school authorities ex- Dect it 1o go bevond that of last year. which totaled 3 They base their predictions on the fact that soon aft- er the schools opened this morning at 361 9 o'clock two were discovered to be overcrowded The Wallach summer school, with accommodations provided for 120 iren. put out its “crowded” sign rly after the opening. The Ludiow, with uccommodations for ninety pu- pils, dl the ame Many of those who could not be cared for in these two schools were advised to report to the Arthur School May Fall off. Although the first day's enrollment is unusualiy large, school officials are of the opinion t it will decrease | congiderably. providing the present lterrid weather continues for any | length of time. “It takes courage for any one to remain in the school on a day like ti remarked one official The summer schools are operated |primarily to give children who “flunked” during the regular school term an opportunity to make up their (work and be advanced a semester when the schools open in September for the new term. Children who passed in their marks and who wish to be advanced to a higher grade also | will be given an opportunity to do so |if the enrollment of children in the former class is not too large. —_— {OUR TALK NOT CONFESSIVE Anecdotes Compose Most of Ameri- can Conversation. From the New York Sun. For hours a group of men will talk, and all problems fall like ducks on a rifle range before their well aimed cpigrams. It may be a brilliant ses- sion, but we nnot forbear thinking that' not many serlous thoughts are expressed with fervor. that few hon- ¢St emotions have adequate utterance. A gathering often is devoted to anec- dotes, quips and the cracking of jokes, like the biblical thorns under the conversational pot. Of course, much conversation is nec- cssarily anecdotal; but two travelers who meet in the smoker of a traln crossing our American plains do not tell anecdotes merely. There the anecdotes take on more meat and grow in length—they become tal Again, however learned we are, forget our pedantry when we talk in a smoker. Yet over a meal among those we know and will meet again we slough off our impulse to modesty and _sincere self-expression and launch forth in all our drab erudi- tion, or else we sparkle in anecdote and ‘say nothing to the point; forget- ting that the best jest, aside the point, seems pointless. In short, there is not always enough confessive conversation = between to: Will You Have A'Lift If you have reason to believe, as have, that a coffee or tea would be Americane. In France and in Latin ! America the art of conversation has |become an art of confesslon—of the | confession. indeed, of one’s faiths, | foibles and fancies. As for us, we ifeel that no one if So sympathetic, perhaps, as to merit listening to our | personal histories. or. what is more to the point. the emotional accom- |paniment of these historics. BATHER DROWNS UNSEEN. Shields’ Body Recovered When Coat Is Found. C. E. Shields, thirty-five years old. C. E. Savannah. Ga., connected with the publicity bureau of the Southern Rail- jway system, lost his life vesterday afternoon while bathing ut the Tidal basin. He disappeared beneath the water without attracting attention of lifeguards or any of the 2,000 persons who were in the water seeking relief from the intense heat, and it was not until his raincoat and shoes were found that an investigation was or- dered. Shields' body was quickly recovered. following the finding of clothes, and a pulmotor used in an effort to induce respiration. A physician on duty at the basin and one from Emergency Hospital examined the body and pro- nounced life extinet Mr. Shields, who was registered at the Ebbitt, motored to the basin, wearing only his bathing suit, rain- coat and shoes. He waa alone and there was no friend or acquaintance at the basin to tell of his having dis- appeared, and had it not been for find- ing his raincoat and shoes his body probably would not have been di covered until it came to the surface. Coroner Nevitt viewed the body at the morgue this morning. 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