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* THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1922. D.C. GUARD BREAKS CAVP AT SIS Health a Feature of Encamp- ment of Local Men—In- struction Well Received. One hundred and forty-two officer: office eled a non-commissioned rs and privates of the ist Engineers District of Columbia National Guard, broke camp at « mms, Congress Heights, rning at 9:30 after . of active military service, According to Gen. Stephan, officers of the general staff who visit- ed camp. and the camp commander, the performed was well done d the instruction given by senior Heers f the Nuativnal ard and three instructors from the Regular Army w received with manifest in- tl g rasma firing points and the practice wus given under the te supervision of coaching s, nime of whom We al g nen oo from the p Perry Firing and two serzeants of the Regular Army. This work was done under the | supervision of Capt. Henry H. Leizear, District of Columbia National al Work. action was given un- on of the camp com- 1. La Garde, and by Army officers ou dut and consisted of abe work euch day. G de and Capt pleased witit : D. commanded Oliff. which was nized. aturday attack upon a po an outlined force, ar 1 wit omatics and rifles, took place, and the touch of real arfare with firtng of bla 2dv cover lines, of “ni - spine of recrult was En- instruction an H. Pohl, E sted nd U od, n Camp Humphreys s National Guard of their accomplish- cering, of which there iately two hours’ in- h day. A spar or tres- are proud n eng ments was constructed by them on the range inglements were con- together with an feet highand thirty . demolished with high d and exploded by guardsmen m- of Capt the the mp was ex- hursc and vs. thers were rations from heat. During period of t ompany “ute and on ien, camp sur- to Walter 1 Guard operated He is reported doing showed s citis Tht Maj lea ving camp d in the rehed : The R Army men at camp the pale skins of the they ched camp, but sical and outdoors, the phy &, ball gam outfit looked like r good coats of v step as they h the band ing. Gen. orders the the n playing Stephan sters issued for transfer of men from prefent organi- | zations to Company E as recruiting is progressing actively, and it is probable that lmitation will have to be nut on enlistments before July 9. of the next camy will be for a period of two weeks. FLOGGED BY MASKED MEN, CLAIM OF FARMERS Georgia Community Stirred by Re- port of Outrage Perpetrated by Mob of 15 Men. Do . Ga. June 12—County authorities are today trying to round up members of A mob of masked men whom C. D. tham, las homes a sever young t mers of near Doug- m called them from their night and gave them Bog ntham told officers that from their house that the sheriff wi to them. They were s 1 by fifteen mask men, they claim. who blindfolded them with pistols forced them to %0 to a place half a mile distant, where the flogzing took place Officers suid that previously Boggan had-had trouble with a neighbor over his mother-in-law e CUT GLASS IS STOLEN. Table Linen Also Taken, Worth $450. A barrel of cut glass valued at $250 was stolen from a storeroom in rear of 1443 Glrard street, accord- ing to a report made to_the police by D. S. Rudn 1334 Mount ant street. A trunk in the room was broken open_ and robbed of table linen worth $200. Two marines were blamed by Al- berta Quigley, 1331 G street, for the in All loss of her pocketbook, containing $12 and keys. One of them, she stated, snatched the pocketbook from her hand at Pennsylvania ave- nue and Tth street about 12:30 o'clock vesterday morning. John Kathas, 1127 4th street north- east, reported that his pocket was picked of fiurkolb(u K, contain- ing $110 and a check, while boarding a street car at Tth and U streets yes- terday. A tin box containing valuable papers and a picture of a man and > n was stolen from the residence of Mrs. Frances J. Shepherd, 3368 Livingstone road, Anacostia, the last two days by an intruder, who gained entrance through a rear window. R CE— TO ACT ON APPLICATIONS. Board of Trade Committee to Take Up Prospective Members. Twenty-one applications for mem- bership in the Washington Board of Trade, which recently were approved At & meeting of the membership com- mittee, will be formally considered for membership by the executive committee of the board at a_meeting this afternoon in the Star bullding. E. C. Graham, chairman of the executive committee, will preside. SR PLANE FALLS; 3 INJURED. LOS ANGELES, Calif, June 12.— William F. MacKay, editor of the Suburban Citizen at Miramonte, near here, and Bell Valentine, pllot, were scriously injured yesterday when ‘an airplane in which they were riding fell. Hugh Bingman, also an occupant of the plane, escaped with slight in- jurfes. The airplane collided with a ‘wieshone pole. = J sard. | v appendi- | X placed the pay table front of the Administra- & and the companies were ) in succession and men Jir week's service, and paying the post exchange the ice cream. cigarettes ant-en commodities pur- | v little sum i s of all as they | which | Boggan and Dewey Gran- | Pleas- | New Head of Women's Trade Union League MRS, MAUDE SWARTZ. {0f New York, who hax just been elected president of the Natio eizhth biennial convention held Waukegan, Hll. Mrw. Swartz succeeds Mrs. Raymond Robbinx, who ha served for fifteen years. RAIL UNION MY MOVETOCANADA Changing of Headquarters Would Evade Recent Su- preme Court Decision. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. June 12—While addi- tional wage cuts threatened $40,000,- 000 further cuts to 350,000 more {railway employes, it was rumored to- {day that any rail strike growing out of pay decrease decisions by the | Unitea States Railroad Labor Board | might be directed and financed from {Canada to evade the recent decision of the United States Supreme ( & unions liable for damages }v by their members. jders of the rail unlons said to ptemplating the move viewed wment of Canadian head- { legitimate, because the | international organiza- 1 inancial penalties in case of | |a Ikout could thus be averted, it | was said | Total Cut $150,000,000. | The new wage reduction order is | expected to increase the total cut from raflw: workers' wages to ! proximately §150,000,000 a year. Clerks, signalmen, stationary firemen, yilers and marine department em- iployes will join the shopmen and 1 way employes as vic- lash. lots to the 400,000 railway | accompanied by the following letter very possible effort ploye eligible. The ballot will be | tabulated as ‘soon as possible, and | there” will "be no_stoppaxe of work until you are properly authorized to do so. “This Is the time for actlon and not talk or unnecessary delay. The rail- way employ aepartment desires that every ballot shall be in Chicago at the earliest possible in no case later than June 30." Canada Plan Denied. By the Asso ed Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 1 Jewell, head of the railway employ department of the American Federa- v to- day that railway shop ecrafts union has r consi ion a pian to move their headquarters from Chi- cago to Canada 1o escape any suits brought against them under the Coro- nudo decision recently handed down by the United States Supreme Court. “We have no such move under con: sideration and I have heard no talk tion of Labor, denied emphatical the our leaders of doing such a * Mr. Jewell said. are not running away from any fight. We are not seeking a fght, 1 into one will bat- | tia to the last ditch.” | ADMITTED TO PRACTICE. Chandler P. Anderson in Supreme Court—Other Court Admissions. Chandler P. Anderson, American {representative on the Hague tribunal |and former solicitor of the State before the Supreme Court of the Dis trict of Columbia today on motion of John Paul Earnest, chairman of the examining committee. Mr. Anderson a member of the bar of the supreme court of the state of New York. Dr. L. 8. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, was also jcourts. He Is a member supreme court of Pennsylvania. Rowe served as assistant secretary of the Treasury and later as chief of the division of Latin American affairs in_the Department of State. Others admitted from other jurisdic. tions were: Augustus R. Brindley, Alabama; Douglas_D. Felix, Ken- tucky: Michael F. Foley, Wisconsi Herbert W. Nautz, Ohfo; James L. Pangle, Montana; Francis . Reese, California, and Walter W. Stevens, South Carolina. MOVE SAFE TO ROB. An automobile bearing a few men and a 300-pound safe quietly crept into the grounds of the Soldlers’ Home near the Brookland entrance early yesterday morning and upon reaching a little grove stopped and emptied its contents. Activity around the safe ensued, ac- companied by grunts, groans mutterings, and in a short while the stubborn combination yielded. Hands flashed into the safe and brought out the entire contents—a small amount of change. Today the strong box was dlscovered in the grove by John Kirby, a resident of the home. It had been taken from the Old Dutch Market at 4708 14th street through the rear basement win- dow. Detectives Springman and Dar- | nall, with clues of finger prints on the glass, are Investigating. CALL C. OF C. COMMITTEE. Law and Legislative Body to Meet Wednesday Night. Members of the law and legislative committee of the Washington Cham- ber of Commerce will meet Wednes- day night at 8 o'clock in the Homer building, it was announced today by c. E. Seymour, secretary of the cham- er. James T. Lloyd, chairman of the committee, vl preside. . Dr. | Women’s Trade Unfon League at the | in urt | pmen, sent out from Chicago. were | moment and | | Department. was admitted to practice | admitted to practice before the local | of the | and | AGROSS TWOAUTOS House Unroofed as Storm Sweeps District—Many Trees Damaged. Damage to one house, two automo- biles and nearly a hundred trees was the result of the storm that swept i Washington last night about 7:30 { o'clock, and which, according to the l\\'.«.nhar bureau, was one of the group that played havoc along the eastern Atlantic coast yesterday. Shortly after the downpour dynamo trouble developed in the plant of the Potomac Electric Power Company at Benning, 1. C.. cutting off the cur: rent and throwing the city into dark- ness for a_short time. The roof of the home of Edgar Chinn, 118 Howard road., Anacostia, | D. C., was blown off by the wind and the entire house flooded, but the oc- cupants escaped injur Automobiles Damaged. In Potomac Park trees fell on {automohiles of Mr. and Mrs F. C. Bag- {gerly of 1321 M street and Mr. and iMrs. Roy R. James of 1323 11th street, 4 the tonneuu of both machines. ants who were In the fronf s of the cars escaped injury. | strects and roads were block- lling trees and branches and ame nec for the police to off some sections as tae storm the noeists on the Potomac river cable connected with the Georgetown bridge and lost their canoe. *7 Allwine, manager of the Portner | apartments, and P. M. Handsome, both mumbers of the Potomac Boat Club, see< ing the two men, who were not identified, in the water, paddied out into the river in the face of the wind and brought i them to land. Explosions From Short Cireait. Loud explosions in the vicinity of 15th and M streets occurréd during the storm, but they were later found to have been caused by a short circuit in the dynamo of the American Ice Com- any plant. The storm traveled at a maximum speed of thirty-five miles an hour, ac- cording to the weather bureau, and caused a drop in the temperature of y-one degrees. The thermometer but the humidity which has hung over Washington for the past [ few days will be lacking. is the bureau forecast. HIGH SCHOOL GIRL, WED IN SECRET, ASKS DIVORCE i !15-Year-0ld Edith Densmore At- tends All Her Classes Despite | Marriage. | ith R Humphrey Densmore fifteen years old. who has daily at i | | out telling her ceremony, to filed a petition the District Supreme Court to annul more. The suit is filed in her behalf by her mother, Mrs. Mary A. Walms- ley, as next friend. The ceremony took place at Ballston, Va. Densmore was_a boarder at the mother's home, 1708 3d street north- west, and it is alleged made improper \advances to the schoolgirl, then only fourteen years old. September 2i tlast, the child-wife asserts, she met | Densmore on the street and was per- {suaded to take a ride into Virginia |with him. At Ballston. it is stated, | Densmore misrepresented the age of i !tne plaintiff and secured a marriage {license and a wedd ceremony was performed. Fearing o return to her i he went daily to her classes, not with the defendant. March 11, last, the court is advised, Densmore left home in the morning ing he was going to work, but did to locate him have been futile. Through Attorneys Archer & Smith and G. #nnul the marriage and to’' permit ARE REDUCED 10 PER CENT All Railways of State Agree to Cut After July 1 at Conference. Dispatch to The Star. i RICHMOND, Va, June 12—Rail- roads of the state have agreed to a straight 10 per cent reduction on frelghts of all sorts on and after July 1. This order was entered to- day, when the representatives of all the roads had a conference with Maj. Forward of the state corporation commission. on the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Norfolk and Western and Potomac. This will leave the rates about 12 per cent higher than the pre-war rates, while the Southern, the Sea- board and the Atlantic Coast Line will be about 14 per cent above the rates { prior to the war. CREDIT MEN MEET. Discuss Past Year's Problems at Cleveland Convention. CLEVELAND, June 12.—Problems encountered during the past vear will be discussed at the tenth annual con- vention of the Retail Credit Men’s Na- tional Association, which opened here today. The meeting closes Thursday. The foremost credit authorities in the { country will address the convention. A feature will be group meotings especial- Iy arranged for credit executives of various lines of trade. A banquet Wednesday night will be addressed by E. W. Nelson of Lincoln, Neb., president of the association. Miny of the delegates wiil remain here for the convention of the Natlonal Association of Retall Secretaries, to be held Friday and Saturday. RITES FOR W. A. CAHOON Held Yesterday Und¢r Auspices of Fraternal Organizations. The funeral of William A. Cahoon, who died last week, was held yester- day afternoon ‘at 2:30 o'clock from Zurhorst's chapel, East Capitol and 3d streets, under the auspices of Har- mony Lodge, No. 17, F. A. A. M, and Junior Order of American Mechanics. Mr. Cahoon was the son of the late William and Annie Cahoon of Here- ford, Md., grandson of the late Nich- jolas H. and Sarah Bull of Baltimore county, Md., prominent as the first settlers of Maryland from England. He is survived by his wife; Mrs. Florence Cahoon; a daughter, Miss Erna Cahoon; two sisters. Mrs. Annie Enson and Mrs. Sadle A. Cahoon Lewis of Baltimore. Interment was in Fort Lincoln cemetery. MURDER TRIAL OPENS. Trial was commenced today before Justice Siddons and a jury in Crim- inal Division 2 of Theoddre R. Ward, colored, charged with murder in_the second degree. Ward is alleged to have stabbed to death Randolph Waite, also colored, following an al- tercation resulting from Waite slap- ping Mildred Flest, Ward's sister, as the party was returni from & dance April 15 last. Assisi United States Attorney Preamont con- ducting_the prosecutio ‘while At- torney L. A. Widmayer appeared for the accused. % ended the Business High School since | W her marriage September 20 last with- | anxious onlookers sought to identify hoolmates of the'Earments belonging to missing rela- in | tive should Dol oo s home, the young sisl avers | Eagle Boat No. 5. ws it w, le to obtain the vote of every emc ! L. Munter the court Is asked to!g.:th toll VIRGINIA FREIGHT RATES |x. I1e The photograph shows how the automoblile of Fi was damaged by huge tree limb broken off by the injury. HURRICANE DEATH TOLL LEAPS TO 60 IN NEW YORK ntinued from First Page.) half of them went out on the waters of Pelham bay It was jammed with boats of every description when the storm hit it. Few had opportunity to get ashore. The known casualties occurred off Execution Light, which is about six miles east of City Island; Rat Island, about three miles east, and another island nearby. It was estimated that than 10.000 persons were fishing off those places when the storm After it had sed and the SKYy cleared, the waters of Pelham b and Long Island sound were dotted with overturned rowboats, launches, canoes and yachts. Over 200 small boats turned. Police boats were rushed to the scene and all night threw power- ful searchlights over the water, aiding the work of those who sought the dead. inrments Taken From Water. The searchers returned to the police ation laden with wearing apparel ich they heaped into piles where Sixteen boaters were reported her marriage to Benjamin S. Dens- |drowned in Long Island sound. One of the heroic rescues in Long Island sound cost the life of John Anderson. who, exhausted after res- ulng Miss Gladys Redinger, his fiancee, was drowned. Anderson and Miss Redinger were canoeing on the sound. The canoe was overturned in the storm and An- erson swam with the girl until he reached the craft and helped her to | gain a hold on it. Just as a rescuing yacht sailed up, Anderson’s hold on the overturned canoe failed and he sank. Seaman Washed From Deck. Carl Funicello, seaman, was washed from the deck of the United States going nging to the rescue of two men missing a single day while she Was o an overturned cance in the Hudson, off Port Washington potint. The wind picked up a small bunga- low in the Bronx, carried it a hundred feet and left it, wrecked. Mrs. Hilda inot return that night, and ail efforts {purian. the occupant, was taken from the debris seriousiy injured. Seven canoeists were added to the up by harbor police, who found them the wife to resume her malden name. jin various parts of North river. Lower bay and off the Long Island coast. Two men were killed in Newark, J.. when they came in contact with electric wires torn down by the wind. Woman and Child Crushed to Death. A massive, decayed tree at Mount Vernon fell, crushing to death Mrs. Cassie Cavavallo and her infant son. Moe Ruskin, one of a party of ca- noeists in Echo bay. was drowned. Three other members of the party vam to shore after the canoe cap- sized. Ten excursionists on the ferryboat Mildegrad, returning from Interstate >ark, N. J. to West 158th street, were injured when the wind tore a lifeboat from its davits. Coney Island, where a throng of 350,000 had gathered, including 100.- 000 bathers, fortunately received only the tail end of the storm. Neverthe- Jess, the confusion at the resort was intense when the startled crowds the Richmond, Fredericksburg and |rushed for shelter. $2,000,000 FLOOD DAMAGE. Syracuse Streets Foot Under Water. Train Marooned. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., June 12.—Two Were killed, scores injured and probably two million dollars’ damage was caused by electrical storms that swept over northern and central New York vesterday. Flood conditions prevall throughout the Mohawk val- i In Syracuse it Is estimated fully a milllon dollars' damage was done in the business and residential sections which were covered with from six inches to & foot of water. A New York Central passenger train was marooned in the lowlands at the height- of the storm and the cars flooded. 5 Passengers were rescued by fire- men. TO BE HEARD TOMORROW. Police Doubt Story That Men Ar- rested Were Seeking Liquor. A statement of Harry Wilson, who, with Frank Wilson, both of whom said they are from Louilsville, Ky. was arrested after the two had en- tered the place of the H. Zirkin Fur Company, 834 14th street northwest, Friday night, that they were looking for liquor, is not belleved by the police. The men were found entering the lace by Policemen Zepp and were Fnar arrested. Detectives Lynn and Cox, who participated in an Inv. gation, declared they did not believe the story about a search for liquor. Whelan is declared b§ the police to have been arrested in Baltimore some time ago and that his picture grpeur._ in the rogues' gallery of that city. They are expected to be arraigned in Police Court tomorrow on a charge of housebreaking. —_— LILLIAN RUSSELL TRIBUTE Memorial Services to Be Held in All Keith Theaters. A memorial service in honor of the late Lillian Russell will be held at ith's Theater next Sunday. Similar Qxx.'rol:u will be held in all the the- ers on the B. F. Keith cirouit. Presiden! mrdlra. members of Con- and the diplomatic corps, ant E:mincm overnment officials “w! sked t’ take part in the local no fewer’ broke. ! were over- | Their bodies were picked | le. CANON SNYDER RESTS IN OAK HILL CEMETERY Impressive Ceremonies Held Today Attended by Representatives of Orders and Churchmen. Impressive ceremonies will mark the funeral services this afternoon of Rev. Canon William Tayloe Sny- der, rector of the Church of the In- carnation for the past twenty years, who died suddenly Friday at the Cathedral Close. Representatives of the many organizations with which Canon Snyder was affiliated for many nklin C. Baggerly, attorney of Federal Trade Commission, Mr. and Mrx. Baggerly, who were In the car, excaped MANY VITAL JSSUES AWAIT SOLUTICN AS A.F.OF. L. CONVENES (Continued from Fir: | | Page.) Colorado was said to be “equally as absurd and fully as dangerous. President Harding was accused of having contemplated “a system of lindus(rl.nl laws similar to those which prevail in Kansas,” when in his mes- | sake to Congress last December he declared that “in the case of labor organizations we might well apply similar and equally well-defined prin- in MY ciples of regulation and supervision rs will be present. Services wiil '} > el be held at 3 o'clock at the Church of | (4% he had Jjust previcusly recom- the Inearnation; 12th ana N streets:,Snaed for corburations) fn order 1o Rt. Rev. Alfred Har Bishop of | 20 thele tericion |‘“nnhluslon, and Rev. G. C. F. Bra<i“.qp. gecisions of the Railroad Labor | tenahl, dean of the cathedral, WilllBoard have given satisfaction neither 1 officiate. i oA At | The rector's chair will be draped in |ip MG NOTRers or the matusenents | black and the casket will lie sur-|c | sl | Yoanaad: By = = = Cummins w, through the board, has o d by many beautifu foral trib- | frocticily déstroyed the concept of gll:* Th; x;nll:’ will be filled !‘ " (voluntary agreements between em- [y, (OF (e i0cens psalm. & | plo and workers and the subject avorite of Canon Snyder, “Lord, Thou ¢ ¢ sensation for services has be- {Hast Been Our Refuge.” will D come a constant source of litigation | chanted. “Savior, Blessed Savior." ! 35d irritatin | Canon Snyder's fav hymn. will be | ung. followed by Al Thy | Win Over Open Shop. Saints."” | The clerical guard of honor, which | OT&anized labor scored victory, the i will proceed in front of the ¢ 1,/ report said, “against organized cam- Iwill include Canon Waldron Meyer, | Daigns for the establishment of the ;Rev. Dr. John Brittan Clark. Rev called open shop.” ! George Atkinson and Rev. Charle “hambers of commerce throughout | Warner. The vestry of the church'the country, with certain notable ex- {will act as active pallbearers jare J. Elvans Mayfield, senior jden: Faber Stevenson, junior iden: Lynch Luquer, P. W | White, Dr. Lyman | Thomas Bright and | Dales. | _Honorary pallbearers will include Stirling Kerr and John C. Koons, re resenting the Ancient Accen | Scottish ~ Rites and Temple-Noves i Lodge, No. 32. Free and Accepted Ma- | sons, ‘respectively: Gen. George C. | Richards and J. Miller Kenyon, rep- | resenting the Sons of th Revolu- i tion; Washington Topham and Harry L. Bryan, representing the Associa tion of Oldest Inhabitants, and Ben- ijamin Miller and_Alblon K. Parris, {representing the K. F. R. Society. In- {terment will be p cemotery. Besides those named the { organizations of which Canon Sayder was a member will attend the church services in a bod “Holy eucharist” was celebrated at !8 o'clock this morning at the Church iof the Incarnation by Bishop Hard- | ing, assisted by Rev. Mr. Afkins and Rev. Mr. Cogswell. Members of the family clergy. parishioners and friends were in attendance. They ar- Swormstedt, Prof. Wilbur AT THE MILITARY CAMPS Candidates for Training Accepted at Meade, Fort Monroe, Hum- phreys and Langley Field. Candidates from the District of Columbia have been accepted for the citizens’ military training camps, ac cording to a report from the head- quarters of the 3d Area Corps, Balti- more, as follows: At Camp Meade, Md.—For infantry camp: John Cady Chase. jr. 11 9th street northeast; Samuel Donelson. jr.. 1751 Church street; Tolbert M. Pelzman, 5327 16th street; Elton H. Sheiry, 3109 34th street northwest: Charles G. Shores, jr., Albert L. Sinclair, jr, 1519 Lamont street; Edward R. Smith, 25 Rhode Island avenue northwest. For cav- alry camp: Edward S. Morgan, 73 Bryant street northwest: Linnaeus T. Savage, 623 Maryland avenue northeaat: John ,W. Zimmerman, jr.. 1789 Columbia road. For field ar- tillery camp: Eugenme B. Abadie, Wondley apartments, Columbia road: William E. Barkman, 218 8th street southeast; Willlam Supples Brady, 1614 P street northwest; John A. Pat- terson, 729 5th street northeast. At Fort Monroe, Va.—For coast artillery camp: Paul I. Hodgkins. 1623 R_street northwe: Paul Jo- seph O'Donnell, 1243 3d street north- west; George T. O'Neill, 301 North- umberland apartments; Thomas Mec- G. Parks. 1609 Hobart street: Leon Poore, 4685 Grant road northwest: Austin Frank Swartwout, 12 Iowa circle. At Camp Humphreys, Va.—For en- gineer camp: Bernard Joseph Krogar, 1630 3d street northwest. At Langley Fleld, ‘Va—For air service camp: Louls R. Dennis, 119 Varnum street northwest. e RUSSIAN POSTAGE. A Letter From Kharkov Bearing Stamps Worth 895,000 Roubles. To the Bditor of The Star: 1 have seen lately In your columns reports of letters arriving from Russia with numerous postage stamps _ attached tnereto costing thousands of roubles. May I add my story, which may interest some of your readers? I have just received a letter from my sister from Kharkov. which had attached thereto fifty-two stamps of 7,600 ruble denomination and four stamps worth 1,000 roubles each, making a total of 895,000 roubles. Can oneflikuu rnllru t&-eg hThe tamps—Afty-six o —nhun o’ kg envelops “like the bridal trains of old. Just imagine if -the denomination were reduced to ko- pecks (cents) what a myriad of stamps there would have been. Under the csariat regime, this to- tal of rubles (dollars) woild have meant a fortune for an ordinary mortal—$197,600 in American money. Pioture all that American money spent_for posting & letter to a dear one! Heaven forbid. i The contents of the letter, as 'your readers must know by this time, were heartrending, to say the least. The tone of it was utterly help) and it behooves every righteous man Wh lp, even thou one little dollar a life savgd for a 3. NELSON. loves humanity to_hel it may be a mite, from here meal ‘week there. Pitt, Harry | in Oak Hill| ni MANY D. C. MEN ENROLLED 1 Grant place: | Returning to direct labor matters, | ceptions. have lent themselves to this [ disruptive propaganda.” the report | st There is but one answer to this | campaign, and ths continued or- | ganization, eternal vigilance and the highest degree of solidarity.” ] Banks have lent assistance to busi- Iness organizations "to compel em- iployers who desired to desl fairly | With the trade unions to alter their course,” the report further asserted. |1n this connection it was suggested [that the boveott was available | Operations of the Federation of La- {bor in manifold directions were dis- jcussed in brief paragraphs in the re- port. Out of * than 400 bills in- |troduced in Congress” during the (Present session. it was said, “90 per cent are inimical to the inte {labor and the people.” | A period of declining prices having “sel in, the theory of “cost of living” argument for wage increases in- terested the federation greatly, the ireport said. Studies initiated for de- rests of velopment of a new formula were described and a tentative proposal ladvanced in the statement that the rule should "In every in- dustry and gainful o based upon human tions. upation x wage on hy need and aspira- Some' criticism was implied of “a wage based solely upon costs of living, or subsistence, or a saving wage.” In the field of international lahor organization. the report said. little alteration of past policles had been necessary during the year, and an attitude of friendliness and associa- tion rather than unification was de- seribed. {EBERT REACHES MUNICH; NO HOSTILITY SHOWN By the Associated Press. MUNICH., Bavaria, June 12.—Presi- i dent Ebert, paying nis first official v of the state, arrived here th | Although it had been feared | nationalists mignt make the visit the oceasion of u hostile demonstration, the president’s arrival was not marked by any disturbance. He was received at i the station by Premier Lochenfeld and of the cabinet and the Is and conducted to his He afterward paid an official visit to the Bavarian government and the diet. All precantions were takenn to main- tain order, heavy details of police pa- trolling the streets. _ BANK RULING DELAYED. morning. at the Crissinger Studies Question of > Branch Offices. Controller of the Currency Cris- | singer has been answering a flood of queries from all over the country concerning branch banking for na- tional banks with the statement that his office had “made no ruling per- mitting the establishing of branches of a national bank in the ecity in which the parent bank is located. “There has been a question before this office.” sald Mr. Crissinger in his letter to inquirers, “as to whether a bank would be authorized to estab- lish additional offices or banking | Wohrle and Mr. 'S HAVE NARROW ESCAPE DURING STORM IN POTOMAC PARK.|TWO QUAKES RECORDED IWIND FELLS TREES |*pemem AT GEORGETOWN ONLY SHORT TIME APART A heavy earthquake shock recorded at the Georgetown Uni- versity Selsmological Observatory last midnight ana a less severe tremor, probably more distant, recorded about 6 o'clock morning. The first quake began at 11:54 o'clock last night and continued until 1 o'clock this morning, with the greatest intensity about five minutes after midnight. The center of the disturbance was estimated at 2,100 miles from Washington in a southerly direction. The second quake lasted about half an hour. MILWAUKEE, June 12—Two records of earth tremors were ' recorded on the seismograph of Marquette University here in the night, Father Kramer reported today. The first started at 12 o'clock this morning, lasting fort, five minutes. There was a period of Intenseness, beginning at 1:15 and lasting ten minutes. The second shock was recorded at 6 a.m., continuing for ten minutes. The ‘indicated direction was south- west and the location about 2,000 miles distant from Milwaukee. THREE KILLED, NINE HURT IN STORM-SWEPT PARK Ohio Tornado Hits Amusement Grounds; Bodies Believed Under Debris. NEWARK, Ohio, June 12 —Search of the storm-swept portion of Buck- eye Lake Park, near here, for bodies of persons believed to have been buried in debris when a tornado struck the amusement park late v terday, resulting in the death of three Columbus, Ohio, persons, was re- sumed this morning. A seventeen- year-old boy is missing. Nine per- sons are suffering from injuries, none of whom, physicians said, will die. The search also extended to the waters of the lake, in view of pos- sible drownings. As many as seven small hoats were reported missing. An overturned canoe was found on the lake last night. The lake was dotted with fishermen and pleasure seckers when the storm broke. this i {ington, to be his premier. The_dead: Myron E. Hill, sixteen; Mrs. Willlam’ M. Wohrle and M. Sei- gler. / Ollle Dean, Newark, is reported missing. With scarcely any warning the tor- nado struck shortly after 5 o'clock, cutting a half-moon shaped path, half a mile in length and from 300 to 400 t in width. A number of cottages ere either demolished or damaged. | Trees were uprooted and poles and electric wires of the Ohio Electr Rallway Company were blown down Young Hill was caught beneath wreckage of the bath house and Mrs. Seigler, who died at a local hospital early today, were in cottages which were demolished. It was said more bodies may be under the bathhouse, which is almost half submerged. ASK TUBERGLOSS HISPTAL FRST Legion Committee Little In- terested in Waiter Reed Reconstruction. The American Legion considers the proposed reconstruction of Walter Reed Hospital as third choice in a Pespital program for the fourth dis- trict, Veterans' Bureau it was learned | today. _The greatest need of the fourth! district, according to a report of the ! rehabilitation ymmittee as submit- by Col. James A. Drain of this chairman, to the Veterans' Bu- reau, i a tuberculosis hospital to be crected prefera of West Virgini As second choice the committee recommended contin- uation of Fort McHenry Hospita!, at Baltimore. with improvements through | concentration. Walter Reed Third Cholee. Thirdly, the committee proposed that _if any money were left from the District apportionment from the £17.000,000 approp n for ho pitals, after attending to the first two most pressing needs, something could very well be do 10 re; ce temporary structures at Walter Reea Hospital with permanent buildings Emphasis was placed by the legion committee upon the West Virgin tubereular hospital profect as being the first need of the fourth district at present, and the one which should be built With any money the Veterans Bureau saw fit to apportion to (he district. In the fourth district are the District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia on the program, B iy in the mountains | Maryland, { MAY UNITE CHINA Names Wu Premier; Military Governorships May Be Ended. By the Associated Press TIENTSIN, June 12—Gen. Chang Two-Lin's proposals for an armis- tice with Wu Pei-fu appen have heen simply a ruxe to gnin time for the defeated Manchurinn war lord. Heavy fighting broke out Friday between Chinwangt nad Shanhaikwan. The battle has been raging steadily for the past three dayw. PEKING, June —China, after tca days virtually without an executiis head functioning in Peking, again hag a president and the nucleus of cabinet. Moreover, if indications borne out, the two will have a fu of share support from the sou! China section, whose opposition to tha old government has done much, if not most, to keep alive civil war for fivs vears L1 4 Yuan-hung, who was president until the monarchial coup of 1817 forced him from office, again is in power. He came to Peking yesterday and resumed office, and his first offi cial act was to nominate Dr. W. Ting-fang. former minister at Wast It is under- stood that Dr. Wu had consented to accept this office before Li left his retirement Dr. Wu has been a power in Canton government since that ministration arose as a protest over the very circumstances which ousted Li, and his adhesion to the new exec tive, if confirmed. is likely to do mu toward solidfying the country in support. 0ld Parliament Loyal Li comes at the behest of many members of the old pariiament whih he dissolved in 1917 and at the urgs -t appeal of Wu Pei-fu, dominant m tary leader of China. As assets of his new venture a unt on the solid support Wu Pei-fu, od will and con- dence of a proportion of * crmer parliament, now 1_-asse ling, and a more nearly complete ditry than bes case i many vears. This last largel due (o Wu Pei-fu’s energetic campais particularly that against lin, the Manchurian war lord, recently sued for an armistice As i ities he may count upon open o) osition of Dr. Sun Ya president of the South China gove: ment. Dr. Sun has a good force troops in the field, some estimates placing their number as high as 150.- 000, und hae expressed himself as willing to fi for the place at tie head of China's affa May Abolish Tuchuns. 1t is believed that President 1.3 first effort, after he has put h € ernment in workis. order. will the elimination of the system tuchuns or mili wrovi ROV~ ernors. Thi has L cre i by many stude of Chinese affairs with the gederation of ma civil conflicts. Gen. Li Yaun-hung, former presi- dent of China. who v in re- tirement in T tsin when Wu Pei-fa sought to induce A presidency, was bo a naval coliege, After the abdic emperer in president of the Concurrently, he wax the gener ff and resident throne. tenure and the rep shed by M 1 Tuan refused 1o T his « to Tientsin AMERICA NOT AIDING WU. Minister Schurmann Tells Peking Paper Report Is False. The State Department toda a statement emb ¢ gave out given by American maun to the ¥i nacular paper of ihe denied that the mi ritain, France and the |had been discussing the | port to Gen. Wu-Pe article follows The newspape Caretul Inquir; The report of the lex de. on committee to Bavaria since his election as head { was mae after thorough investigation | of the hospitalization facilities throughout trict, Col. Drain said. habiiftation committee consists prominent legion officials, and ph siclans of high standing in the three states and district. Col. Forbes, it was learned has promised to give the recommendation his serious consid- eration. HUNT ROBBERS IN SEWER. Thieves Elude New York Police by Jumping Into River. and welfare the entire dis The legion re- of all-night waterfront search bandits poultry market, escaped with $1.000, jumped into the North river when discovered on a pier head counting for two to have taken refuge in a sewer, abangoned yesterday by scores of fpolice. Inspector Cahalane, who led the man hunt, in which police boats placed their searchlights, said ap- iparently the robbers had ‘eluded the elaborate net spread for them on land and water. The wobbers leaped off the pler at low tide and the sewer outlet being in the vicinity, detectives working on the theory that they had crawled into it plunged in and joined in the a houses within the city, but no ruling has been made thereon. = —_— GRAND JURY REPORTS. Indictments Include One Against George E. Hicks. George E. Hicks was indicted to- day by the grand jury on three charges of housebreaking and lar- ceny. It is alleged that he entered apartments and took money and val- uables. Others indicted and the charges against them are: Hammett D. Neit- zey and J. Egbert Imles, non-support; Allen J. Hobby, housebreaking: George L. Edelin, assauit with dan- erous weapon: Osborne R. Kelley, fargery and uttering; Clarence K. Horton, false pretenses; Marie Clark and Clarence Chinn, grand larceny. WESTERN HIGH AS GUEST. Members of Company L of West- ern High School, which won the an- nual competitive drill of the Wash- ington High School Cadet Corps, will be the guests of Roland Robbins, manager of Keith's, at the playhouse tomorrow night. The theater will be suitably decorated in commemoration of the event. This is the second year that Mr. Robbins has paid such honor to the victorious company In the * competitive drill. aquatic hunt. Police were quickly stationed in an adjokning coal yard when it was discovered that an exit there from the sewer afforded means of escape, but the vigil was valueless, P UNABLE TO SERVE. ‘Dr. Constas Would Decline to Aid in Atrocity Probe. Dr. John Constas, who recently re- turned from a six months’ investiga- tion of immigration problems in southern Europe for the Department of Labor, sald today that he would )ike to put at rest rumors to the ef- fect that he was bein@considered for appointment to the commission to be sent abroad by this country to inves- tigate alleged Turkish atrocities. Dr. Constas explained that he had just become aware of the movement on the part of a number of his friends in this city and elsewhere, chiefly among those of Greek birth or ex: traction, to have him appointed as one of this proposed investigating commission. “While 1 feel flattered of this evi- dence of appreclation of me and my ability,” Dr. Costas sald, “it would be impossible for me at this time to ac- cept the honor if it were tendered me. My private affairs would not permit me to leave this country future for any length of time.” NEW YORK, June 12.—A thrilling | who held up a West Side | | ternal political affairs of f the stolen money, and were believed | “The Yi Shih Pao to | resentative to the Ame | to request its comment o press reports taken frou papers. to the effect that of Great Britain, Franc | United States, had been {and had recommended to ernments the giving of | Gen. Wu Pei Fu, in or 1 { nim to arganize a stable governme in China. “The American minister rec iour representa and informed 1 i that there was no foundatios preceding statement. No propc | been made to support any { leader nor had any ganization of & government | cussed. The subject of discu | been the disarmament resviut | the Washington . nd opportunity now present for Chix carry this measure into exe 1 he American minister further served that his government mainta a policy of non-intervention tions, and in conformity with icy he had observed and had | American consular officlals | the most scrupulous nentrali stention of interference in the ! political and military strife in ¢ KANCHOW KI CAPTURED. and iSouthern Army Said to Have Taken i City After Severe Fighting By the Associated Press. LONDON. Junie 12.—The army ! Sun Yat Sen, southern Chinese 1 has captpred Kanchow Ki, in Kianesl province, according to a Ho: | dispatch to the Daily Mail. The full {of the city was preceded by severd! days of severe fighting. A dispatch to the Tines from He kong says that the so-calied ment at Canton has reguested S | Sen, as president of the repu issue a manifesto denouncing Gei. | | Yuan-Hung, as a traitor to the | stitution and protesting against h | instatement as president of the public. 2,000,000-GALLON JUMP. Hot Wave Boosts Amount of Water Used in District. The sweltering temperature of yes- terday prior to the storm was ° flected in the consumption of v which amounted to 60,500,000 gal for the twenty-four hours ending § o'clock this morning. This was 2,000,000 gallons more than the city consumed on the preceding : Sunday. —_—— The nightingale's song may be in the near | heard at a distance of a mile on & calm night. 4 LI AS PRESIDENT