Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1922, Page 2

TYPHOID IN FOOD AT CHURCH FETE Health Officer Thinks Germs Carried Years by Women . Preparing Edibles. REPORT ON ILLNESS OF 44 Public Warned Against Staleness and Insanitary Handling of Edibles. Infection of the coleslaw or the potato salad is blamed by the health department for the outbreak of typhoid fever which occurred among persons who attended a supper at Grace Lutheran Church, 13th and Corcoran streets, on the evening of April 27, resulting In theeillness of forty-four persons and the death of one. In a statement made public last night Health Officer Willlam C. Fowler declared the investigation made by his office showed that two healthy “t i1 carriers” assisted in preparing the food used on that oceasion. “Presumably elther one or both of ,the carriers, in the process of pre- paring these fo contaminated them to exte reads one pas- sage from the health officer's report. The finding of two persons who are “carriers’ of the typhold germ in this investigation does not mean, Dr. Fowler beli that Washing- ton has more than the average num- ber of carriers, but is merely an un- usual scientific discovery. Protection Sugmested. After outlining his views as to the cause of the sickness which resulted from the church supper, Dr. Fowler made public 2 number of sugegstions to be followed by all Washingtonians to protect food from contamination. The investigation upon which Dr. Fowler based his conclusions was di- rected by Assistant Health Officer Cummings. Dr. Fowler's statement on the cause of the epidemic follows: “On April 27, 1922, several hundred people attended a church supper in this city. Among those in attend- ance, at least forty-four developed typhoid fever®and up to the present time there has been one death. The majority of these typhoid patients showed their first symptoms of iline within two weeks following the sup- per. The occurrence of 50 many cases irdicated the probability of a common source of food infection at the supper. Too Late to Test Food. “At the time the epidemic devel oped, It was too lats to secure for scientific investigation samples of food served. All other accepted pro- cedures for determining the source of infection were carried out. The milk and the ice cream were eliminated the source of infection inasmuch several sick with typhold fever did not partake of these foods. The final resuit of the investigation showed that among the workers preparing the food at the church, there were two healthy typhotd carriers. From our investigation, it would appear very definitely that both of these carriers had typhoid fever years ago. The finding of two healthy carriers, as a result of this investigation, does not mean that Washington has more than the average number of carriers, but 15 merely an unusual sclentific finding. “‘Some of the workers prepared oer- tain foods which were either un- cooked, as coleslaw, or first cooked and again handled In their prepara- tion, as potato salad. It is & note- worthy fact that much of the food was prepared the day before the sup- per, but in the Interim was not kept on ice. This applies not only to un- cooked food, but as well to cooked food which, having been cooked, was again handled in its preparation for salad. Presumably either one or both of the carriers, in the process of pre- paring these foods, contaminated them to some extent. Thias slight bac- terial contamination had time to mul- tiply many fold. The conditions were particularly favorable for muitiplica- tion, because these foods were not kept on ice during the twenty-four- hour period following thelr hand preparation. The health department is convinced as a result of its inves- tigation that typhold iInfeotion of either coleslaw or potato salad, or both, was responsible for the epi- demic, becauss all the patients 111 with typhoid fever partook of one or both of these foods.” Here are the practical Jessons which Dr. Fowler believes might be drawn from this outbreak: Clean Food Essential. “Food, cooked or uncooked, ecial- ly the latter varlety, should be handled as little as possible and the greatest care taken to see.that the hands of those handling it are first thoroughly cleansed to free them from any possible contamination. “The hand preparation of food. either cooked or uncooked, should not take place at a longer time before the food is consumed than is essen and during the interval between the preparation and consumption it should be kept on ice. “Now that the public water supply is practically eliminated as a source of infection, the food handler becomes the most dangerous source of con- tagion. Of the many foods through which typhold might be distributed, milk ranks foremost, but in this epl- demlc. as has been stated. milk s ex- cluded as the source of infection. “An additional barrier against in- fection is typhold vaccination, and a more universal recourse to this pre- ventive measure would materially re- duce the typhold sick rate.” MEXICO CITY BAKERS HUNT BREAD SMUGGLERS Food Hidden in Hay and Pottery Brought From Nearby Towns to Relieve Strike Famine. MEXICO CITY, June 17.—Bread is being smuggled into Mexico City DR.-ABERNETHY CHOSEN MISSIONARY PRESIDENT Modernists Elect All Officers at Northern Baptist Convention. 1By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 17.—Rev. Frederick ‘E. Taylor. of Indianapoll modernist leader,' was elected presi- dent of the Northern Baptist conven- tion at today's session of the church’s annual mgpeting here. He succeeds Mrs. Helen D. Montgomery of Roches- ter, N. Y. The entire modernist group was elected to office, the fundamentalists giving no oppésition. Other conven- tion officers elected were: Corwin Shank, Seattle, Wash,, first vice presi- dent; Frank M. Goodhild, New York, second vice president; Rev. W. C. Bitting, St. Louls, corresponding se retary; Rev. M. A. Levy, Pittsfield, Mass., recording secrotary; Rev. Charles A. Walker, Philadelphia, Pa. statistical secretary; Frank L. Miner, Des Moines, Iowa, treasurer. Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy. pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Wash- Ingtoa, D. C., was named president of the American Baptists' Foreign Mis- stonary Soclety. CHILE'S SIDE GIVE Step Insures American Par- ticipation in Final Discussion. Dy the Associated Press. The tangled skein of negotiations enmeshing the Chilean-Peruvian con- ference finally was handed over to the American State Department yes- terday for unraveling. Chile, following a lead taken by step necessary .to insure American participation in the discussions when Chilean Ambassador Mathieu visited the department and laid the Chilean side of the case before Secretary Hughes. Just what the ambassador told Mr. Hughes was kept a secret, but there wa® an understanding In well formed conference circles that Chilean position had been outlined in such conciliatory terms as to make department officlals highly confident of & final settlement. Arbitration Prospects. It would occasion widespread sur- prise here if the Chileans having gone thus far toward adjustment of the generation-old quarrei over the Tacna- Arica did not in the end accept a formula of arbitration giving to the arbitrator broad authority to deter- mine finally to whum the province be- longs. Such a formula, of course, would take into account the plebi- scite prevision of the Ancon treaty, but it might also recognise the con- tention of Peru that to hold a plebi- scite at this Iate day would not ac- cord with the real purpose of the treaty. Two Important considerations were counted as strengthening the possi- bilities of success for the mediatory plan now to be put into operation. One was a feeling in many quarters that it is only a gquestion of phrase- ology, and not one of principle, which had brought the direct negotiations to & deadlock. Offices of Mr. Hughes. The other. was a belief n, Chilean and Peruvian officials alike that, having intrusted Mr. Hughes with the task of suggesting a com- promise, neither side would find it oasy to resist his solution, even though neither had been bourd in advance to accept {t. A further evidence of the general confidence in the result was given by the departure from Washington late yesterday of Tomas A. Le Bre- ton, retiriug Argentine ambassador here, who twice had postponed his witlidrawal In order to be in a posi- tion to observe the Chilean-Peruvian conversation. Just before he left he had a long talk with Undersécretary Phtllips of the State Department and paid & visit also to Secretary Hughe: The official purpose of his call w; sald at the department to be to say good-bye, but the development start- ed further reports that the United States was preparing to act in the Tacna-Arica disputs by consulting the opinions of th’ i most familiar with it. $500 POSTAL ROBBERY LAID T0 NEGRO YOUTHS Substation in Pharmacy Looted While One of Pair Buys Tablet From™ Clerk. mong Currency”and postal money orders approximating $600 were stolen from a post office substation in Butcher's pharmacy, at 501 Florida avenue, yes- terday afternoon by two unidentified colored boys. The robbery, obviously premeditated, was described by the police as ®me of the most audacious made by Juveniles in recent years. The boys, whose ages are said to be from fourteen to sixteen, enterea the drug store about 5 o'clock and asked Miss Nellle Washington, in charge of the postal station, to change 50 cents into pennies and nickels. One of the boys then bought a writing tablet, and while Miss Washington was making the sale the other boy went behind the postal booth and .took an envelope from a drawer which contained . the currency and money orders. The robbery was not discovered until atter the boys hgd left the ‘'store. Detectives - D, J. Murphy snd Thomas Nalley of the eighth pre- a result of the strike of bakers in the | cinot later arrested and held for in- capital. Concealed in b of hay, in pottery and by other means, it is being brought in secretly fram nearby towns and distribut pitals and a few restaurants. 'he striking bakers early today established vigilance committees to inspect vehicles coming Into the city. CRYSTAL HAMPTON DIES. otly ed to hos- | P! ets, in loads| vestigation half & dozen boys who were found in the vicinity of the harmacy shortly after the robbery. HEADS' NATIONAL BODY. W. T. Denton President of United Commercial Travelers. NEW YORK, June 17.—Miss Crystal | CHARLESTON, W, Va., June 17.—W. Hamptop, former head of a moving ple- | T; ture producing firm which bore her | Commerei name, died today from:the effects of | George F. Brown of polson she swallowed In the rest room |Chosen & of a Broadway hotel two weeks ago. mu sald that at the hospital | Hi Miss ton told them she was mar- ?o o I Harry Schuls at Allentown, Pa., : i u ¥ 9 = e ek ;;:.,‘ grand conductor, F. C. Smoot, Denton of Lexington, . Wi ected grand counselor at ny od _at the United ial _Travelers’ convention and umf(on. was rand secretary for his twenty- term. . Other officers elected nd jor counselor, F. C. treasurer, H. grand past sevan were: _Grand juni ill, Charleston; grand Stout, Clarksburg; ratown, Md.; page, Robert n, 1 d sen- u{,n:.é hester, Ky, for the mext eld June 14 and 15, - =t p U. . IN TAGNA ROW, Peru more than a week ago, took the | in- | the | NO QUARTER SHOWN IN IRISH KILLINGS Latest Murders Among Most Cold-Blooded Crimes Yet Committed. By the Associated Press, BELFAST, June 17 —The districts of Altanaveigh and Lisdrumliska, on the south Armagh side of Newry; were the scene of murderous attacks today on householders, the assassins claiming four men and ‘one woman | victima killed und several wounded. Several farmhouses were destroyed. The districts are largely inhabited by Presbyterians, and it {s belleved | they were selected for reprisal for !the killing of two men Lislea Waednesday. Today's tragedy started about 8 o'clock In the morning, and (for hours the usually quiet country- | side echoed with rifle and revolver ishots, while incendiaries applied the ltorch to homesteads of people who {had nothing to do with the Lislea crime. The sound of the firing of land mines in Dublin road as police and special j constables hastened to the scene awakened the people of Newry, who took care of those who had taken | flight in an effort to escape from the assassins’ revenge. Womnn Shot to Death. The dead are John Heaslip and son, | Thomas Crozier and his wife and James Lockhart. Tie wounded included James Gray and his son Joseph, both of whom are in the hospital; Alice Crozier and a small boy. When Crozier. an old man, opened the door of his ho ve and found ‘armed men, he shouted: *Mick. mick,'” whereupon one of the raiders shot him dead. Crozier's wife rushed to his side and exclaimed to the raider: Willle, would not expect that of you." The man then fl at her, Inflicting a terrible wound in the arm, from which she bled to death. Lockhart's house, and a nearby resi- dence, were set afire. The famllies at- tempted to escape. but were lined up n the roadway. One of the men called on Lockhart and a small boy to come with him. Lockhart hesitated, in order to speak to his mother. whereupon the man shouted “You don’t obey” and shot Lockhart through the heart in the | presence of his father, mother and sisters. ' Riddle Dodies With Bullets. Heaslip's family were ordered from | the house: the men and his son were {taken down the road and shot dead. {Mrs. Heaslip rushed forward and clasped their hands. The assassins went away, but returned in a moment and | fired additional shots into the bodies. | The raiders, proceeding toward {\amlough, attacked the chancellor's house. which contains the table on which the act of union was signed in 1800. This table was exhibited at Bel- fast on the occasion of the northern parliament by King George. The rald- ers, however. did no serious damage. At the Gray household. after the as- sassins had cone, some one remarked tha: they must be low-minded to do such a thing. but young Gray, al- though he realized he had been mor- tally wounded, protested: “Don’t say that; maybe they had to do it. I for- give them and hope God will, too.” Two Groups of Assnssin ‘When the raiders were carrying off Crozler and his son, Mre. Crozier pleaded for mercy, but received the reply: “There was no mercy for Cath- olics shot in Belfast.” At one house, the leader of the raid- ers gave the order: “All right, fire!” An iIncendiary bomb was then flung into the dwelling and rifles and re- volvers were fired. It {s declared that two groups were operating. because the Gray and Croz- fer houses were attacked simultane- ously. The ralders wore policemen’'s capes and bandoliers and carried serv- fce rifies, while ammunition cases found later also were of service pat- tern. Horror {8 felt throughout the .\'ewr¥ district and fears are entertained fo! tonight. The dead. except the Croa- fers, have been taken to the Newry morgue. PRO-TREATY VICTORY SEEN. i | New Dail Expected to Have Ma- jority in Favor of Pact. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN. June 17.—Lacking defl- {nite anouncement as to the outcome of yesterday's elections for a new dail elreann, the results of which are not expected to be known until next Tuesday At the earliest, the estimate is hazarded in some quar- ters that the republicans will have { forty representatives in the new dail, that the group, which represents pro- treaty sentiment In the old dail will have sixty members, while the new- comers will number twenty-eight. It all the newcomers support the treaty, the likelthood of which has been pointed out, it would give the Free State forces a working majority on the treaty issue. The republica however, do not expect the divl will follow these lines and prefer to regard the new parliament as likely to consist of 100 old Sinn Feln mem- bers against twentv-eight not at- {tached to that party organization. They say that the coalition cabinet, therefore, is safe against attack on | any policy advanced by the combined | Sinn Fein wings. The coalition cabi- inet 1s expected to focus its attention on administration and the Ulster problem. . Attention is called here today to one point in the transitory provisions of the text of the new constitution, which hitherto has escaped comment, but which it is belleved must have an influence on the future situation, Un- der the treaty, the provisional gov- ernment was to terminate within twelve months Jtf signature of the treaty, and it was generally assumed that the parliament which is being elected could not have more than a six months' lease of life. In the con- stitution text, however, it is provided that the government and parliament can carry on for twel onths after the constitution een finally passed, with this important differ- ence, that once the constitution is passed, all members of the continuing parliament must take the oath of legiance to the king. fiamonn De Valera and his colleagues would join the parliament now being elected, because, for the present, this not apply, unle which is unlikely, they assent to tI oath their resignations must come once the constitution assed. Robert Barton, who was one of the signatories of the Anglo-Irish treaty, but afterward declared he had signed under duress, and .ra himself with Erskine Childers in opposition o the treaty, is expected to be un- seated as & result of the poll in Kil- dare and Wicklow. - z Two Pro-Treaty Men Also. Likely to Pull Through. By the Associated Press. CORK, June 17.—Ak the conclusion of the first count of the election re- turns it was found that Robery Day, laborite, had obtained the necessary quota and was, therefore, elected. Liam Roisite (Willlam Roohe) and J. J. Walsh, both pro-treaty, barely secured the quota, but are, expected to be elected. SENATOR CROW RALLIES. Slight Change for Better Noted in | CAPTURED PRIZES AT TIDAL BASIN BEAUTY AND BATHING SUIT CONTEST | NAVAL CLASS OF 1881, Group winners, left to rights Etl Kline, Thelma Spencer, Virginia Mile Margaret Goodman and Viola Swin- nerton. ANNA NIEBEL FIRST IN BEACH CONTEST Follies Girl Wears One-Piece Suit of Orange-Hued Tricotine. Miss Anna Niebel, a “Follies' " girl, who has threatened to sue Represent- ative Manuel Herrick of Oklahoma for breach of promise, lived up to her reputation as a beauty vesterday afternoon when she walked away with first honors in the Advertising Club’s bathing suit contest at the tidal basin bathinz beach. Miss Niebel, wearing a striking orange-hued tricotine one-piece suit, with short, attached skirt, polled ex- actly half of the dozen votes of the newspaper representatives who acted as judges. Miss lola Swinnerton, Identified with past beauty contests, won second honors in an orange-and- black costume. Lansburgh & Broth- ers’ aggregation of pretty models re- ceived the department store award—i large silver loving cup, presented by the management of the bathing beach. 5,000 "View Models. A crowd of 5000 persons, which overflowed into the speedway, craned thelr necks to see the parade of bathing girls, numbering a score, as it passed from Manager Leech's of- fice through the woman's entrance to the beach. A dozen news pho- tographers and movie men were on hand to prove that Washington's bathing girls are as attractive as California’s. The presence of Com- missioner Oyster lent an official a.- mosphere to the contest, which was staged in a broiling sun. Miss Niebel, not at all abashed by the staring eyes of which she was the cynosure, smilingly accepted a allver loving ‘cup handed to her by Capt George K. Shuler, U.S.M.C. JMiss Swinnerton was given a similar cup by J. Lynn Yeagle. Both cups were donated by Castieberg’s store. L. Rubel, president of the Ad Club, pr. sented the large cup to Lansburgh’s. The winners posed in numberless at- titudes for perspiring camera men, following announcement of the judwes’ decteion. That the choices of the interested . _The judges were: ] ing and G. A. Lohr of the Washington Herald; J. Lynn_ Yeagle and Fred Miller of the Washington Post; C. E. Nelson and Herbert Murray e Evening Star; Harvey Cobb and Kirk Miller of the Washington Times, and Harold D. Jacobs and Louis Keemle of the Daily News. Suits Entered by Stores. ‘The suits worn by the models were entered in the contest by local stores. Miss Niebel represented the Sport Mart and Miss Swinnerton was with Lansburgh & Brothers' group. Among the suits displa; were ones made of jersey, taffeta and various woolen goods. Another unique costume was of rubber, in which green predomi- nated. There were no strictly one- piece affairs, skirts varying from the embryo type, affected by Miss Niebel, to knee-length fringes. One red suit was trimmed with white fur. with cap to match. A black-and-white taffeta bathing suit won much favor- able comment. Most of the models wore rolled socks and slippers and several carried bright parasols. Among stores entered in the com- petition in addition to those already mentioned, were Sigmund's, Jellefl's, Parker-Bridget, S. Kann's_Sons, Mey- er's Shop, Bertram Cohn, Hecht's ard Peoples Drug Store: VACATION the regimen of: Physical No child should be awakened and such a child should retire Physical Balanced Diet, Rest and Correction of Winner and runner-up in the i ndivid: cla; Anna Neibel, i chosen for first honors (left), and Miss Viola Swinnerton, the second choice of the judges. WIFE ACCUSES PASTOR, WHO ELOPED WITH GIRL ‘Warrant Charges Desertion Against Rev. W. W. Culp, Father of Nine Children. XENIA, Ohio, June 17.—A warrant for his arrest on a desertion charge was filed today against the Rev. W. ‘W. Culp, thirty-five. pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Spring Valley, near here, who early Wednes- day eloped with Miss Esther Hughes, an eighteen-year-old music teacher, who was boarding at his home. Mrs. Culp. mother of nine children, the youngest of whom are six- month-old twins, signed the warrant last night. CHILD NOT JIMMY. GLASS. Another Rumor Unfounded, In-! vestigation in Pogto Rico Shows. JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 17.—Po- lice officlals today received word from San Juan, Porto Rico, that the child found there with a gypsy band was not Jimmy Glass, who disap- peared in 1915, while his parents were visiting in Greeley, P WISDOM . And Children’s Home Nutrition Work Mothers of children who attended the Nutrition Classes con- ducted during the past scl'ool year by this Association, under the direotion of the Chief Mediocal Inspector, will do well to continue f Defects v taught the children in those classes. Balanced Diet Plenty of green vegetables, fresh fruit, pasteurized or scald milk, but no tea or coffee, nor any raw milk nor cream. ' Rest from a sound sleep in the morn- ing. If this becomes necessary, it is evidence of insufficient sleep, arlier. Growing children, par- tioularly when under-weight; should take mid-morning and mid. afternoon rests of half an hour or more. Defects Summer vacation affords ample time for correcting all remedial physical du'raou. such as Adenoids, diseased Tonsils, decayed Teeth, ete. ‘What we advise in this Bulletin will prevent under-weight, as well as mental retardation, and will increass the child's general resistance against sickness It will bring better school reports during next session. . This Bulletin is When in the Country Look out for contaminated well water and raw milk! Scald all doubtful water and every drop of milk and cream!. , Paid for- by the |Y. M. C. A. BRONZE TABLET | GIVEN TO LEAVE CENTER liver Addresses at City Hall Ceremonies. By the Associated Press, CHAMBERY, France June Chambery, which was a leave center of the American expeditionary forces, today was presented with a bronze tablet by the Young Men's Christian Association as a mark of appreclation for the hospitality of the people of the town to American soldiers on leave. The presentation was made at the city hall this afternoon by a dele- gation of Y. My C. A. workers from the American forces headed by James A. Sprenger, chief secretary. The other members of the delegation were Franklin _Spencer Edmunds, Jobn F. Brown of Philadel- phia, and Karl §._Cate of Boston. Speeches delivered by the mayor and Deputy Borrell emphasized the point that the personal friendship formed at leave areas constitute a strong in- ternational bond as well as a strik- ing testimonial to the conduct of the American soldiers, * Similar ceremonies took place tod at Challes-Les-Eaux, near Chambery. FATALLY BITTEN BY FISH. Gir]l Swimming Star Dies After At- ? tack by Barracuda. By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. June 17.— Miss Dorothy McLatchie, high school swimming star, was bitten to death this afternoon by a barracuda while swimming a mile off the municipal pler. Miss Mary Buhner, also a high school star, towed the injured girl more than half a mile before her eries for help were heard. A boat was sent out and she was brought to the pier, but bled to death before they could get her to land. SAYS MINERS SIGN UP. &nion Official Charges Separate ‘Agreements Made in Fields. By the Associated Presw: SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 17.—Charg- es were made here tonight by John Young, member- of the executive board of district No. 12, United Mine Workers, that virtually every mining field outside the central competitive fields, compris- ing Ilinois, Indiana, Ohlo and Pena- syivania, has signed separate wage ments with operators and is now producing & large. quantity of coal that i being sold in the central competitive district: ~ YOUTH CONFESSES MURDER. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 17.— Homer Rauls, sixteen years old, of Columbus, Ga., surrendered late to- day and confessed, accordigg to po- lice headquarters, that he shot and killed George C. Smith, member of the local fire department, whose body was found early ‘Wednesday in the yards of the Jacksonville Ter- ! minal Company gnd within a stone’s Chambery Mayor and Deputy De- | in Germany, | ARRIVES AT HONOLULU Becretary Denby Makes Inspection of Pearl Harbor—Will Leave for Japan. } By the Assoclated Press, HONOLULU, T. H., June 17.—The United States Navy transport Hen- derson, carrying Edwin Denby, Bec- retary of the Navy, and members ol the Annapolis class of 1881 to a class reunion at Tokio, reached here today. The party was greeted at the dock by Gov. Wallace R. Farrington and Mayor John R. Wilson of Honolulu, with other officials, and by Admiral Edward Simpsom, commandant of the fourteenth naval district, and Ma). Gen. Charles H. Summerall, com- marding the department of Hawail. The party will go to Pearl Harbor later today, where Secretary Denby will make his official inspection after beirg entertained at luncheon by Gen. Summerall. The Henderson salls for Japan to- morrow night. SISTER OF NTADOO INCOSTLY TANGLE Loses $75,000 and Is Sued for $50,000 by Wife of Her Foster-Son. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 17.—Mrs. Nona McAdoo Foster. widowed sister of Willjam G. McAdoo, has lost nearly all of $75,000 left her by her hus- band, and is defendant in a $50,000 alienation suft arising out of the secret marrfage of her adopted son, Angelo Scarpia Foster, according to afdavits filed today in supreme court. Mrs. Thelma Helms Foster, wife of the foster-son, has filed the aliena- tion suit against the foster-mother and also a suit for separation from her husband, charging abandonment She charges that when her husband | told his foster-mother of their secret | marriage, she told him to choose cither foster-mother or wife, that he choke the former and told her, his_wife, to sue for divorce The elder Mrs. Foster churged that her daughter-in-law's grandfather ind uncle induced her to sell valu- able railway stocks valued at $75,000 nd to invest in their real estate cor- porati The marriage, she charged, I was brought about “as part of a scheme 1o deprive me of my money | and to prevent me from expo: the plot. which hag almost ruined me.” { The foster-son. a _singer, was adopted at Knoxville, Tenn. in 1917. He declareq_he married Miss Helms lin January, 1921, on a dare. Supreme Court Justice Marsh denied an ap- plication for alimony pending hear- ing of the separation suit filed by the wife. He suid the husband had de- nicd all her allegations and that she | had refused his request for inter- views. SYRACUSE IS DELUGED SECOND TIME IN WEEK Water Reaches Depth of Four to Eight Feet in Low BSections. Train Tunnel Flooded. By the Assoctated Press. SYRACUSE. N. Y., June .17.—A sec- ond torrential downpour within a week, equaling in force the storm of last Sunday morning which caused a $1.000,000, late toddy broké Syracuse and central New York and caused heavy damage. Tne city and surrounding section. | which had not fully recovered from the previous deluge, were caught un- iaware. as the storm broke practicaily {without warning after a day ‘which was of the most torrid of the sum- mer. Sewers not yet entirely cleared of the =ilt and deposits of the previous storm were unable to carry off more than the first onrush of water and, as the storm continued unabated for | several hours, the low-lying points in the city were flooded in some ;flaces to a depth of four to eight eet. One of the first sections flooded was the stretch of the New York Central railroad which is tunneled under the Erie canal. Water rushed into the stretch in torrents and no trains could be sent over the main line for several hours. Trains were routed around the city, avolding a repetition of the marooning of a passenger train last week. PROTECTED BY COURT, MINERS HOLD MEETING | | | | Guarded by Injunction, Hays Speaks at Vintondale, From Where, He Says, He Was Ejected. By the Associated Press. VINTONDALE, Pa., June 17.—The { United Mine Workers and the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Unfon carried out their plan to “test the right of free speech” in the coal strike region here tonight. A meeting was held opposite the offices of the Vinton Collleries Company, against which the organization obtalned an injunc- tion in the Cambrai court, at Ehbens- burg, earlier in the day. The princi- pal speakers were Arthur Garfleld Hays of New York, representing the Civil Liberties Union, and John Brophy, district president of the Tnited Mine Workers. The colleries company, which Mr. Hays charged would not perfiit the unfon to hold meetings in the town of Vintondale, where its mines are lo- cated, did not appear in court to re- sist the application for the injunction. Hays declared that the principle | “we represent is of interest through- out the country.” He referred to the | difference betwden this meeting and the meeting on May 27, when the ‘state police and “so-called coal and iron police told us to get to hell out| of town.” “We were ridden down by men on horses, The imperialism we found here could not be equaled in the darkest days of Rui —_— LOCUSTS PLAGUE LUZON. By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, June swarms of locusts have twenty-eight Philippine from Central Luzon southward, 17.—Vast invadea RAIL STRIKE SURE, OFFICIALS DECLARE Only Canceling Wage Cuts and Outside Repair Work Can Avert It. WALK-0UT PLANS READY Ballots Indicate Vote Is Running 98 Per Cent in Favor of Cessation of Work. By the Assoclated I'ress, CINCINNATI, June 17.—Withdraw- al of wage reductions ordered by the Ralflroad Labor Board and the taking back by raflroads of contracts farm- ing out shop work omly can avert the threatened strike of approximate- 1y 1000000 workers on July 1, rail union executives said tonight. Unjon leaders declared complete strike plane have been approved, and unless the Rallroad Labor Board re- vokes its decision cutting wages and sltering working conditions, the threatened .strike will go into effect as scheduled The triple-barreled strike vote seven unions so far returned announced by union leaders as being 9% per cent in favor of a walk-out. However, leaders sdid this percent- age !s high. and they did not expect the final vote to reach more than %5 per cent ‘Wil Confer Tuesday. Tuesday the rail and miners’ union officials will meet to discuss ‘co- operative action” between members of these organizations. John L. Lewis, president of the miners, formally an- nounced today that the meeting would discuss “the industrial situa- tion affecting the strike of organized mine workers and the outrageous ac- tion of the United States Railroad Labor Board in imposing unwarrant- able and unjustifiable reductions upon the railway employes.” In accepting the invitation extend- ed by B. M . president of the railway employes’ department, for the meeting, Mr. Lewis stated that the mine workers would seek to prescribe “a course of action which will afford that essential degree of justice which is necessary to the men working in these industries and at the same time give every proper consideration to the welfare of the organized men and women.” It was announced tonight that E. F. Grable, president of the maintensnce of way employes, who cannot enter Ohig without fear of being served with subpoenas in injunction pro- ceedings against his union now pend- ing In the United States district court at Toledo, is in Covington, Ky., across the river from Cincinnatl. Wil Seek Readmittance. Grable in a statement announced that his - position is a ‘“concrete demonstration of the Intolerable con- ditions imposed by the courts upon those who are charged with the leadership of labor organizations ar with the safeguarding of huma rights as against property interests The application for reinstatement into .the American Federation of Labor is now pending and will be acted on at the present convention zr. Grable will conduct his fight from entucky. The maintenance of way urfon withdrew from the federation during a controversy with the car- penters over a jurisdictional dispute. Mr. Grable said that action of the of was tailroad labor board in cutting wages was ‘“unthinkable and un- speakable.” WILL SEEK NEW LAW. Engineers to Appeal to Congress for Protection of Union Funds. By the Ansociated Press. CLEVELAND, June 17.—A law to protect the funds of labor unlons from suits or damages through strike violence will be sought by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and other labor organizations in the next Congress, the engineers' broth- erhood announced today In a state- ment issued at the offices of the brotherhood at the instance of Presi- dent Warren S. Stone. The law will be sought to wipe out the peril that is declared to face union labor because of the Coronado coal decision handed down by the Supreme Court recently. . “The heads of the progressive labor unions, which are doing their utmost to preserve industrial harmony, point out that such decisions as the Coro- nado case are doing more to dis- credit the law and the courts in the eves of the working people than all led ‘radical agitators’ in the country,” the statement reads. “They are undermining the faith of the people In the possibility of securing justice through legal chan- nels. Yet the answer of organized labor to this and other recent de- cisions. of the Supreme Court, state the labor leaders, should not be a denunciation of the law and the gov- ernment, but rather a campaign to secure the enactment of a law by the next session of Congress, follow- ing the lines of a British statute passed in 1906, to completely and unequivocally protect labor organi- zations from suits for damages by unscrupulous employers, who, dur- ing a strike or lockout, will relx upon the decision of the Supreme Court in the Coronado case for legal sanction to persecute and harass or ganized labor. 116-YEAR-OLD GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE (Continued from First Page.) Provinces | .q)ieing the consequences of her act Miss Fraser was not employed and destroying crops in many localfties. The bureau be asked to issue an order to the in- habitants of the infected regions di- had lived with her parents since leav- of agriculture an-|,o Bysiness High School two years nounced the governor general will], oo Neighbors remarked that they had understood Mr. Lacayo had planned to leave Washington for Bos- recting concerted efforts to destroy .., tomorrow might. the pests. — ANTS DESTROY HOUSE. ‘ MORRIS, Ill, June 17.—State en- tomologists are investigating the de- struction by white ants of the two- story farmhouse of W. J. Esgar, south of here. In removing_ stucco K it was discovered that the ants hndl}'a completely honeycombed _ the tructure, startl at "m:%:lho.n .ud lolull u".t‘g 100! Thomas O'Donnell of the Fourth Iprecinet conducted the preliminary !pnuce investigation. FOUR KILLED BY LIGHTNING. LOUISVILLE, - Ky,, June 17.—Four mien: were killed and one injured by lightning at a pbint seven miles from Louisville on the Dixie highway this fternoon. The men were members of an Illngis Central raliroad section gang.