Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1922, Page 2

FVERY “REAL NEED” TOGONESTIMATES Roads, Schools and Sewers Demand Extra Large Ap- propriations Next Year. $1,450,000 FOR CONDUIT! to Be About $28.000,000 quested—Funds for More Playgrounds Desired. ®very municipal improvement that fs regarded by officials of the en- zineer department as being urgently needed will be written into the esti- mates now in course of preparation at the District building Col. Charles Keller, in charge of the engineer departmest, atated yesterday that he has in structéd his cabinet of subordinate to put into their respective estimates “every real need’ Of course. when the Commissioners come to the task of going over the expense accounts of the various bu- reaus, they. in all probability, will apply the proverbial blue pencil to many ltems that the bureau chiefs regard as urgent The advantage in Col of having the departments as a1l the improvements regarded as im- | is that the Commissioners. who carry the responsibility of de ! ¢ Con- fending the estimates before A% ay decide where the pruning knife should be applied. Wil Ask $28,000, .ooo.] vl a t Present indications are that the estimates when they reach the Com- jasioners will total close 8302 "000. This sum cauld be asked of ongress without including any un necessary requests, but the Commis- floners ure almost certain to trim jown this figure to approximately '900.000, which was, in round num- hare, the amount they transmitted to h dget Bureau iast vear. L are going Commissioner Keller's plan k for| perative to The Commissioners find it hard, as usual, to be conserva- {ive in asking for atreet improve- ments without teaving out many needed items. One high offcial said vesterday he helieves that when a new street be- per cent built up on both comes T tides it should be paved. But new houses are going up so rapidly in all} parts of the District that the city | Fathers will find more of such streets’ than they can hope (o get in one year's | appropriation bill Street Needs Galore. (ot only must they weigh the claims "\ I'hr’ any streets on which new houses have been built recently. but they have many streets in need of <urfacing that were cut from last ear's budget by the congressional committees The current appropriation act car- died only $233.500 for new street im- provements, $3460.000 for repairs 1o Ufreets and $225,000 for upkeep of suburban roads. ‘These allowances by no means will over the urgent needs of the high- av system, and the city officials are hopeful that in the next appropriation bill they will be able to obtain more liberal amounts for street improve- ents. MThe last item of 3225000 for suburban roads is less by $25.000! than the sum allowed in previous vears for this work. despite the fact that these ouflying macadam surfaces deteriorate more rapidiy than the asphalt pavements in the city proper. Facta for Budget Report. L. R. Grabill superintendent of suburban highways. every spring finds it necessary to send steam reliers and patching gangs over practically all of the macadam roads the ruts and wrinkles i to iron out " i made on the surfaces during the winter months. when trucks and private cars use skid chains. In accordance with the order issued last week by Commissioner Rudolph. each department head will file with Daniel E. Garges, secretary to the Commissioners, tomorrow or Tuesday. a rough estimate of the total amount his department wjll request for next s _information is for the pur- pose of giving the Bureau of the Rudget a preliminary report by August 1 of what the entire District ! budget for next vear will amount to. Hopes for Liberal Suma. Commissioner Oyster is hopeful of obtaining liberal appropriations next year for the police. fire and health departments and Tor municipal play- grounds. It is expected that the new estimates ja representative. HILADELPHIA ‘WANTS AMATEUR DISTILLERS TO PAY FOR WATER PHILADELPHIA, July 22—The Public Ledger says: Amateur makers of whisky are making inroads on an already de- pleted water supply. The gentle art of putting a “kick” in'an other- wise inmocuous beverage requires the use of large quantities of wa- ter, not to mention that the boot- leggers often are suspected of using inordinate amounts In what they sell. Chief Davis, Pl intrusted with pro- viding legal beverage-water for 2.000,000 Philadelphians. is endeav- oring to get some way to make the distillers be reasonable. Inas- much as he cannot curtail the amount of water used in any one house, he is endeavoring to do the next best thing—make the still operators pay for what they use. A provision in the city regula- tions authorizes the chief of the water bureau to ipstall a meter in distilleries or any house where an unusual amount of water is being used. . It is generally known that in the manufacture of whisky water runs through copper coils to cool the vaporized alcohol. and so large quantities are used daily in the places where illicit liquor origi- nates. So the next problem up to the chief is to find who has the stills HLAN BANS ROBES QUTSDEOFLOOE Though Prompted by Georgia Situation. s ! GOV. HARDWICK PLEASED Permits to Use K. K. K. Regalia Will Be Strictly Limited to Special Parades. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, July 22.—The knights of the Ku Klux Klan have been or- dered to discard their masks, robes land other regalia except when in their lodgeroo it was announced here tonight at headquarters of the or- | Banization. The order as first made ipublic In a letter to Gov. Hardwick of Georgia from E. Y. Clarke, im- verial wizard pro tem, mentioned SENATORS VICTIMS OF FLEECING GAME: Baltimore Man Brought to Police Station Here to Be Questioned. DIAL MAKES COMPLAINT Representative Park Also Loser by | Cashing $78 Check for 1 *Constituent.” | David Jefterson Connelly of Balti-| more, Md, was brought to police; headquarters yvesterday by Detectives | Horne and Boyd. following a tele- | phone call from the office of Senator {He reiterated his stand hat “there Nathaniel B. Dial of South Carolina to be quizzed regarding a number of “fleecing” operations on senators and No charge has been placed against him Senator Dial Loans § Senator Dial was awakened from his sleep about midnight a short time ago by a gentleman in urgent need of funds. The gentleman said that he was from a county adjoining Dial's and proved so thoroughly cognizant of conditions there that the senator was persuaded to give him a loan of $20 in the form of a check. That was not enough. The midnight visitor must be accompanied to a nearby lunchroom where he could be identi- fled and the check cashed. Senator Dial accommodated him. This same individu ccording to the police, obtained $7% in cash from Representative Frank Park of Geor- gia by giving him a check. In this instance also he represented himself as a constituent and proved his familiarity with Georgia political, commercial and general conditions. The check came back some days later—worthless. 3 e Othér Vietims ‘on ML On the list of operations conducted by the same individual were the names of Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas and Senator William J. Har- ris of Georgia. In each case the man sought funds, which he promised i | would be repaid in short order via a | check. The repayment was not forth- coming. Detectives Sweeney and Waldron in- vestigated the case. and had worked along various lines to identify the Capitol *Hill confidence man. When Senator Dial called up headquarters yesterday they were not present. De- tectives Boyd and Horne responded and: the result was Connelly's arrival and docketing at police headquarters. Connelly gave his age as forty-nine his occupation as a salexman, and his specific address as the Hotel Rennert, Baltimore. FORMER CREW STAR MEETS DEATH IN LAKE, will include requests for the pur- chase of severul playground sites that were eliminated last year. Tt is doubtful if any of the municipal machine has been more neglected since the war than the sewer depart- ment. Although the sewer system should grow with the city. the allot- ments for tMis department have not increased in recent years in propor- tion to the increase in the totml amount of the appropriation bill. 1t is probable that the sewer de. nartment will endeavor to get in the new estimate items for continuing ! work on the two big interceptor | sewers intended to free Rock Creek | and the Eastern branch from sew- ! pollution from Maryland. o money has been allowed for carrying on these two projects since the war. and it is impossible to stop | the poliution of the streams men- tioned until these interceptors are Jaid to the District line, where they 1 connect with similar pipe lin W. A. Caldwell, Cornell Graduate, Drowned When Canoe Tips Near Ticonderoga. By the Associated Press. EORGE. N. Y. July 22— Caldwell of Hasbrook Heights, N a former Cornell foot ball and crew star, was drowned this afterncon in Lake George. near Ticonderoga. when a canoe in which he was puddling overturned. Mr. Caldwell. who was early morn- ing general editor for the Associated Press, had been visiting the director of a large boys' camp and had gone out on the lake alone in the canoe. 1t is believed that while removing his outer clothing in_ the canoe be- fore swimming Mr. Caldwell's arms became entangled in his shirt, and when the canoce capsized he was un- Jn Maryland. Sohool Needs Still Urgent. The public school system probably 11l come in again for close to a ourth of the total book of estimates. The current appropriation act carries than $2,00,000 for new school buildings and ‘the purchase ot ground for contemplated structures, in ad- ’llhn to the several millions required fér regular operation of the system. :The needs of the sohool system are 88011 urgent despite the new buildings y authorized. Attention will be in the new estimates to the Hiapessity for more high school space. Continuation of the work on the #w water conduit also will call for W“L $1.450,000 in the next book of imates. : j? ILOR OF 30 YEARS {liAGD RECEIVES PAY i “FROM DEAD PATRON” | Thirty vears is a long time to ait for a customer to pay a debt, Jut W. S. Teel of 263¢ Woodley ace will testify that it's worth i{ikhe wait. ! One day last week he received a {Afnited States bond for $100 in ligayment for a suit of clothes hich he made in 1392 for.a fash- | /#onable young man who dealt at his tailoring shop at 935 Pennsyl- \¥ania avenue. The shop has long Jince been closed, and the pur- thaser of the suit is dead, but the hill which he rendered the cus- mer at the time, like moss bills, ek, A letter accompanying the bond plained: “While looking ever the affairs a deceazed friend 1 found an unpaid bill due you: therofore, 1 am inclosing a_United States bond for $100 to cover the bill and la- lergst” e e e able to free himself. The body was recovered early’ this evening. after the canoe had been found floating without any occupant. This was the first intimation mny one at the camp had of the accident. Mr. Caldwell, who was in his fort; fifth year, was a member of the class of 0 at Cornell. He began his newspaper career with the Philadel- phia Times and later was employed on papers in St. Louis, Mo., Butler and Meadville, Pa. For six years be- fore entering the service of the As- sociated Press in 1917 he was manag- ing editor of the Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald. He was a cable editor in the New York office during the latter part of the war and in November of last year was appointed general early morning editor. He leaves a wife and five children. BOY AND GARMENTS GONE Four Coats and Three Pairs of Trousers Not Delivered. Four coats and three pairs of trousers evidently proved too great a temptation for a seventen-vear-old colored lad, to whom they wers-given to_deliver. He received them from Carl W. Linker, 3618 14th .street northwest, Thursday, Linker told the police t day, with instructions to deliver the garments to I. Philips, 1420 P street northwast. The boy and the missing. clothing are FLORIDA SENATE PICK. ORLANDO, Fla., July 22.—The ex- ecutive committee of the newly organ! independent republican party in Florida, formed for th avowed purpose of eliminating the negro from republican politics, a; nounced that in order to test the strength of its principles in the elec- tien next November W. C. Lawson of this Mt{‘:olfll be its candidate for the Unt States Senate againet the regular republican candidate, should 928 he. - Fe R SRS S i tzation. only Georgia klansmen, but later it was stated the order was general The imperial kloncilium, or govern- ing body of the Klan, passed a rule more than year ago. it*was stated, prohibiting the wearing of the masks and regalla except by permission of the imperial wizard, and it was stated tonight that the present order means that, effective at once. no such per- mission will be granted except for parades. Clarke’s letter to the gover- nor. however, stated that he had is- sued orders “forbidding all further parades or the use of the masks or other costumes of the Klan in the ate of Georxia, except in the lodge rooms. until further orders.” Investigation by klan officials of any unauthorized wearing of klan regalia and of lawlessnesas by persons wearing such costumes .also has been ordered, Clarke's letter said. He add- ed that he could not believe the gov- ernor “antagonistic to the klan,” and Mr. Hardwick, who had urged that the klansmen unmask. repliel he had no “personal hostility or ani- mosit. toward the organization. Outrages by bands of masked men have increased In the last year, Gov. | Hardwick added, and cxpressel h appreciation of the unmasking order and also of Clarke's atatemen: ibat | the Klan is not a “resulatory buody.” i is no room in Georgia for any organi- | cret or oth. 15 who setsi itself up as the censor of tha condact of the citizens of this state OBREGON TO RATIFY DEBT AGREENENTS De La Huerta, Returning, Declares President Will Ap- prove New York Terms. i DENIES DIFFICULTY HERE1 Finance Minister Emphatic nm: Stories of Discord in Conference ‘With Presidént and Mr. Hughes. By the Associated Press. EL PASO. Tex.. July —President the agreements entered into by Adoifo de la Huerta with New York finan- ciers, “oil agreements.” by which back interest on the Mexican foreign debt is to be paid. Adolfo de l2 Huerta, Mexican secre- tary of finance, so declared on his arrival here today from New York and Washington, where he held con- erences with President Harding and Secretary Hughes. phaticall statements appearing New York newspapers that the Wash- ington conferences were anything but cordial and satisfactory He declared the agreements as to future operations of American oil magnates in Mexico would be pre- sented by him personally to the de- ipartment of commerce, industry and labor, and then to the president, con- fident they also would be approved. He declared the agrarian bonds is- sued on expropriated lands were atisfactory to conferees in both New York and Washington. MONQCAGY BATTLE BY MARINES URGED | i 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., Jaly 22.—Fred- erick is planning to invite the marine regiment, through Gen. Smidley D. But- ler, to Te-enact . the battle of the Monocacy, fought over half a century ago on the southern outskirts of Fred- erick. The re-enactment of the battle, which was fought under the direction of Gen. Lew Wallace, who, after the civil war, achieved literary fame, and Gen. Jubal Early of the Confederate Army, would be similar to the Fourth of July demonstrations put on at Gettysburg this vear when Pickeit's famous. but 1ll-fated charge was fought the modern The matter is now before the cham- ber of commerce of this city, the presi- dent of which has been gathering dats and information relative to camp sites along the banks of the Monocacy river where the Monocacy battle was fought. _ While it Is understood_that the ma- {rines are considering the Manassas, Va., trip next year. the chamber of commerce of this c | offer whatever induce- ments it can musger. to (have them use this county for their project lesson next summer. OYSTER VISITS SARTWELL Newspaper Man Hurt at Gettys- burg Is Improving. Commissioner James F. Oyster ye: terday motored up to Frederick, Md., to visit Frank Sartwell, reporter on the Washington Post, who was in- Jured three weeks ago when the auto- mobile in which he and other new: paper men were trailing the presiden tial party en route to Gettysburg, Pa., skidded and threw him to the road. seriously injuring him. With the Commissioner were 2 group of fellow workers in the local newspaper fleld, and the party which went into the Frederick City Hos- pital resembled an official delegation of District building reporters, Sartwell iis impraving rapidly. Al- though he was unable to move the center portion of his body, he greeted the delegation with a smile and a cor- dial handshake, which had a gri forecasting returning strength in it. During his sta; he hospital he has been the recipien! number of re- membrances from friends, inciuding s bouquet of White House flowers ’n!‘:é-"' reti mfi g to Mh;!‘l lore urning . to: ) issioner Oyster entertained the “aswapaper men at 2 Alvaro Obregon of Mexico will ratify | He denied em- | in | { then 1 told him what I am telling you, ITALIAN WOMAN HELD IN MOUNT RAINIER ACID-THROWING CASE. MRS. ROSIE Of 1420 Hanover street, Baltimore, who by Prince Georges eot WOMAN IN ACID P MYSTERY TAKES BLAME FOR ALL (Continued from First Prge ) Roing to jump in really, I only want- | ed 10 8 him into leaving me alone. Several days later a man came to my home in Mount Rainier. saying he was a friend of Mr. Cavey. | He called me a home-breaker. a ‘vamp’ and other things that weren't nice. When Mr. Cavey came to my | home afterward | described the man | to him, and he said it was Archie | Walter. ! “Mr. Cavey had given me a ring and s. Cavey went to Mr. Walter and asked him to get the ring from me. He came after the ring. This was before he came and called me a vamp. Cavey suspected it was Walter who same after it, and in order to make sure he had me walk by Wal- ter'’s home while he was sitfing on' the porch and 1 identified him. Think- ing to scare Mr. Cavey away, I then wrote those threatening letters to myself and showed them to him. sudden passion for loliypeps de- veloped by flappers has proved a lifesaver to @ candy company of Newark. it was revealed in federal court toda vear ago, when the firm was nearly defunct and flappers. sugar at the high pric pop. flavored it, wrapped it in brightly- colored paper and the flapper did the rest. why they should rot accebt a set- tlement offer made by pany. — FAV WORLUTES Y BELOVEREY i Lenroot Claims Many G.0.P. ~Senators to Aid Fight on Tariff Rates. COMMITTEE FAVORS CUT MoCumber, Smoot, Gooding and Bursum Defend Administration Bill Aguinst Attacks. While the barrage preliminary to the battle over the wool schedule in the administration tarif bill laid down yesterday in the Senate, an under-the-surface movement was started by Senator Lenroot, republi- can, Wiskconsin, looking to a general reduction in the higher duties pro- posed on coarse raw wool and manu- factures of that wool, little of which is produced in this country. Senator Leanroot, who conducted a successful fight against some of the rates In the cotton schedule. said there was a considerable number of republican senators dissatisfied with the duties to which he had objected and that he was hopeful of getting an agreement with the committee ma- Jority for a maximum duiv of € per cent. Should his effort in this direction prove unfruitful, however, it is his plan to make a fight in the Senate The Wisconsin senator estimated that the duties gn the coarse wool i products ranged from 26 per cent to 137 per cent. He made it piain that he was not opposing the committee duties on the fine grades of woel eithcr in the raw state or manufactured products. mittee Accepts Caut, Hefore the Senate met the finance committee majority agreed tentatively to a reduotion of 5 per cent in the a. valorem duties on woolen cloths and other manufactures, including cloth- Whether these reductions are to be recommended to the Senate will be considered further Debate in the Senate confined almost wholly to cents-a-pound duty proposed on scoured wool, with Senator Walsh, demecrat, Massachusetts. making the principal attack and Chairman Mc- “umber and Scnator Smoul of the finance commitice, and Senators Good- ing of Idaho, chairman of the repub- lican agricultural tariff bloc, and Bur- sum, republican, New Mexico, defend- ing the committee proposal. Schedule K Assalled. The famous schedule K of the Payne-Aldrich law got into the d bate early and was referred to fre quently. "At the outset Senator Mc- Cumber told how the woolen manu- facturers had brought in wool of low shrinkage. which lovk a low rate. with a result that the producers ceived an actual protection of cents a pound instead of 33 cents, as ;a'u intended by the framers of the aw. The manufacturers came in for at- tack from Senator Jones, democrat, New Mexico. He charged that when the Payne-Aldrich law was drafted BRADIO was taken Iute custody yesterday nty guthorities. ASSION OF FLAPPERS FOR LOLLYPOPS SAVES FIRM ON BRINK OF RUIN By the Assoclated Pres NEWARK. N. J. the 35- July 22.—The Reccivers reported that since a it has made a profit of $44.000—all because of lollypops huge stores of s prevalent 1921 and when prices fuced bankruptey. Re- s decided to revive the lolly- They boiled down the sugar. The firm bovght to The court ordered creditors of the firm to show cause August the com- “All of this led up to what has hap- i pened to me. 1 burned my shoulder the first time with carbolic acid. 1 dabbed the acid on my shoulder with a piece of cotton about the 1st of April, telling Cavey that the acid had been thrown on me by a dark-haired girl. But that was not true. | was lying when | repeated this story to €onstable Garrison the other day.” “Blinded by Accident.” “Here is how I blinded myself: 1 had been going to the hospital and they gave me a powder to dissolve for |treating my ailment. 1 put it in a container which hung on the wall and it fell to the floor, splattering the con- tents in my eyes. It was all an acc! dent. but immediately I thought that 1 would tell Mr. Cavey that the same girl had thrown acid in my eyes. On top of this, 1 was boiling some clothes in lye water and some of it splashed up, for 1 couldn't see what I was doing. “All that stuff about being tied to an automobile was untrue. I burned my wrists with Iyve, using a clothes- pin to put it on. This secret which 1 am telling you has been eating out { my heart!" the sobbing girl exclaimed {during the accompanying lull. "1 first told my h acid-throwing and life, but he didn't au M B w it. th attempts on my believe me. and and he won't believe that. el i"“Did a man named Matchett ever|Q {come to your place and did you shoot at him?" Judge Joyce inquired. ' | “Yes; he came to the porch to get out of the rain, and he wrestled with me and a_gun which I had went oft and shot him through the hand.” Halting momentairly to regain her composure and With tears coursing down her cheeks, Mrs. Brooke added: “My untrue statements about acid be- ing thrown on me, and so forth. have incriminated innocent peopie. It was meant for a sham to frighten Mr. Cavey. I knew the secret would get out. 1 earnestly entreated him not to take it up with the law. He didn't realize that he was stripping me of my name and everything else. 1 am {heartily sorry about it all. I did it { with no intentions of hurting any one. {1 wanted to rectify a wrong agains pe Mrs. Cavey and against my busband.” | At 0dds With Spouse. In response 1o questioning. Brooke said that she and h band were “not on good ter: the recent developments. “T from the beginning that when the |ai P! |d d & Mr h end came Mr. Cavey would have his|ish fretting of Mrs. Cavey's baby the room was quiet between spells of official questioning. and that 1 would have none. Mo %oried. Telling about the dis ppearance of her baby.” Mrs. Brooke said: want him to come back now. no_heme for him.” 1t at this junctu seven-year-old I have spirit Mrs. Brooke set her jaw and said: soon as Mr. Cave: kill me, or have it done, he decided to shield her. in a fit of temper, I suppose. other time she turned to some people in her house and said, ‘I'm going to open all yvour eyes around here. Addie Smith, who is Mr. Cavey’ heard her say this and told me about wl Mrs, threw it away. ring had been taken off my finger by and that later a girl came to me with the ring on her finger and told me ‘pay.’ sband the falsehood about ; rison . unexplained Sl out the numerous angles whis main. denied having anything to do with the case, Baltimore cake factory at the time of the blinding of Mrs. Brooke. Cavey, carrying a seventeen. old daughter, likewise protested that she was innocent. taken separately before Mrs. Brool for identification. Claiming that she is now able to Brooke from her eyes and stared into the face of Miss Bradio, apparently with- out sign a; i Rainier since clamoring outside for admittanc: “I_don't {last night, but it is understood that “four men” would furnish $2,600 bond for him by that the said he was not representing Cavey. about & month ago for Holland. TWO INJURED WHEN THIS AUTOMOBILE AND STREET CAR CLASH. they had “deliberately deceived : Congress and the country as te the {amount of compensatory protection they would need on account of the raw wool duty. In this connection Senator Smoot said the committee this time had paid ne attention to the testimony of the manufacurers, relying upon an exhausive report on the world woolen industry made b: the Tariff Commission at a cost, he | said, of $250.000. ROLLING STOCK BLAMED. E. V. Hunter Killed by Defective Railroad Equipment, Jury Finds. Defective equipment is blamed for the death of E. V. Hunter. who wi killed on a train on the Richmend. Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad yesterday merning, by the coroner jury at an inquest under Acting Cero- ner H. E. Martyn yesterday afternoon. Hunter, who was a native of Rocky Mount, ) athorities elicited the allegation that re. Cavey had threatened to kill Mrs. rooke. Showing for the first time a of resentment against Ca: found out that his ife had asserted she was going to Mrs. Cavey made threats At an- ‘Mrs. siater, the ring became of hich Cavey gave her and for which she declares Walter came to her hom “Asked what announced t "1 told Mr. Cavey the Brooke man who jerked me out of a swing. she had been given it as her But that was not true. Escorted te Her Home. When Mrs. Brooke had conciuded hat d the were thrown on, causing the door of the car to crush Judge Joyce announced that there|his head between it and the jam. ere yet may phases which were| The coupling connecting the train and which must be!coaches is believed to be the defective cared up. He maid that he would | equipment which the jury had refer- uestion Mrs. Brooke further this|ence to, and police maintain that it eek in an endeavor to straighten {cannot reasonably be blamed on the re- | strike of the shopmen, aince this class of workers handle locomotives virtu- ally exclusively. while the counling comes under control of other workers not_cn strike. The verdict read: ‘We, the coroner's jury, find that E. V. Hunter came to his death at Emergency Hospital. July 22, 1922, from fracture of the skull, hemo: rhage and sheck. We believe this At the public hearing Miss Bradio would offer in a and said she roof that she was at work Mra onth- C.. was standing with his| her account of the mysterious scars |head outside of the baggage car, when and injuries which she bears she was | couplings on the train pa taken to her home by Censtable Gar-|aytomatic air brak LIBERTY FROM SENATE SPEECH OR DEATH IS WHAT CARAWAY CRAVES Few speeches delivered In the Senate are listened to by more then & corporal’ ard of sena- tars. - Yet senators ajfo always making speeches. The three months=long tarift debate and the hot weather prompted Senator Caraway of Arkansas to make the following statement omn the floor of Senate. after two of his col- leagues had delivered themselves of. long prepared speeches. He = ‘It has gotten in the Senate so that senators feel like a negro did down in my country one day when - he was to be hanged. After the sheriff got him on the scaffold. he said, aatus, you have twenty minutes to make a statement if you want to make one.’ The negro said, ‘I don’t know that I have anything to say.’ A lawyer stand- Ing by, who was as fond of talking as some senators, and about as in- teresting, got up and sald: ‘Well. if Rastus don't want to speak. I would like to have the tim The sheriff said to the negro: ‘Do you want to give your time to this lawyer” The negro replied:. °l don’t know as I care. but if he is going to make a speech I wish you woyld hang me first.’ NGHT Y TOIR TOLOGATELIGHTS i i Wood and Hadley to Pick Darkest Spots for $20,000 Use. NEEDED FUNDS ARE LOW Disappointments Likely in Some Communities Asking Lighting. A night trip around the city to get| first-hand information of where new street lights are most needed will be made soon by Assistant Engineer Commissioner Wood and W. B. Had- ley. superintendent of street light- ing. The current appropriation act al- lowed Hadley $20.000 for new lamps and replacement of gas with elec- tricity. Now the question is. where will the new lights do the most good? No doubt some communities that are iworking for improved street lighting will be disappointed in not having their needs met this year, but .000 will not meet all of the re- quirements and.the streét lighting department will have to distribute the modest sum at hand where the strongest arguments exist for the in- stallation of better lights. ‘When the estimates for the current year were prepared the Commission- ers sought 350,000 for increasing il- lumination on the highways and by- ways of the city. This figure was cut. however, to the amount given above. T0.BAG BIG STILL Montgomery County Posse Finds Only 200 Gallons of Mash. ROCKVILLE, Md. July |ceiving information that something like one hundred galions of corn whisky was being hauled away each night from a big still near Dicker- son, this county, and being “tipped {off” as to the exact location of the plant, Sheriff Alvie A. Moxley, Deputy Sheriff Stanley Gingelle, Chief of Po- lice Charlcs T. Cooley and Policemen {Oscar T. Gaither. Leray Rogers, i Lawrence Clagett and Guy Jones ar- {ranged to raid and destroy the still yesterday afternoon and to arrest everybody in sight. : Armed with Winchester rifies and revolvers and an ample supply of ammunition, they marched on the {scene at the time decided upon. Thos.- interested in the oberation of the sill, however, had evidently been warned. for about all the officers found was 2 large quantity of corn whisky mash —about two hundred gallons. There accident to have been caused by fective equipment of Richmond, Feed- ericksburg and Potomac raflway train No. 3. DISTRICT GIRL HONORED. Miss Hope Thompson Secretary of Hague Permanent Court. By the Associated Press. SCHEVENINGEN. Helland. Jul _Miss Hope K. Thompson of Wash ington, has been appointed one of the secretaries of The Hague perma- nemt court of arbitration. Both women wei see slightly. Mrs. lifted the heavy bandages of recognition. When Mrs. ‘avey was brought before her she id not bother to lift the bandages. ying "I recognize her voice.” e little courtroom at Mount crowded to the doors uring the hearing. with a large roup of men, women and children 1t a serious-minded aggregation nd except for the occasional child- Th knew | was Cavey was still in jail at Marlboro Miss Thompson resided here at 1513 L strest. It was stated last night at the L street address she left here today. Attorney Meyer was everything to Indicate that a still ancd all its paraphernzlia only re- cently been hauled away The officers found no one at the scene, but they went to the home of iHarry Kile, on whose farm the still had been located. and directed him ]m report at the police court here to- {day in connection with the e. { "The location of the still was with- {in six hundered vards of a much- | traveled public road and about two | {miles from the village of Dickerson. i 1t was, however. in & very secluded {&pot and ideal for the purpose in- dicated. The still is reported to have been in operation about six weeks. tTUBERCULOSIS SERUM IN RED CROSS SERVICE British Organization Purchases Vaceine Treatment of Geneva Biologist. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, July The British Red Cross after careful investigation has decided to purchase the vaccine treat ment_against tubercelosis originated by Henry Spahlinger, the Geneva biologist, and a contract for the sale has just been signed in London. The Spahlinger labraotry here will be continued and others will be es- tablished, it is stated. A number of American patients, many of them ad- Vanced cases and some given up by hysicians, are now under treatment ere and all are reported to be showing improvement. 'he Spahlinger discovery was an- nounced in Paris early in 1814. Little more was heard of it until after the war, but within the last year or two it has attracted considerable attentio notably on the part of the British seient! and ials. The serum can now be made as cheaply as the ordinary smallpox vaccine. PROBE FOLLOWS PROTEST MEXIOO CITY, July 22.—Follow- ing the pretest made by George T. Summerlin, the American charge &'affaires, to the fersign office against an expropriation order for the La Cencepcion plantation, which s American-owned, the Vera Cruz agrarian commission has been asked for a complete report before the offi- eia! reply will be made to the United States Fovernment's notes GOES TO XELLY FIELD W t John H. McCabe, city, has been o Bt ety e, Fet tor Suty, 19 DRY RAIDERS FAIL | 22— Re- | used during DS I SAPPY DRL AND REVEW Final Function of Two-Week Encampment Wins Round of Praise. TO RETURN HOME TODAY Striking Appearance Commented Upon by Camp Simms Crowd. With the enap and military bearing of regulars, the 121st Regiment of Engineers, National Guard of the Dis- trict of Columbia, as the final function weeks of intensive instruc- passed through an inspec- tion. parade and review last night which brought forth most favorable comment of distinguished officials and scores of citizens. The encampment at Camp Simms will end this morn- ing when the troops proceed to their armory at 472 L streel northwest, 1o be relieved from active duty It was the final parade and view of this encampment. As W. Oehmann. commanding regiment, ordered various ments in the manual of armes, troops executed them with a that sent an echo over the grounds. When they passed in view before officers of the bureau, the 3d Corps Area. of wh the District troops 4 unit. athe vegular officers and officers of the guard. their quick cadence and per- feet alignment was an obj con- siderable favorable commen Inspected After Review. Following the review the troops were halted on the parade ground for an i pection by Lieul. Col. John 8. Fa sistant chief of staff of the 3d Corps Area: Maj. Finch, engineer assistant 10 the chief of the militia bureau; Lieut Col. R. D. Le Garde. commandant of Camp Simms, and Maj. Ochmann. com- manding the regimeni. The inspection included uniforms and equipment of two tion re- Maj the move - the Others in the reviewing party were Maj. C. Fred Cook, adjutant general = department, National Guard of 1h District of Columbia Louis ( Wilson. United Sta y. and for- mer officer in the National Guard of the District of Columbia, Maj. William T. Galliher. Capt. C. H. Parkin. com mandant of the post at Fori Washing- ton, and Capt. G. H. Smith. executive officer of the post ai Fort Washington Despite their two weeks of hard work, drilling as infantry. constrs ing bridges and abutments. which in- cluded the procuring and transporta- tion of the various materia's. and ending with a two-day hike to Fort Washington, where they camped in Pup tents, the troops were in a lively mood on ‘the eve of the breaking of camp. Many of their wives and girl friends were in camp to give a touch of color 10 the somber uniforms of khaki, and to liven the closing hours of the camp mes and Following the mp Somgs. neert by the 121st Regiment Band. the troops gathered in “groups, plaved games and sang camp songs and kept the post in & lively mood until taps sent them tn for a much-earned rest There little on the program vesterday except mustering for pay and clean- bed was ing of equipment Evervthing is in readiness for the reaking of camp. The troops. according to plans last night. will leave camp about § o'clock and march te Congrese Heights. where they will board stree: cars for the city, leaving them at Sth street and Massachusetts avenue northwest. and marching to the armory. Upon arrival at the armeory the troops will be paid for their twe weeks of duty and then will be dis- missed to resume their civilian occu- pations. While n the camp last night Capt Parkin took occasion to comment on the excellent condition in which the troops left the camp site which thev their practice hike 1o Fort Washington. He said that he ‘mudo an inspection immediately after the Distritt troops left the post and that he had never seen a camp left ee {clean as the one from which the Dis trict tronps departed. He could not | find an evidence of debris anywhere GERVANY INVITED T0 HELP LEAGUE Council Asks Berlin to Ap- point Member Upon Health Committee. Br the Associated Press. ! LOND July 21.—The council of jthe league of nations today decided 1o invite Germany to appoint a mem- ber on the league’s health committee Appreciation was expressed for the gift of § 00 by the American Red Cgoss for control of epidemics. The proceedings were enlivened when M. Tang Tsai-Fou. Chinese delegate. made a spirited protest against the opium commitiee’s report. which stated that China was now cultiva- ting large areas of opium Doppi The report inferred that China had not lived up to its treaty obligations. He pointed out that considerabie parts of China were outside the con- trol of the central government and under the jurisdiction of milltary governors, who are carrying om the opium traffic for revenue. The coun- cil decided to request the opium com- mission to modify its statement. Other proposals of the opium com mission, of which Mrs Hamilton Wright of Washington is & member were approved. These provided for restricting distribution of opium as au article of International commerce In spite of the extreme pressure from Great Britain and Prance fo dispose of the Palestine and Syrian mandates, the council was obliged again to postpone consideration of this subject: pending receipt of the views of Italy. The delegates wer. uests of the king and queen at arden party this afternoon RAIDED, TRIED AND FINED. Rockville Man $500 Poorer When Officers Locate Still and Liquor. @pecial Dispatch to The Btar. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 22.—As a result of a raid on his home at 5661 Wisconsin avenue ¥riday night, John Murphy was fined $600 and costs in the police court here yesterday on a charge of illegal possession and man- ufacturing of liguor. Officer C. E. Caywood and Justice of the Peace Upton Perrill of Be- thesda. Md., who made the raid on Murphy's home, claimed that they found twenty gallons of corn liquor and a ten-gallon still, in addition to forty gallons of mash. At the time of his arrest. the officers said that Murphy declared that the mash was “only slops,” while the corn liquor s personal consumption. — { Capt. Richard ¥. Thompson, Dental Corps, at Camp XKnox, Ky., hay been :rc'enl to Camp Humphreys, Ya., for uty. % % .