Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1922, Page 2

BRETT OFFERS AID | IF RAILROADS FAIL Would Serve in Handling of Motor Transpert for Washington. QUESTIONNAIRES ~ SENT Merchants and Mauufacturers’ Committee Seeks Data on Coal Situation. maotor upplies handling ortation for bringing District of Columbia in the into th event that the railroads fail has been oftered the Merchants and Manu- rere’ Assod by Lioyd M 1 .U S A. former adjutant gen- wral of the Din of Columbia mi- Jtin. Gen. Rrett commanded the 160th Infantry Brigade of the American expeditionary force during the world war, and cf nded the 80th Divi- slon while at Camp Lee, during the Absence of the division commander in over- Europe, preparatory to ng seas. He retired 1Wo Vears ago as of his regular Army rank of colonel him to While | repty phan_said that ol. Bre serv tier had offered without remun tlon, and entircly in the interest of e peaple of W ngton Tenders His Servi “Should the present eme re the mobilization ar'ld i ¢ tomotive equipment of the city t o tits meeda, sald, Col. Bretts “] tender my services in any qui eve that my long service Army, o clally my op- ities to o > such t in F¥France would be helptul in the man; probiems n making tation of such rtude.” Stephan eaid that it would be help to have Col. Brett at £ motor truck transporta- 14 the need develop. and Gered the association fortunage inz one so well experienced at a great the he: tion its ba Send Out Questionnaires. The special committee, headed by R. Andrews, which was appointed by Gen. Stephan from the associa- tion’s membership to make plans for hoth the coal and transportation emergency held its first meeting late rday. At this time the committee decided to confine its at- tention to the matter of determining the coal situation, and to that end is sending out today numerous ques- tionnaires to determine what condi- tions are here in regard to fuel It Is the belief of the committee, as expressed by Chafrman Andrews fol- Jowing the meeting, that the coal sit- uation here is serious, and should have the attention of every coal user in Washington. Users of coal, particular- 1y consumers of large quantities, are urged to fill out the questionnaire and send it to room 400, Star building. Would Call Ceal Merchants. “The committee hopes to have the questionnaire promptly answered.” con- tinued Chairman Andrews. “With this information in our hands, we propose to: call Into conference a committee of the Coal Merchants' Board of Trade of Washington, to the end that the situa- tion may be faced and such necessary stéps taken to promptly insure ade- quate supplies of fuel for the city of Washington for the period from Octo- ber 1 to April 1. “The committee trusts that the ac- tion they are now taking will be fully understood by the business men of the city as a purely precautionary measure, as we fully subscribe to the old adage that ‘an ounce of preven- tion is worth a pound of cure. "At the same time the committee Aesires it to be fully understood that the measures it is taking are in no sense antagonistic to the coal dealers of Washington; we rather feel, how- ever, that the coal merchants will be only too glad to co-operate in filling Washington's coal needs as far as it may be humanly possible. Hope to Prevent Famine. “We hope to be able by such methods as may be found available to Insure an adequate supply for the city of Washington and prevent even the thought of a coal famine in the cap- tital “The committee is giving attention to the matter of transportation, but at this time does not feel that the situation demands outlining a policy or_practice “It is the belief of the committee that manufacturers selling to Wash- ington dealers will themselves find a means of making deliveries in Wash- ington without any assistance from the merchants who buy from them.” The personnel of the committee fol- lows: R. P. Audrews chairman; John S. Dunn, M. E. Horton. John H. Wii- kins and Charles J. Columbus. ‘'onl Merchants to Co-Operate. The coal dealers of Washington are ready and willing to co-operate in! every way possible with the District | Commissioners in obtaining fuel at fair prices for the people of Washing- ton this winter This was made clear today by Robert { L. Lewis. secretary of the Coal Mer- chants’ Board of Trade, who conferred at the District building with Commis- sioner Oyster, acting chairman of the | board. In answer to questions, Mr. Lewis stated that the coal merchants would go Weartily with the Commissioners | it they should see fit to fix maximum | and minimum fair prices. 1tu18 understood that Mr. Lewis re- newddd to the Commissioner the re- guest of his organization that it be called, into conference before any definite program of fuel distribution 1s decided upon. Commissioner Oyster also conferred today with Walter C. Allen, secretary of the Public Utilities Commisaion, who s making a complete survey of the local situation for the Commis- sioners. Mr. Allen had nothing idefinite to report today, and it was {indicated that he would not have a report for the Commissioners before Saturday. . 4 CRIPPLED LAD, PLAYING ) ANDIT, SHOOTS BROTHER {Horrified at Accident, Lame Boy Deserts Crutches in Wild Flight to Cellar. v the Associated Press. NEWARK, N.° J. August 3.—An- thony Skirvinsky, & twelve-year-old boy who has only one leg. hopped into the room where his father was dozing and his twin brother Stephen sat reading a story of adventire. “Thow up your hands!" the little erippled lad shouted, thinking to take advantage of his brother's absorption in the wild romance he was reading. There was a flash and a report and Stephen fell\from the chair with a #gun wound, from which he may die, in_his shoulder. : . Horrifled, his crippled brother, not n)llop:l‘n‘. for crutchu. ’:1‘:"";‘}. from, the house. as bfl' ® could. as found,Ruddled fn a cellar, some 5-. tance away. Anthony had found the SMULL CHOSEN NEW HEAD OF EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION NAT PdTs H. KIMBALL. Resignation of Vice Presidents Farley and Kimball from the Emer- gency Fleet Corporation and the re- organization of the corporation with Vice President Smull as president and Vice President Love as vice president and general manager was announced last night by Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board. Eoth the resignations were said to have been flled for personal reasons, both men having expressed a desire to return to private business. The notice of withdrawal of certain other S. officials was flled some time ago, Chairman Lasker said, but on the personal intervention of President Harding they have agreed to remain until the fate of the ship subsidy bill, now pending in Congress, has been determined. Reports have been current that changes in the official personnel of the corporation were in prospect since enactment of legislation limit- ing the high salaried positions of the organization to six at $25,000 a year. Prior to this action four officials of the corporation each drew $35,000 an- nually. Thé two vacancies as vice presi- dents will not be filled, Mr. Lasker sald, but the two trusteeships of the fleet corporation will be taken, re- spectively, by Sidney Henry, Mr. Far- ley's assistant in charge of sales, and Col. J. W. McIntosh, who was Mr. Kimball's " assistant 'in charge of finance. Ralph V. Sollitt, assistant to the chalrman, has been elected trus- tee of the fleet corporation to repre- sent the chalrman's office. SIRIKE SITUATION IS UNCHANGED HERE Nearly All Trains Entering Union Station Are Be- hind Schedule. Aside from the receipt late yester- day of a message from Bert M. Jew- ell, president of the federated shop- men, that the unlon workers In Chi- cago had agreed to President Hard- ing’s proposals for a settiement of the rail strike, there were no develop- ments in the local strike situation. The men who walked out of the Washington Terminal July 1 con- tinue to meet daily at George Wash- ington Hall, 3d street and Penns: nia avenue southeast, where sentinels make reports and routine business is transacted. Few Strikers in Need. Although they have been out of em- ployment’ for more than a month, there are very few of the strikers who have been forced in needy cir- cumstances. Official figures as to the amount of money in the strike benefit treasury were unavailable today, but it was Indicated that sufficient funds are on hand to care for any who be- come hard pressed. No regular bene- fits have as vet been paid, but in one or two cases, it is learned, money is being turned over to men with large families who have exhausted their saving: H. I. Meader, proprietor of Meader's Theater, at 8th and G_streets south- east, is giving a benefit performance tonight for the strikers. More than 2,000 tickets have been sold, it is learned, at 25 cents apiece, and the entire proceeds of the night will be devoted to the strikers' fund., It is learned that the strikers have a simi- lar proposition under consideration, to be given within the next week or two. Many Trains Late, Yesterday marked the peake of late traln days at the Union stagion. ac- cording to reports of striking senti- nels stationed at points of vantage. Virtually every train that,entered the terminal was behind schedule, they reported. They also said that the en- Sines that toppled off the track near Laurel. Md. as the result of a head- on collision Monday afternoon have not been removed and that no effort has been made to clear away the wreckage. Engines are parked on sid- ings at intervals along the Pennsyl- vania'’s Washington-New York trunk lines, it was also stated. Information has also come to the sentinels that the force at work a the Ivy City terminal is far from ef- ficlent. Three or four skilled ma- chinists are all that are numbered among those who are now doing the work of repairing and overhauling locomotives, it was reported. On a job where one' unfon man was re- quired there are now two non-union workers, they assert. The unskilled workers have been taken on “merely to pad the force” and give the out- ward opinion that the men now em- oyed by the terminal company are efficient as those Who are on strike, the sentinels declare. At the terminal offices information of any character is still lacking. “We are not bothered by press reports of this and that and are not concerned with any matter-other than to effi- ciently serve the public, which we are certainly now doing,” one official said. At the employment office it w learned that no more helpers and laborers are needed, but machinists and boilarmakers-are-silll-in demand. ESTHATES UNDER THISE LAST YEAR $31,358,000 Budget In- cludes $1,700,000 for Fed- | eral Buildings. LEAVES D. C. $29,658,000 Figures Submitted by Commis- sioners Represent Only i Departments. Contrary to the general impression of the last few days, the department heads of the District government are asking for less money for the next fiscal year than they did last year, an inquiry at the District building today revealed. 1t was learned that the tentative es- timate of $31,338,000, just submitted to the budget bureau, includes a total of $1,700.000 for upkeep of public buildings and grounds, Zoological | jPark and the courts. Until this year | these federal agencies sent their es- timates directly to the budget bureau. Deduction of those federal items frrom e § 8,000 brings the lamount actually estimated for by the | feity bureaus down to $29.65%,000 1om also be rer a4 that | {these figures which have to the | [ budget burcau represent only what | jthe department heads belicve they | | should fiave for next vear. The Com- { missioners have not gone uver the estimate Consequent even $29,- 638,000 dues nut 1y erit_the amount which the city fathers will ask after they have spent several weeks In scrutinizing the expense accounts of their subordinates. Preliminary Statement. This tentative report showing what the departments heads have asked for {was sent to the budget bureau mere- 1y as a preliminary statement to give the Treasury some idea of what the final estimate will be. Last year, for instance, the estl- mates as they reached the Commis- sioners from the department chiefs aggregated $31,800,000, which did not include the estimates of federal agen- cies now inciude in the $31,358.000 re- quested this year. From thege figures it will be seen that the officials who head thé vari- ous departments of the city gpvern- ment have not asked for as much this year as they sought a year ago. Of course, they are asking for con- siderably more than was actually al- lowed in the current appropriation act, but that Is due to the fact the congressicnal committees last year climinated many municipal improve- ments that are regarded as urgent at the District building. Last Year's Pruning. That the tentative budget of $31.- 358,000 now at the Treasury Depart- ment cannot be regarded as the es- timates of the Commissioners may be readily seen by recalling how the city heads pruned the sums asked for last year. At that time. as stated above, the department heads asked for a total of $31,800,000. When the Commis- sioners finished going over them they sent to the budget bureau a total of only $27,637,723. While the Commissioners felt that | they had practiced the golden rule of economy as strictly as they could { without eliminating actual necessi- ties, the appropriation law emerged from Congress carrying only $23,521,- 589, including the $240 bonus and ce: tain indefinite appropriations. There are in the estimates as they | now stand increases for a number, of municipal improvements which, it is believed, the people of the com- | munity will back to the limit. i $800,000 for Sewers. | The sewer department has asked | for $800.000 more than Congress al- | lowed this year. ‘The engineer department has rec- ommended a million dollars more for | new streets than the small sum of | $233,000 granted this year. i The fire department has requested an increase of $700,000 over current appropriations, and the police $400,000 more. For continuing work on the new water conduit $3,000,000 is asked for— twice the sum appropriated this year. To grant statutory employes of the District government an_increase in| pay for which they have been waiting | forty vears, the estimates request $400,000 more than the present allot- ment for salaries. All of these items are for purposes that vitally affect the welfare of the community, GROUND IS BROKEN FOR AUDITORIUM Bids on Steel Framework to Be Opened on Au- gust 14. | Razing of buildings on the site for the proposed new Washington Audi- torlum was stated today, and will continue until all of the buildings have been wrecked. At the same time plans and specifications of the steel framework of the new bullding were sent out by Milbourn, Heister & Co., architects, to steel fabrication firms in various parts of the country ask- ing for bids on furnishing this ma- terial. The building committee of the ‘Washington Auditorium Corporation, composed of Col. Robert N. Harper. Thomas Bradley, Albert Schulteis, R. P. Andrews and M. A. Leese, directed the sending out of the plans at this time. The bids must be in the hands of the architects by 6 o'clock on the evening of August 14. At 8 o'clock on the same evening the building committee will meet in the office of the architects, where the bids will be opened and examined, and the con- tract awarded shortly thereafter, it was announced by Charles J. Colum- bus, secretary of the corporation. The steel companies also are requested to include in their bids an estimate of the time necessary to fabricate the steel and erect it. The steel, it was pointed out, is the principal work in the construction of the building, and the work of getting the building up will be pushed from now on until it becomes a reality. The building 18 to be located at the intersection of 15th and E streets the New York aven: northwes! ‘With two important eps in the actual bullding work under way, it is the belief now ‘that the building will be completed early in the ng. It {s the hope that the foundation will be ready, and the erection of the steel can begin in October. The build- ing will be greatly needed for the Shrine convention here in the spring and also for & number of other bodies which expect to hold their conven- tions here. —_— In Spain street performers on the guitar are licensed, while organ grinders_are rigidly suppresseds | Telephone Days,” Policeman J. W. McDanlel, the oldest man in point of service at No. any to make friends with the children. He is here shown preeinct, finds 1t with a few of his “buddies.” Declaring children are the “most priceless heritage of a city,” Maj. Sul- livan, superintendent of police, in his daily bulletin to policemen today, tells them they have “an important respon- sibility in the physical and moral pro- tection of the children,” and enjoing “every man ta take a real Interest in their welfare.” “I want you men to make friends with the youngsters” Maj. Sullivan continues In the bulletin message, “to talk with them in a kindly manner. advise them, gain their confidence, and make them realize that you are deep- ly interested in their welfare and to protect and heip them." Maj. Sullivan admonishes parents not to instill fear in their children at BELL'S INVENTIVE CAREER DUE . TO EARLY ELOCUTION STUDY Device to Clean Whe hood When Taunted by Mill Owner as Mischievous Lad. The story of how he came to be an inventor was recorded by Dr. Alexan- der Graham Bell In the course of his last published article, “Prehistoric contained in the Geographic Magazine for National March, 19! Especial Interest attaches to this article, not only because of its his- toric value as relating the steps lead- ing up to the invention of the tele- phone, but because it is one of the few occasions when Dr. Bell, in his !many writings, engaged in personal reminiscences. “I will have to go back to my grandfather, Alexander Bell of Lon- don, England,” Dr. Bell wrote. “He was an elocutionist and a cor- rector of defective utterance. He was the first In the family to take up the study of the mechanism of speech with the object of correcting defects of speech by explaining to his puplils | the correct positions of the vocal or- gans in uttering the sounds that were | defective Ranked Low at School. y grandfather took a great deal of interest in my education. My school life had been characterized by great Indifference to the usual school studies and I took a very low rank in my classes. The subjects in which I really excelled, such as music, botany and natural history, formed no part of the school curriculum. “Music. especially, was my earliest hobby. I learned to play the plano at such an_ early age that I have no recollection now of a time when I could not play. I seem to have picked it up by myself without any special instruction,” and although I knew nothing of written music, I could play anything 1 heard by ear and could improvise at the piano for any length of time. I am inclined to think, how- ever, that my early passion for music! had a good deal to do in preparing me for the scientific study of sound. “As a child I took a great deal of interest in flowers and plants and formed a large herbarium, arranged according to the Linnean system of botany. My collection of plants grad- ually gave way to collections of shells and birds' esgs. Then came butterflies and beetles and finally the skeletons of small animals, like frogs and toads, mice and rafs. Got Pig for Dissection. “On one occasion my father pre- sented me with a dead suckling pig, and the ‘distinguished professor of anatomy’ was called upon for a lec- ture. So a special meeting of ‘the So- ciety for the Promotion of Fine Arts Among Boys' was held in my study, the attic of my father's house (13 South Charlotte street, Edinburgh). This was sacred to me, and there my collections presented an imposing ar- ray of anatomical specimens. “I can see in these natural-history collections a preparation for sclen- tific work. The collection of ma- terial involved the close observation of the likenesses and differences of objects of very similar kind, and the orderly arrangemient, as in a museum, stimulated the formation of generall- zations of various kinds. “My father encouraged me in mak- ing collections of all sorts and in ar- ranging the specimens in accordance with my own ideas rather than in conformity with the {deas of others. I am inclined to think that the mak- ing of these collections formed an im- portant part of my education, and was responsible for my early bent toward scientific pursuits. Had to Learn Shakespeare. My grandfather was well known as a Bhakespearean scholar and a public reader of Shakespeare's plays: so, of course, I had to make myself familiar with the plays of Shakespeare and commit to memory long passages from ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Macbeth’ ‘Jullus Cae- sar’ and ‘The Merchant of Venice. “He also gave me instructton in the mechanism of speech and permitted me to be present at the inatruction of some of his pupils, so that I might observe for myself his methods of correcting defective utterance. “I have found it necessary to allude to my grandfather, and to his work in correcting defectlve utterance, not only on account of the influence he exerted upon my own life, but becauss the profession he founded became in process of time family profession, which was handed down to his chil- dren and grandchildren. Hi two sons, for example, followed it. Study of Vibrations. *I took up the study of the nature of the vibrations going on in the air S s el Tl BTN STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1 Children Precious, Says Chief, Matking Policemen “Guardians | i i the sight of a bluecoat, and states that the days are gone for children to Lunk upon the policeman as a “buga- 00. “Within the past few day: the major states, “several have met with serious and fatal accldents as a re- sult of playing in the street. The moral is that these accldents would hot have occurred had the children remained on the sidewalk to play, or, better still, had they taken advantage of the nearest playground facilities." In conclusion he points out that “it is only by making fast friends of the children and advising them wherever necessary against improper conduct or association, telling them the rea- sons therefor, that the best progress may be made in their development to good, clean, healthy manhood and womanhood and useful and respected citizen I at Conceived in Boy- during the uttcrance of speech with the object of developing an apparatus that would enable my deaf pupils to see and recognize the forms of vibra- | tion characteristic of the various ele- ments of speech. Various instruments | were devised employing loaded ! etretched membranes, ail based upon | the well known phonautograph of Leon Scott, and these experiments paved the way for the appearance of the first membrane telephone, the an- cestor of all the telephones of today. “It will thus be seen that the work | of my father had a great and impor- | tant influence in fitting me to grap- ple with the problems of the tele- phone. “At the age of eighteen years I communicated to Mr. Ellis my discov- ery that in uttering the vowel ele-| ments of speech faint musical tones | | could be heard accompanying the | sound of the voice. “These feeble tones seemed to be characteristic of the different vow- els, and had the same pitches as the | {resonance tones of the various cavi- i ties formed in the mouth when the vowel positions were silently assumed and the resonance tones brought out by tapping 2 pencil held against the cheek or throat. Experiments of Helmholtz. “Mr. Ellis expressed great interest, but informed me that I had been an- ticipated by Helmnoltz, who had not only analyzed vowel sounds into their constituent musical elements, but had actually produced vowel sounds by a synthetical process by combining mu- sical tones of the required pitches and relative intensities. He had pro- duced these musical tones by means of tuning forks which were kept in vibration by an electrical current and | | had controlled the relative intensities by resonators applied to the forks. “At this time I knew nothing what- ever about electricity, and found my- ! self quite unable to understand, from | Mr. Ellis' explanation, how tuning- forks could be made to vibrate by an | « ! trical current. “Helmholtz's work had not then n translated into French or Eng- | , and T was unable to read it in the original German. I therefore took up the study of electricity, and be- | gan to experiment with electrical ap- paratus in the hope that I might ulti- mately be able to construct Helm- holtz's vowel apparatus and repeat his experiments. “When at last, after my arrival in America, I succeeded in vibrating tun- ing-forks, and tuned plates and reeds by electrical means, T inade a num- ber of electrical inventions based upon the utilization of musical notes as telegraphic signals, and these led gradually to the invention of the telephone itsel?. | First Invention. “I have often been asked whether I can recall the nature of my first in- vention and how I came to make it. So far as I can recollect, it came| about in this way: “When I was quite a little fellow, it S0 happened that my father had a pupil of about my own age with whom I used 10 play. He was the son of a Mr. Herd- man, who owned large flour milis near Edinburgh, and, of course, I went over to the mills pretty often to play with him there. We romped about and got into all sorts of mischief, until at last one_day Mr. Herdman calied us into his offife for a very serious talk. “ “Why can't you boys do something useful,’ he said, “instead of always get- ting Into mischief?’ “I mildly asked him to tell us some useful thing to do, and he replied by putting his arm into a bag and pulling out a handful of wheat. He showed us that the gralns were covered with husks, and sald: ‘If you could only take the husks off that wheat you'd be doing something useful indeed.” “That made rather an impression upon my mind, and I began to think, Why couldn't we take the husks off by brushing the seeds with a nafibrush?' Test Proves Succesaful. “We tried the experiment and found it successful, although it involved a good deal of hard work from the two misohlef - makers. We persevered, | however, and soon had & nice little sample of cleaned wheat to show w] Mr. Herdman. 1 then remembered that during our explorations at the mill we had come across a large vat, or tank, with @ paddle-wheel ar- rangement in it that whirled round and round in a casing of quite rouzh material, brushes or fine wire net- ting, or something-of that sort. “If we could only put the wheat iato that machine, I thought, the whirling of the paddle should cause the seceds | throughout ilongest sprees | Monday. A BUFFALO BUS WAR TAKEN TO COURT Railway Wants Operation ‘- Without Public Service Permit Stopped. ONE DEAD, TWO SHOT Missiles Fly in Series of Attack on | Cars Throughout City. nocinted Proms. . BUFFALO, N. Y., August “The In- ternational Railway Company today &p- peared in the supreme court demanding that Mayor Frank A. Schwab enforce the law which prohibite the operation of Jitney busses without permission of the public service commission. The mayor, replying to a show-cause order, contended that the company has not vet restored mormal service and that the emergency which justified him in granting permits to the fitneys still exists, The legal battle, upon which the com- pany rests its hope of defeating the 1 strike which has b N in progress since foilo of the worst that nalked the two others a i Conductor Meets Death. John Chrosniak, thirty years old, a striking conductor, was instantly killed when a policeman fired three shots from a riot gun after a crowd had attacked a Sycamore Street Car. The same volley wounded Casmire Kizsweki and Holland Lang. Kiz- swekl, a laborer, was shot just under the heart and may die. Lang, a striking switch tender, was slightly injured. The policeman fired after the crowd had broken in the windows of the front vestibule and after a bottle of acld had been thrown on the motorman, John McCasley of Phila- delphia. McCasley was badly burned about the face and may lose his sight Night Cars Bombed. Nearly every section of the city saw bombardments of night cars by crowds armed with stones and other missiles, Mayor Schwab is expected.to an- nounce later today a new plan for the ending of the strike by means of an arbitration commission. Herhert G. Tulley, president of the street railw compa indicated this morning that the company would not consider any proposal of arbitration and would continue to maintain that the question of making a contract with the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Em- ployes Is not one for arbitration. The contract question is the only issue in the strike. $300,000 VALUATION SLASHED TO $185,000 Commission Reduces Most Rentals While Some In- creases Are Allowed. of Fixing a fair valuation of $185,000 for the building as against a value claimed by the owner of $300.000, the Rent Commission today took final action in the Savoy apartment case, which has been before the commisstor. for about five monghs. The commis- ston ordered the majority of rents re- Quced, while increases were found justified for others. There are thirty-five apartments in the building, which is located at 2804 14th street. The rents demanded ranged from $75 a month to $100. and the rents authorized by the commis- sion range from $47.50 a month to $70. The commission authorized an allow- ance for upkeep of $15,000 a year and allowed a net return on the fair value of the property of Rents for five or ments were fixed on complaint tenants and the rents for the other apartments in the building were fixed by the commission on its own initia- tive. of — RECORD SPREE REPORTED Husband Declared Drunk Since United States Went Dry. NEW YORK, August 3—One of the in history was at- tributed today to a former bartender, August Detering, by his wife, Rose, who told a Brooklyn magistrate her husband got drunk the day prohibi- tion went into effect and had been drunk ever since. Before prohibition Detering never touched a drop, the wife declared. He pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was locked up to be sentenced Meanwhile police will in- vestigate the story. AMERICAN FLYER HERO. Wrecks Plane to Save Two Women With Babes in Mexico; Hurt. By the Associated Pre M to save the lives of two women with babies in Col. Rafael O'Nell, an American, drove his airplane into a tree, demolish- ing it O'Neil, who 18 head instructor of | the Federal Aviation School, and An- tonio Rivera, acting director of the ool, who was in the plane with O'Neil, were injured. _OLD CAFE SITE SOLD. The property at 1410 New York avenue, which formerly was occupied by Eckstein's restaurant, once a noon-time rendezvous for Washing- ton business men and a dining place for many prominent personages, has been sold i Tha purchaser is A. C. Wiley, and the price agreed upon is said to be $150,000. The owner was Mrs. Miriam B. Hiddinya “and others,” in the lan- guage of the recorder’s office. RECOVERS FROM POISON. Totally recovered, Mrs. Mildred Frye, twenty-one vears, who is said to have swallowed a quantity of a poison in her husband’s presence at their apartment at 620 Eye street yesterday morning, will leave Emer- gency Hospital today. ————e o rub inst the rough 'surface of :he ul?!f: and thus brush off the husks. “It was a proud day for us when we boys marched into Mr. Herdman's office, presented him with our sample of cleaned wheat and suggseted pad- dling wheat in the dried-out vat. * “lhy.' id Mr. Herdman; ‘that’s quite a good idea,’ and he immediate- 1y ordered the experiment to be made. It was suecessful and the process, 1 understand, or a substantially similar one, has been carried on at the mills ever since.” COURT CHEATED OF EVIDENCE AS COP STUMBLES Sniff! Sniff! dges and jurors eyed eich other askance—almost suspiclously—as tre unmistakable aroma of a once widely used, high authority beverage per- meated the judicial atmosphere of Police Court building yesterday aft- ernoon. A stern-visaged policeman glared 80 savagely at a spectator, who was feverishly feeling for his hip pocket, that the latter almost toppled off his seat. At least three other citizens, who happened to be in coupt, paled perceptibly. Nerves were almost at a breaking point when, slowly and mournfully, a policeman entered the Police Court and sadly announced that he had stumbled on the steps and dropped the evidence. A whole gallon of real corn liquor Judicial dignity was temporarily forgotten during the laugh that burst forth when the unlucky guardian held up & dripping handkerchief con- taining all of the evidence he could 8coop up. Sze Gets Offer Of Foreign Post DR. ALFRED SZE. By the Associated Press. PEKING, August 2.—Alfred Sge, the minister to Washington, has been offered the portfolio of foreign minister. Completion of President Li Yuan Hung's new cabinet is expected next week. Coincidental with the assembly of parliament a group of progressive Chinese women have published de- mands for a clause in the constitution providing universal suffrage, with equal rights to public offices, including mem- bership in parliament. Most of these women were educated abroad. The Chinese newspapers see hope in the fact that parliament obtained a quorum on opening yesterday at the appointed date. Yet they forecast dif- ferent problems. The Shun Tien Shih Pao says China needs political parties like those in the United States. It points out that the new parliament is split into fac- each without platform or prin This journal considers it un that parliament will achieve ‘watisfactory progress until at least two political partles are created. DENS CLOSE DOORS FOR EXPOSE PERIOD (Continued from First Page.) permanently. “The gamblers” he de- clared. have pulled up their stakes and Ieft because of the stir the Wash- inglon newspapers are raising.” Women Organize. Satisfied. they say, that the au- thorities of Prince Georges county are not making any efforts touclose the gambling houses permanently, mem- bers of the League of Women Voters of Prince Georges county have or- ganized a .committee to urge the county authorities to recognize the state police. Mrs. H. J. Patterson, wife of Dr. H J. Patterson of the University of Maryland, at College Park, chairman of the committee, announced today that the members of the league are firmly convinced that the state police will quickly close the dens in the the county if this police force is of- ficially recognized by the county and that the force will restore law and crder in the county. “The committee of which I am chairm; aid Mrs. Patterson, “had been working for more than a year to have the county authorities recog- nise the state police. But we have made no progress in that line. How. ever, we intend to keep up our work and we feel that in the cnd we will win. County Officers Rapped. police force is just what is needed in Prince Georges county to: establish law and order. Our county officers either cannot or will not cope with the situation. We “he | the last legislature did not s jmake the state state policemen sheriffs, but he will not meet us to Wcuss our request. He recently wrote us a letter saying that because fit to police a state con- stabulary, he could see no reason why hE should swear in the members as deputy sheriffs. Before the legis- in as deputy {'with leading citizens of the county and-they advised him not 1o recog- nize the state police. “Personally 1 have not seen gambling places said to be in exist- ence here, but it is common talk about | here that they do exist. Our league will talk about them at the next state police for sist us' in getting th Prince Georges county.’ mbling Declared Rampant. Mrs. Jesse Campbell Sawyer of Mayhurst, Md., county chairman of the League of Woman Voters, said gambling was rampant in the county and that the county officers had made no effort to stop it. She said the so- lution to the situation is the official recognition of the state police. I personally have never been to any of the gambling houses” said Mrs. Sawyer, “but several of my friends have been to thém. They tell me that while they saw complete gambling paraphernalia in the houses, the 'gamblers play craps principally, and, they said, the stakes were large. “Fhe county authorities say that vict the gamblers or to show that the gambling houses exist. If my friends could get the evidence, I can- 'not understand why the authorities cannot. 1 have been told on good names .on the county tax books at Marlboro, and that thelr houses and paraphernalia are taxed by the county. “We need the state police here, and we wilk keep working for that organ: ization uptil we get it.” have asked Sheriff Sweeney to swear | | the KICO CITY, August 3—In order | peasant | their arms, | lature he told us that he had talked | the | meeting of the county grange to as- | they cannot get'any evidence to con- | authority that the persons who con- | duct the gambling houses have their| WAR DEBT TANGLE - 1S PEACE MENACE British Note Brings Delicate Subject to Surface—Allies Anxious for Settlement. GERMANY HOLDING KEY Her Ability to Pay France Will Sway All Discussion of Matter. | By 1 Associated Press. 1O August 3.—The British government's note to Great Britain's allles in the great war, reminding them that they owe Great Britain money and that she has a right to ask for payment, has thrown wide open the most delicate topic in inter- naslonal polities. The discussion of the question of debts owed to Great [Britain had been studiously avolded by all concerned, apparently with a view on the part of the creditor nation that the time for grasping that nettle mizht most conveniently be Indefinitely postponed. The most cheerful view of the ef- feet of the Earl of Balfour's note discoverable hire 1t will afford an understanc 1l round of what are the . intentions of the govers rned. It i8 conside » repudiation, or an of inability to pay, uncertaint probably the worst damage which Lurope and the worid of business could continue to suffer. Within a few davs—after next week’s conference between Premiers Llovd George and Poincare—the policies of both Great Britain and France should be made clear. The French position, In one vital respect, already is plain—that all European post-war indebtedness {s linked to- gether and any solution of the sit- uation muet depend upon what Ger- many may be willing or be forced to do. Premier's Plans Not Known. As it is understood here from ths Paris correspondents of the London newspapers that France considers any concessions to Germany in the matter ofreparation and in ¥ & foreign loan should be ba stmilar concessions to Fran, per opin- fon is divided on the point whether Mr. Lloyd George's confe: with M. Poincare will now be confined to a plan for dealing with Germany, or whether Lord Balfour's note will not foree con- eration of the wider field of inter- ied debt There is much public as to w )sity among the 4 riant members of the cabinet were responsible for the strong line Lord Balfour's note takes, since it is believed there is con- imjp siderable difference of opinion in the cabinet. Also there is curiosity as to how fgr the advice of Sir Auckland GeddeS, British ambassador to the United States, contributed to the fram- ing of the note, since Sir Auckland's osed to be main visit home was for a conference on It is question: how fa s American sen- government unc : timent and what advice is depended upon for its views. Reuters, Ltd., s “It is stated that repre ives of American financial interests who happen to be in London have expressed t w a that had the Great Britain to e to her been carried out States would—probably mediately, but after th tions—have been morally to follow .the British lead Geymany Is Debt Keystone. Reuters also says it is the view in allied financial quarters here that the only immediate possibility of paying readiness exp cel debts ow the n. Unite i debts i by obtaining money from Germany, and if Germany is unable 1o pa the moratorium asked for by 1 German must be given to others The Daily Telegraph's corr says: “The peremptory u which cancella n of their jebted was demanded by some 2 among our d s held to offer ent to our geste, but an ur part.” Such ) illustrate n relations with Harve the tenderness of Europe when it comes to_deall money aff: George the American ambassador, in his specch re- vassador edd drew a pi prosper cently we which, in some quart lated as a very ge that Great Br 3 to meet American claims. nformation as to wheth jcan government «will t outside the doors of th ference between the British premiers by an observer to same part that Ambass: played at the Genoa con It is officially announc Child dor Schanzer, accom: tore, the new 1 ste the treasury. will ar don Monday 1 be Isn for the confer: algo w attended by S , the economist. ent Genoa and The Hazue conferences “CARD SHARP” SLAIN BY THREE AFTER GAME Girl and Cripple, Man of 60. Held for Investigation in Cleveland. Ohio, Murder Mystery CLEVELAND, Ohio, st 3. { Charles Schupman, te: by poli {as “too smart ayer.” was ! beaten and choke h early to- day when three men found Ivi “Orous iy 200 feet fron me was Aragged in the I b f that a D wou d biot out all trac In the upper was found cards | used { They | girl as a wits drag the body t A sixty-year- held. T Schupman, but he he did 1t ONE-MINUTE PHONE HUSH . OVER U. S. TOMORROW Canada Also to Join in Silent Tribute to Memory of Alex- ander Graham Bell. NEW YORK, August 3 —Every tel- ephone instrument in the Unites States and Canada will be silent for | one minute tomorrow, while Alexa i der Graham Bell, inventor of the tol ! ephone, is being buried. This was nnounced today by the Ameri | Telephone and Telpgraph Company | The exact time will determined later. | LAKE SEAMEN TO STRIKE. | DETROIT, August 3.—Coal passers deckhands, able seamen, firemen and oilers emploved on great lakes freighters will strike “in a few day: Thomas Conway of Buffalo. chairny ofg'the executive committce of 1t great lakes district of the Interna- tional Seaman’s Union, sunounced here today. . il el X