Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1922, Page 2

THE. EVENING STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1922, = 1 ~ . 1] 4 . ONE OUT OF EVERY FIVE . POOR ROAD BEDS MAKE A DANGEROUS CONDITION ON/GEN. WO0D’S BIRTHPLACE - r SEEKING AUTO PERMITS CONNECTICUT AVENUE.. NO LONGER 1S CLASSED 5 FAILS TO PASS IN TESTS | - 2 ; : RTrT AS A ‘ONE-HORSE TOWN’ \ i [soplicdiforie permit 10} GEIve S = Leonard Wood, illustrous soldier, : Tonth o ‘;"..x§"§£‘?§§§%‘ufi“§§“z‘m‘«3§ Y former candidate for the republi- officeia wio iasted them as not quali- = can nomination for President and e | ficd to operute a motor car. 3 3 s now overnor General of the Fhil- : Senate Lays Aside Pending; I Bort of Tnapector Albert . Ii‘;"’:‘a\:éy’ Motorless Flying Machines of gno-horse town. | By virture of Orgahizers Warned by United T ." ('Ufll"lllld of the police traftic bu- . f G 1 Bart- Committee Amendments i Thoeh spaws ihat qut 0% =8| Many Designs to Be Seen fott, the evoup aweuings that com- | * States Controller Not to - month just ended 541 were disap- A prised Winchester N, H. are to % : for Debate. PO Nine persons kilizd in street in Contests. vico established. The order car- Begin Business. accidents during July, the report ries the significant fact ‘“Ifl! lllle R e shows, six were due to'actusl tAMO |\ \ig s L 3 T 0 T d o ! d ! MAY, TAKE TWO DAYS | mimson one e ot e e | o BaRAND, France, Au- Bt st % S | PROMOTION FEE. ILLEGAL tratns. gust 5.—Optimism over the future of system of street lighting has been 7 . motorless flying prevails at Camp installed and sidewalk Improve- < & 3 Harrison Opens Democratic Op- D. C. WINTER COAL Moulllard, where the “glider” contests méf:c'ah‘(;: t:;:; '{;‘::“ S Raa Fines Provided by Congress Point- 5 under auspices of the First Internation- b 5 2 3 position to 1.60 Cents a NEEDS TAKEN UP |2! Experimental Congress of Motorless e ot rontam e ed Out in Notice Given ! Pound Bate. s Airpanes begine tomorrov to contims i Public. . 2 until August 20. 4 ed from Wirst Pege.) The bullders, pilots and offictals l1v- i compelied 16 Bive recognItion. 2 Without undertaking to reach any egreement, efther as to a date for a vote on the tariff bill or curtatlment of debate, the Senate proceeded today to the consideration of the sugar schedule, laying aside pending com- mittee amendments. 1t was indicated that the discussion probably would occupy all of today's probably all day Monday. Senator McCumber, republican, North Dakota, in charge of the tariff, obtained unanimous consent that the sugar schedule be kept ‘before thejls Senate to the exclusion of cther business. session andy to the amount of fuel a he city at this time, but no figures were made known. Lewis Conference May Develop Two Plans While government officials refused joday to comment on the possibility 3% the measure of success to be at- tained by the coal conference called at Cieveland by John L. lent of the United Mine Worlkers, the impression was left that 5 niay have two alternatives in . one of which may bring part enator HMa:ricon, democrat. Miss! sippi, opened the debate In opposition to the proposed rate. 1.60 cents = pound, and Senator Broussard, deio- erat, Louisiana, was prepared Tow e wrgoment that this duty was Insuthcient to protect the cauc sugar industry of his state Cuban Competition. i Senator Harrizon u show that every an Increase in lhe tar He was interrupied by Senu- Nicholson, republican, Colorado, asserted that Cuban SUgAT Was antil the American bect and cane xhausted and then that who Leld | immediately O i | the central ! pioducing this tonnage might be put mines of the nation to work possibility suggested was that u contract Is entered into at the evelend conference involving a tonnage of about 70,000,000 annually, less tnan half the towl tonnage of competitive field, miners o work immeds . thereby adding greatly to the outpui of the natlon's coal mines. Another possibility was that if an agrecment is reached In- voiving this tonnage United Mine Workers' officlals might hold their men from working until the rest of the central field operators meet the to End Coal Strike | {ing in the canvas city near the top of Mount Combegrasse are sanguine that machines propelled by manpower jor merely by the wind are destined to make as much progress in the mext twenty years as the gasoline-motored planes have achieved since the Wright brothers made their test flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. Comment by Gen. Large. Gen. Large, commanding the 13th Army Corps, whose soldlers are keeping {law and order at the camp, pointing lo a ‘glider” piloted by Lieut Thoret maneuvering. 3,000 feet above the camp —dipping, looping and volplaning—eaid: “Any one prophesying this fifteen years ago wouid have been interned in a lunatic asylum.” pesalmistic note, however, was |struek by a French peasant harvest- ing In a nearby fleld, who practically repeated the words ascribed to two Ohio farmers upon reading of the | Wright brothers’ firat short hops. View of the Wright Test. One farmer, as he scunned the big {headlines in the newspaper he had {just taken from the R. F. D. box &t ‘:he cross-roads, doclared with fiml- ty: “No man will ever fly like a bird, other echoed the sentiment And if a man ever does, he sail from Dayton, Ohlo,” by i What the French peasant said, after a former governor of New Hampshire, Mr. Bartlett took keen pleasure in signing the order tak- ing Winchester out of the “coun- try town” clas RESERVE BOARD LIKELY TO BE WITHOUT HEAD President May Delay Naming Suc- cessor to Gov. Harding Until Twin Strike Crisis Over. With the term of W. P. G. Harding as governor of the federal reserve board drawing to a close next Wednesday, speculation as to his successor 1§ growing, but there remains sx much uncertainty as ever over the post. | A large coterie of influential | officials and others is behind Gov. | Harding for reappointment, and the discussion of his prospects for reap- {pointment to the position seems at present to overshadow consideration of probable succesors. However, the names of D. R. Cris- | singer, ~controller of the currency: John R. Mitchell, member. and Vice Gov. Platt of the Federal Reserve Board and E. Mont Riley, governor of {Porto Rico, still are mentioned prom- | Controlier of Currency Crissinger today {ssued a statement concern- Ing the Merchants and Farmers' Bank of Anacostia, which, he says, had been refused permission to organize. but is now continuing to solicit sub- scriptions for stock and demanding payment of the subscriptions. By authority of the emergency banking act, passed by Congress and approved April 26 of this year, the controller has the authority to refuse permission “to engage in the business of banking” in the District of Col- umbia, %and according to the act, “each one of the officers of such cor- poration 0 offending shall be pun- ished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceding one year or by both fine and imprison- ment, in the discretion of the court.” Whether an office had been opened by Raymond E. Huntt, representing himself to be president of the Mer- chants and Farmers’ Bank, the con- troller said he had not as vet been advised. Complaint had reached him. however, he said, of activities of the bank in soliciting subscriptions to stock, the selling_price of which in- cluded a fee of $3 per share to “The crops were € e : ire terms agreed upon tnently. Premier Finance Company, Incor- ”;fc'fi““_'r‘h*l's°‘;‘:‘°";J’:’\;d e | (The president of the United Mine x:;‘:“ag ,‘orc‘[‘"“;"::,’,‘l‘me;"‘:';'"“.‘!; b dos isa possibility. though it is|porated,” for organization. The Gecent rise fn the retail price in | that he will meet i Sontatace e Chnmor o don:” A0 vroading bis (oo eha e et T e Erehibitory Oefer. Sni ates. o s L eam en, 2 3 ; the United tes. |Tepresentatives of the major portion |'qrR Of oXen., he lumbered away of tenseness in the twin-strike situa-| The statement of the controlier Probe Move Sidetracked. SO 0000% tora s D cen of (he motoriess airpianes, y : o 200,600,000 tons produced an- | Fiftcen of the motoriess airplanes. { tion, any nominations for the present. | .o The Gooding resoiution prol broad Investigation of the in senators, Newspapc nd | the tariff bill. was reported unfa ably yesterday from Lhe committee on | contingent expenses of the Senate and Went to the calendar after Senator Lodge, republican leader, had objecte to its immediate consideration. Un- less it should be taken up by unan mous consent or a vote of nate it will remain on the calendar until| after the passage of the tariff bili. nator Caraway, democrat. Arkan- sas. who offered the original rcsolu- tion, proposing an investigation of the financlal interest, if any, of sena- tors in the tariff schedules. told the Benate that he Tealized the investiga- tion was “dead. A charge by Senator Gooding that Frank A. Munsey, owner of the New York Herald. was opposing the tariff bill in the interest of his investments in Europe, and sharp exchanges be- tween Senators Lenroot. republican, Wisconsin, and Harrison. democrat, Mississippi, marked debate on the| Tesolution. Senator Harrison in- sisted that Senator Gooding and other senators charged in news- papers with having material interest in the tariff schedules should have an opportunity to “clear their skirts. Senator Lenroot insisted that the in- quiry proposed would involve a large expenditure and would be without result. Ask Unanimous Consent. After the debate on the resolution died down, new proposals for a unanimous consent agreement for a final vote on the tariff bill on August 17 were put forward by jenators McCumber, republican, North Dakota. in charge of the measure, and Simmons of North Carolina, the minority leader. Senator Lenroot, whose objection Thusrday prevented such an agree- ment, stated privately that he would | not give his consent to a final vote on August 17, or any other date, un- til after important committee amend- ments had been disposed of. Senator Lenroot previously had proposed that debate be confined to the tariff bill; that after August 11.{ each senator be limited to one hour | on amendments and the bill, and that beginning also on that date the Sen- | day, central competitive of the Iittsburgh group, representing the late Mark hwnna interests, and a few scat- tered operators in Ohio are the only ones who have announced an intan- tion to attend the conference Mon- By far the major portion of the central fleld production wiil not be resented at the conference. Lewls' position was held today to be incon- stent in caliing and going through with the conference with less than a major portion of the tonnage repr: sented when he has stated previo that he must have a respectable ton- nage represented before he enters conference on wages. 1y was represented as being greatly in- terested in the Cleveland gathering, and hoping that out of the mecting some agreement might come which would raise coal production to a level somewhere near consumption, INSIST UPON OLD SCALE. Miners Firm in Demands, Is Be- lief at Cleveland. By the Ansocinted Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 5.—The interstate wage scale conference be- tween bitumous coal operators and Tepresentatives of the United Mine Workers of America to open here Monday will result either in the miners returning to work at the old wage scale or a prolonged continua- tion of the coal strike, according to opinions voiced in coal circles here today. fight against any wage reduction will be “to the finish,” following the offer of the Illinois operators yesterday to pay the miners of that state the old scale until March 31, 1923. Cleveland operators who are to at- tend Monday's conference voiced no surprise at the Illinois offer, but de- clined to state whether it will have any influence at the meeting. It was pointed out that Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois miners, to whom the offer was made, would b unable to accept the offer for Illinois miners alone in accordance with the mine workers, rules, because of Presi- In any event, the government today | It was predicted that the union's! have arrived amd some of the ma- chines already have made successful unofficial flights. An American mono- plane entered by the Aeronautical Engineering Soclcty is being held up in some railroad rd between Cler- mont, Ferrand and Havre, from which latter port is was shipped eight days ago. Edmund Allen will pllot the American plane. ~ Like Bats Fishes. The gliders already at Camp Mouil lard include machines with the flap. ping wings of the bat and types re- sembling the flylng fish, which are propelled by human muscular motive power and wind-propelled salling planes with canvas wings, mobile and stationery. The machines are of the monoplane, biplane and triplane types. Those with stationary wings are called “stiffs,” and those with mobile wings “flappers.” A Swiss-designed, stationary. thick- winged monoplane manufuctured by Francis Chardon and piloted by M. Guendet, remained in the air four minutes yesterday, covering about & mile and three-quarters in a half circle with a loss in altitude of about 00 feet. “Flapper” Parasel Type. A “flapper” parasol machine built, piloted and propelled by Daniel Mon- tague of France covered about 200 yards at an altitude aversging between 6 and 10 feet. It landed because the human motor gave out. The wings of this machine are worked by a con- trivance somewhat similar to that used on the chainless bicycl Most of the pilots and builders on the ground express the determination to break the records for duration in jmotorless flight heid by Harth of Ger- many. This record is 21 minut: One hundred thousand francs will be dis- tributed among the winners. ABILITY TO QUOTE VIRGIL PUTS MAN IN POLICE J0B { New York Officer, Appointed Under Col. Roosevelt, Then Commis- sioner, Is to Retire. | | street. to could be casily caught (as show: all along P Materials are knocked out soon after the road gangs make the repairs. in the picture) in this rut in the car tracks, the avenuwe, and be thrown ini RHODE ISLAND AVE. BUMPS DANGERO (Continued from First Page.) ,Einstein Says Fear of Assassin us |smooth out the waving condit the macadam, and this would be is provided. Patchwork Wasted A trip over this road by any on official authority who would have expended for this purpose would gangs. for patchwork is just a wi of funds. When a road gets ai as Rhode Island avenue is at n of possible unless a complete resurfacing say as to whether funds should be tainly shake the purse strings loose. It would te an econmical expenditure, it was pointed out, for the use of road Caused Flight From Germany Scientist Refuses Return on Promise of Protection. im- io e in the cer- Slayers of Rathenau | il Said to Peril 12 In such case the governorship would become vacant, it was pointed out in “On June 23 the controller of the | high Treasury circles, but would not retard the functioning of the board Vive Governor Platt is authorized to assume the duties of the governor and there would be no difficulty, should President Harding delay nominations i both for the governorship and for the {newly created position of 'mrj farme: HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS ' AND JEWELRY TO WIFE William H. Minch’s Will Also Leaves Her an Income—Bequests Made by Henry Keller. The will of William H. Minch, re- {tired Baltimore furniture dealer {dated October 4, 1921, was filed today for probate. He leaves to his widow, Alice Marie Minch, all his household effects, joweiry. and, and gives a {1legacy of $2,000 to Emma T. Nash of |Lcs Angeles, Calif. The remaining | estate is devised to Walter I. Daw- ikins and the Safe Deposit and Trust | Company of Baltfinore. in trust. to ipay a life annuity of $3.600 to Mrs. i{Lola 1. Douglas of Philadelphia; a {1ife annuity of $1,000 to his sister-in. {law. Gertrude E. Dolliver of Balti | more, and a like annuity of $480 to |Graffon J. Coleman. The remaining income is to be paid to the widow during_her lifetime. After the death of the widow and | the last of the annuitants the trus- *tees are directed to pay the net in- {come for a term of twenty vears in i equal shares to the Florence Critten- ! ton_Mission of Baltimore; the Shut- iin Society of Maryland; the Humane i Impartial Society, and the Aged {Women’s and Aged Men's Home of { Baltimore, and the Baltimore Home !for the Friendless. At the end of the | twenty years the estate is to be dis- trituted equally among_ the four in- stitutions named or such as are then {in_existenc i By the terms of the will of Henry | Keller, a bequest of $1.000 is made | ‘ to his ‘son, Frederick; $500 to his son h\'enl into effect and the refusal jgrant currency made a bureau order pro- hibiting the authorization by the bu- reau of any bank that was being pro- moted with promoters’ fees, whether the same was created by contract with the proposed bank or with the individual subscribers for the stock. “Advice has come to the controller of the currency that the Merchants and *armers’ Bank of Anacostia, which has heretofore been refused permis- sion to open a bank for the reason that it was being organized with a promotion fee of $3 per share, which the stockholders had agreed to D is now engaged in an active campaign elling stock, but, since said order to permission to open the Mer- chants and Farmers' Bank, there has come to the attention of the controller that one Mr. Ruymond E. Huntt, rep- resenting himself to be president of he Merchants and Farmers' Bank, is collecting stock subscriptions, with promotion fees in the contract. That on July 8. the said Mr. Huntt sent out a notice demanding pay- jment of the subscripfiofis and that afterward another undated notice was eent out demanding payment of subscriptions for this bank. All of this is done notwithstanding the fact ihat' the controller of the curremcy hes refused permission to this bank to open because of the fact that §3 per shere of the subscription s to be used by the Premier Finance Company. presumably as organiza- tion expenses, but as a matter fact, promotion fees.” The controller inade “it_plain th numerous comp! in nearby Maryl of the Merchants and Farmers' and he thought it wise to “warn public that such a bank woul be permitted to open in the District of Columblia. A_copy of Mr. Huntt's undated re- cend letter to his subscribers stated that already the fixtures of the bank had been _installed, ‘“stationery is ready—in fact, everything is mnow ready with the exception of the vault which has been shipped from the factory and is due to arrive this the currency of t he had recetved present time it is time for replace- ment to meet the new traffic condi- tions which it must bear as a feeder into and out of Maryland and points | ™Fae “mast dangerous condition on most dangerou | this roudway e caused by the paving | LEIPSIC, August 5.—Prof. Albert on the railr right of way, which ! Einstein, originator of the theory of extends two feet on each side of thelreitivity, has fled from Germany tem- outer rails. Under the law the rail-{ 5 - Toad is required to keep this in con- | POTarily because ‘he was threatened diticn, and it does not require an; with assassination by the same group appropriation from Congress. Orders,which caused the murder of Dr. Wal- from the Commissioners only are Mecessary. While there is & new con- | tér Rathenau, the German foreign min- crete roadway between the viaductiister, according to a letter from Prof. and 12th street. the tracks are not|Einstein canceling an engagement to p to grade and the condition Pro-iaadress a meeting here. duced is a dangerous one. The space| e en thes aile is poor and full| FEfforts to induce the noted sclentist cf deep ruts. to return, in view of the government’s However, there is a great need of |guccess in coping With the situation, action on the part of the D Suthorities to correct the dangerous|®’® §ald to have so far proved un- | George C. H. and $300 to his son|we! ‘Charles H. Keller. The remaining es-; Mr. Huntt, in his most recent letter. tata .is to be distributed in equal | 5ays. . ! shares among certain of his children, | “Dear Subscriber: argaret Keller, Charles H. Kelier, 7, | George C. H. Keller, Mathilda DePer: ate would take up in order the para- | graphs dealing with hides, shoes and Teather, sugar, potash and the flex- ible tariff plan. Remaining com- mittes amendments then would be disposed of and individual amend- ments considered. GRANT’S GRANDNIECE BRIDE OF CHICAGOAN News of Marriage of Miss Bertha | Honore Revealed by New York Honeymoon Trip. NEW YORK. August 5.—The mar- riage here early this week of Warren Ripple, forty-five, Chicago manufac- dent John L. Lewis’ order that separate state agreements could not be entered into. . Coal Distributor Asks States and D. C. for Concurrence in Plans Governors of the various states and | the District Commissioners were ask- ied today by Federal Fuel Distributor Spencer to concur in the steps out- lined by the federal government for the emergency distribution of coal. Letters sent to the governors today by Mr. Spencer carried the central jcommittee’s plans and “the federal j fuel distribution form No. 50" to be used by state committees in applying for emergency coal. NEW YORK, August 5.—The abil- {ity to recite Virgll until Theodore { Roosevelt, then police commissioner, { was mightily impressed, got George 1 Quackenbos his job with the | “finest” twenty-six years ago, the {veteran told his comrades yesterday in recalling his experiences on the force from which he retires next Sunday. Quackenbos had been a professor of classic languages at several col- leges. a cowboy, miner and a lot of other things out in the open west, before he decided that the only thing | the east had to offer was a job on the New York police force. “Quackenbos,” sald Roosevelt, “T want men of brains—college men— on the police force. What do ‘you i think of t?* “‘Commisioner,” replied Quackenbos, Leading Jews. ‘We find that you have not yet paid your calls, amounting to $- on !ni. Charlotte Newgent, Anna A. Bit-|your subscription to shares of By the Ausoctated Press. I i PROF: ALBERT EINSTEIN. was unable to leave his work at the ter, Caroline Ball and Augusta Rod-ls!ock. It is absolutely essential that igers. George C. H. and Charles H.|every subscriber pay these calls be- i Keller are named as executors. ifore” arrangements for i bank can be completed. Y { therefore, urged to give this magter BROTHER ANDREW DEAD. ;vour imniediate attention. ‘Our fixtures are installed, station- e {ery is ready—in fact, everything is Funeral to Be Held Monday at!now ready with the exception of th~ ivault, whi¢ch has been shipped from Franciscan Monastery. ! the l:ncmry and is due to arrive this N wee! | Brother Andrew. O. S. M. (Charles| "“Neariy all of the subscribers have ! Horatlo Catlin). of the Franciscanimet their calls promptly. Please let | Monastery, Brookland, D. C., died a us have vours Whhoul‘{'ur!nel‘-‘del!)- e : .| The earlier we open, the earlier we j Georgetown University Hospital early | .onimence to earn money for our turer, ' to nineteen-year-old Bertha | Honore, grandniece of President Grant and cousin of Princess Canta- ' cuzene, became known today. The ceremony was performed in the mu- | nicipal chapel by a deputy city clerk, : with two city employes as witnesses. | Miss Honore, niece of the late Mrs. Potter Palmer, came here from Chi- cago with Mr. Ripple July 3l. They: Tegistered at the Ritz-Carlton, kept | their secret from every one, and after | the ceremony departed, informing the | clerk they would leave no forwarding | address, as they might forsake the | conventional honeymoon trip to At-: lantic City and try Lenox, Mass., in- | ste: ! —_— POSTAL AGENCY OF U. S. AT SHANGHAI GIVEN UP Transfer to Chinese Authorities Expected to'Be Complete Before January 1. The business of the United States postal agency in China at Shanghat is now being transferred into the hands of the Chinese authorities fn accordance with the agreement reached at the Washington arms con- ference, according to ofticials of the Post Office Department. It is expect- ed that by January 1 the Chinese will have complete charge of the work heretofore carried on by the United| States agency. | At the arms conference the nations | agreed to turn over to the Chinese postal service the various offices con- ducted by them on Chinese territory. England has just announced the in- tention of abandoning the British of- fice early in the fall. An agreement has been reached | within the last week between Amer- fcan and Chinese postal authorities to increase the weight limit on par- cel post pacl s to fifty “pound Other changes that will follow as result of the Chinese control will be the abandonment of C. O. D, and in- | | 1 surance mail for China. KILMALLOCK OCCUPIED. National Army '.I.‘foop' Take Im- portant Republican Post. Ty the Associated Press. LIMERICK, August 5. —National army troops occupied Kilmallock, an important republican stronghold, this morning after having captured e, ten miles from this city, last nl;ht it was officlally reported here today. “If you have not already informed the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Hoo- ver, of your intention to comply with his wishes in the matter of the dis- Irlbull.?n of fuel, I presume you will do s0,” Mr. Spencer told the gover- nors, “and as the plan contemplates collaboration between your state com- mittee and my organization, and in order that we may work most effec- tively, and that methods shall be as much’ alike as possible in all the states, 1 respectfully request your concurrence in the steps described Which, it seems to me, we must foi- low in our Intercourse.” arioys forms were inclosed fuel distributor, covering the varlony details of coal allocation and the fed- eral plans as announced S earlier in the Applications Requested. Governors’ committees were re- quested by Mr. Spencer to apply for coal produced in other states only through the federal fuel distributor at Washington and not to order any coal from federal fuel district com- mittees nor producers out: ow.l’_h:hl& utside of their “There is no anthracite coal avail- able for distribution by the !edv:l!ll fuel distributor,” Mr. Spencer said. “Application for emergency coal to :.l::dfedellllltuel distributor should be e only for current llol:‘.i nt use and not for “Application for emergenc: 1 lhmlrd be madew only for lhey r:g‘l essential purposes following the prier- ity classes established by the Inter- ttll; Obmmerce Commission. “Emergency coal supplied applications made to 3&' fod::ud;;'e‘l distributor will be placed f. o. b. ralil- way cars at the mines at the fair prices approved for the producing dis- '-flctt byI"Sebcretlry Hoover. w e the endeavor of ti - eral fuel distributor to ’n h:rgm for emergency coal in those districts from which the supply is most avail- able to the applicants.” Federal fuir prices for coal are ef- fective in 95 per cent of the produc- ing! fields, Secretary Hoover said to- da; Western Kentucky operators, he added, have come into iine and me. cepted fn:'a. Agroement fixing & maxi- mum of $3.50 & ton at the adjustments. i mith Action in Tem Days. Within a week or ten days, it declared, all the coal prodn:.d in':l‘t: country will be flowing through the federal fuel distributor's office in ‘Washington and Dl'lc:n:bntrol will o%;‘lu 100 per cent eve will be up the Eovernors to preveat speculstion by receiver or profiteering by retail- ers who already have stocks on hand. ‘There is little likelitood, he added, of epeculative resales by railroads or public utilities, who will need the { with a chuckle, “a college education {gains a_patrolman nothing when he is caught in a dark hallway at 3 {in the morning with two burglars Iin front of him.” | “I differ with you." the colone! snapped, banging the desk dropped’ his quizsing and launched into the “gallia omnis divisa,” etc. that every second-year Latin scholar {remembers. When Roosevelt stop- { ped, Quackenbos, carried on, reciting ne after line of the Commentaries. | lin€ after line of the C P ——— COOLIDGE OFF FOR COAST. Will, Address American Bar Asso- ciation at San Francisco. BOSTON,, Mass., August 5.—Vice and their sons, left yesterday for San Francisco, where the Vice Presi- dent will address the American Bar 1 Association on August 10. Mr. and Mrs. Frank . Scearns of Boston accompanied them. ASKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. Suit for absolute divorce was filed today In the District Supreme Court by John W. Addison against Edna Addison. They were married February 28, 1916, and have one child. The husband says he secured em- ployment last August at Manhasset, L, 1., and furnished his wife with a ticket to come there. Misconduct ls alleged and a corespondent named. Attorney Leo E. Simonton appears for the husband. coal they obtain for operating pur- poses. « Governors of all the states have indicated their willingness . to co- operate with the federal vernment in the emergency distribution of tuel, but in the extreme westarn stat: ich machinery s unnecessary as yet, New York and ssachusetts already have their state fuel com- mittees functioning. Household coal must be moved coincidently with coal for industries and other classes which come under the priority orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Secretary Hoover said . Mr. Hoover said the order issued last nf - by the com- mission placing household coal in the second priority class was desi; to prevent railroads from moving coal for industries in advance of coal for use in households. in sizes fit for use in private homes totals approximately 13 rt cent of the output of the mines, Mr. Hoover added, and must be moved alomg with that consigned to in- dustries, He | President Coolidge, with Mrs. Coolidge ; condition of the edge of the roi the gutters. At ong place just e teen inches high. moving along there on a dark n getting close to the gutter to al another car to pass, might easily a low slung car could hang on ft. Deep Gutter Washed. East of South Dakota avenue, w! the street is very rough. and wi motorists smooth way, a deep gutter has washed, making it dangerous for ing accident might be the result. tpacks makes It Important icomply with the law wverning repafr, it is contcnded. This roadway is in such a ! absolutely no benefit. Complete sary if tourists are to receive a ter lmpression automobile, PRICES TO BE QUOTED List Not to Curb Profiteering, C. H. Walleigh. Publication of current pric foodstuffs at the Center Market leigh, re being sold will be "."55 tmdcr supervision of C. itel ket, but simply to keep th ed of the price rang: Market officials hope prepare the list for Rewspapers every Friday afternoon, dealers Iln Wi n prices in other cities. st of 13th street on the south side of the thoroughfare, the macadam has been pushed up Into & mound about eigh- An automobile t with an accident. The differential of try to avoid the center thoroughfare in an effort to pick a to mpproach the edge, Or an overturn- The necessity of the sutomobiles, particularly in passing, to take to the some attention should be given to requiring tho railroad company to maintenance of its right of way in condition between 12th street and the Distriot line that patching is of placement of the roadbed i{s neces- of thelr Natlonal } Capltal when they come nto it by AT CENTER MARKET to Inform the Public, Says begin sbout August 15, C. H. Wal- stant market superintend- said today. ®he liat of prices at which food- n, superintendent of the mar- and, according to Mr. Walleigh, are not intended to carb glrol:::rln‘, e oIy, {8ome of them have to chase murderers be able to ublication in bel! ng that housewives will thus be kept informed of the ocurrent price range. N 3 igh eaid that he has found s hington fair in their comparison with current near | availing. University of Berlin. Dispatches from Germany shortly after the Rathenau murder quoted po- lice authorities there as accusing the Tnotorious “consul” organization with having marked twelve leading poll- ticlans, editors and financiers of Jew- ish extraction for assassination. includ- ing Dr. Rathenau, Theodor Wolff. edi- tor of the Berliner Tageblatt, and Max rburg, the Hamburg banke: Considerable comment was caused in Geneva early this week by the absence of Dr. Einstein from the meeting of the members of the intellectual com- mittee of the league of nations to be- gin the work of organization. He had been designated to represent Germany. but did not appea: It was said he ht, ow here here ~ e | of Newport cars Special Dispatch to The Star. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., August §.— This town of 35,000 shipbuilders and their families has got to be good. ‘The Sunday clos- ing law is to be enforced to the letter. The leaders of the Christian League have so decreed. A committee of that organization waited on the city al ws Sunday Law carried out something would happen to the city manager. Bootlegaing Evil. The chairman of the committee in- sisted that bootles‘lng in cigars and cigarettes’ and soda fountain drinks, especially the so-called “pick-me-ups, was just as bad as bootlegging in corn or the Scotch which flows freely in this oceanfront town. : This organization some months ago placed a ban on Bucksoe Beach, a very popular coast resort originally that the bad re- because it had refused to ban the on plece bathing sult. But the churches Tefused to heed the reformers and have held their usual picnics there during the summer. “I am doing my best to enforce this Sunday closing law,” said Maj. Thom after the reformers left, “but I am t afraid that I wili be unadble to spare that the drug|Mmen simply to gumshoe after boot- stores of the city ' leggers of wild cherry phosphate and wers selling articles banned as lux- | the lik (Copyright, 1922) uries under the Sunday act. Among JAMES W. P. TAYLOR DIES. them were soft drinks and tobacco. “Why, one of our committee was able to buy a pencil last Sunday,” d‘\?z red the chairman of the. com- L . st irery Bhcunt Pifty-Year Resident of District Ill “I know,” réplied Maj. Thom, “and;,| for More Than Twelve Months. of course, I very much fear that thers| james W, P. Taylor a resident of the is bootlegging going on in.tobacoo, | pistrict for more than fifty years, died bottled drinks, milk drinks, and. the | guddenly at his residence, 602 A street like. But what am I to do? I cannot|northeast, on Saturday afternoon last. detail my policemen to stand in front{)je had been under surgical treatment of the drug stores and keep watch|for more than a year. o urvived by his widow, Mrs. to sec that such things do not ocour. |, 38 1 SREVIE (eg chiidren Mra. Kathryn V. Lawman, Hugh F. Taylor and real criminals.” and Norris P. Taylor; his mother, Mrs. But the committes was far from be- ! Elisabeth V. Childs: his sister, Mrs. ing satisfied.- The members explained | Jeanette Childs, d two brothers, they were willing enough to allow|Lewis B. Taylor and Clifford Taylor. the sale of newspapers and medicines | Mr. Taylor was born in Prince Mary’s ns to allow the re-m::mu to_re- | county, Md. ln'm}'::id ;rhuke?u‘gvrfll in o] on Sunday. they imaist. | services were condu el mrnu be no ?-fl.l it sale ot{liam A. Masker of St. i‘;rk- Epi soft drinks and the like and threat- "copal Church #nd interment was at ened that if their wishes were not Congressjonal cemetery. bet- ¢ But ot wilt 2 Reformers Hot After Violators settled by Capt. John Smith, in 1607, | { this morning after a lingering iliness. { | He was born in Jacksonville, TIL,} {October 19, 1892, and became a mem ber of the Catholic Church several years ago. He entered the Francis- can Monastery August 13, 1921. Funeral services will be held at the monastery Monday morning at 3 o'clock and interment wiil be in the private cemetery there. S , PLAN STREET OPENINGS. | 'Comminlonen Begin Proceedlngl‘ for Condemnation of Land. The District Commissioners have begun. condemnation proceedings in the District Supreme Court to a quire land needed for street and ley extensions In several sections They propose to extend Jenifer street from Belt road to 42d street, and from_ 43d street to Wisconsin ‘avenue; 42d street north of Jenifer | street, Hamlin street northeast from { 20th street to Mills avenue, Southern avenue from Livingston to Bonini roads. They are establighing a uni- form building line on both sides of Brown street northwest from Monroe to Oak streets and will widen allies in sqdares 3036 and 1290. —_— WRECKED BY EXPLOSION. Office of Clothing Firm Is Attack- ed Early Today. RBADING, Pa., August 5.—The office of the A. B. Kirschbaum clothing plant here was wrecked by an ex- plosion early today. No one was hurt. The plant is a branch of the Phil delphia establishment of the company, Where there, has been some labor trouble. _There has been no trouble here. the local management e; | pressed the belief that the. explosion jwas due to robbers trying to blow open a safe. i ?l‘he police are not satisfied with this | theory. i | —_— FILE BANKRUPTCY PETITION. | Frank G. Bernhardt ana A. W. Bernhardt, trading as Bernhardt & Son, at 1408 Perry place northwest, filed a_petition in_voluntary ;filkyrnptcy. They list the firm's debts at $4,841, and say it has assets of $50. The father places his personal assets at $190 and his personal liabilities at $1501. The son owes 330 personally, he states, and has assets of $50, which he claims as exempt. They are re sented by Attorneys Bruce L. eel, Thomas O. King and F. B. Meseke. v 7 ckholders. 'We await your prompt remittance.” ALLEGED SMUGGLER FREE Released by Havana Police, Goes to Pensacola for Trial. HAVANA, August 5.—C. P. Moore. said to be the owner of the American auxillary schooner Succe: detained by the police Thursday at the request of the American legation, was released vesterday. Mr. Moore said that he would leave today on the steamer Chalmette for New Orleans, on the way to Pensacola, Fla., where recently he was placed un- der bonds in connection with an indict- ment alleging smuggling. AUTO TRAVELER SHOT. Man and Wife, Camping, Attack- ed B Three Negroes. CARTHAGE, N. C., August 6.—A. C. Ketchen, who was shot through the chest and dangerously wounded early yesterday by three negroes, Yhu rob- bed him and attacked his ife, near Southern Pines, was somewhat im- provd this morning, it wae stated at the McConnell Hospital, where he and Mrs. Ketchen were taken, following the attack. Mr. and Mrs. Ketchen and their in- fant child were on their way by au- tomobile from Miami. Fla, to their old home In Connecticut and were camping along the road when the three negroes made the attack upon them. DRY AGENTS NAB FOUR. 70 Gallons of Corn Whisky Also Seized With Aid of Policeman. Seventy gallons of corn whisky were seised by officers early. this morning in a garage in Lingers court northwest and four colored mep were taken in the raid made by twd reve- nue -fenn and one policeman. Selling and illegal—ydsseesion liquor was the charge placed nst Maurice O. Toyer, colored, twenty- nine, 1019 19th street, and Charles E. Montgom colored, thirty-four, 706 Irving street, while charges of fllegal possession of liquor were lodged against Robert thlrfiy-on 193¢ K . Montgomery, Prreate S-u.y‘o't'iu entrd precinct station Revenue Officers Hines and Rose engineered the raid. of ‘ a