Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1922, Page 2

- GIDCTANATE NEXT YEAR LKELY rease Seen If Congress liows Estimates Sent to Budget Bureau. ;EALTY Result of New Ascessment May - Cause Some Variation in Computed Revenue. A tax rats of approximately $1.50 on each $100 of assessed value of real estate and tangible personal property would have .to be fixed by the Com- missioners next year if the new esti- mates as sent to the budget bureau are allowed by Congress, it became known last night. When the taxpayer contemplates this figure and recalls that the rate for the current fiscal year is £1.30. he may be inclined to view with disfavor the prospect of paying 20 cents more 0 o for each It is pointed out building, however, that in making this comparison it should be remem- bered that the §1.i0 rate was fixed to meet an appropriation bill of only $22.459,609.80. wherea< the new esti- mates call in round numbers for 70.000. Full Value Assessment. In arriving at the tax rate of $1.50, to meet an appropriation bill of ap- proximately $28.000.000. the present full value assessment of real estate was used. A new biennial sment of real estate being T however, by As Richards and will be in effect next "his new appraise- ment of whe: completed, rdown va stimated the Atio! tax T mmi up ¢ in the rapldly grow- more lights playgrounds school accomm police and fire protection. Estimates Cut $2,000,000. iven in ne for about $28.000.- a 000 the city neads have cut $2,000.000 from the list of estimates as_ pre- pared by the various municipal bureaus Here is how the probable tax raté the fiscal vear beginning July ext. is arrived at: 1f Congress enacted an appropria- fo 1 tion law of $28,000,000, the District ould have to meet 60 per cent of t. or $16.800.000. The miscéllaneous revenuer of the city aomunt to about 33500000 a vear. Thix would leave about $12,200.000 to be met through the tax on real estate and tangible personal property. The present full value assessment of all real estate is $735,000,000. On tangible personal property the as- ment is $85.000,000. These two figures give a total asse: net for purposes of taxation of $820,000,000. A rate of $1.50 applied to this as: ment would produce the $12,200,000 required from real estate and tangi- ble property. e DR. SCOTT SPEAKER. Tells Caravan Club of Work of Veterans’ Bureau. Extensive work of the Veterans' Bureau was described by Dr. Hubert Scott of the bureau Friday evening at the weekly meeting of the Caravan Club. The committee in charge of the ball_game on August 24, between the Washington and Chicago teams for the benefit of children's work at Trinity Community House reported a large advance sale of tickets. The ladies’ commitree met Friday evening at the community house and was addressed by Mrs. L. P. Steunart and Mrs. Eliwood P. Morey. Mra D. R. Covell, assisted by a group of the dren, ' displayed the products of the handiwork classes. DISTRICT B. Y. P. U. MEETS Juniors to Hold Picnic Saturday at Clarendon, Va. The executive board of the Colum- bia Federation of Baptist Young People’s Union met Friday evening and planned a schedule of activities for the remainder of August. Next Saturday the Junior Baptist Young People’s Union will hold its annual picnic at Lyon Park, Claren- don Va. The following Saturday the senfor department will stage its vearly outing at Great Falls. At the same meeting a schedule. containing the date and place for meetings from September to June was arranged. The September meet- Ing is to be held at the First Baptist Church, Sixteenth and O streets, on the 19th of next month. OLD CLOTHES MADE NEW. Praise for Work Accomplished by Red Cross Chapter. Changing old clothes into new is a work of the District of Columbia Chapter of the Red Cross which is praised in an illustrated article in the Red Cross Courler, national or- gan. in its current issue. “The magician's wand.” it says, “waved over a bundle of old shirts stockings. Red Cross aprons, nurses’ capes, flour sacks and underwear. Presto! change! and from this as- sortment the production workers at the District of Columbia Chapter produced ocoats, bloomers, dresses. ‘washclothe and baby jackets as dainty as any little lady’s in the land. The ingenuity which found a way to cut the lining of a nurse's cape into a smart coat and leave material enough for bloomers would, of course, not find difficulty in transforming ® pair of silk stockings into a smock- ed dress for a miss of two.. Meal sacks made durable bloomers and petticoats and the strings which tied them up were knit into washcloths. Mra D. J. Roberts, who is in charge of the production work for the District chapter, and Mrs. Mary Stoddard have completed 23,174 ar- ticles for shipment during the last six months. The auxiliaries which take an active part in Red Cross work have done much of the sewing and are even in the summer months meeting regularly. “Many other chapters in the Wash- ington division are actively at work on & production program. Clarks. burg, W. Va., has a drive for old oclothes, made three times-a year by the Elks’ Club. The chaptar sorts, cleans and makes over all material sent in in time for Wistribution to those school children that wo not otherwise be properly dresse CANTRILL’S LEAD BIG. Representative James C. Cantrill, democrat, - representing the seventh E:xnlucky district, won_ out n:’ maries yuunhi & Vo 10,000 to 800‘ for his zmnlni. Rim 5 bia pecretiey Tust Sicht m reseftative -Chntrill 18 serving peveath term in Congresa BEING APPRAISED l is apparent. offi- | when the 2 cumula- | ded munic improve- dered. There is scarce- Columbia that-is not | "éic::‘i’ ac- | Mrs. C. H. Ruth of Oklahoma City, el s GOMPERS PROTESTS RAILWAY MAIL CUTS Declares Post Office Department’s Reorganization Throws Many Clerks Out of Work. Semuel Gompers, president of the Américan Fedeération ot Labor, after a series of conferences with repre- tatives of organizations of work- in the railway mail service, an- nounced last night that he had for- warded protests to President Hard- ing and the chairmen of the Senate and House post office committees | against action of the Post Office De- partment in “curtailing and reorgan- izing thé rallway mail service.” The action of the department, Mr. i Gompers in his letter to the Presi- dent said. “Is not only causing great jury to the railway mail clerks jbut it is injuring the railway mai servic. Mr. Gompers added that, according to his information, the rcorganiza- tion already -had resulted in 200 reg- uler railway mail cierks having been placed on the surplus or extra list and the work previously done by these clerks being placed upon the remaining. clerks. He further told the President that he had information that it the re- organization was continued several hundred additional men would be put on reserve list, and that fewer rail- way post office cars were being oper- ated and fewer pastal clerks were at work than when Postmaster General Burlesou left office. ARREST TWO MEN IN DRY PLOT RAID i i { | i 1 | i | | [ (Conf fees which probably run ! hundreds of thousands of {from distillers, professional bootleg- gers and llquor concerns who had been charged by the revenue bureau with violation of-th¢ Volstead law. Their operations, it 13 said, were di- rected from New York and involved distillers, big liquor dealers and boot- leggers in the principal cities of all the states along the Atlantic coast. The methods they employed con- sisted, it is alleged, primarily in ob- talning rec s and evidence on file ucd from First Page.) into the dollars in the prohibition bureau against persons accused of violating the dry law, and informing them that this data would stipulated sums, be destroyed for certain How long the men {have been carrving on their ope ftions is not known to thé reven bureau authorities. but it is beiev they have extended over a long i perlod. Revenue agents have been trailing the men for about six weeks, since the disappearance of official records of the prohibition bLureau was dis- covered. It was through a clever ruse that the men were ultimately run down and some of the ments found in their possession. Sternfels it was said. has visited Washington on numerous occasions during the last several months. com Ing here to get possession of the documents stolen from the revenue bureau. During one of'the visits he is said to have met one of the dry agents, to whom he conflded his plans. This agent. in turn, according to the bureau, gave this to the authorities, and they sub- sequently laid a trap for Sternfels. which he deliberately walked into vesterday at the Racquet Ciub. Fol- fowing prearranged plans, Sternfels is #aid to have gone to the club and engaged a suite of rooms for the purpose of holding a “business conference.” Soon arter he entered the room, the dry agent arrived with some official prohibition bureau papers for which Sternfels is alleged to have promised $1,000. The “con- ference” had not gotien under way, however, when the revenue agents raided the room and placed Stecnfels and Halperin under arrest. Heavy Boné Asked. At the preliminary hearing fn Com- missioner Macdonald's office. counsel for the government argued for a heavy bond on the ground that an at- tempt had been made “to undermine the offices of the government,” and to unlawfully obtain information. Sim- ilar attempts, they asserted, had been successful in the past. During the argument, Sternfels is said to have declared when his bond was fixed at $25.000: “What is $25, 000? That's a mere drop in the bucket. If I was in New York I couid furnish a $100,000 bond.” According to the prohibition agents, Sternfels is a prominent lawyer of New York city. and maintains an office at 17 East 42d street. Halperin. however, the dry agents claim, was recently debarred from practicing law in New York city. When ar- raigned before Commissioner Mac- donald he gave his business as a salesman. John M. Biddle, secretary of the Racquet Club, pointed out last night that Sternfels is not a member of the i club, although he had a room there on several occasions. The men, ac- cording to Mr. Biddle, had been in- troduced at the club by a member. “Sternfels came to the club this morning and asked for a &uite of rooms,” said Secretary Biddle. “On his former visits he always occupied but one room with a bath. This morning he said he wanted more rooms because he had planned to hold a conference. He was given suite 608-610. doc Two Men Appear. “About fiftéen minutes later two men came in and asked for Sternfe They were directed to his suite and about twenty or thirty minutes later all three men came down together and Sternfels turned in the key to ! his rqom, stating he was returning to i New York and did not need it longer. “I was not aware that a raid had been made, although the mald phoned the desk clerk shortly after Sternfels left that his room was in great dis- order. 1 understood, however, that Sternfels had been arrested, but I did not know the men who came to see him were government agents.” E. C. Yellowly, chief of general prohibitiort agents. said last that he was elated over the arrest of the men. describing it “as the biggest in the history of the bureau.” Other officlals of the bureau ex- pressed the belief that the ar- rest may lead to others. It is the opinion of the dry officers that the men hlgh up in the combine to pre- clude the prosecution of professional bootleggers, have been caught, and it will not be difficult to capture others who are *believed to be con- nected with the alleged ring. —_— BROTHERS FACE CHARGE. Brought before United States Com- missioner George H. Macdonald yes terday afternoon, Charles . Starnes, twenty-four years old, and his brother, Arthur A. Starnes, thirty- five years old, weré charged with imperaonl(lng United Stateg Army officers and thus fraudulently obtain- ing board and lodging. They were remanded to jail in the default of $2,000 bond in each case. A charge of stealing an automobile in Dallas, Tex., their home town, ac- cnrdlns to the police, will not be pressed at this time. - ‘The men, one of whom was laden with a variety 6f war medals, were arrested by Department of Justice operatives Frid: night at. & loeal hotel, nna1 hey had been trailed for e period o htee monthe, -MRS. C. A. COGAN DIES. Mre. Charles A. Cogan, a native of Washington, died at her home, llav 14th etreét northwest, last evening. Funeral services will be held from the residence tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. i Surviving are her husband, Charles A. Cogan; one brother, J. L. Robert- son of Bailtimore, Md., and five sis- ers, ll-;‘ .vul: Nllonb:ruo’n. Mrs. J. er, Mrs, 3 ell and Mra. Richardson 6f Washington and AT RACQUET CLUB information | night | | i First Prize as Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughte: Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, But don’t go near the water. Yesterday's bathing beauty contest at the Tidal Basin bathing beach { proved that when mother's advice Is taken literally it pays—that is. if the “hickory Hmb” can be utilized for the time it takes to change from a street c e to a snug-fitting vellow and biack bathing suit, striped and black i and provided wearer thereof graced with blonde curl oes, is thie iong. which hang to the waist and shimmer and shine like a comb of rich honey kissed by a sunbeam. Miss Eva Fridell of 611 $th street northeast, adorned as above described, including the curls. can’t swim a stroke and doesn't go too near the water. but she won out yesterday in the beauty contest over a fleld that would make Mack Sen- netr's falrest resemble in compari- son, a bunch of scrub women. Decisfon In Popular. A great shout went up from the throng of about 4,000 bathers gath- ered for the event, for Miss Fridell had been the cause of more com- plimentary _rdnning-fire comment from them, during the parade of the than any of the pretentious’ string of comely maids. She received a huge silver loving cup and faced, through the glassy stare of many camera eves, millions of movie fans and readers. Miss Gay Gateley of 1402 Massa- chusetts avenue southeast. wearing a suit of black and green satin, black hose and green slippers and shaking a mass of dark bobbed hair, was chosen as second prize beauty. She was awarded a_gold medal. First prize for costume, judged from utility. beauty and design, was won by Miss Anna Niebel of 1370 Harvanl strect northwest, who cap- tured individual prize in the recent style show staged at the bathing beach this y She wore a snappy blue and white suit made of rubber. a chic hat with brim. no_stockings, and blue slippers. Miss Niebel was awarded a silver loving cup. Miss Tola Swinnerton of 3125 Mount Pleasant street. a prize winner at the 1921 show at the beach, took the gold medal for second prize cos- tume, wearing orange-colored satin with grosgrain ribbon overslip. About her head was an orange-colored turban of satin, and she carred a Japanese parasol. A gold medal was her prize. Names of Judges. as selected by SICK GIRL DISAPPEARS, COLORED MEN SOUGHT Judges, Gordon One Suspect Wore Uniform and Possessed a “Charlie Chaplin Mustache.” A colored man who is descrjbed by the police as possessing a Charlie Chaplain mustache and wearing a soldier's uniform is one suspact be- ing sought by the police in connac- tion with the disappearance Thurs- day of Sylvia Lawson, colored, six- teen years, from in front of 410 6th street northwest, where she is said to_have worked. The Lawson girl, according to the police, who lives at 4501 Sherlff road southeast, was taken sick at her place of employment Thursday and the colored man described, together with a companion, sald t> have been short and stocky, who ware operating a motor car, offered to take her to the hospital. Relatives notified the police that no trace has been found of the girl since. > When last seen, the girl, who is described as being about five feet four inches and weighing 105 Enundx, wore & check gingham dress, jbrown stockings and black patent leather slippers. DR. OWENS HONORED. D. C. Man Heads Southern Com- mércial Congress. Dr. Clarence J. Owens of this city yesterday was elected president of the Southern Commercial Congress | by the directors of the organization.- His selection was unanimous, Dr. Oweng- succeeding Thomas R. Pres- ton of Chattanooga, Tenn. who had served for two years. = The new president has served a: director .gene; of the congress for the last fourteen years. In that ca- pacity he was in chargs of the American commission on rural cred- its, which in 1913 -investigatsd agri- cultural and co-operative banking in Europe, and his report {""‘ a large part in the framing of the farm bank #ct by Congress. . . 2 RADIO SET TO SCOUT. Boy Popularity Contest to Be fltll at Church Carnival. A handsome rhlo receiving set Is iwarded the most popular Boy Scout in the District as & feature of the annual carnival of St. Martin's Church. n the 'l"h staged l.: o earnival is to be ‘church, Girl Who Can’i blue | bathing heauties before the judges. SELECTING t Swim Wins Bathing Beauty Miss Eva Fridell With Blond Curls Outclasses Bobbed Haired Rivals—Miss Gateley Ranks Second. Leach. manager of the beach, were Arthur Leslie Smith. manager of the Belasco Players; lsaac Gans, man- ager of Saks & Co., who presented the prizes, and Al J. Frey of Hoch- child, Kohn & Co. of Baltimore. They had a difficult task. but #c- cording to the applause that arose from the admiring throng their deci- sions were largely concurred in by the bathing-suit populace of the beach. The fun began at about 2:30 o'clock, when, within a _fenced-off inclosure, ahout 100 entrants in the contest ! were arranged In single file. a color- ! ful ang spectacular array of feminine pulchritude. Spectators were crowded into every space available. about the sands, within the buildings, and as { far back from the fence as possible for a view The parade hegan. Not the judges alone were looking them over, how- ever. The crowd enjoved the f: ionable and shapely sight. Red, whi and blue, black, orange, green, vio- llei—it would be difficull to discover ! a shade of the rainbow not repre- mented in the many-colored and vari- ously cut costumes. Narrowed to Twenty-seven. From one hundred in the parade, the judges sclected twenty-seven and then” brought it down by further selec- tion and parading to nine. The last nine included the four prize winners and five others, next in favor of the judges from the large entry list. They were Miss Norine Fords, Miss Mae Bole Allen. Miss Edith Berg- strom, Miss Aileen Bergstrom and Miss Dorothy Parker. The prize winner of the day, Miss Fridell, according to the judges and her admirers, is a natural beauty, for there was no lipstick, rouge, nor paint about her fair face, though per- haps a faint bit of powder. Miss Fridell is a_ senior at Busi- ness High School and expects to grad- uate next June. She lives with her father and mother and has one sis- ter and two brothers, all younger than she. Another secret—Miss Fridell want- ed to bob her beautiful blond curls. But when her father objeced, shé gave it up. Now she is roud fos- sessor of the prize cup, and many congratulating her said that her curls were without a doubt part of her at- traction. 1s Miss Fridell's victory also a vie- tory for the unpainted beauty? And will the shelf of cosmetics be dipped into so deeply by beauties entering contests in the future? Many were inclined to take as an- {swers to these questions the judges’ decision of the afternoon. POLICE CAR KEPT ASTIR. With 1 its siren headquarters automobile, filled with detectives, answered three hurry calls between 8 and 10:30 o'clock last night. A report that a woman had beén screeching, the stabbed to death first broke the routine at police headquarters about 8 o'clock, but when the police arrived at the Arcade on 14th street, whence the call came, they found it was without foundation. A fracas among & number of col- ored persons in the vicinity of 6th and S streets also resulted in a re- port being flashed to headquarters that another stabbing had taken place. The trio of trips was rounded dut by a visit to 14th and B streets south- west, where an accident was report- ed. When the detectives arrived they found it to be a collision between two automobiles, in which Miss Rose Scaggs, twenty-nine years, 118 P street and Ida Keppler, sixty-two, of 213 P street, sustained bruises and cuts of no serious consequence. WITH SO MUCH BEAISJTY-I, IN EVIDENCE JUDGES HAVE NO EASY - TASK WINNERS IN" TIDAL BASIN CONTESTS LEFT TO RIGHT: MISS EVA FRIDELL, AWARDED FIRST BEAUTY PRIZE, AND MISS ANNA NEIBLE, WHO CAPTURED FIRST PRIZE FOR COSTUME. READJUST OFFICE SPACE. As a result of a survey just com- pleted by a special committee rep- resenting the public buildings com- mission, there is to be a better and more practical utilization of the office space in the new Interior Depart- ment building at 19th and F streets. In the remarkably short period this huge structure has been in use certain portions had become jam- med. The matter was recently brought to the attention of the com- survey mission to readjust. The showed that while many offic overcrowded and did not have cient elbow space for the o-cupants properly to function, there were other offices with surplus space ga- lore. By a simple rearrangement, which, with other tnihgs, called for a better diatribution of bureaus and di- visions and the removal and eruc- tion_here and there of partitions and the like, the problem was solved sat- isfactorily and the commission is n.w of the opinion that all will be well at the new building for some time to come unless another great national emergency arises. The Secretary of Intérior and his division and bureau chiefs workel in co-operation with the commission's committee in bringing absut the nec- essary changes. —_— WOMAN BRITISH ENVOY. LONDON, August 5.—Premler Lloyd G e In the house of commons said it had been decided to send a woman in an advisory capacity to the assembly of the league of nations. The premier was replying to a ques- tio nasked last Thursday by Lady Astor whether the government in- tended to appoint a woman as a dele- ghte, Rlternative delegate or tech- nical adviser to the leagué assmbly. Consumption Can Be Prevented and health and happiness increased by ‘Ln:llcmg simple Health Rules which we can you The death rate from Consamption drops as public health improves, ani the same rules that improve general health re- duce the death rate from Consumption, In the District of Columbia the death rate from Consump- tion is now less than half what it was 15 years ago. During these 15 years we fought for public health and dis- tributed our 12 Health Rules children and their parents, n cards among Washington school griefly they teach: 1. Avoid house dust and impure or close air, day and night. 4 k- plenty of f, g:.“wm. outishing food: wcts on yout body. Y 2. Get all the light and mdnln:‘rnlble into your home. and cream. Nome raw. dly. Your mind If you tire easily—or are losing weight=-and have a persist- ent light co tor or go to the free h—or hoarseness—do not losé time. Séd a doc- Health Department Clinic 409 15th St. N.W., Tuesday, Thursday at 2-4 o'clock. Friday evenings from or Saturday 7309 o'clock. Conkumption ¢an be ¢ured only in its carly stages. TMs Bulletin is Paid for by the COUNTY HEARD FROM NIGHT OF ELECTION Kentidcky Surprised by News From Isolated Section—Only Two Precincts Missing. By the Associated Press. COMPTON, Ky.. August 5—Wolfe county, the only county in Kentuc without a public telephone or tele- graph line, with two precincts miss- ing, gave Representatlve W. J. Fields u majority of 660 over H. C. Duffy for the democratic nomination for Con- gress from the ninth district. No votes were reported for either of the other two democratic candidates or for the republican candidates. The vote was Fields, 670; Duffy, 10. This is_the first time in the history of Wolfe county, it is said. that returns from an eléction have been sent out of this county on the night of an election. Heretofore it has been twenty-four hours or_longer before any returns Were available. Employes of the Cumberland Sun Pipe Line Company. working in co junction with the Winchester Demo- crat, obtained the returns. McEELLAR BY 40,000. Belated Returns Cinch Senator’s Victory in Tennessee. MEMPHIS, August 5.—Belated re- turns today emphasized the victory of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, candldate for renomination on the democratic ticket in Tuesday’s state- Wide primary in Tennessee. Austin Peay of Clarksville maintained the early lead which newspaper esti- mates indicated would give him the gubernatorial nomination by a plu- rality of 10,000. Mr. MoKellar's plu- rality in the count today stood at approximately 40,000. In the republican ‘senatorial oo test former Senator Newell Sanders was indorsed as the party nominee to oppose Mr. McKellar, while Gov. Alf Il“:‘;&:r was unopposed for renomina- tion by that party. Both party organizations are mak- ing re for an active campaign. Cordell Hull, chairman of the demo ératic national committee, and nomi- nated as a congressional candidate in Tuesday's primary, announced that he will take an active part in or- ganising the democratic forces. N. Y. AIR POLICE MODELS. Navy Bureau to Use Reserve as Standard for Othérs. The New York city police aviation seserve was described as & “model aviation reserye which the Navy De- “lmnnt ould use 85 & staridard for he establishment of other reserve ofganisations throughout ths coun- try” in a report presentad yesterday t0 the Navy Department's byreau of adronmutics on the results of an in- ection of the New York force. Lieut. F. W. Neilson, attached to the Bureau of asronautics, who mads the inbpection, recommended that the bureau co-operatte to the: fullest ex- tent in the development of the Ne: York police aviation reserve. As the result of the favorable report made by Lisut. Neilson, the bureau an- nounced that plans had been made to €53 ETTame St ® nin| - inciyos Tih the setive navel v operating with OYSTER OFFERS HELP 10 RITCHIE IN VICE CLEAN-UP AT LINE An offer to co-opérate with state officials in closing gambling dens just across the District line has “been sent to Gov. Ritchie of Mary- land by Commissioner Oyster. ‘The Commissioners made it known last night that he addressed a leo ter to the yland executive Fri- dsy. Most of these resorts where men and their money are easily parted are believed to bave tem- hrlrlly uspended operations since 6 Star begin its exp of their nefarious business a W« ag However, the wheels of chance may begin to turn again if the #potlight should be turncd from them, and Commissioner Oyster is ready to have the local polics do anything_within their power to close such places permanently. —_— DRYS CLAIM GAINS IN PRIMARY TESTS Wayne Wheeler Says Prohi- bition Candidates Have Won in Majority of Cases. WET FORCES ARE ACTIVE But Vote Has Fallen Off in Some Districts, League Coun- sel Bays. The claim that gains are in pros- pect for the dry forces in both Senate and House &s the result of the pri- marles held to date was made last night in a statement issuéd by Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-8aloon League. “Seventeen states, not counting Kentucky, have held primary elec- tions,” said Mr. Wheeler. “Thirteen United States senators have been nominated in twelve states, two nom- inations being made in Pennsylvania Nine senators have been renominated, seven of whom have stood for pro- hibition enforcement and two agajnst it. Of the four new nomi- nations all stand for enforcement of the elghteenth amendment. “In the seventeen states, gréssional districts have nominated candidates. One hundred and sixty- three congressmen have been renomi- nated. of whom 128 have voted for prohibition enforcement legislation and twenty-five against it. Of the new nominations about one-third are considered wet or doubtful. “In many of these states the dom- 158 con- ! {inant issue in the campaign was a [beer and wine amendment to the { national prohibition act. The wets have about held their own in the wet districts. Only one dry congressman has been defeated by a recognized wet candidate. On the other hand, the drys have made gains in both the House and Senate. In some districts the wets have not polled more ihan 5 per cent of the vote. In Missouri, with the dry vote divided among four candidates. Mr. Sacks, the beer and wine candidate, was defeated by a large majority by Mr. Brewster.” C0X INCHID AT T0 REGAN POWER Third District Said to Mean Much to Former Candi- date for-President. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. One of the most interesting contests of the congressional campaign will get into full swing this week. It is a party fight for control of the third Ohio district, James M. Cox, recently democratic candidate for the presidency, and said by some of his closest political frien: to be anxious again to be the can- didate of his party, two years ago lost out in his home city. Dayton, his home county and home state. He is now extremely anxious, the political wise ones say, to regain his prestige, particularly in his home town. The administration advisers and the re- publican congressional committee, headed by Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana, are equally anxious to hold the third Ohio district in the republican column. Largest Ohio District. This district is the largest in Ohio, and one of the largest in the country. It has a voting population of 7,300 more than any other Ohio district. Two years ago Warren Gard, who had represented this district for many years, announced that he would ndt be a candidate for re-election. Repre- sentative Roy G. Fitzgerald, who was a captain of infantry with the Amer- ifcan expeditionary forces, won the election for the republicans by de- feating his democratic opponent, Wil- liam G. Pickrel, by more than 7,000 votes. Not Strong for Pomerene. Cox is said not to be overanxious to take too hélpful a part In the ca paign of Senator Pomerene, because it Pomerene wins out against Repre- sentative Simeon D. Féss it will make Pomerene presidential timber. Cox is all the more anxlous, therefore, to make & showing by regaining thé third district for the democrats. With this énd in view he has persuaded ‘Warren Gard o enter the lists again. The understanding is said to be that if Gard restores the Dayton district to the democratic column he will get the democratic nomination for gov- ernor in the subsequent election. Fitzgerald and Gard each has filed his account, showing that neither has spent one cent to get the nomination, which will be decided Tuesday. But from now on the fight is to be 2 merry one with their réspective parties giv- ing them the stanchest support, be- cause this is one of the strategical points in the congressional campaign. INCUMBENTS LEAD IN KENTUCKY VOTE (Continued from First Page.) The local branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which fought Benator Reed's candidacy, to- day asked Btate Attornéy General Barrétt to make 2 state-wide inves- tigation of the democratic senatorial primary, alleging that some precinct officlals had been derelict in their duty. Mr. Barrett assured the or: ganization that any indications of fraud would be investigated thor- oughly. ‘ With R. R. Brewster of Kansas City, » dry, the républican candidate, 1ndleations dre that prohibition will b = principal issue in the Brewster- Réeed race, as Reed is & known wet. ’ RECORDER IN PLEA FOR NEW BUILDING Froe Asks Commissioners to Include Fireproof Struc- ture in Estimates. DISTRICT DEEDS IN PERIL Site in Judiciary Square Suggest- ed—Crowded Quarters Make Move Imperative. A request for a new fireproof build- ing to house the office of the rec- order of deeds and the thousands of valuable documents over which he 11 guardian has been made to the Dis- trict Commissioners . by Recorde: Arthur G. Froe, for {nclusion in theli ostimates for the fiscal year 1924 The building, the recorder suggested should be erected in Judiciary Square northeast of the courthouse. Mr. Froe points out that his office lias deposited in the United Stater Treasury. as its unexpended fees and emoluments, about $250,000. At_the cluse of the recent fiscal vear, June 30, the office deposited $20,130.48, Mr Froe stated. Cont Put at $250,000. For $250,000 the recorder believes that a suitably oconstructed and equipped bullding could be erected mnda furnished. r. Froe reminds the Commission- ers that the recorier's office wai moved into the Century building 412 5th street, in July, 1917, from the United States courthouse, wherq it had been located for time imme- morial, and it was believed at thal time that when the reconstructior | of the courthouse had been completed his office would be returned to ft That, however, was not done, d¢ declared, and since July, 1817, the recorder’s office, with its thousand: of record books and more than 100, 000 recorded but uncalled-for deedt and like documents, have been housed on the first four floors of the Century bullding, which “in no way is adapted { for the purposes or requirements of his office.” Work of Office Doubl Since that time, too, Mr. Fro further stated. the work of his of. fice has practically doubled, greatly increasing the number of record bboks and uncalled-for instrument: and overcrowding the ve: Hmit- cd space available to such an exten: as not only to seriously retard the work of the office, but also to en- [danger the health of the employes Every'available foot of space is now occupied. he continued, making imperative that pending the con struction of a proper building & least another additional floor in the Century building should at once bt provided for occupancy by the re corder's office. Recorder Froe said when he tool charge of the office he was astoundec to find it so inadequately housed an¢ provided for. He expressed the opin ion that in no other ecity in_ this country would land records be fount located in a building so lacking ir requirements and safety from de structicn by fire. Had he not re. quested the Commissioners to inser: an item in their estimates far 3 proper buildfng for the office and it: invaluable records, Recorder Frot i=aid, he would have failed to perform his duty. —_— “JAILED JAILER” GIVES LANGLEY RACE FOR SEAT | Kentuckians Await Count of Bal- lot in Pictfiresque Congres- sional Fight. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE. Ky., August 5. tuckians, to whom politics has ever been as meat and drink to stror men, were awaiting with particular interest the outcome in today’s pri mary of the race between Répresen tative John W. Langley and County Judge Fess Whittaker, the “jailec jailer” of Letcher county, for the re publican nomination for Congress Whittaker, a_former Texas pan- handle cowboy, Spanish-American war veteran and friend of Theodord Roosevelt, under whom he served a: a roughrider, boasts a picturesque po- litical career. He won his title as “jailed jailer’ by reason of a sentence for contempi of court served within the walls of his own jail at Whitesburg. The sen- tenced was imposed by the county judge of Letcher county after Whit- taker, sentenced to serve a few hourz in jail on a minor charge, had re- leased himself by using the keys, of which he had possession. Whittaker, on being sentenced. an- nounced_his candidacy for county judge. He coriducted an active cami- paign from the fail, being still within the bastile on election day. When the returns showed him elected by a large majority Gov. Edwin P. Morrow par- doned the jailer. Whittaker has seeii stormy times lately. He has been ar- { rested on scveral charges, ranging from perjury to violations of the pro- hibition law. He always has claimed that his arrests were due to ups” by his political enemies. never been convicted. WRITER FOR CHILDREN DEAD MACON, Ga., August 5.—Mrs. Harry Stillwell Edwards, writer of chil- dren’s stories, died here suddenly at 8:30 o'clock tonight July Circulation 82,512 One Edition Daily District of Columl 5 Ty NEWROLS, Bosiness Manager iof THE EVENING and SUNDAY STAR, does ear that the actual number of paper named gold and distributed ¢ month of July, A.D. 1922, was Ken oo S ceror S (e Less adjustments. ‘otal daily net dm‘a{lfil |I{ average net pald cire ‘l fon .. Dally ayerage num coples for service, etc....... 823 et circulation. 83.513 Daily average w“u'n A Coples. Da Coples. 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