Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1922, Page 2

9 SPECAL RADOSET FORSUBMARNES Navy Department Engineers Develop Telegraphic Trans- mitter and Receiver. i SOON IN GEMERAL USE Improvements Perfected Since the Initial Installation Aboard the §-50 Was Made. Radio engineers of the Na De- partment have been so successful in the development of a special ‘radio telegraphic transmitting and recei ing set for submarines that fifty-nine new sets have been ordered. They will be improvements on the experimental set installed on the S-30, which paid { & visit to Washington recently, and ! was sald then to be one of the t equipped submarines in the world. The sets will be constructed on con- fidential specifications drawn up by the radlo section of the bureau of englneering, based on experimental sets building at the Washington navy yard. Approximately $300.000 has been | saved on paper—not an actual saving. | because the Navy did not have th money t What the radio perts ac hed, however, is markable saving, because pra new and very e it long-distance sets will be available for the big subs at a very small cost.® By re- designing and remodeling old ap- | paratus. barring a few tions and parts, the perts have built up standard submarin than that on the 5-50 The result 4 E Admiral Robison, chief of the ot engineering, 8, are twice what the radio men hoped for when they began tne experi ents some months ago. In other words, instead of a ra- dius of about 100 miles the United States Navy subs will of radio transmission bet or three t ce in ordi- nary day- ation. The first installed on the 2 ting experiments ellent practical sub- marine set had been « - Ived by rem eling surplus apparatu 1 scraps of present equipms: apparatus manufactured by con along the lines of the | cations would have cos the neigh stead of remodeling times the d six months. deve ereial concern € years, it is said. long. When all the aval experts believe original sul d built by a quired two and of five times subs are cquipped in the e a radius | d i A . IN STRIKE ; THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922. ~ VOIDS USE OF BIG STICK |PRINCE GEO ADJUSTMENT President Harding Empioys Voice of Reason, Despite Criticism—Must Meet Conflicting Sentiment. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The big stick or the calm voice of President Harding has let it be known that, despite the criti- cism of his forebearance in the two strike controversies, he will not use reason? threats or coercive tactics. As members of Congress drift for the reconvening of the Hous on Tuesday this very phase of Mr. Hard- d al- The last discus ing’s temperament is most above everything else. few weeks admittedly have been crisis in Mr. Harding’s public cary Neither strike is, as yet, ended, policies in the industrial crisis and with him ultimatley that e was its own reward. in pa- desired objective—the maintenance of normal transportation and the pro- duction of an adequate supply of fuel. It's true that since the crisis began some of the ardent sticklers for a lit- eral interpretation of the Constitu- tion have seen the emergency Krow steadily worse, and among members of Congress the view is beginning to take hold that if the President asks for blanket authority to deal with the industrial erisis he can get it, and the constitutional obstacles will be brush- ed aside with the same spirit of pub- lic ne 3 was the case during the war, when in senatorial debate some ators went so far as to say the Constitution itself is suspended in time of public distress a | the friends of the President Chaiiolon ot Celticipm: results to carry more weight ] 5 ol The processes by which these results| Strangely enough, as Mr. Harding's are eved. All of which is an- licies in the coa strike and rail | other way of saying that the politi- ion are reviewed by the crities cians hope the critics will forgive and il they are 1ot partlsans, but forget Mr. Harding's slow-to-action |jombers of the President's own !{group in the Senate—there is a_more s uniform belief that Mr. Hard- ed along the right lines Deplores Dictatorial Spirit. n eorts at mediation and con- Mr. Harding has unbosomed himsel | Ciliation. but that he did not inter: to ke extent of deploring threats and | vens at the psychologlcal momentand dlctatoral A th either strik- | waited too long between moves. It rs or employers, He has shown|ix suggested, for instanc that when throughout his conferences with allf wopmen’ uceepted the parties a disposition not te offend| proposaks the rall execu nybody or aggravate a painful .«»nu-luus approved two of them, several “His whole pe Wity rebels|days went by without decisive action . Tt in anything. and |frem the White House. The other Geeret thut the re- course, it is being said, would have of the preside have [ beag 10 summen the rail execytives to re heavily on rding |V <hington at on 1d work out the last month than at any since he took office. de by a desire time | ¢ mpromise on th ‘hich is ap- parently being worked out’ now after 4 week hasepassed and the situation those big busi elemen on the ro cially in the west, plican party who do not has Brown wors, B esident to do thing which | Mr. Harding doesn’t pretend to be be remotely construed as|omniscient or gifted with prevision Mruekling to labor,” and faced onf[Ife feels he hus done the best he knowledge that strikes |could in a trying situation and the uther by a ) ended quickl unle both parties to a d ing huas tried one expedient and ther another, only to find his erities argu ing that he <n't threaten and bluster and ge results “like T. R. did. ‘s one of those ol peychology that Mr. himself contrasted, just as Mr Rooseveltian com- 't firm enough, that he 1 phases of po- Harding m and threats would not ated but aggravated the Another thing he is t being President of w crisis is one eritic in the Senate uite another, all of that coer the United States in thing and being or elsewhers nt some of the n used to have with merciless when he followed the paths of « iency be- o | exuse he thousht it would end a crisis Wilson W with the : E tvpe of President. When Mr. Wilson | With lvss damage 1o ihe wunlio I Nk a10\ Ho' actibw, calmianilidelipers| tetest_than, o Fuish At betmeen ate in some of the eritical moments |capt il and labor. hefore the United States entered the President's Trying Experience. 4 o ent up that a President| r Harding is going through an Roosevelt would not have hesi-lawrul experience—the painful trials tated to act o Jor idential responsibility in a mewhat the same tenor of criti- | gy erisis which ought to make cistn runs through the undercurrents|y man pause w long time before hy k at the Capitol whenever the |, becomes candidate for th situation is informally dis- Mr. Harding may con- 1t was, more or less, in re- himself that he is a man of to that kind of gossip that and s and that President Harding was prompted to wt threaten or coerce, but answer that he would not be stam- he i through with the present peded into big stick ta 4l trouble many who have In @ nutsheil, the demand that has|waiched him grow in the presiden; been coming from governors of states he wiil be a und s well as from trade bodie: that thes= ¢ of e Ame =il will be Just a bit better equipped than | ness men generally is that the I'resi-| bellicose he_ those of any o navy in the world, | dent take over the mines and the iy lose some of his traits of it and operate them for the | which have made it | Few Details Revealed. A e enont without dallying fur- - Cong every now and Very few details of the new seis are | fher with any of the disputants. Feel- U ignore his wishes and for ed, but it is known that they are g guiside Washington, and, to some | railroad utives, © operators uum-tube sets develop ng orig- | ient, inside the al « nd labor leaders to refuse to obey inal American lines. [ e war X e ehow the chief executive| mandates of public opinion as ex- erman submarines lving « of the United States can 1I- | pressed by the man in the White e powerful in an emergency. brush aside | House. il P constitutional obstacles and gain the (Copy right, 1922.) lengths of about & T sets were used until the last few mont | indicate when it will arrive at its of the wa introduced i tubes were hough they when vacuum ding ad been used in receiving fur about vear. . The German spark was operated on a 500-cycle frequency about fuch of their equipment 1 very capacit they co confidential an i -kow. | i i GOVERNORS OFFER COAL PARLEY AID (Coutinued from F destination. INCREASE PRODUCTION. Four Mines in Pennsylvania Grad- | ually Overcoming Difficulty. after an uccessful _engagement they threw Important parts vver- |only one Tilinois operator, represent-{ piprSBURGH, Kugist 13-—The board or in the bilges. Although | ing a production of 500,000 tons, pres={ four mines the Pittsburgh arc-transmitting sets are said to be|ent in the conference. To do that]ys) Producers «tion for oper- dangerous for submarine use on ac- | Would mean that the particular min [4tion without a ment with the count of the gases given off by the|in Illinois, represented by this onej rkers were said by many electrical Storage teries, 2. | operator. would be allowed to £0 L0 ope. Is to be producing kw. arc sets were 1 in Bi pi work while the rest of the 93.000 4hout ; ch day. us compared subs successfully. In American sub- | mine workers in Illinois would be| jth Jess than 100 tons when the marine pr ‘e a grounded loop is|required to continue on strike. My art was made. They gave as their used. This aerial is flicient { position is t I will not sign any ion that no attempt had been and cons a h ulated | Kind of an agreement that does not to fill the workings with strike- wire grounded at the cuities of | the hull. and ing to a mast amid- | ships. Two down leads of the loop pass through watertight insulators into the hull, where the primary the circuit is connected in Serie loop is connected with naval radio equipment ! nary means, condenser tn serles is used wh mitting Long Wave Signals Poxsible. i Owing to the ability of the under- sea craft to submerge with the aerjal in place, it is p ible to receive long-wave signals under water 10 a depth of about twenty feet, and short-wave signals to a lesser depth. In 1919, a submarine teen feet under water off New York picked up signals sent out from Arlington, | 200 miles away, and_ while sub- | merged at elght feet, heard Nauen, Germany. 4.000 miles distant, and also San Diezo. On underwater transmission little is available for publ understood that trar as reception is pra SLAIN MAN INDIAN AND LIKELY VICTIM OF BITTER OIL WAR (Continued from First Page.) tion, but it is mission as well al i school in Washington. She recentl went to Chicago to visit friends, how- ever, and her father's presence here could not be ascribed to a desire to see her. Villara Martin, a lawyer. of Musko- gee. a guest at a local hotel, knew ! McBride intimately. He not only iden- tifled him, but confirmed the fact that he owned rich oil lands. He received a telegram yesterday from M. B. Arbuckie, a title lawyer of Muskogee, which read as follow “Go to police and identify Barney MecBride. Murdered. Wire m < Later he received word from the lawyer that he was coming to Wash- ington immediately to start an in- vestigation. His entrance into the| cuse doubled the police suspicion that ! McBride was murdered as a result of | enmity arising over his oil holdings. _ JOHN FARLEY INJURED. . Son of Former Ship Board Official Hit By Auto. ‘Word has been received here of an automobile accident in Chicago Thursday when Jolin Farley, five- year-old son of Edward P. Farley, former vice president of the United States Shipping Board, was ' struck while playing in the street, and sus- tained & fractured skull. The boy's condition was reported to be serious, it being stated last night that he was still unconscious. Mr. and Mrs. Farley were well known here. They resided fn: a time at 1808 New Hampshire avemue and later at Wardman Park Hotel. Fol- lowing Mr. Farley's resignation from the Shipping Board he moved to his home in Chicago. | NAMED POSTAL INSPECTOR. William E. Wood of Norfolk, Va., has been appointed a post office in- spector and assigned to the Wash- ingtom division, the Post Office De- put all of the lllinois mines to work | at the same.” CLOSE KENTUCKY MINES. but they had started with a . and, cording to pro- gram.” were gradually adding to the force from miners fe v employed in the western Penn nia district. 3 - = z All roads and villages in the vicinit Firemen's Strike Hits Coal Pro-|of the mines are atrolled by cavalry- 3 < men of the Pennsylvania Nati duction on L. & N. Lines. \:u:',‘r-l.) 5 Hisyivanis Snefiona) EARLINGTON, Ky. August 12 Union leaders insist that none of M T losed “down vesterday | their members has gone back to work. and those on the Louisville and N: ville Railroad Company was announced, as a result of i strike of the firemen on the St. Loul New York Session to Deal With Conservation and Distribution. ALBANY, Y., August v session Monday. August 14, to enact pointed force ru the state. INDIANA LACKS MINERS. | Problem One of Those Faced by the State Officials. STAUNTON, Ind.. August 12—With hope of immediate settlement of the coal strike in this state abandoned following the action of.the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators' Associa- tion at Terre Haute last night in vot- | ing not to take part in any four-state state officials today were attacking. with renewed vigor| the many difficulties they have en- icountered in their efforts to produce and move coal in the Staunton dis- settlement plan, trict. There has been little activity as yet at the mines taken over by the state, only a few cars having been loaded from piles that had been.lying on top months. of the ground for several State officials so far have been unable to obtain sufficlent skilled labor to man the mines. Three cars loaded Thursday were moved out of Seelyville last night, but only after a series of complica- tions which resulted in officials of the Pennsylvania railroad finally having to man the train. Tnion trainmen refused to move the coal out of the martial law area, and military officials had to have it pulled out of the troop area by non-union workmen. Then the train was found to have been switched onto the wrong track, and the trainmen would not touch’ it until the switching was ad- justed. 'The switching was finally adjusted after much haggling, and the train crew then declared their personal safety, would be endangered and refused to move the train out of Another train crew was t likewise decided their per- ety would be jeopardized and A third Seelyville. called. sonal refused to move the train. crew was ordered to man the train, in Hopkins county were to shut down tuduy,)lt the 12.—The New York legislature will be conven- ed in extraordi Y 1 legislation de- signed to empower the recently ap- central coal committee to en- les for the conservation and distribution of coal supplies within i DERe e {ARTHUR GRIFFITH, IRISH DAIL HEAD, s and Henderson divisions in protest against armed guards hprl‘n)t n;\um- . ed at the railroad shops ere. [saines, e st et o DIES SUDDENLY te all parts of the United States. WYL TN PLAN COAL LEGISLATION. ____(Continued from First Page.) the early hours conveved the news of the attack in only the briefest out- lines, which reported that the damage and the consequent interruption of telegraphic communication was due to the firemen's hose as much as to the incendiarism of the raiders. The building which was attacked is the substitute for the unrestored office which was burned during the Faster rebellion, located in the same street. Whether Dublin has vet obtained a fuller story of the capture of Cork by the national army troops than was contained in the brief official report already cabled is unknown here. A traveler arriving at Waterford from Cork yesterday evening was quoted as saying the national troops were in complete possession of the city and fhat firing had ceased. Farller reports reaching here by roundabout routes dealt chlefly with the positions of the opposing forces .| when the Free Staters were nearing the city. These reports recorded reck- less looting and destruction of prop- erty by gangs of armed youths In civilian clothes. The work of these bands, it was said, included the wrecking of the offices of the Cork Examiner and the Constitution, the Jooting of the government house and | other buildings. Valera’s Presence Unconfirmed. On Tuesday, according to these re- ports, the irregulars made an im- mense bonfire of the huts belonging to the Victoria barracks. The flames illuminated the city and terrified the inhabitants into believing that the whole city was on fire: This partly accounts for reports at that time that the oity had been burned. These reports were never confirmed. There was an _evident absénce of discipline and the irregulars were reported to be acting with irrespon- sibility. All the shops were closed and business was suspended. Rumors that Eamonn De Valera was in Cork could not be confirmed, and his pres- ent whereabouts was still unknown today. The official report of the compara- tively trivial losses and of prisoners taken imdicate that the main force of the irregulars’ showed little re- sistance , after the national troops landed on the coast. There was nothing today to show definitely whether the irregulars now main- tain any formation or whether they have dispersed over the countryside as civilians, but it was suggested in some quarters that they were planning to concentrate at Killarney but followed the actions of the other | for & final stand. crews. As 8 last resort, Pennsylvania rail- road officlals were called from Terre Haute, and late Friday night manned ihe train and moved it out of Seely- ‘The coal Is consigned to state institutions, but there is nothing,to the Virgin ville. —_—————— VIRGIN ISLANDS GOVERNOR. Capt. Henry H. Hough, United States Navy, was nominated y President -to be % 2 by |ble of earning good money at FIVE PRINCE GEOBGES TEACHERS WIN SEA TRIP Popularity Contest Victors will Take Boat at Baltimore for Boston. Five public school teachers of Prince Georges county, Md., winners of the popularity contest conducted by the Hyattsville, Md, Independent. left Washington yesterday afternoon for Baltimore, where they will board the steamer Ontario for a sea trip to Bos- | ton—the prize offer=d by the Inde- pendent for the most popular quintet. The best-liked teachers in the brought out h. lizabeth Badcn, Stewart, 1 bun- the contest, are Bowie School; Seabrook Bladens- 5. Ethel rolin, nd Susie Beltsvill and Baldwin, Collington Sch 5 were accompanied by ug of Bowie as sy of the Independ=nt The contest. which was cond the publishers of the newspaper, E. A. Fuller and his son, E. A Fuller, jr.. was begun in the early spring, and concluded July 20. The judges in the competition were Nicholas Orem, superintendent of county schools: Dr. Charles A. Wells, presi-| dent of the First National Bank of | Southern Maryvland and of the First| National Bank of Hyattsville, and State Senator Lansdale G cer. Ini round numbers, Miss Baden received | 150,000, Miss Miss | Hand_118.000, Miss Baldwin !Astcs D. C. AID IN LONG | | WAR ON PUBLIC WEEDS | l | Miss | al | 1] | I 5.000 votes. Grounds Along Soldiers’ Home | Provide Luxuriant Growth, Year by Year, Says Resident. the Editor of The Star: In The Evening Star of the 10th; instant 1 mead that Commissioner Oyster had inaugurated a ‘1922 of- | fensive to drive high weeds off the {vacant lots of Washington” and coupled with fhat was the announce- ment that lfeauth Officer Fowler was “on the trail of violators of the act of Congress which provides that { weeds shall not be permitted to.grow more than four inches high in a T t thickly settled section of the city.” with 1849, I have lived at the corner of 5th street and Rock Creek Church [ road, Petworth. For many years after {1 moved there I had no neighbors. It {is different now. for the region where, {1 tive is “thickly settled” I am in- jclined to the opinion that the act of ! Congress applies to my neighborhood. | { ““Across the-street from my place | lies the western end of the Soldier's | Home grounds. On each succeeding | {vear weeds have flourished where the | | sidewalk ought to be alongside of these igrnuml«. ‘ For twenty-three years, beginning Thinking" that a former governor the Soldiers’ Home should exer- on or control, of thue' weeds, 1 called on him one day toj tell him about them. He curtly in-{ formed me that the weeds were sub- | ject to the care, patronage and pro- {tection of the Commissioners of the District_of Columbia. Then 1 complained to the Commis- sloners and after the last winds of summer were permitted to blow the; seeds from the weeds, all over the District they.were cut down. The following vear I cut the weeds down | imyself. When I began to cut them ! down the next year 1 was informed by an official that I was violating | the law, so I abandoned my weed cut- : ting exercises. Every year since then, with the ex- ception of last vear, I have written the District authorities on the sub- ject of weeds that bloom in spring., summer and fall alongside of the| Soldiers’ Home, and my communica- | tions have been duly acknowledged. I think they were all acknowledged ! by the same man, for the same lan- | guage was employed in all of the an- swers I received. It ran like this: “Yours in relation to weeds is hereby lacknowledged and will receive atten- tion in due time.” Sometimes the weeds were cut be- fore frost came, but never before the | seeds had time to ripen, 8o I conclude | that the “due time" for the District authorities to cut weeds over four inches tall is after they have ripened. I know that it must be considered highly improper for weeds subjact to the jurisdiction, scrutiny and destruc- tion of the District authorities to ex- ceed the limit of four inches, but there they are, some of them are four feet tall, nome of them less than twelve inches in stature, and all of them unsightly and insanitary. They are growing unmolisted by those who have inaugurated a “1922 offensive to i drive high weeds off the vacant lots of Washington”. Please, Mr. Oyster, get “on the trail” of Heaith Officer ' Fowler, and, Mr. Fowler, get ‘“on the trail of” the weeds that grow so promiscuously, numerously, luxuriantly, but not un- ostentatiously alongside of the Sol- diers’ Home. Come out and look them over, anyway—you can't miss them. Come before they grow so tall that you can’t see the fence. T. V. POWDERLY. —_— ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE. ‘Mrs. Fannie I Churchman has filed suit in the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce and alimony against her husband, Charles E. Churchman, a carpenter. They were married at Alexandria, Va., July 18, 1900, and have one child. The wife ot cise a superv charges cruelty and desertion and says she.is without funds, is four months behind in her rent and owes $25, borrowed for the support of her- If and child. The husband is capa is L the court is told. . Attorney appears for the wife Left to right: Miss Elizabeth Baden, Mix Baldwin, E. A. Fuller, editor of the Hyattsville Independent, which i remunerative, |“GRADUALLY” TO CLOSE Caroline Stewart, Miss E Acting Governor o el Hand, Miss Susic C. Beall, Mixs Nora I nducted the contest, and Mixs Marjorie Zug. f Nebraska Rail Strike Guard at $5 Daily By the Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb., Augt A. Barro lieutenant Uebraska and for the past week act- ing chief executive during the ab- sence of Gov. McKelvie, also is work- | ing as a $5 a day strike guard for | the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad 12,—Pe sovernor of am “Being lieutenant governor has-hon- | or, ‘lrul no remuncration,” he said, | adding that h k the new work when he and Mrs ws found had $3.40 in the bank and [ had $1.60 in my pocket, with not another cent in the world " “I had to Gov. Barrows Press representativ he had returned fron he had es workers. sould not get work else- whre, and I and my wife were down and out State Lacks Funds. Under Nebraska law. the licutenant governor as si 1thot presiding o sembly in its draws $1. the state sessions, nder the constitution, the | governor, w acting in the al CHARLESTON NAVY YARD Announcement Made Following Discussion of Plea to Rescind Order of Abandonment. the The situation with respect to Charleston, S. (., navy vard, recently ordered clostd by «cting Seeretary of the Navy Roosevelt, today was that the closing orders would be car- ried out, but that the closing would be executed in a gradual manner. This situation ulted from the | series of conferences whici Senator | Smith of South Carolina con- | ducted within the past few with | Secretary Roosevelt and sident Harding. The Navy Department today re- ceived a fetter from Capt. H. H.| Royall, comr ing that the andant of the yard, gl ment would b completely closed “on or about Sep- tember 17 The belief, however, was expressed at the department that the closing would be Ia than that date. Arr: now are being made, Capt. Royall reported, to launch the gunboat Tulsa on Augzust 25. The lat- | ter added that the 1 would be towed to some other vard for completion. The destrover tender Denebola also will leave the Charles- ton yard on September 1 and proceed to another yard to be put in full com- mission Much progress is being made in clos- ing the naval hospital. and the num- ber of patients there have becn de- creased to less than 100, and several doctors already have been detached, the letter said Among the more al activities of the vard. Capt. Itoyall reported. the ammunition depot and torpedo repair shop are being numbered in the sub- tractions ordered by the Navy Depart- ment. The ammunition depot, where more than 1,000 tons of munitions are stored, also is being closed, the ammu- nition’ being transferred ‘to lighters | for shipment to St. Julians Creek, Va. Hawaiians Not Guilty. The death in Honolulu of Manuel Nunes, a white man, discloses in- formation that leads to the complete vindication of the Hawaiians of the charge of inventing the ukulele. Nunes was the originator of the in- strument, although It appears he is not entitled to the blame of it. 1In his idle hours he fashioned a guitar- | like contraption from a cigar box | and a few strings. Others developed | and “improved” upon the thing, which has been pestering civiliza- tion ever since. And if the truth were known, white men doubtless had a hand in the development. It is | hard to suspect a Serious-minded ! islander of indulging in that sort of | mischlef. Americans may point to their fast trains, their skyscrapers and their starched collars and call themselves civilized, but it remains apparent that many of them still have very marked affinities for the primitive. The ukulele, popular among the semi-civilized tribes of the Pacific islands, i3 greeted with enthusiasm on its introduction in America, and enjoys a period of prolonged popu- larity. The Indians played tom-toms long before the sailors threatened to duck Columbus because he wouldn’t turn back. Today that in- strument is_an essential part of every jazz band. Automobiles, ice cream sodas and wireless telegraphy apparently have been unable to root out all the primitive inclinations of human_beings. The incident of the ukulele shows also thAt one never knows what the fufure contains. Nunes never thought, as he tampered with his clgar box, that he was .starting something that would eventually be- come the rage among American col- lege girls, or the sounds of which would be recorded on pPhonograph records.—Kansas City Journal. THREE CONGRESS CHOICES. DENVER, Colo., August 12—James A. Marsh, Denver city attorney, and former Representative Ben Hilliard and George J. Kindell were designated as candidates for the democratic nomina- tions for congressmen from the first Colorado_district at a postponed ses- | kilometers. The observatory is ex- sion of.the democratic county assembly | pected to be finished within tw_ol yosterday, yorra, e e e | the ¢ the governor, should reccive “the emol- uments of that office,” but, because the last legislature rejected an appropria- tion bill providing for that, there is no fund available to meet Mr. Barrows’ m for $1.800 for serving as chief ex- ecutive. M Barrows said Gov. McKelvie did alifect it licutenant governor rking for the railroad, and that when | =0 informed he had withdrawn his res- | ignation drawn up for presentation 1o B. & Q. had there been execu- pproval. Ex-Head of S. V. n opinion from the attorney clared that the licutenant ins all the powers of gov- offi 1 leaves the Barrows said work of the | governor's office actually is carried on throv the secretary of state during the EOVernor's absenc It is not known just when Gov. Mc- Kelvie will return from Denver, where he went the first of this week to ad- dress the Colorado republican conveu- tion. M. 1 comma having two ¥ Barrows is a former mnatlon lcr of the Sons of Vetera bLeen succeeded in that office go by Clifford Ireland. con- from Illinois. He was de- feated in last month’s primary for the republica hination as con man trom this district. fobile Unit Invented | By U. S. Army Officer | For Purifying Water A mobile water-purification unit | just perfected by Capt. Theodore H.| Wyman, Jr. Corps of Engineers, sta- | tioned at Schenectady, N. Y., probably { will be adopted as part of the stand- | ard equipment of the engineer de-| partment of the Army. One of these} units made a recent run without m nap from Schenectady to Camp Hum phrevs. Va,, in six days. Demonstra- | tions were given along the route, in- | cluding one in this city, where the| water flowing through Rock Creek | P’ark, known to have a high sewage | pollution. was successfully _treated, | as evidenced by tests of samples in | the laboratory at the Army Medical | School. The essential features of this unit are a 31;-ton liberty motor truck. containing a high-speed motor. driv- | ing a centrifugal pump, a sand filter | ting chlorinator. Th capacity of about 4.000; allens an hour. The water is chlo- | rinated before passing through the ntrifugal pump, and at the me time a soda ash and alum solution is{ added. When the whole is thoroughly | mixed in the pump it is forced through the sand filter and the ex-! cess sterilization removed. The wa- ter finully given off is thoroughly | purified and is said to be more pleas- t to the taste than water treated by the chlorinating process alone. PUPILS PRESENT PLAY. “A Day in Happy Land.” a health| play, was presented by the pupils of the 'Virney Vacation School at the closing exercises of the institution vesterday mornisg at 11 o'clock. Other entertainments on the program | were: Recitation Agnes Cook; | piano solo by Sadie Harris; cornet solo by Ralph Giles and solo dance by Mildred Hunter. In addition to the| Toregoing each of the grades present- ed a folk dance. The entertainment and closing ex- ercises were in charge of Miss N. V. Johnson, the physical training teach- er, assisted by Mrs. M. J. Hawkins( and Miss Margaret George, teachers of the academic work. Principal S. D. Matthews concluded the exercises with a brief address. Among those who attended were; Mrs. R. §. Netherland, supervisor in | charge of the municlpal playgrounds j for colored children, and Mrs. Luvenia Stokes of Chicago, 111, Origin of the Word “Cop.” | The word “cop” originated in London, being _derived from the three initials of “constable of po- lce This Interesting bit of information comes from Police Com- missioner Enright of New York city. Chief Enright's theory of how the word “cop” came into being has ex- perience, precedent and probabllity to back it. It has experience, be- cause Commissioner Enright is con- versant with police affairs. It has precedent, because when the words of a phrase happen to have initialswhich, taken together, can be prorounced In one syllable, there is a tendency to lump them in one, and 8o form a new word. It has probability, because the etymology suggested is simple and natural. “Cop” {s an abbreviation which any English-speaking guhlic would like to make of “constable of police.” Nobody knows all about a word un- til he has looked -ug its origin. do that is one of the best of helps toward fixing the meaning of words|is a drug on the amusement market. much longer and far less familiar than “cop” lastingly in the mind.—|have to be a man without a country? Buffalo Times. —_— NEW LONG-RANGE WIRELESS. CORUNNA, Spain, August 12.—Work will soon be begun on the conmstruc- tion of an astronomical observatory at Los Molinos, near here, it was an- nounced today. The observatory wim establish a meteorological service for communicating reports by wireless to ships at sea over a distance of 1,000 To | the moment. , He must be found. Modern Portias Firm In Rebellion Against Standard Court Garb i SAN FRANCISCO, August 12. | —Although the subject did not Vention here, in the lobbles of downtown hotels—wherever a coteric of modern Po mather—the question, “What | shall we wear in court! fx | holding its o:va. i There are fifty woman law- yers in the ansocintion, and out | of the discusston thus far it hax | been hinted that an effort to | standardize woman's drexs when | uhe pleads a case before the bar | will be vigorously opposed. ALEXANDR. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 12 (Spe- ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 12 (Spe- cial)—The funeral of C. Le Roy Cis- sel, who was drowned in the Eastern Ibranch of the Potomac river, at ! washi p } ngton, last Sunday, took place | vesterday atternoon from Pumphreys |chapel here, Rev. J. W. Lowden, pas- tor of the Dresbyterfan Churen, ar { Darnestown, this county, conducting the services' Burial was in the cemes. tery at Beallsville, Md. Mr. Cissel was a son of the late Humphrey Cis= sel of this county. Miss Edna E. Colvin of Washington and Lester L. BErhardt of Benning road. D1. C., were married in Rockvills on Thursday, by Rev. . Rowland Wagner, pastor of the Baptist Church at the home of the minister. A Licenses have been issued by clerk of the circuit court here for marriage of Miss Olive D, Osborne and Harold . Cross, both of Takoma | cial).—The financial statement of the | Park, Md.. and Miss 1da 15 Vipaor city, showing the receipts and current |and John T Dove, both of this county. expenses of the schools for the years | The annual liw n fete and festival ending July 1, 1921, and July 1, 1922 {Smith-Edmonds 1-.»~u_ALwrm?.‘x,{Z«'.;. has just been issued by the city school | of Rockville, which was to have beem board. The report this year shows a|held Thursday evenniz, was post- small balance instead of & deficit. poned and will be held next Friday The state appropriation for the|evening on the lawn adjoining the schools has increased steadily each |courthouse here i year, $22000 for last year and $45,000 | The M id’ State Poultry A for this year. The city's appropriation for the past two years has been un- changed because the state appropria- tion was greater. However, the city ha been most liberal to the schools, hav ing appropriated the sum of $90,000 for the erection of a new school building which is now under construction on the lot of the Alexandria High School build- ng. During the past twelve vears the city council and city school board have ex- pended about ~ $300,000 for buildings on has offered” a handsome S a4 premium to the memt ciation exhibiting the b SEESSS specimen of noultry at the annu fair to Le held here August 22 and 2 Mrs. J. Somerville Dawson, who will be in charge of the women's section at the fair, has announced that the judging of flowers by Z. D. Blacki- stone of Washington will commence at 1 o'clock the first day. Dr. George and school purpo: school prope Mrs. Bessie Silverstein, forty-seven | given ids f. i vears old, who rooms at 1115 Kine {of 0 Khe e o street, was found on the sidewalk | building at Sands Spring. switl .",2";2‘ in front of her home at 3:40 o’'clock ceived until noon on August 13, at the this_morming by her husband and o : H. W. Hall, who rooms at the same ia oottt as house. She was taken to the Alex- andria Hospital and treated by 1 Llewellyn Powell for a slight brui on her face and arm. or. WILLIAM SLOANE DEE.‘ Oliver Grayson, colored, sentenced | to serve ten vears in the peniten- tlary for attacking a twelve-year-old colored girl, was taken to that inst tution yesterduy ernoon Chairman of Y. M. C. A. Work Here During World War. A number of candidates will be | William Sloanc. head of the g initiated by Alexandria Lodge, No.[W. J. Sloane of N an:rT-u’ 758, Benevolent Protective Order | whose branch store ated here of Elks, at a meeting of the lodge Mon- |and who was prominent in Y. M ( day night. . A. war work in this city, died ves During the past month there were |tvrday at Southampton, L. I. He was forty-five births and sixtcen deaths |in_his fiftieth year. an the city, according to the report Mr. Sloane, the son of John and of Dr. LE. Foulks, city health Berry Sloane, was born in New officer. York. He attended the Cutler Schoot and Yale College. receiving his MONTGOM batchelor's degree with the class of ERY DRY BODY He was a member of the D. k RAPS SENATE CANDIDATES Prohibition Voters Urged to With- hold Support From All Present Aspirants. and Skull and Bones fratern rces Church Crocke 1904 of New York i During the war he was cha of the Y. M. C. A war work hert Following the war he made sever:i trips to his store here. 1 Out of respect the store will closed until Tuesday n He was prominently 08 H strec rema. Special Dispatch to The Star. the Presbyterian Hos ROCKVILLE. Md. August 12--De-|York and the Y. M. C. A. He was claring t v “we didates have | also a director of the Burke Found: s0 far entered the o for the nomi- | tion, a member of the chamber o nations for the Uy tates Senate to|commerce of the state, the vestry of be made at the primary X in|St. Mark's Protestant mber. the Moy Church, in Mount Kisco. N. Y. wh aloon 1 gue, shington Grove Wednes- adopted a resolution caliing on s of the league and other tem perance organizations to decline to sup- the candidates so far in the s follows: Haynes, year, was given a gigantic President Harding, and who, we . bas done good work and to the “dry™ for distillers jub b be the A ¥ coun an- 1bled, That we call ding ‘to hold up the bands of Mr. Haynes and give him all upon Presiden FEE HAVANA, Cuba, August 12— A re- manpower o compel o et Sob, the outlawed [quest for “the extradition of two ¥ the law: that | Americans being held at Kev West, been named geandidates have|Fla, known here as Duke Stevenson B s St a0, Breat _partles forland’ Roy Rosenbaum, was recelved upon the Anti-Saloon League, the W.itoday by the Department of Justice faom Instructi 1 Judge Enrique T. U. and other leaders of the law- enforcement hosts to secure a candidate who will be satisfactory to law-abiding ‘dry’ voters of the state, and in the meantime urge our friends to decline to support any of the candidates. so far an- nounced WILL HOLD CONVENTION. Colored Woman’s Federation to Meet at A. M. E. Church. The Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs will hold its twenty- {sixth annual convention here at the | Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M' street between 15th and 16th street ugust 14, 15, 16 and 17. The or tion of colored women, headed abeth C. C he entertained during their conven- tion by the District of Columbia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Monday night. August 14, will be “Citizen’s night" and Col. Charles Keller, Enginecr Commissioner of the city, will deliver the address of wel- come. Re 'l les Stewart, Bishop 1 Waldron. Rev 5 Scott, John W. T the Industrial Savings Julia Mason Lavton will also speak. | Marie Madre-Marsball is president ! of the Colored Federation of Women' Clubs of Washington, 2035 13th street. DETECTIVES MAY RETIRE. Hughlett and Springfellow Ordered i Before Examining Board. Two veteran headquarters detec- tives, Detective Sergeants Fleet Hughlett, chief of the auto squad, and | James R. Stringfellow have been)News man ordered by Maj. Sullivan to appear| Mr. Leo, who has written songs for before the police retiring board. Both|a great many music hall favorites, of the men, who have been Injured in the line of duty. had made request to_be retired the prospects of the popular song Hughlett has been a member of the |writer. 3 . force twenty-one vears and String-| “The position is impossible” he fellow seventeen vears. said. “Good songs are being written ‘Wanted lains. The picture producer now is impaled on the horns of a novel international lemma. He cannot afford to lose the foreign market, nor can he sacri- fice his American audience to retain it. | Right here the complication in vil-| lains faces the harassed maker of scenarios. No English theater will figures. To attempt to sell a 1il: the Japanese in which a son of pon ‘does anything that is not heroic and inkpiring would produce a riot. | A German audience will have noth- | ing to do with the picturization of a| Teuton engaged in reprehensible acts | or plotting deviltry. Stories of black hand atrocities or Camorra black- mailers are taboo in Italy. Paris would | howl down a picture wherein the sons of Gaul fill any other but brave and noble and virtuous roles. Yet naturally American don’t want all their villains to be made in America. ‘How to fashion the new composite in- ternational villain is the big question nf! Al film picture without a popular villain | ‘Will the picture villain of the future —Los Angeles Times. GREETED BY 10,000 NATIVES. GAYA, British India, August 12— Capt. Norman MacMillan and_Cap Mallins, who repaired Maj. W. T. Blake’s airplane when it broke down the other day at Agra, were greeted jof Marianao on August 1 and es arter, president, will 2 | re jaenrs of this work, is frankly depressed at — Internationalized Vil-; accept ai pleture in which an English villain | he had a residence, Merestead His clubs included the University. Metropolitan, Union League, Centur d Grolier. He was a trustee of 179 tes Trust Company, t vings, the Provident Lo Public Library. ry and a direc- Sacie which he w of tor th ttan Company. its have not ve Cuban Judge Requests Extradition of Alleged Murderers. . and will be sent to the state department immediately for transmission to Washington The men are charged with murde:- ing the captain and engineer of the Cuban launch Mugardos off the coast ap- ing to sea. where they were rescued by the Cuban fishing smack San { Antonio and landed August 3 at Re- becca lighthouse, near Key West YACHT INQUEST DELAYED. Captain of Burned Boat Fails to Appear, Warrant Issued. MIAMI, Fla.. August 12.—Fallure of Capt. Sot Pappas, master of the yacht hirin, which burned three miles off iami Beach late yesterday afternoon, to appear at the inquest over the bodie: of five who lost their lives in the dis aster, set for 10 o'clock this mornin, resulted in the issuance of a warrant for the captain and the postponement of the inquest until 4 o'clock this afternoon. Decay of British Music Halls. LONDON.—The decay of the music hall as a popular entertainment is largely due to the dearth of good music hall songs, says the Daily News. Many of the leading “star” artists of the day have apparently only two Porto of Maria strings to their bow, the old songs with which they first won success ago. and modern puerilities which audiences find tiresome. What son for this dearth of fresh is the re material? “It is not that the right songs are not being written,” Mr. Frank Leo, one of the best known writers of music hall assured a Dally and has had thirty years' experience by people with talent, but it s hope- less to try to ‘place’ them. The reason is that the majority of artists today take their songs from publishers who do not charge them Anything for the right of singins songs, but actually pay them well for doing so. A publisher is glad to pa: a well known artist a considerable sum in order to push some Inferior {song which he brought out. | “In the ol a writer took his rics to an arti d =old them their merits. The other day 1 showed a song to a variety artist, who agreed that it weuld suit him very well, but he was being paid {6 a week by & publisher to sing some quite poor pallad.” ____._—____——-_—————% RGES COUNTY TEACHERS WHO WON POPULARITY 4 CONTEST AND TRIP TO BOSTON Missing from his home in Barcrof Va., since Thursday lust. the have been asked to search for H. White, twenty. atives in this city. | seen, wore a audiences | hat and brown shoes. feet 7 Inches, weighs 160 pounds and has dark complexion and eves. emploved in Alexandria. the conviction of Harry Chapman, col- MISSING FROM BARCROFT. palm beach suit, straw He is about § He was TRIED FOR LIQUOR SALE. Pity for a sick friend brought about ored, yesterday, in the United States branch of Police Court. Chapman was charged with the sale of half a pint of corn whisky. He told Judge Mc- Mahon that he let “his friend” have the liquor because the man was sick He drew a sentence of forty-five days in jail. ORDERED TO THIS CITY. by 10,000 natives when they landed here today on their way to Calcutta. Maj. Blake went to Calcutta by train, and after tuning up his repaired ma- chine, he will proceed on his attempt | c*i~e of the chiefl of Infantryy Wi Department. : to iy l‘llnfl the world. Col. John H. Hughes. infantry. at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. has ‘been ordered to this city for duty iy "