Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1922, Page 2

WAR DRAFT PLANS WILL BE REVIEWED Army General Staff Calls Conference With Civilians on Mobilization. FOR USE IN EMERGENCY Government Desires to Eliminate Defects From Selective System. today by the ins were annou nt conferer of mili- Jlization plans by officers of al staff, with men who pluyed an im- for discus: War here Depar a Monday tary thg Army now in civ adminiztratio m w draft Army o ¢ in plar nui or pptic ove the he nt “ best Craft i officers to repr us tion to the | National Police Parley. Hono.rs ; Maj. Sullivan| RINS STATE PRISON 'Fenitentiary Plant'ation on * Paying Basis for Its First Time. OTHER CONVICTS COWED Georgian, Found Guilty of Peonage Murders, Is Chief Trusty in Two Years.* Special Dispateh to The Star. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.. September ‘16.—~Less than two years after his conviction of the most horrible series of murders in the history of Georgia, John S. Willlams, owner of the “death farm” in Jasper county, where eleven negroes were killed like beasts, has been made “straw boss” of the state prison farm, where he is serving a life sentence. During the day he rides horseback over the farm, seeing that his direc- tions for the crops are carried out. Yead. DA NTE G SULL The sion national police conference, in se in New York, today elected be any fu ennergeney experience with the draft gained during the war will be laid hefors [ es for free dis- cussion Mo wenty @vilians Who had aft ation o the resent will be Dr. Walter D. t of Northwestern Uni- versity, mitte during more tication Wig- North- in clas: Johr who H vol, i, law west ¥ W charge of clussiication in the provost al's office during _the rer of Camden, N. J., Crowder’s _executive ativ F. Patter- who served Dbr. ¢ also a Saunders Jersey, Secretary L. Perr drat b of Richm Corp Ingle, and Corps served : ing the o War 15 to obtair wha had ration fo war. Department has been very the views wide of »f men in Xperience artime v time to have dim- ion of the details, of sutficient cool- in- o to the em Eive 1ass of have and to matured opinions as be dene in any future at the depart- h pinions of men ainted with the de und to exist™” in the system. particularly 1. to classification of men were greatly desired connection with the problem of pre- parir peace times plans for recomr ion to Congress in the event that recourse to the draft should ever again be necessary. TAASONIC SCHOLARSHIPS SCOTTISH RITE’S PLAN Supreme Council of Northern U. S. Jurisdiction Holds Preconven- tion Meeting. thirty-third ccepted Scottish northern Ma- 110th annual meeting The opening sessions were de to instructing committees and formulating reports, which ba presented to in execu- tive session The convention et apen today ote. m considered, in the judgment of Leon M. Abbott of Boston, sovereign grand commander, is the creation of ma- for the conferring of scholar- ships on deserving sons and daygh- ters of master Masons. meeting of the Supreme appropriated for Supreme C If the appro- ntinued this year it will four-year scholarshiy veung men and women. ¢ the northern il may ion is ¢ Keen regre r 25 expresced at the inability of Pr nt Harding to at- he chief executive, d the honorary thirty- red upon him, but | ;- ancel his visit be- dause of the illness of Mrs. Harding. WOMAN SUES MANAGER OF LOCAL THEATER | Mrs. Morris Claims She Was Eject- ed by Police and Lock- ed Up. Alleging assault and battery and| false arrest. Mrs. Hattie May Morris has filed suit against the Washing- ton Theater Company, the Columbia Theater Company and Harry O. Jar- boe of the Gayety Theater for $30, 000 damages. The plaintiff avers that September 20, 1921, Gordon C. Sollers, special po- lice officer at th vety Theater, yushed. pulled and dragged her about in the hallways and down the stair- way of the theater. While doing so, 1he plaintiff declared. he used profane, abusive and threatening words. Fur- ther, the plaintiff states she was un- lawfully imprisoned at a police!sta tion house. a result of Sollers’ al- laged actions, the petition declares. tHe plaintiff suffered hemorrhages and oghes_ailments for which she asks $35.000 da and claims that as result of such action she has been injured in her credit, reputation and circumstances and has suffered pain and anxiety, for which she seeks $5.000 additional damages. OREIGNERS PAY MORE RAIL FARE, GERMANY’S PLAN ‘y Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 192 q BERLIN, September 16.—In order ilto cut down the deficit under { which the railroads are operating, the German government plans to charge foreiguers rallroad fares based on the rate of exchange of thelr money. Americans would have to pay more than citizens of any other country, because the dollar is to be the standard for the calculations. Every person buying a railroad ticket will have to show . his passport proving his nation- ality. The French and British will pro. test against any such measure as eonstituting a violation of para. graph 173 of the treaty of Ver- { mailles. forbidding Germany _to charge allied subjects more than rolive Germans » headed a com- | will | jwell as the maintenance of the party He siays what to do and the guards see that his orders are obeyed by the other convicts. It is declared that even the most hardened negro crimi- nal on the farm steps lively at the slightest word from Williams. His new job is a man's sized one. He has practically complete charge of the planting, cultivation and har- vesting of the crops on the 5,000 acres that are tilled by the prisoners. He is deelared to be getting the farm on a paying basis for the first time In its history. Maj. Sullivan, superintendent of the Washington police department, first vice president for the ensuing year. Commissioner Ovster, who went to New York vesterday. afternoon, wired { Commissioner Rudolph this morning fof Sulliv election. Capt. Oy {went to the metropolis at the pers linvitation of Palice Commissioner En- {rikht to attend the police field meet today Officers of the ln 1 department were elated when they heard of the honor conferred upon the Washington force by selecting its head to be one of the s of the conference. The Sleeps in Infirmary. At night Willlams aleeps in the in- firmary instead of in the big dormi- Satesie ihe en deles |are three kinds of uniforms at the Slues ATy of forelsn dele- | prigon, stripes, brown and gray cloth- ing. the latter for first-class men. Willlams is garbed in gray and is |treated in every way as a trusty of the trustiest | Jecently he and the prison superin- tendent, B. H. Duna drove i automobile to Jasper county. 0. . NAVAL RESERVTS ON PRACTIE CRUSE Begin Second Fifteen-Day Tour on U. S. S. Eagle 56—Leaves Dock at Noon. was allowed to visit his home and at- tend a family barbecue. An investi- gation forced by the prison com- mission, but it was explained by the superintendent that the trip had been ary to a point near the Wil- plantation in order to purchase that was needed on the farm. The allegation 1s made that the state farm practically is Willlams' farm and that he conducts himself there exactly as he did when he lived on his own Jasper county plantation. History of Conviction. Williams was tried and convicted of murder in April of last year. The I eoreans © 8 S E 36 left |Jury recommended mercy because he {Columbia, the U. 8. S. Eagle 36 left| o (5, victed on the evidence of a her dock shomly after noon toda¥.|negro, and he was sentenced. to life The vessel will be gone for fifteen |imprisonment instead of to be hanged. [days, and is scheduled to return here [At his trial he was charged with the September 30 slaying of only a sinkle negro. but Septe the chief witness against him, Clyd. The ship is commanded by Lieut. e Manning, who admitted doing Commander John Balch Blood. She |actual killing, told with most graphic will steam down the Potomac and detail how seven of the eleven were cruise for a short pericd in Chesa- tled up, weights attached to them, and then thrown from a bridge to peake bay to give the recruits aboard |drown; three killed by belng hit in a chance to get their sea legs. After|th¢ head with an ax, and one shot. taking fuel ofl aboard at the naval base at Hampton Roads, the vessel The murders were to prevent the will put to sea and head for Boston, negroes testifying before federal agents about how they had been held Mass., where she is due September 22, and will remain until September 25. in peonage by Williams and his sons. It is probable. Commander Blood Manning, like Willlams, received a life sentence. In all of his testimony sald before the ship sailed, that short stops will be made at Nantucket and red to the latter as “Mr. (Copyright, 1922.) Marbiehead, Mass, At all of these ces the crew Will be given ample PLOTS AND LAWNS Water and O streets south- early today, and were imme- tely taken aboard the ship and as- Cols. Keller and Sherrill Aid in Judging Community Prize Winner. On the second of her cruises for training the United States naval re- servists resident in the District of gned their billets. Later the work- ing parties were engaged in carrying aboard the stores for the trip. In addition to Commander Blood, the officers on the vessel are Lieut. G. M. James, chief engineer; Ensign { Robert N. "Wilson, . supply corps; Gunner Fred B. Monar. The crew follows: W. N. Shay. F. W. Long. W. L. Staffel, Wm. John- ston, J. E. Mettee, C. C. Frick, G. M. Bradley, V. G. Austin, Ww. S. 3 Hauser, J. P. lattery, S. Boswell, J. C. Fred- erichs, M. C. Talley, C. R. Stephen- son, A. H. Dudley, R. F. Rowley, R. F. Campbell, R. H. Dickey. C. A Lusby, R. B. Rothwell, C. E. Blade, J. Sauer, R. Haring. R. B. Bridgeman, {J. E. Motley, E. Court, C. W. Rankin, P. E. Davison. A. W. Ramsay, B. F. Frick, J. Hogan, R. F. Moore, R. K. Art: R. Holllday, W. Mec! jLewis, E. T. Smith, M. C_Albaugh, R. H. Groggan, P. E. Hardie, L. ¥ Brickhouse, A. A. Pleasant |BEVERIDGE READY FOR STIFF BATTLE (Continued from First Page.) More than forty lawns and flower gardens of the Woodridge and Lang- don sections were inspected yester- day afternoon by Engineer Commis- sioner Charles Keller, Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, in charge of public build- ings and grounds, and Furman L. Mulford, horticulturist, of the Depart- ment of Agriculture. Accompanying the inspectors, who acted as judges In the annual lawn and garden competition of the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association. was the committee on lawns and gardens of the organization, headed by Oscar F. Ellis as chairman, W contestant will be totaled tonight by the committee in charge, and an- nouncement of the successful con- testants. will be made tomorrow. Judges Praise Residents. “This be,” sald Col. Keller, referring to he condition of the residences. Plenty of open space about houses and well cultivated lawns on every side. T am a great bellever in de- tached houses ~in residential sec- tions, and I think that the situation here is an Ideal one.” Col. Sherrill, who ought to be an expert on homes since the White House is one of the residences under his eye, also declared that the show- ing of Woodridge and Langdon_this year was one in which the residents of that locality might take a profit- able pride. Time after time he made speclal personal tours to the rear of some of the homes to make a more minute inspection of the flower gar- dens and the lawns, At the' conclusion of the inspection each of the judges was presented with a huge armful of dahlias grown at_the Woodridge Gardens. Members of the committée who ac- companied the inspecting party were Chairman Ellis, William S. Torbert, John L. Knopp. C. M. Cheney, R. H. Ellsworth, I B. Nutter, R. V. Bailey, iRoben E. Bolen, C. Brashears, and M. E. Sabin. Members of Committee. At one time on the trip the auto- mobile containing Editor Torbert of Neighborhood News, the community publication, some newspapermen, and Mr. Cheney, lost track of the inspect- ing party and traveled around the neighborhood for almost an hour looking for the inspectors. They found them in the rear of Mr. Bra- shears’ home, on Kearney _street northeast, between 17th and 18th streets, eating grapes. The party wound up activities at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nutter where the floral presentations took place, with Mr. Torbert acting as master of ceremonies, and where re- freshments were gserved. Engineer Commissioner Keller was not in on the finale, hurrying away to keep a dinner appointment at Camp Hum- phries. \ INJURIES PROVE FATAL James Lomax, colored. seventeen years old, -Lakeland, Prince Georges county, Md., died at Casualty Hospital yesterday afterncon as & result of in- juries received several days ago when struck: by a street car near Laurel A:il‘nlfl'fllhwumh‘l {organization which Senator Watson has built up and is building, to indulge {in_any such dangerous byplay. No complaints are heafd of lack of sup- port by the regular republican ma. chine of Mr. Beveridge. Senator Wat- {son, now the republican leader of the state, is coming Into thirty or more counties to make speeches for the ticket. Beveridge for President. In this connection they are grin- ning over an incident In which Sen- ator New figures. He was invited to make some speeches/in the state. He replied, in effect, that his itinerary would be just the same as was Mr. Beveridge's in the campaign of 191 when Senator New was up for elec- tion. 1In that year Mr. Beveridge was back in the repyblican fold from his excursion with the bull moosers and made speeches for the republican ticket from coast to coast, but only one in Indiana, when he closed the campaign in an address in Indian- apolis. Is there any talk about Mr. Bever- idge as a future candidate for the presidential nomination? It is taken for granted. The politicians don't look for anything else. There are{ the makings of another bully politi- cal row in the republican party in Indiana. The democratic candidate for the senatorship has been indorsed by the State Federation of Labor. This ac- tion is discounted by the republicans with the claim that the bulk of labor is democratic anyhow. Mr. Beveridge is very popular with a large section of the German vote of the state, but the democrats are ngling for it. One of their leaders ald to the writer: “If I knew how all the Germans would vote L could tell you how the state will go.” The democrats are counting heavily on winning back the third and fourth congressional _districts, which they lost in 1920, and they have more than a fighting chance in the twelfth. These are regurded as the only doubt- ful congressional districts, the re- publicans expecting to carry all the others easily. U. S. LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED. ‘With total subscriptions of more than $540,000.000 for the new 3% per cemt one-year Treasury certificates, maturing September 15, 1923, the o fering was more than twice over- subscribed, Secretary Mellon an- nounced last night. Preliminary re ts from the federal reserve banki ndjcated, it was said, that each di trict had oversubscribed its quota. ‘The total offering was for Ihont‘l“.r ' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO DEATH FARM' HEAD ™" rumor became current that Williams | the | There was no announcement of | prize winners. The scores of each | is s the whole city should 'F i 4 # orge Sutherland, Mry. The District members of the Ku Klux Klan staged their first large night ceremonial and initiation in the city when they gathered between the hours of midnight and 2 o'clock this morning on a hill above a large sand pit fronting Rittenhouse street near Georgia avenue. More than fifty can- didates were present to take their ath of allegiance to the invisible empire. From’ 200 to 300 klansmen gathered in their weird robes and hoods, and in a slow orderly file climbed the hill some 300 feet in height, which gave a commanding outlook for miles around, and formed a large re around a huge fiery cross that cast its ghost-like shadows through the treed summit down on the roadway of Rittenhouse street beneath. Machines filled with men began ar- riving shortly before midnight, and by the time the last one had arrived and parked on both sides of the road there were about seventy in mumber. Silently the large crowd moved abou t . nearby dwellings were aware of the strange happenings so close to their homes. % Without interruption _the weird ceremonlal was held. The strange dress of the order was not put on until the party had ascended the hill, and then almost instantly each figure appeared in costume. Candldates Take Oath. At the time set reporters of the various papers who had been tipped off to the event were allowed to pro- ceed up the hill in plain sight of the ceremontes. As the members of the press, tired by their long wait, slowly made their way to the scene, they were stopped every hundred yards or so by men with flashlights who were acting as pickets. After the accom- panying klansman whispered a few mystic words into the ear of those who had stopped them the party was permitted to proceed. The sight that lay before them was similar to preceding Initiations of the klan. The candidates, with cov- ered faces, knelt before the altar in front of the fiery cross, whilz one of the officials read the oath and pe formed the rites. Then, as silently as they came, they departed. It was evidently “klan night” last Inight, for four hours previous to the ceremony in_the District of Columbia, Col. J. Q. Nolan, klan lecturer from Atlanta, Ga., addressed an open meet- jing on ‘the subject of “The Ku Klux {Klan” in the assembly hall above the jfire department station in Cherrydale, Va., just across the Potomac. Nearly 300" people were in the audience, which was composed of both men and women. and several children. Shortly after 8 o'clock. Col. Nolan marched up the aisle to the stage, ifollowed by ten fully robed klansmen, one of them carrying a large Ameri- can flag. The procession was greeted by applause, it being noticed that the women added their help as well as {the men. Col. Nolan, after a brief introduc- {tion, gave forth the principles of the {order. He stated that the klan was law abiding and believed in upholding the arms of the law, liking the klan to Aaron_and Shur upholding the arms of Moses when the Israelites drove the Philistines back. He em- phatically declared that the klan was ne anti anything but wrong. “We are not intolerant of religious bellefs,” he stated, “that is a right gliven every man by the Constitutulon PARIS, September 16.—Analysis of the air breathed by a criminal is the newest aid' to the French police in identifying malefactors. They scien- tifically examine the air In the room in which he operated. then examine the man and reach a definite answer to the question whether he breathed in that room at a particular time. 1t by chance tha man expectorated while at work he can be traced as surely as if he had left his calling card. The machine which does this is part shown to Police Commissioner En- right of New York city on his recent visit to Paris. It is based on sclence applied to the detection and identin- cation of criminals. If the Paris po- lice wish to show that a man was at a given place at a glven hour they do not spend days trylng to find wit- They prove it by the air he , by the clothes he wore and z scientific records, by several other vyhlch, they say, cannot be denled. Scientists Rush to Sceme. ‘When a crime has been committed the sclentists, in thelr well equipped laboratory, are notified. They crowd into a big automobile, filled with scientific instruments, and proceed fo the scene. There is the expert hotographer, the artist to make Zkotch'::. the chemist, and the man pectroscope. The Iast-mentioned takes a section of the | qu to aperate the' s caretul ‘air for future and it is unlikely that residents of of a crime detecor system which was N, D. C, S SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RETURNS ROM ABROAD TO ASSUME HIS DUTIES former United States senator from utheriand, photographed yesterday upon their arrival in New York on bhoard the S. S. George Washington. ! | | ' /i ATU Mr. Sutheriand, who has just been appointed to the United States Supreme Court bench by President Harding, | to take the place of Associate Justice John H. Clarke, who resigned, returns to the United States after acting for the United States Shipping Board at The Haxue, Holla; DISTRICT KU KLUX KLAN HOLDS BIG CEREMONIAL Many Candidates Take Qath Before Fiery Cross—Col. Nolan Defends Order at Cherrydale Meeting. of the United States. But we don't want Methodists, Bgptists, Episco- palians, Catholics or Jews to mix into politics as a church or religion. e are for separation of church and state. If anybody should say close this church or that church we would strenuously oppose it, for every one in this country has the right to wor- ship God according to the dictates of his own heart We are triends of the colored man. We believe in helping him and edu- cating him and giving him the rights obtained by him under our Constitu- tion. But we dor't believe in mixed marriages or social equality. God did not mean it 5o to be. 100 Per Cent American. “Our order is 100 per cent Ameri- can: We don't want English-Ameri- cans, German-Americans or Italian- Americans and so on. Those phrases are an insult to our nation. They are either Americans or are not Americans. This country is menaced by Immigrants who come here and do not learn our language or believe in_our institutions. “We are for free speech, free press and free schools and the right of every man to follow the pursuit of happiness as long as it does not con- flict with our Jaws. We are for the sanctity of the home and believe in restoring the old home life that is gradually disappearing. “People that malign us do it for two reasons. One that th are ignorant, or that inwardly they are disloyal to this country. Our pur- pose " in coming before” you tonight is to set clear In your minds our principles, and why we are here. All we ask 18 to be fair with u: Col. Nolan ended his talk by de- scribing the original order, which he stated had been maliciously maligned. “That order then.” he said, “saved the womanhood and manhood of the soutk; the order today is to save the womanhood and manhood of every real Amerloan in our country At the conclusion the colonel and the ten weird figures paraded out and were gone. Col. Nolan left a short time later for Atlanta. JOINS PEKING LEGATION. Edward Bell Is Assigned to Post as Counselor. Edward Bell, chief of the current in- formation bureau of the State Depart- ment, has been assigned to duty as counselor of the United States legation at Peking, where the assistance of an experienced diplomat is required, be- cause of the growing importance of that station, due to general disturbed conditions in China. During Mr. Bell's extended exp ence and “service In the diplomatic fleld he has been stationed in many capitals of the world. During the war he was attached to the American em- bassy in London, acting in a secre- tarial capacity, has served as American charge at the embassy in Tokio. Previously he had seen service at the Peking legation. CAPT. CLARK AT GONZAGA. Capt. Hollis C. Clark, United States | Arm retired, in addition to his dutles at St. John’s College, this city, has been detalled as professor of military science and tactics at Gon- zaga College, this city. BREATH ANALYSIS NEW DEVICE TO DETECT FRENCH CRIMINALS v of the dthers does his assigned part, and no possible bit of material analy- sis is overlooked. The floor and the walls, the furni ture; threads of clothing; bloody rag: broken lights; finger-prints—anything that offers a possible suggestion is packed up in airtight receptacles and taken back to the laboratory. Here everything is analyzed, and finally the laboratory is able to give instructions to the detectives whom to arrest and what to look for, so that final and definite comparisons may be made. Prisoners Face Facts. “When we appear in court we do Judges with suppositions or probabili- ties,” sald M. Bell, chief of the labora- tory. “We present proofs and facts. ‘We explain exactly how the crime was committed. In1,110 cases of crime, 1,677 imprints were made, requiring 101,616 examinations and 4,775 phetographic prints, and this work led to the posi- tive identification of 126 criminals. Criminals who wash up blood stains now waste their time. In this labora- tory blood diluted 200,000 times can be traced, whether the original stain was on a floor or a bit of cloth. “Each man or woman has his or her distinctiva heat, and this is why bloodhounds are able to trace by smell,” continued the speaker. “The spectroscope can be made to detect the light radiating from a given pe: son, and if that person has passed through a foom, uns at a given moment, fact tie machine will reveal. & state of excl stio - was in RDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1922. and since that time | not confront the prisoners and the fast that thé person in terhent WOUADPUT CIRB ONSUPREMECOURT A. F. of L. Chiefs Also Dis- cuss Fixing of Age Limits | for Child Labor. BUILDING TIE-UP LOOWS | Council Winding Up Work at At- lantic City—Gompers Plans Consultations. By the Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., September 16.—Faced by a m of business h- portant to organized workers, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor today for the most strenuous 1 of its annual conference here, in the that it would be able to adjourn to- night Included in the unfinished busin prep was the announcénent of several constitutional amendments and new natlonul legislation, already framed by committees of the and which it will sponsor gram for the coming year. Child Labor Taken Up. In addition to the amendment ed to limit the powers of cd States Supreme Court, the jbor leaders have drafted one would give Congress the power to presceribe age limits for child labor and another aimed “to make the Con- stitution more elastic to fit the needs of labor.” Labor's policy on immigration re- striction, state ‘industrial courts and its attitude toward legislation which would compel unions to incorporate also was expected to be defined. Another important Subject was the definition of the attitude of the American Federation of Labor toward the controversy petween national or- ganizations of carpenters and eheet metal workers over the allotment of certain interior construction. Bullding Tie-Up Fenre The sheet metal workers already have been awarded the disputed work by the national board of jurisdic tional awards, but the carpenters’ re- fusal to abide by this decision, and hostile action against the carpenters |by other building trade crafts, we i said by the labor chiefs to threaten a tie-up of building operations In several large cities Heads of the crafts involved in the pr la- which Jurisdictional controversy have ap- peared before the co to plead their cases and that body will, before it _adjourns. announce which side it will uphold. Samuel Gompers, president of the federation, announced today that he would remain here over Sunday to attend an important conference with international labor chiefs, who came here to consult him PARK RADIO CONGERTS PLAN OF D. C. STATION Woodward & Lothrop to Install | Receiving Set Also at Chevy Chase Lake. With an elaborate program, station WIAY of Woodward & Lothrop, ‘Washington's newest and most power- | ful broadcasting station, with the ex- | | ception of NOF, the naval air station | in Anacostia, wil open this evening at 7:45 o'clock. This station h: 1450 watt set, which will enable ra listeners-in_within a radius of 1. miles or more of Washington to pick up_the broadcast programs. The department store will install Tecelving apparatus in Lincoln Par Dupont Circle and at Chev Chas Lake for the entertainment of the | crowds that frequent these places. This is the first time a broadcasting | station has introduced such an in- novation in Washington High amplification, obtained througt the use of JM-6 radio frequenc: amplifiers and Western Electric Com- pany amplifiers in Lincoln Par Dupont Circle and at Chevy Chase Lake. will assure clear reception of | ail the broadcasted numbers, provid- jed conditions are favorable. Beginning Monday, ~WIAY will broadcast concerts daily from 10:30 to 11:30 am. and from 2 to 3 p.m. will be broadcasted eveni: at 745 s every o'clock. i STORM IN NEW ENGLAND. Heavy Damage to Buildings and Crops in Four States. BOSTON. __ September 16.—Com- munities in Massachusetts and north- ern New England were repairing damage done during the night by the most severe electrical storm of the season. farm buildings were destroyed, churches and homes were damaged. and telegra and tele- phone services were crippled. The storm, sweeping over Maine jand New Hampshire. also put out tof commission the lighting systems |of several cities, including Portland, Me.. and Concord and Dover, N. H. Fruit_and vegetable crops in’ south- ern_Vermont were badly damaged by hail, PASS TO RETIRED LIST. Military Officers Had Served More Than Thirty Years Each. Col. Mortimer O. Bigelow, cavalry Col. Clarence E. Dentler, infantry: Col. Daniel J. Carr, Signal Corps, and Warrant Officer George W. Roth- weiler, at Columbus, Ohio. will be | placed on the retired list of the Army, on their own applications, after more fhan thirty years of service each. | Maj. Pagl H. Clark, infant has | been retirell on ‘account of disability incident to the service. Maj. Belton IOA " Kennedy. Coast Artillery Corp: {and Capt. Paul R. Wing, field artil- ]lery. have been ordered to their homes | to awalt retirement “for the convea- jence of the government.” CHEW OF-TOBACCO OLD-TIME REW ARD FOR RUNAW AY BOY Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER; Va., September 16.— A reward In the form of a chew of tobacco and 6 cents was offered nearly 100 years ago by Peter Ham of Win- chester for the return of an appren- tice named Robert Beaty, aged nine- teen years, according to a copy of an advertisement found her among old newspaper files. “Beaty is thought to have run off from his employer before his apprenticeship had expired. In the old days it was the custom for youths to be bonded, or “indented.” as legal papers read, to an employer for a term of years, and violation of the “indenture” provisions ‘was pun- ishable by severe penalties. The employes was & practice bonding of 1:!. yes T Named For Important weeretary i Mrs State Department Post FAKE STOCK SALES WILL BE EXPOSED Citizens Band Together in Effort to Oust Swindlers From District. — $1,000,000 LOST IN YEAR | Harvest Reaped Here by “Wild-. cat” Promoters, Witness Tells Jury. of the ¢ banded sterday of the 4 pledged their whole- de to 11d and fake it 1s con Business and professiona Washington representing s leading enterprises of the at the 4 » her d jury curted support to a cr District of “wildcat otion schemes which, {servatively estimated, have been tak- {ink $1,000,000 & year and more from the pockets citizens of the Dis- triet Under the ALLAN F. WINSLOW, recently appointed assistant to Under- of State William Phillip of present Jaws, it was pointed out, there is no pecific lawe under which operators of fraudulent schemes can be prosecuted. Although legislation looking toward this pending in Congress. it was {clared that monthe and possit |vears would go by before 1t posed law becomes an actual Eugene 13 Thompson, the grand jury, opencd {and explained the nec mediate action, It was vanced the estimates U $1,000,000. each yvear was golng out of the pockets of government clerks { salaried emploves of firms of the Dia- trict, and other small investors as & result of activities of firms which paint pictures of wealth for the in- jvestor in the near future and then crash into bankruptcy on the financial rocks. PRESDENTSIND SETAS TOBONIS Action to Be Expected Soon | fo th sity he who After Bill Comes From Treasury. fent Harding was declared at the Whife House today to have “made up his mind” with respect to the sol- dier bonus bill on which congressional action was completed yesterday. This statement, however, did lit- tle or nothing toward answering the Pres Urges Publicity. Civic groups, newspapers and the better business bureau of Washington were requested to step into the fight and make Washington so hot for the question in the minds of foes and|{promoter of “wildcat” propositions friends of the measure as to whether | that the city would be freed of such 10 sie 3 enterprises. the President would sign or would | “PREINECER o mye pvening Star. veto the measure. Henry G. Hanford assured the grand The White House s Hury of the whole-hearted support of i o eual | This newspaper, and declared that said that the lowing the usual { (38 T ““e'm(_srm e pAvcitiae: course, would ferred to the {ments for propositions which had not Treasury Department and that the gerp fhnl"li:l]z?;‘l}‘h Ad-sl blished as re- > . 5 s 2 fable, or which had not been investi- President’s action n be expected | TR0 lG OF N ppearing in the adver- soon after its return. Secretary Mel- | figing columr lon was ont of the capital for the| “I think; ontinued, “that the week end, but Treasury officials said [grand jury has also a specific duty to his abse W 10t prevent trans- | perform along these 1 ‘Whren an to the e Housa of the |indictment is asked fn any of thess views if the Iresident |cases, 1 believe that it should be picked 1 H report. The | out from the ordinary routine, and made Treasu a had not in |2 spe 1 proposition. Full publicity of any in its opposition |questionable concerns can be easi guaranteed, and the public protected b allowing all the facts in such cases to be brought out.” Support of the camps pledged by Arthur D. Washington Post, Logan F WOMEN FIGHT FERCELY | FOR $10,000 IN JEWELS, Mrs. Reeves Tears Gems From Fashion Model's Neck in “Peacock Alley” Battle. - the Washington Herald. Representing the civie orzan at the conference was Willlam Kn of the Rotary Cooper, Rudolph Jose, president of tae Civitan Club. Thomas Bradley, president of the Washington Board of Trade; Harry King, president of the Merchants and nufacturers’ Association, and Joshua Evans, jr., president of the District of Columbia. Bankers' Assoclation. United States District Attorney Pey- ton Gordon was present at the confer- ence and from time to time gave valua- ble suggestions as to the conduct of the crusade. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Se 1 pl were still ta ek Alle menade. erth, beautiful 1 ember 16.—Guests the Congress Hotel lay of the fight in} famous | Edna de mode§ and Campaign Under Way. With this array of organizations pledging support. the crusade against wildcatters in the District of Colum- i getting under way a ns for future action are wn up, and will be put into exe tion in_the shortest possible time. . X. Wholley, representing ti: Washington betier business burea whose object is mainly the suppre on of fraudulent enterprises in th istrict of Columbia, probably was tone of the most important of th speakers at the conference. H: pointed out the manner in which hi bureau had for several years been i vestigating concern: and renderin | reports upon their integrity. ugzestion was made at the confcr ence, following the address of ) Wholley, that all possible organiz tions be requested to take part in better business bureau's enterpris. and to call upon the bureau for a'd questionable cases. ]CITIZENS’ BODY PROTESTS CUT IN D. C. ESTIMATES Central Association Urges Retu: to Old Method of Sub- mitting Budget. w the fight were $10,000 ¢ . which Miss de Werth ! were €he gifts of w Reeves nd pointed out and | dia- | s her | race- sked for the jew: bailiff. h attempted to p A let and wris tendants pped of the at least a dozen times to give hi propert said laughe a seclf-respect; 10,000 SHRINERS PLAN ATLANTIC CITY PARADE N. Opposition to the cutting of Dis trict appropriation estimates by bureau of the budget was voted las night by the Central Citizens' Ass ciation at a meeting in the Juvenii: Court_ room A resolution to this effect, intro- duced by Thomas J. Donovan, presi dent of the association, voiced th protest of the members at the au thority exercised by the budget bu er the District Commissioners ' . September! Shriners last]resu nd Shriners Tast| (it ointed out that the curtailing night attended first ceremonialsi o¢” cstimates by the budget com mittee has aroused hostility. “Our public 6chools are threatened.’ the resolution stated. Copies will be sent to Congress. President Donovan expressed th opinfon that the citizens would wel come a return to the old method o submitting _estimates. nder this procedure the Commissioners &ub mitted their estimates to the Secre tary of the Treasury, who, in turn of the annual pilgrimage of Crescent Temple, Trenton, held on the steel | pier, where addresses were made b Imperial Potentate of Honolulu and o nitaries. A feature of the program was ex- hibitions b: atrols of Mec ca, New York yre; Cy- B and Crescent There will be a strect demonstra- | Presented them to Congress. . = tion this afternoon, in which, it is| The associatior BITORRA, 8, 0 expected. 10,000 of {he fez-tops with | operation in enters 5 nds sands of visiting Shiners during th. be In PELTAIE] el June convention here of the Mysti | Shrine. It was decided to start a campaig: for new members before the holding of the annual election of officers next month. PROGRESS SHOWN BY MRS. HARDING, PHYSICIAN SAYS Countinued improvement in the con- dition of Mrs. Harding was reported officially today at the White House ASS!GNED TO FORT MDNEOE | Brig. Gen. Sawyer, the Harding fam- Maj. Benjamin H. L. Williams, 'j)y physician, sald her progress was Coast Artillery Corps. of the office of | ) {44t could be desired and that her the chief of staff, War Department, ¢ has been assigned to duty at Fur(_‘pu!se. temperature and respiration are satisfactory. Monroe, Va. President Harding made no engage FEAST ON WHISKY " "'.fi;:;,‘flz'g:f::.e,‘:{;g;:i:_:f AND WATERMELON |¥ites s . ENDS IN HOSPITAL Acca, Richmond, Va.: A ington, D. C.: Khedi Medinak ; Nem burg. W. Va., andy Yaarab, Atlant COL. HERRON TO OHIO. | Col. Joseph §. Herron, cavalry, at| the Army War College, this city. been ordered to Columbus, duty as instructor, 37th Ohio National Guard. ‘ Division, ‘wup'& budside. Dr. Carl Sawyer, son of Gen. Saw- er, who was one of the physiclans talled in consultation during the critical stages of Mrs. Harding’s il AUGUSTA, Ga., September 16.—Lan- | o “returned to the White Hou ders Chew of Lawton, Ga., who, ac-|oday, after a four-day visit to his cording to the police, “tried to eat his|{home in l‘d}x::;n:.‘lofl?;"nfled:flxp“l;tln‘.nd: way through a carload of water- :;‘(_‘:fzf"‘-m' e "Harding's condition: melons after first consumini & quan- | (o0 growing worse, but was by & tity of corn whisky,” is today at a prPViolllI “:;ar:e‘fl:f,'él r:.e“s'sln’::s!:‘fh.u s Floral tributes local hospital reflecting upon the| (Tepressing gratification at her adage that “whisky and watermelon ({0008 COTCTRb, Pheing received by will not' mix.” Doctors say he will|\rs, Harding dally, all of which agd to her good cheer. £