Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1923, Page 1

‘ WEATHER. Increasing cloudiness, local showers Jate tonight or tomorrow; slightly lower temperature tomorrow. Yesterday Full report on page 4. [ - | Temperature for 24 hours ended at 2 | | 4 pm. today: Highest, 84, at 2:45 pm. || lowest, 50, at 6 a.m. today. i - = | " 4 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 5 — No. 28,845. Entercd as second-class matter post_office Washington, D. C. 1. AND MK APPROACH AMITY: * TREATY IS READY Protection of Rights of For-i eigners Pledged, Pemoving Main Bar to Recognition. OFFICIAL STATEMENT | IS EXPECTED SHORTLY | Months of Negotiations Believed About to Bear Fruit as U. S. Views Are Given Obregon. | — | ! ontroversy between the United States and the Obregon gov- ernment i Mexico reached a stage regarded in some official quar- as forceasting complete agreement Renewed ances regarding the tprotection of the rights of foreigners in the southern republic, all along the | chief stumbling block in the way of | Tecognition of Obregon by this gov- ernment, have been sent to Washing- ton and apparently have been receiv- ed by officials here as an important step in the right direction | The views of Washington on the subject have been made Known to: 1Chirge Summerlin of the American embassy in Mexico City and discus sions are in progress there which are expected to lead to a public an- nouncement within a few days. Treaty In Ready. Iiver since 1921 a draft treaty pro- posing @ renewal of good relation: between Washington and Mexico and | involving recognition of the Obregon regime by the United States has been | tn Summerlin’s hands awaiting - 4t the moment satisfactory | been given in re- ican rights. Whether tha come officlals here will Dot say | 1t is known. however. that legisia- | tion pending in the Mexican chamber | of deputies, designed to so apply ar- ticle XXVI' of the Mexican constitu- tion that it will not be retroactive, s regarded Ly Obregon officials, at least, #s embodying the sort of guar- antee the United request- ed. That opinion made to thix government through mbassy here in a com atement of the whole has an early ass gard to time hi | | | Mexican side Article | on 7-Year-OldCousin Stumps President 'Asking Police Job By the Associated Press. YORK, Pa., April 21,—There are some things that even the Presi- dent can't do—at least, and pre- serve the dignity of his high office. Walter Dickinson Hague, seven- Year-old son of the Rev. Dr.Walter Dickinson Hague of York, learned that today and his prodding am- bition to be a policeman went the way of most boyhood dreams. The other day when he was refused a job on the York force, he resolved to appeal to a higher authority, his cousin. And in this case his cousin happened to be the Presi- dent of the United States. President Harding promptl “Dear Walter: I am afrald the York authorities would be doubt- ful about the right to intrude In this matter. “I feel sure that a boy as big as you are * ¢ ¢ ought to be thoroughly competent, but it is a littlé hard to get the regulations in such matters waived. 1 think % the best thing for walt until you grow about tv taller, and then you will probably Dbe able to get on the force if still want to do so. replied AFLYERSKILLED INDAYTON CRASH Capt. Walter R. Lawson, on Duty Here Two Years, Among the Dead. Ohio. April —Four s were almost instantly killed two others probably fatally in- jured at 12:30 p.m. today when a Martin air service bomber, which was {leaving McCock Field here for Ran- toul, 11l fell into the Great Miami river here. One commissioned Walter R. Lawson, and five enlisted men were in the eplane. Capt. Law- son and tiergt. Biddle were among the dead taken from the river. It is understood the machine was ite way from Rantoul, IIL. to angley Field, Va, and stopped off at McCook Field en route. Civilian Hugh M. Smith, bureau of standards, Washingtno, D. C., was seriously injured, The ship had just taken off from McCook Fleld. When, a few hundred oficer, Capt Fhenil WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0 Star. every cit: “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers 7 block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Ye:_lerday’s Net Circulation, 96,888 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1923—THIRTY-TWO . PAGES, STRONG U. S. ARMY CRSKEDBY AR FTER HOT FIGHT | Final Session in Uproar as Preparedness Issue Is Again Brought Up. FINALLY VOTE SUPPORT | TO WEEKS’ PROGRAM Action Taken to Prevent Press From Attacking Failure to Uphold United States. i Amid confusion and uproar thirty-recond Continental Congress of the D. A. R. this morning suspended its iron-clad rule and hurriedly passed eleventh-hour resolution indorsing the stand taken recently by Secretary of War Weeks for the United States to pursue a policy of adequate armed preparedness. Earlier in the session the congress had voted down a like resolution introduced by Mrs. William Cumming Story of New York, on the ground that it merely | repeated similar action taken™ last { vear. an Session Grows Warm. | The motion to reconsider fell like a {bombshell in the midst of what had promised to be the convention's tam- est session. It succeeded, however, |in turning the orderly congress into a bedlam for a half hour, and making it one of the warmest witnessed on the floor since the society convened | Monday morning. Protests, charges charges flew thick and fast the open floor well as in whispered conversation among the delegates. Mrs. Frank F. Greenawalt, former regent of the D. C., opened the attack when she rose and called the conven- tion’s attention to an article in Washington morning paper which detailed the refusal of the D. A. R to adopt the resolution introduced by Mrs. Story a few hours after Presi- dent Harding, Secretary of State i Hughes and Mrs. George Maynard on { had delivered their patriotic address- l'es at the inaugural session. The resolution was one of several similar _papers except . that Mrs. the | | Minor, the soclety’s president general, | i U.5.ACTSTOCATCH | Suspect for Identification and Extradition. to a formal re- As a preliminary | partment has decided to open nego- | tiations with the Honduran govern- {ment to establish the identity of a suspect residing at Tegucigalpa and believed to be Mrs. Clara Phillips, convicted hammer murderess, who escaped from jail in California. -~ CLARA PHILLIPS ana counter-| Will Ask Honduras to Hold! ‘;qu.‘sz for extradition, the State De-| Name Senator Paid to Be ‘Dry, Priest Is Asked By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 21.—Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, demanded to- day that the Rev. Father John I. Belford of Brooklyn, who said re- cently he had heard that a United States senator had received $150,- 000 for voting for the eighteenth amendment, furnish the proper au- thoritles with the name of the senator. “Mr. Wheeler needs no informa- tion from me,” Father Belford d clared. “He can get it from his own people. I belleve they know more than I do about the members of Congress whom they induced to vote for prohibition and if money was used to induce them.” DOGTOR ARESTED ROBBERY CHARGED }Detectives Allege Charles McDonough of Casualty Stole Dead Man’s Watch. j Dr. Charles J. McDonough, a mem- | ber of the staff of Casualty Hospital, jwas arrested this afternoon by Detec- itives Messer and Mansfield, on a charge of grand larceny. It is alleged he took a watch and chain and | Knights Templar charm set with a4 diamond from the body of Henry C. Nalls, veteran letter carrier. who died several days ago. The detectives NAMED U. S. MARSHAL. | George W. Collier of Baltimore Ap- pointed to Maryland District. | | President Harding today appointed | George Wr. Collter of Baltimore to be | United States marshal for the district | of Maryland. | _Mr. Collier was deputy sheriff of | Baltimore for four years previous to | his “appointment as deputy United | States marshal for the district of | Maryland, at which post he served | from 1908 to 1913. For the last two vears he has been superintendent of markets for the city of Baltimore. APPOINTS BURGES HeADOF BUREAL President Promotes Division Chief to Director of Standards. Dr. George K. Burgess, chief of the | | division of metalurgy, bureau of | standards today was appointed by | President Harding director of the bu- |reau of standards, succeeding Dr. Samuel W. Stratton, who left last De- cember 31 to become president of Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. Dr. Burgess was recommended to the President by Secretary of Com- | merce Hoover, who called at the | White Houso today. Following the conference, it was announced that the President had named Dr. ' Burgess director, by recess appointment, effec- tive today. The new director of the bureau of standards comes from Massachusetts, where he graduated from the Institute | of Technology in 1896. He has been with the bureau of standards since 1903, £ Capable Executive. By his thorough training and ex- tensive experience in scientific af-| fairs Dr. Burgess is believed by the administration to be well equipped to take charge of the big bureau, which through steady growth has at- !tained a highly responsible place, | not only in the machinery of govern- ment. but asx a scientific aid to the { American people | . Since the departure of the former jdirector, Dr. Stratton, for Massachu- | setts, the bureau has been in charge | Parkway |5th to | from 17th TWO CENTS BAN ON PARKING AND 28 ONE-WAY STREETS ORDERED Commissioners Adopt Regu- lations for Congested Area During Shrine Meeting. RULES ARE EFFECTIVE FROM MAY 25 TO JUNE 10 Other Special Measures Adopted Regarding Peddlers, Letting of Rooms and Balconies. Twenty-eight one-way streets and a ban on all parking in the down- town section of the city are the out standing sections of the special re lations adopted by the Commissioners today for the Shrine convention. From May 25 to June 10 the fol- lowing will be one-way strects: Sixth street; Louisiana avenue to K street, north bound; 1ith street, Center market to Pennsylvania ave- nue, north bound; 10th street, B to K streets, north bound; 11th street, Pennsylvania to Little B street south bound; 12th street, K to I street, south bound; 13th street, B to K street, north bound; 15th stree:, K street to New York avenue, south bound; McPherson square, north bound; East Executive avenue, north bound; Madison place, north bound: Jackson place, south bound; Connec- ticut avenue, I to H street, south bound; 17th street, from the east side of Farragut square, south bound: 18th street, P to K street, north bound; 19th street, K to B street, south bound; 20th street, E to K street, north bound. C street, Gth to 20th streets, west- bound; Louisiana avenue, Pennsyl- vania avenue to 9th street, eastbound: north of Center Market east- bound from 9th street and westbound from 7th street; Market space, th to 9th street, westbound: D street, west- bound from 6th to 11th. and eastbound from 11th to 20th; E street, eastbound from 5th to 13th, and westbound from 13th to 20th; H street, eastbound from 14th street,’and westbound to 19th; I street, 5th to 20th, eastbound, and K street, from 5th to 20th, westbound. Temporary Congested Zone. The Commissioners have laid off a | temporary congested zone within the boundaries of which no parking will % | be permitted from May 25 to June 10. i s i This temporary zone has the follow- ing boundaries: The department’s decision was reached as a result of a request from | Gov. Richardson of California. The first step will be to request the | Honduran government to hold the | feet in the air, the pilot saw he | would be unable to clear the Her- b has{ man Avenue bridge, which adjoins tory of | McCook Field, and swerved his ma- o mless | chine around to avoid erashing into 4s | the bridge, the plane turned over in For jnany months the controversy (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) + which has prevented re revolved been regarded here as confisc \mericun holdings in Mex it were so interpreted by, say the young physician admitted he jtook the property and gave them the | watch, chain and charm. 1 Nalls, who resided at 621 Pennsyl- vania avenue, was taken suddenly ill GILLETT AT ODDS ‘to_exclude any bility of its ap- | plication retroactively. Without that | positive interpretation, it has been | fell, the article might easily be in- voked to cancel American concessions | granted ore the constitution was adopted i Recently a number of Mexican su- | preme court decisions bearing on the | disputed clause were forwarded to ngton by Mexico City as evi-| » that no retroactive or confisca- | volicy was contemplated. These | ceisions were found unsatisfactory. owever, and it was reiterated that; the wuarantees to be given must be | f different character. | President Is Hopeful. The draft treaty submitted by the Tnited States in 1921 contained ex- | plicit provisions for the protection of | American rikhts against confiscation, | but heretofore P’resident Obregon has n the position that he could nu(‘ ~ign under existing circumstances. Some changes in the wording of sev- | eral parts of the document have been ! and these, togethér with « legislation recently brousht for- rd in the Mexican congress, are said to have brought the viewpoints of the two capitals much nearer to- gether. | Yesterday at the White House it! was said that President Harding re- | garded the Mexican situation as im- proving daily, and it was learned ! 1oday that he had formulated that pinion after being fully informed by | harge Tellez of the Mexican em- | bassy regarding the latest moves at | Mexico City. In addition to personal | ‘conferences with the President and | Secretary Hughes, Mr. Tellez is un- derstood to have presented recently in a more concrete way a detailed | exposition of the position and Inten- tions of President Obregon and his sdvisers. In response, tie views of the United | States were communicated to Charge Summerlin at Mexico City several! ago. The nature of the com- | nication has been guarded closely. | \leantime, however, both at the State | Department and the White House the | attitude has been one of growing ptimism that the whole trouble- | jome Mexican problem was working | pidly toward a final solution, H During the preparation of le[:{!lla"K on to carry article XXVII into effect | ‘harge Summerlin has been in con- wrence repeatedly with Mexican offi- cials, although it is emphasized here | rhat he has in no way attempted | to_interfere with any of the internal affairs of the southern republic. He | inerely has given his opinion, it is aid. us to whether the language of ihe law proposed would Be regarded by the United States as embodying a_ proper guarantee of American rights. : Some time ago corferences of this character regarding a law then under debate led to an outburst of anti- American feeling on the floor of the | Jexican congress, and Secretary I4ughes issued a statement explaining in detail the position of the Washing- ton_government “We have repeatedly said” the statement said, “that we are not par- ticular as to the form of the assurance against confiscation. “The Mexican congress is entitled to pass its laws. But if they resort to legislation to interpret the consti- | tution of 1917 with the idea of pre- cludirg confiscation and obtaining recognition by this government it is only fair that they should know the views of this government as to the efficacy of the legislation for that purpose.” —_— HAS MOSQUITO ENGINEER. Florida Town First in Country to 4 Create Position. OCALA, Fla, April 21.—This city is the first in Florida, and, so far as is known, the first in the United States, to have a municipal “mos- anito engineer,” who will give his full time to prevention of mosquito breeding. Tho office has been created as a feature of Ocala's participation in e-wide mosquito eradication PARPAIED, day | today. for the deputy | to @eliver an oration over the carcass | slon, and the air and fell into the river. Capt. Lauson, one of the best known pilots in the Army, was on duty at the office of chief of the air service here from 1918 to 1920, iSOVIET WELCOMES SENATOR WHEELER | MOSCOW, April 21.—Senator Burton XK. Wheeler of Montana, accompanied | by nis wife, arrived here this atter- noon for a stay of ten days. He was met without ceremony at the raillway station by one official of the foreign office. While here Senator and Mrs. Wheeler will reside in the mansion provided by the soviet government as a guest house for distinguished visitors. Senator Wheeler is the first of a number of members of the American | Congress expected to visit Russia this year. JUDGE SELLERS LOSES. Efforts to Get Rehearing on Appeal in Contempt Case Denied. The District Court of Appeals today refused Judge Kathryn Sellers' appli- cation for a rehearing of the appeal from her sentence of contempt of court against Judge Willis Brown, formerly of the juvenile court of Ttah. The appellate court had held that there was no contempt because the law had divested the Juvenile Court of jurisdiction over truancy cases ex- cept when the child was over fourteen vears of age. Judge Sellers charged that Judge Brown had written articles reflecting on the court in pending She Bad imposed & fine in one case and an imprisonment of forty- eight hours in the other. Judge Sellers may try to get the case re- viewed by the United States Supreme Court. Federal Court to By the Assoclated Press BILOXI, Miss. April 21.—United States Deputy Marshal D. R. Coon, and a defunct whale, eighty feet long, were to be the center of interest here as scheduled and attempt to sell it at auction by virtue of a federal court order. It is the same whale the marshal was ordered earlier in the week to bring into court after a New Orleans fish- erman had obtained a writ of replevin in his attempt to gain possession of it. Rojelio Lopez and his crew of fish- ermen found the whale floating at sea off Biloxi two weeks ago, bent a line to it and towed it to shallow water near Deer Island. They anch- ored the carcass, and before depart- ing for New Orleans to report thelr find, staked out their claim by at- taching a placard bearing the name of Lopez and that of his boat. When they returned they found an e prising Biloxian had taken po fter the fashion of the late P. T. Barnum, was running ex- cursions to the scene and collecting gate receipts. Lopez appealed to thd federal court, since he was a citizen of Louisiana, and the defendant was a resident of Mississippl, and obtained a writ of Feplevin, It was then that the & Y LORD GECIL TALKS WITH PRESIDENT i White House, But Declines i to Discuss Visit. Lord Robert Cecil, one of the lead- |ing figures in the activities of the |league of nations, had half an hour's conference today with Presiden Harding, but declined later to discuss his visit except to say that the call had been most pleasant. Lord Robert called at the White House after he had met Senator Borah frreconcilables in the Senate fight over the league of nations, at a break- fast at the home of Henry White. Refuses to Answer Questions. On leaving the White House, as on yesterday he left the home of former President Wilson after his call there, he waved aside all questions. He only irepeated he could say nothing when asked whether the President had i brought up modification of the league convention or American membership in the Permanent Court of Interna- tional Justice. The discussions between Lord Rob- ert and Senator Borah were under- stood to have gone into numerous ! phases of the league question, includ- ing possible revision of the covenant. Senator's Views Unaltered. Afterward the senator sald he still was of the opinion that the American people never would consent to en- trance into any political with Europe. Senator Borah called at the White House just as Lord Robert was leav- ing, and had a short talk with Pre: dent Hardin, Auction Whale | Ordered to Appear Before Judge mous order was issued to the marshal to “bring the whale into court,” 8o its disposition could be determined. The marshal balked at following out the instructions literally, but did have it towed to a point near here. The.whale was to be sold at auction today “between the hours of 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., and the court was to'take charge of’the proceeds. It already has the gate receipts taken in by the ex- hibitor since the writ of repievin was issued, and when the case comes up during the June term of court will determine whether the money shall Bo to Lopez and his mates or to J. T. esport of this city, the alleged claim jumper. The whale now is only good for fertilizer and the purchaser, if there is one, is expected to be-one of the concerns along the coast which manufacture fertilizers from fish Pproducts. There is much speculation here as to what course the marshal would | follow in the event no bids were of- fered, for something mugt be done with ‘the whale and that quickly. It has been dead a long, long time. The whale iz in the custody of the court, as represented by the marshal, untii its rightful owner is determined and about the only property a federal court ever has been known to order destroyed is liquor. And the whal certainly cannot be regarded 1 toxicating,” within the meaning ot the Volstead act, it is argued, u less the state of the atmospher: within_its immediate viciniay might cause it to be classed as such, alliance | | SUBIREY "Peénding extradition. Such & request, it was sald today, will be made of the Teguclgalpa authori- ties by the American minister there ! WILL SEEK EXTRADITION. League Advocate Calls at|To Confer With Governor on Wom- | | an Believed to Be Murderees. | By the Associated Press. | SACRAMENTO. Calif. April | W I. Traeger, sheriff of Los Angelcs i county, expected to confer with Gov. | Friend W. Richardson here today re- ! garding steps to be taken to obtain extradition of a woman, belleved to | be Mrs. Clara Phillips, escaped ham- | mer murderess, and her male com- Lpanlum saild to be Jesse C. Carson. from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. | Sberir Traeger was in San Fran- clsco yesterday, when he was in- 21— | been notified by the United States | Department of State of the presence !of the pair, together with a woman |sald to be Mrs. Carson, in Teguci- galpa. {its information came from the Amer- ican legation at Temucigalpa and asked If extradition of the woman | was desired. | Thae governor's office requested of- | ficial notification of the Los Angeles | sheriff that Mrs. Phillips had been convicted of murdering Mrs. Alberta | Tremaine Meadows, twenty-year-old | widow, July 12, 1932. i~ The woman under suspicion at | Tegucigalpa is using the name ot Mrs. Robert Young, the State De- | partment said. |7 Late last night Los Augeles police jarrested Mrs. Phillips' husband to | investigate his connection, if any, With her escape. | “Officers in Los Angeles also said [ the extradition of Carson would be | requested. They expressed the opin- fon that Carson was a distant rela- tive of Mrs. Phillips. He is believed to be the man wanted in Los An- geles on an arson charge. TRACED TO HONDURAS. Fire Warden Declares He Has Check on Mrs. Phillips and Carson LOS ANGELES, April 21.—In dis- cussing reports from Sacramento that Mrs. Clara Phillips, escaped “hammer murderess,” ‘and Jesse C. Carson, wanted here on an arson charge, had been located in Honduras. Stuart R. ! Flintham, county fire warden, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times today said he thought he could trace practically all of the movements of Mrs. Phillips and Carson since they vanished from Los Angeles. Flintham said Carson was accused of having set fire to a grocery store he had leased to Walter K. Taylor in Belvedere Gardens, a suburb, after he had falled to oust Taylor from the property by other means. The fire warden said he had reasons to believe Phillips and Carson had been close friends and, while withholding any information he might have as to how Mrs. Phillips esca from and ‘where she concealed herself immediate- ly afterward, the officer declared that on the night of Deccmber 28 Phillips gave Carson $2,200 to take Mrs. Phillips and the two pianned at the time the ‘woman and n were to leave the ntry. w:n;’rdm‘ to Flintham, Carson and Mrs. Phillips went to New Orleans about January 16 and apparently had plenty of money. From that city they ‘went to Vera Crus, Mexico, and thence to Mexico City. From there, Flintham declared, Carson wrote to friends in Los les he had “made a killing” in ofl and land transactions and mentioned Mrs. Phillips as a “good 5 But the government the United States was said to have taken a hand in the search, ‘.nrdni’u{l.nl;h{glpé llnd Carson, of that, fle uate- e ien 10" Satvador ana tben £ ‘Honduras. '!ormcd that Gov. Richardson had | of Idaho, one of the chief republican | The State Department sald | WITH COURT FOES Unreservedly Behind Presi- dent, He Says, on Stand of Chairman Wood. Taking sharp issue with Represent- ative Wil R. Wood, chairman of the republican congressional committee, Speaker Gillett today issued a state- ment in strong support of the court of international Jjustice and an- nounced that he would impress upon his constituents -that the subject is entirely non-partisan and is sure they will approve the President’s attitude. Speaker Gillett's statement fol- lows: I am surprised this morning to read the statement against the court of international justice, glven to the press by the chairman of the repub- lican congressional committee. It cer- tainly does not represent my views, for I am heartily and unreservedly with President Harding on that issue. Sees Misunderstanding. f. as stated, many republicans are expressing opposition I believe it is because they misunderstand the mat- ter and think it involves indorsing the league of nations, which they voted against in 1920 and to which most of them are even more hostile now than they were then. But this recommen- datlon of the court by the President and Secretary Hughes does not in any way involve entanglement with the league. It simply is a step, though I fear a very short one, toward remov- ing the causes of war and securing peace, and If republican leaders are going to see red and oppose anything however meritorious which may ema- nate from the league of nations, they are liable to drive away from the party many of those who have been most responsible for its character and its_success. “I shall take pains to see that my constituents understand the question, which is quite non-partisan, and I shall be surprised if they do not gen- er‘lilly approve the President's atti- tude.” BOMB EXPLODES ON BANKER'S STEP Attempt Made to Assassinate Lead- er of Italian Colony in Roxborough, By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 21.—. time bomb placed on the steps of the home of ChevallerC. C, A. Baldl, a banker and leader in the Italian colony here, late last might damaged the house and a number of other residences in Roxborough, a suburb. No one was inju despite the fact that stones—and bricks were hurled through windows. Chevalier Baldl is a sympathizer of the fascisti group, and the police en- tertain the theory that the bomb was placed by some one opposed to this movement in this country. The fam- ily has received no threats and are at 2°loss to account for the placing of the bomb. Cheval Baldi is on his way home from Italy, having sailed yesterday. Before he ieft here, it is said, he in- tended seeking an intervi Premier Mussolini, in & lunchroom and dfed on his way to the hospital. It was shortly after the bedy reached theé hospital, it is chaped, that the robbery was com- jmitted, ! Dr. McDonough is twenty-six yvears lo1d. "He gave his address as 436 Dela- field avenue, New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. Ie graduated from a local college last year and has been at Casualty Hospital the past several ing in Police Court Monday morning. iSUSPEND DRY AGENTS { WHO SHOT AT WOMEN South Carolina Officers Laid Off for Sixty Days by Commis- sioner Haynes. Four South Carolina prohibition iagents who,shot at an automobile containing two Asheville women, Y. W. C. A. workers, on the Greenville- Asheville pike, April 8, were sus- pended today for sixty days by Pro- hibition Commissioner Haynes. The agents suspended were Thomas P. Tolbert, acting state prohibition di- rector;. Leon T. Queen, acting head of | the South Carolina field forces: J. H. Painter and M. L. Wright. The sus- i pensions, without pay, for sixty day: were recommended by Commissioner Haynes and approved by Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue Blair, it ‘was said, inresponse to public resent- ment against the conduct of the agents in shooting at the young | women’s car. The practice of promiscuous shoot- ing by prohibition agents at sus- pected automobiles, it was said at Commissioner Haynes' office, was not approved and in the South Carolina cases it was proposed to set an ex- ample for the prohibition agents through the country. ‘The young women miraculously es- caped injury when they failed to obey an order to halt. Thinking the pro- hibition agents were highwaymen, they sped on and bullets sent into their tires careened their automobile tinto a ditch. The prohibition agents, who had been lying in wait on the road for rum smugglers, sald they shot at the tires and not at the pas- sengers, after the excited vyoung women had put on speed in an at- tempt to escape. . s L - 1 FIRST HEAT VICTIM. Richmond Man Falls in Street on I Way to Work. l Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 21.—Fred Carter, walking to his work, today succumbed to the heat and fell in the | street. the ‘first heat victim of the year. He was treated by ambulance surgeons and taken home. imonths. He was locked up for a hear- | | { | | l DR. GEORGE K. BURGESS. of the assistant director, Dr. Fay C. Brown. Whether any further changes would ibe made in the personnel of the bu- Jreau in connection with the naming of a new director was not revealed to- day, but it was the unofficial under- standing that there would be no oc- casion for any considerable change in personnel at this time. Asked about| this, the newly appointed director said he was uninformed as to the plans of the Department of Commerce and for himself could make no an- nouncement. Studied in Paris. Born in Newton, Mass,, in 1874, Dr. Burgess received his early education there, later getting his first college degree from M. L T. For two years after graduation he assisted in the in- stitute, instructing in physics. From there he went to Paris, where after graduate work he received the degree of doctor of science from the Uni- versity of Parls. Dr. Burgess, return- ing to America, was instructor at the University of Michigan for one year, at the University of California for two_years, following which he came to Washington in 1903 to enter the bureau of standards. Placed in charge of pyrometry, or the science of heat measurement, Dr. Burgess developed this work, out of which grew later the_division of metallurgy, established in 1913, with one man. That division, of which Dr. Burgess was chief before his appointment today, grew steadily in size and usefulness, until now it has a personnel of fifty-three men. Member of Sclentific Bodies. Dr. Burgess is a member of a num- ber of scientific bodies. He is presi- dent of the American Soclety for Test- ing Materials and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, the Ameri- can Soclety for Steel Treating, the American Institute of Mining and Metal- lurgical Engineers, the Iron and_Steel Institute of Great Britain and the | Washington Academy of Sciences. Dr. Burgess is also a member of the National Research Council and repre- sents the Department of Commerce on the American Engineering Standards Committee, a national organization on preparing of standards of engineering materials _and practices. He is o member of, the Cosmos Club. His homé is at 511 Clifton Terrace. = If you want to Buy the 5:30 Edition of @he Fhening Sfop on your way home And you will get the last also the final financial and sports reports—together with the Calendar for the next setting of the Courts. For Sale by Newsdealers All Over the City = know the latest | zone, | streets: | such roomers, word from everywhere—and Newsboys and — i1 across the Assiniboine river Starting at 6th street and Missouri avenue, north to I street, west to 7th, west on Mount Vernon place, west on K street to 20th, thence east along the north building line of B street, to the northeast corner of 15th and B, | thence east along the south building reet to Gth, thence south enue. at arca machines may stop parallel to the curb only long enough to take on or discharge pas- sengers. Commercial vehicles may stop while loading or unloading mer- andise. Outside of the temporary congested parking of vehicles also will prohibited on the following Fourteenth street, B to Water street southwest; on Linworth place southwest; 13th street, B to D south- west; 12th street, B to D southwest; 6th street, B northwest to Maryland avenue southwest: Water street, 12th to J4th southwest; E street, North Capitol to_sth, and from 5th to 6th: F street, North Capitol to 4th, and between 5th and 6th; G street, from 1st to 6th; Massachusetts avenue, from 1st street northeast to 4th street northwest; H street, from 3d to 5th northwest; C street, from Jst north- east to Ist northwest: Ist street northeast between _ Massachusetts avenue and H street; Delaware avenue from Union station plaza to B north- e om May 30 to June 7. inclusive, no parking will be permitted on Pennsylvania avenue from 20th street to 28th street, and on M street from 28th street to 36th street. The special regulations provide that all peddlers must obtain the approval of the concession committee at Shrine headquarters and must obtain a license from the District government for $10. They will be permitted to sell on the streets only from June ! to June 10. The regulations absolutely prohibit the sale or use of confetti, ticklers on other devices that might annoy the publie. ; There also is a provision to punish persons who wear fake badges. It shall be unlawful to sell or place on the sidewalk along the line of parade boxes, barrels, chairs or other obstructions. It shall be unlawful to erect booths for the selling or glving away of any article without permit from the pre- cinet captain. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or display toy or imitation revolvers. It is provided that all persons tak- ing in roomers shall keep a record in ink of the names and addresses of and erasures on_such records will not be permitted. These records are to be subject to police inspection. No balconies or porches along the line of parade shall be used until they have been inspected by the building office. —_— TOWN IS INUNDATED * BY FLOOD IN CANADA Snow-Laden Rivers Within Block of City Hall at Portage La Prairie. By the Associated Press. WINNIPEG, April 21.—The entire western section of the city of Port- age La Prairie was under water to- day and the flood from snow-laden rivers was making rapid strides to- ward the center of the city, being within a block of the city hall at 1y o'clock, telephone messages sald. All trains were held up in the Portage yards and the Canadian Na- tional station was flooded. A bridge at the south approach to the city was washed away and another to the island, a city park, was carried down stream by the swirling waters. Residents_traveled by boat, with hundreds of homes isolated. House foundations were reported to be weakening and it was feared that some would collapse. West of the city a be bri to U Hood settlement, a farming commu- nity, was threaténed. k large