Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1923, Page 12

* CRISSINGER TAKES BANK BOARD BERTH Sworn In as Governor of Fed- eral Reserve System—Suc- ceeded by Dawes. The oath of office was administered today at the Treasury to Controller of the Currency Crissinger, who be- comes governor of the Federal Re- merve Board, and to Henry M. Dawes of Evanston, IIL, to be controller of the currency. Before a distinguished gathering of als and former officials of the ¢, the ceremony took place in the private office of Secretary Mellon. The oath was administered by H. W. Stutler, assistant chief of the division ©f appointments of the Treasury. Mr. Crissinger, whose appointment was confirmed by the Senate before sdjournment, has served as controller until today. awaiting the swearing in of his suscessor. Brother Hind Same Place. fr. Dawes is the second member his family to be controller of the currency, his famous brother, Gen. Charle Dawes, having served as controller in the McKinley admin- fstration. At the ot v, besides Secretary Mellon, Undersecretary Gilbert and Assistant Secretary Moss, were rep- yesentatives of the office of the con- troller and the Federal Reserve Board and other offictals, including the fol- Jowing: Brig. Gen. H. M. Lord, di- rector of the bureau of the budget: Frank White, treasurer of the United Scates; forimer Representative Frank W. Mondell and Fred Starek of the Wi Finance Corporation; Charles S. Hamlin, the first governor of the Federal Reserve Board, who is still 4 member of the board: former Gov. ;. Harding of the Federal Re- oard, whom Mr. Crissinger £ D Jersey mes 1. Har- per, chiaf of the division of appoint- snents of the Treasury; Deputy Con- troller of the Currency’ W. J. Fowler, Cuicf National Bank Examiner D. C. Borden of the New York district, #nd_Chief National Bank Examiner v I. Schechter of the fifth, or local, district E There were also present Mrs, Cris- singer and daughter. Miss Dana Ruth Crissinger. Retains His Office. Mr. Crissinger. as governor of the Federal Reserve Board, retains the office he occupled as controller, while @ suite of rooms for the new con- troller. adjoining, has been refinished. Mr. Crissinger retains his secretary. Aubrey B. Carter. The new con- troller, Mr. Dawes, has not vet se- Jected 'his permanent secretary. it is understood. but Francis J. Kilkenney of formerly administrative Dawe airector ed for Chicago, to Gen wot, will be i th the new controller. Controller Dawes was a director of the Central Trust Company of Illi- nols, president of the Southwestern Gas and Electric Company, and nected with several other corpo: tions in Iilinois. 3 —_— U. S. JOBS AVAILABLE. Commission Announces Examina- tions of Applicants for Positions. The Civil Serv announced that examinations will be held to fill vacancies in the following positions: Instrument makers—Coast gnd geodetic survey, at $1.400 a yea Naval Observatory, at $5.84 a da office of the Secre of Agriculture, at $1,200 a year; bureau of standards, Pepartment of Commerce, ut $900 to $1,800 a vear, and weather bureau, at $1:300 to $1.440 a vear. Computer— and geodetic’ survey, at $1.400 : for duty in the Manila, P. I, . at $2.000° a year: for work in computing the triangulation of Hawailan Islands, at $1.860 a year. Junior biologist, at $1.800 to §2.400 a year: fleld aid in biology. at §1 $1,740 a year, bureau of biological sur- vey, Department of Agriculture, for duty in the field. Tabulator and com- puter, bureau of agricultural eco- nomics, Department of Agricuiture, at $1.000 fo $1.800 a vear: aminer frade marks and_designs, patent oflice, at $1.500 to $2,630 a year. Silviculturist, at $3.000 to $3.840 a Feur; associat ist, at $2,400 to §2 nt sflvicultur- ist. @ a year, forest gervice, Department of Agriculture, for duty in the fleld. Special agent, women's bureau, Department of La- e Commission asats s 2.280 a yea $1.800 to $2.2 at §1,500 to $1,800 a year. Trained | s female | at’ $110 a month for and $115 a month for male trained nurse (psychiatric), a month for female nurses and $130 a month for male nurses, Panama canal service. Transitman, forest service, at Warren, Pa., at $100 a month. with when absent official busines: from headquarters on assistant marketing apecialist (economic marketing re- search), bureau of agricultural eco- nomics, Department of Agriculture, at $2.100 to 23,000 u year: expert drilier, bureau ~of 'mines, Dailas, Tex. at $3.000 to $3,600 a Year; petroleum en- gincer (ofl and gas production), at $3.000 to $4.000 a year; assoclate petrolenm engineer (oil and gas pro- duction), at 0 to $3,000 a vear; assistant petroleum engineer (oil and gas production), at 31,800 to $2,200 a year, burcau of ‘mines, Department of the Interior. In addition to the sal- aries named the bonus of $20 & month will be allowed for most positions the basic salary of which does not exceed $2.500 a 3 Full information and application blanks may be obtained at the office of the Civil Service Commis- slon, 1724 F street northwest. SUES CONDUCTORS’ UNION; FOR $200,000 DAMAGES Former Member Says Conspiracy Kept Him From Finding Work After Being Ousted. By the Assaclated Pross. BOULDER, Colo., May 1.—Trial of the injunction and damage sult of Rufus F. Jones, against the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brother- hood of Rallway Trainmen. in which damages amounting to $200,000 are sought, opened In district court here today. Jones, a Denver and Interurban railway conductor, and former switchman for the Colorado and Southern, asks $200,000 damages, hlleging that as a_recult of a con- spiracy between the defendants he has lost $6.000 in wages and his senlority rights as a trainman. He claims he was prevented from obtain- ing employment on the railroads when he ceased to be a member of the union organizations by non-pay- ment of dues. Jones also asks for a permanent restraining order against the unlon in its alleged effort to keep him from work. DIES READING BIBLE. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 1.—Mrs. Emily Willison, seventy-nine years of age, widow of John B. Willison, dfed suddenly at her home in Flint- one, twelve miles east of here, while ted in an armchair reading a Bible. MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., May l—Harold lark, seventeen years old, motor le ‘rider, i in a hospital here se- wverely hurt, as the result of his col- lision with an automoblle. the ! assistant ex- | traveling expenses | KRUPP WORKS HEAD SEIZED BY FRENCH Held in Connection With Clash on March 81, in Which 14 Were Killed. By the Associated Piess. ESSEN, May 1.-Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, president of the Krupp works here, was arrested today by the French military au- thoritles in. counection with the shooting at the Krupp plant, on March 31, when fourteen Germans were killed and thirty wounded in & clash with Krench troops. 100 CADETS RESIGN V.P.L.COMNISSIONS Officers Quit Because of Re- fusal of President to Ex- pel Freshman. By the Associated Press. BLACKSBURG, May 1.—More than 100 commissioned and non-com- missioned officers of the cadet corps ot Virginia Polytechnic Institute tendered their resignations to the commandant, giving as their reasons for resigning the action of the presi- dent in refusing to permit the expul- slon of a freshman who was found guilty by the executive Committee of the student government body of in- fraction of rules of conduct for first- year men. The resignations are ef- fective today. At a meeting of the faculty last night it was agreed that the question of wholesale resignations of the cadet officers was entirely independent of any question of student government. By unanimous vote the faculty upheld the president and the advisory council in their refusal to permit the expul- sion of the student, who, it was in- sisted by the head of the institution, was guilty of no violation either of military or academic ruies. L ABOR CONFERENCE (OPENS IN RICHMOND i Officials From United States and Canada in Four- . Day Sessions. —_—a ! Bpecial Disps o The Star. ! RICHMOND, Va. May 1.—The atti- i tude of the states on child labor und minimum wzge legislation as well as industrial problems of the first | magnitude confronting the nation at {this time will be disclosed during a four-day convention of labor officials from the United States and Canada, opening here today. The association” of labor officials, headed by Dr. C, B. Connelly, former commissioner of Pennsylvania, and now direetor of industrial relations | of Carnegie Institute of Technology of Pittsburgh, is meeting in the “southern capital” to review labor legislation enacted this year, and to discuss the problems of enforcement in the Jight of recent court declslons. Go Trinkle Speaks. The session today John Hopkins Hall, jr.. commissioner of labor of Virginia_ and Gov. E. Lee Trinkle jNelle Swarz, director of the bureau in{ women of New York, presided at a session devoted to the problems of women and children which enforcement of laws protecting vomen and children, minimum wage ws, and the problem of apprentice- {ship were discussed. | Dr. John B. Andrews, secretary of A can Association of Labor Leg- islation, and Dr. Royal Meeker, com- {missioner of the Pennsylvania de- partment of labor and industry, ad- dress the convention tonight, Program Tomorrow. Safety service legislation and spection will be subjects of session tomorrow, with John S. B. Davis, New Hampshire labor commis- sioner, ‘presiding. Ethel M. Smith of the District of Columbla minimum wage board, will speal at the ev ning session on “Recent Court Decis- ions as They Affect Labor Laws,"” with Grace Abbott of the children’s bureau, United States Department of Labor, in_the chair. Thursday and Friday the conven- tion will turn its attention to work- men’s compensation, rehabilitation, employment and mediation, with Fred M. Wilcox of the Wisconsin indu: trial commission; Col. Lewls T. Bry- ant, commissioner of labor of New Jersey; H. C. Hudson of the employ- ment_service of Canada and Herman | R. Witter, director of industrial r lations for Ohio, presiding at the va- rious sessions. e SEWER BIDS ACCEPTED. Commiseioners Also Sell Output of Garbage Plant. Centracts for sewer construction jobs were awarded by the Commision- iers today as follows: To build an in- vert in Canal street southwest, from C street to South Capitol, $16,965; in- vert, Indiana avenue trunk sewer, from 3rd and D street to 4th and B strects northwgst, and the Warren street service sewer, from 36th and Yuma street to Wisconsin avenue and Van Nese stret. The city heads acepted the offer of C. E. Woodworth to buy 1,200,000 pounds of grease from the garbage reduction plant at_Cherry Hill, Va. The price was $6.76 per hundred pounds, which is nearly a dollar less than_the previous price obtained by the District. TRIBUTE TO NELSON. The executive committee of the Minnesota State Socfety yesterday adopted resolutions on the death of Senator Knute Nelson. The com- in- pose by W. N. Morell, president of the soclety. Senator Nelson had been a member of the Minnesota society since its organization, always show. ing a keen intercst in the organiza- tion and frequently attending its meetings, despite his age. The resolution extended to the bereaved relatives the deep sympathy of the society, and also to the Gov. ernor of the State of Minnesota, “our overwhelming regret at the passing of our beloved senator, a ploneer, soldler, patriot and honored public servant of our state and nation.” —_— BEGIN FOREST FIRE PROBE Boy Is Suspected in Disastrous Maryland Blaze. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., May l1.—Investi- gation of the forest fires which last week swept the Catoctin mountains, destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of timber, began today. It was generally believed in this section the fires were of incendiary origin. Forester C. Cyril Klein claims he has Information implicating a sixteen-year-old boy, was opened by | of the commonwealth. Miss | in industry, at| the | mittee was called for the special pur- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SKELETON IN'SAND GLASSRUSH' VICTIM Body Identified as Fresh- man Who Disappeared Aft- er College Fight. By the Asmociated Pross. CHICAGO, May 1.—Leighton Mount, Northwestern University student, wissing since the September, 1921, class rush, whose skeleton was found on the Evanston Lake front last night, was killed in the class rush, Chief of Police Leggett of Evanston declared today. “Mcunt's body was carried to the pier after his deatn and burfed be- neath heavy stones,” Chief Leggett sald, planation of the presence there of his skeleton. “It is likely that Mount was ac dentally killed during the class war In September, 1921. and that his body was hidden Ly students who were frightened as a result of their hazing.” Both arms and hands. one foot and one lower leg are missing, the chief sald, and the pler beneath which the skeleton was discovered s guarded by police until a complete search can be finished. a Dill Scott of the University met today to arrunge for the inquest tomorrow morning. Chief Leggett announced that the bLoys who testified aut the hearing held soon after Mount's dis- appearance would be amoug those sumnioned to testify at the inquest Besldes the skeleton, identified by the boy’s mother through a belt buckle und fragments of a coat, the chief exhibit for the inquest is & piece of rope about threc feet long, found by the body. Students cn gaged in the class rush of 1921 said today it was similar to the ropes glven scores of under classmen for use in tying the hands and fcet of members of the opposite class. The rope found by Mount’s body was not knotted, and gave no indication of having been tied around the hands or feet of the skeleton. It was worn about half way through at spots about six inches apart. Young Mount vanished from classes in the midst of a spirited con- troversy over the evils of hazing. His disappearance came on the heels of a senration surrounding the rescue of Arthur P. Perfinger, who was bound hewd downward to a piling in the lake. It wus said in some quarters that Persinger had been forgotten in the confusion of class fighting. although Northwestern University officials issued statements protesting that Persinger had not been hazed. and that Mount had not been dealt with seriously. The pier is walled in on three sides and police said that precluded ;the possibility that the body might havi been washed to itw resting placé by the lake waters. s Henry Warren, twelve -old boy, found the bones under the: pler when he crawled through a small: hole in the concrete, out of curiosity, He took home a leg bone, and his moth- er notified the police. Last week Louis Aubere. North- western University student, was killed in a motor accident, which was said to have been attendant upon a class fight. Several other youths were in- jured in the same smash CENTRAL SCHOOL CLOSING EXERCISES ARE EXTENDED Plan Will Be Followed by Ad- ditional Buildings in Mont- gomery County. Special Dispateh to The ta ROCKVILLE, Md, May 1.—Central {closing exercises for a number of the public schools of this county. which were Inaugurated last year and which proved a success. will be tried again {this year and will include a number fof_additional school This vear the Lavtonsville. Unity and_ Etchison schools will hcld joint closing exercises in the Laytonsville school; Clarksburg, Boygs., Sli- dell. Kingsley, Comus apd Bur- {dette school at rksburg; i Poolesville, Sugarland, Elmer, Mar- jtinsburg and Dawsonville schools. at Poolesville; Bailev, Montrose, Avery, Dwyers, Derwood and Garreit Park, at Rockvllle; Fairland, Colesville, White Oak and Burtonsville schools, at Burtonsville; Quince Orchard, Red- znd and Snouffers schools, at Gaith- {ersburg; Brookeville, Olney, Brighton, Oakdale, Ednor and Lay Hill schools, {at Sandy Spring; Dickerson, Barnes- ville and Buck Lodge schools, at Dickerson; Clagettesville, King's Val- ley, Woodfield, Mount Lebanon, Cedar Helghts, Browningaville, Cedar Grove and Lewisdale schools, at Damascus; Kensington and Wheaton schools, at Kensington; Woodside and Blair schools, at Woodside: Germantown, and Middlebrooke schools, at German- town. Divorced; Quickly Remarried. Although granted a divorce by Judge Edward C. Peter in the circuit court here but four days ago, Willlam W. Johnson, a young resident of this vicinity, evidently does mot consider marriage a failure, for vesterday he made preparations to try It again by obtaining a license from the clerk of the circuit court here to make Miss Bertha Rustman of Travilah, this county his wife. Miss Nellie Ray of Rockville, and George B. snouffer of Gaithersburg, were married in Washington, Satur- day, by Rev. S. C. Cole. The bride 18 a_daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George {F. Ra Rey. P. Rowland Wagner, pastor of the Baptist Church, officiated at the marriage here Sunday evening of Miss Annie M. Wells and Clarence E. Dickerson, both of Seat Pleasant, Md. Mrs. Hersperger's Funer: The funeral, of Mrs. Anna’ Poole Hersperger, wife of Elmer C. Hers- perger, who died of pneumonia early Saturday morning at her home near Seneca, this county, took place yes- terday morning from the chapel at Monocacy cemetery, at Beallesville, this county. The Services were con- ducted by Rev. Walter P. Griggs, formerly pastor of St. John's Episco- pal Church, Poolesville, and burial was in Monocacy cemetery. Mrs. Hersperger was a daughter of the late Charles Sellman of this county. WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS OPEN TO DELEGATES Conference of Social Workers, Due May 16, t> Have Special Courtesy Extended. Delegates to the fiftieth anniver- sary meeting of the National Con- here beginning May 16, will be accord- ed the freedom of the White House grounds one afternoon, according to an announcement made by Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, chairman of the subcommittee on entertainment, of the local executive committee. The committee met yesterday afternoon at_the District building. Commissioner Rudolph, vice chair- man of the local executive committee, presided. Secretary Hoover of the Interior Depastment is chairman of the committee. Mrs. Louisa Roberts is _secretary. It was reported that many homes will be available for the delegates, and that there is no fear that the hundreds from all parts of the coun- try will go unhoused. Arrangements for halls in which to hold _ section meetings have been made, it was reported. The Memorial Continental Hall will be among the buildings avallable. —_— There were . 383,220 m: France last year, as compare 37,684 divorces. es in ed with “There could be no other ex-, being | Chief Leggett and President Walter | his | ference of Soclal Workers, to be held | |SOLICITING LABOR CHARGES ARE HEARD One Aoquitted, Case of Another Held Under Advisement in Alexandris. Special Dispateh to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1.—Fol- lowing an investigation In the police court today before Justice Duvall in the cases of Bernard E. Tighe and James T. Nowald, non-residents, charged with an alleged violation of soliciting labor to leave the state, the court acquitted Nowald, there being 1o evidence to show that he even had any connection with the affair, having simply accompanied Tighe here as a companion. Held Under Advisement. In. the case of Tighe, however, the court took it under advisement. According to Tighe he represented his mother, who I the principle stockholder ' in the Tighe Construc- tlon Company of Phillipsburg, N. J. jHe said he came here Sunday for the purpose of obtaining the services of ten men. Atorney Hugh Reid of Washington held that Tighe did not come under the head of a labor agent. The city was represented by Corporation At- torney H. Noel Garner. i i Hearing Wal | In the police court today E. Dowl- !Ing. charged with violating the pro- }\'l fons of the state prohibition law, waived a preliminary held for the action of the grand jury. He gave bail in the sum of $500. 102 gallons of corn liquor when cap- Burrell Padgett. Preliminary arrangements for the ceremonies in connection with laying of the cornerstone of the George Washington Masonic National Memo- tial Assoclation Temple. at George Washington Park, which it Is pro- posed to lay next November. will be discumsed at a meeting of the local committee of arrangements Thurs- day afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the parlors of the chamber of commerce. The exact date for the cornerstone laying will be determined upon later by the board of directors of the me- morial association, 0. E. S. Play Tonight. Tre Order of Eustern Star Players will present tonight, at the Young People’s building. a comedy entitled “Fun in a Chinese Laundry.” An outline of the plans for the survey of the public schools of the city was given yesterday afternoon by a representative of the depart- { ment of education. The work was !begun today and probably will last ut ten days. Time to Pay Tux Brief. Tersons who have not paid their [poll taxes for the vear 1922 must { do so before the close of business in {the office of City Treasurer Thomas | W. Robinson Saturday May 5. This | tax was due last December, and those who have overloked it at this time ‘il have to pay the penalty which rues on delinquents The law recuires that the poll taxes | for threo consecutive vears must be | paid before one is eligible to vote at the forthcoming election, unless one becomes of age in the meantime {when taxes for the one year will be {all that is necesary. Many young men and women have become of age with- in the past year and have failed to { qualify for the franchise. {MOTHER AWAITS RULING | ON CUSTODY OF CHILD By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Ma James Morris today awaited the decision of Judge Joseph B. David that probably wliil either deprive her of her daugh- ter or give the child to her after a separation of almost twelve years. The daughter, Alice Beatrice, twelve years old, was found in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jumes B. Nuttall of Waukegan after Mrs. Morris had searched for her child for vears. They had legally adopted the girl. Expressing no preference when Mrs, Morris filed -suit for the custody of her child alleging that the adoption was illegal. the daughter later stated she wished to remain with her foster parents. Mrs. Nuttall said the girl's father, Mrs. Morris' first hus- band. wishes the girl to remain in her ipresent hom and Policeman Lawrence SEE WEDNESDAY STAR LANSBURGH & BROTHER ITCHING GONE IN ONE NIGHT There’s just a little something in the formula that often causes that intense itching and burning to cease with one thorough application. ‘Tems of thousands of grateful people know of the mighty healing power of PETERSON'S OINTMENT ‘They know blotches, bl by doc e e | l l ; l hearing and was | It | was stated by the police that he had| tured last night by Prohibition Agent | D. ¢, ®¥ESDAY, TOCENT INGREAS INARLINGTON T Higher Levy Made to Meet County School Bond Issue. Bpecial Dispatch to The Btar. CLARENDON, Va, May 1.—An in- crease of 10 cents on the §100 assess- ed valuations to meet the needs in the recently authorized county school {bond issues is provided in the 1923 county levy laid by the board of su- pervisors at an adjourned meeting at the courthouse last night. Increase Gemeral. As all three districts have author- ized school bonds, the increase is gen- eral throughout the county. Under the new order Arlington and Jeffer- son districts' levy is fixed at $3 on the $100 valuation and Washington dis- trict at $3.50. A road bond indebted- ness is responsible for the higher levy in the latter district. The new levy is apportioned as fol- lows: Arlington and Jefferson dis- {tricts—For general county purposes, 95 cents; county schools, 50 cents: county roads, " 40 cents; district | schools, 40 cents; district roads. 40 jcents; school bond issue, 10 cents; state tax, 25 cents. Washington dis- trict—For general county purposes, 95 cents; county schools, 50 cents: lcounty roads, " 40 cents; district schools, 40 cents: district roads, 40 cents; ‘road bond Issue. 50 cents; chool bond issue, 10 cents; state tax, cents. Clean-Up Day Success. | Yesterday was Clean-up day in the [community, and that the project was l jtrucks of the health department were |kept busy throughout the day haul- {Ing away the accumulated rubbish. {The clean-up campaign was conducted by a committee o the Clarendon Citizens' Aswociation. of which J. Thomas Manning was chairman. Manning announces that the great amount of trash collected is convinc- ing proof that the town has outgrown an annual cleaning and that he pro- poses making a request of the coun- ty health officer, Dr. J. W. Cox, that he allow the trucks of the department to make more frequent collections. Cherrydale Council. No. 11, Daugh- ters of America, will celebrate the first anniversary of its organization with a special program this evening. 1 l e e X e e ¥ i e ot i o with a three buttons ." @ success is measured by the fact that) AT | shoulders. A Brand two button, dou- ble breasted loungesuit, MAY 1, 1923. RICHMOND BANKER ' GETS PRISON TERM Special Dispateh to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., May 1.—A jury in the hustings court today gave John Mitchell, r., former president of the Mechanics Saving Bank, a colored in- stitution, three years in the peniten- tlary for making false entries in the books of the bank. Motion for a new trial was made. Sy i s ROCKVILLE COURTHOUSE NOT TO GET ADDITION Committee Decides to Relieve Con- gestion by Partitioning Orphans’ Court Chamber. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., May 1.—County Commissioners Perry and Hilton, Berry E. Clark, clerk to the commis- sloners; Preston B. Ray, clerk of the of the local bar, who compose the committee named by Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, president of the board of county commissioners, to submit to the commissioners plans for providing more room for the offices of the clerk of the court, have reached the con- clusion that it would not be wise to bulld an addition to the courthouse at this time, notwithstanding that its need s generally recognized, have decided that the present crowded condition of the clerk's office can be relieved for a year or two, at least, by partitioning off about twelve feet of the quarters of the orphans' court adjoining, which can be spared, and cutting an arch between that and the present offices of the clerk. It is understood that the report of the committee will be approved by the commissioners and that the work will be done at once. e KILLED AS AUTO UPSETS. Mining Engineer Dead; Companion Escapes. Special Dispatch to The Star. | WHEELING, W. Va, May 1.—Ever- ett Stevens, twenty-two yvears old, a mining engineer of Syracuse, N. Y. working on the Cleveland and West- ern Coal Company’s new development near here, was instantly killed when & roadster which he was driving left the road and overturned on an em- bankment. A woman companion escaped with a few bruises. Relatives ordered his body shipped to Syracuse. Woman The Yorkshire Particularlygood forthe slender, athletic type air of iety showing, fety Brand hfifi?m; The cut’s clrcult court, and Otho H., W. Talbott | and | IRAISE SOVIET FLAC ON OUTBOUND SHP Thirty-Five American Miners Sail to Work in Kuzbas Mines. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 1.—The red flag of the soviet was holsted over the United American liner Reliance today by thirty-five American miners who sailed with their wives and children for Russia to work in the mines of the autonomous industrial colony Kuzbas, A large delegation of officials from the American soviet headquarters went aboard to speed the departing members and to witness the flag-rais- ing. Among them were several of the Kuzbas chiefs who yesterday were indicted for the second time on grand larceny charges preferred by Ameri- cans who had invested in the colony, lived there for a time and returned fo the United States. An interested spectator of the cere- mony from a distance was Victor Ber- ger,” socialist member of Congress from Milwaukee, who sailed on the Reliance to attend the international congress of socialists at Hamburg. The flag of the outgoing colonists colors which have streamed from the stern of the Reliance since she went under the reglstry of the {mian republic so that she might carry liquor for passengers. Daughters of worked into the center in brilliant silk the soviet emblem. All the miners and their families were well dressed and well equipped and had the appearance of prosperit Each was sald to have become an in- vestor in Kuzbas, as a condition 10 Le coming a member of the colony. ‘Specia! Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va.. May 1—Rev. P. F. Arthur, pastor of Fairview Meth- odist Church, Brookville district, Campbell county, has announced that |Ne is considering becoming a candi- date for nomination on the demo- | cratic ticket for justice of the peace, !which work is In the suburbs of Lynchbur, was nearly as large as the Panaman | the colonists had made it and had| PASTOR ENTERS POLITICS.| G. U. STUDENTS INSPECT HARBOR OF BALTIMORE Joined by Johns Hopkins Delega- tion in Study of Plers and Elevators. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., May 1.—Shipping course students of Georgetown Uni- versity of Washington and Johns Hopkins University Inspected the lo- cal harbor. The Georgetown students wers met at Union station by the Hopkins del- egation and E. P. McIntyre, presi- dent of the Forelgn Trade Club. The students were taken to the steamer Glenridge, at Canton, where buffet luncheon was served, at which Mayor Broening, Bancrott' Hill and W. M. Brittain, chairman of the = port and export hoard of trade, greet ed_the students. The party was then taken for trip around the harbor and shown the plers and workings of the expor! elevators, which, especially in coal loading, are acknowledged to be the finest on the Atlantic coast. $5,000 SCHOLARSHIP. Bequeathed to Encourage Work in Foreign Missions. Special Dispatch to The Star. ! "FREDERICK, Md. May 1—Witn (the exception of a beauest of $5.000 {to the Protestant Eplscopal Church for the establishment of a scholar- ship for students to work in the for- elgn mission fleld, the entire estate lof Henry Trail, noted chemist and breeder of rare fowls, who died here recently, is left to his sisters and brothers. The beneficiaries are his sisters, Ariana T. Belt, Florence Trail, Anna M. Harding and Bertha Trail. and | brothers, Charles B. Trail and Arthur Trail. No values has been placed on the estate. e — NEWSPAPER PLANT SOLD. Harrisonburg Daily News Record Changes Hands. | By the Associated Press. HARRISONBURG, Va, May Purchase of the Harrisonburg Dail News Record by Harry F. Byr chairman of the Virginia democrat committee, and Shirley Carter and It Gray Williams, all of Winchester, was announced _yesterday. John R. Crown, former Washington newspaper man, will become editor of the paper under the new management, which took charge yesterd The Cambridge The Society Brand ver- sion of thecurrent, easy, loungy|style. A slightly shorter coat, broader shoulders,softroll front, no vent in the back, straight the thing Inall goocl clothes you expect to find g‘ood fabric and tailoring. In Society Brand Clothes these es- sentials are taken for granted. But what distin- guishes them from all other clothes is their cut. What makes them unique—what makes them the standard of good dress—is their fashionable cut. A great variety at $55 and $60 Other Models as low as $45 The Hecht Co. 7th at F trousers with