Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1923, Page 9

- ALEXANDRIA READY ‘FOR SHRINE INFLUX Million-Dollar Band to Play. Elahorate Preparations Are Made. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star, ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 2.—The famous million-dollar band of Ielam Temple of Shriners of San Francisco will give a concert from 11 until 12 o'clock Monday at George Washing- ton Park, where the work of erecting the George Washington Masonic Na- tional Memorial Associatien Temple, which, when completed, will cost $4,- 000,000, 1s in progress. Thousands of citizens and thousands of Shriners will attend the ceremony. The con- cert will be given by the band im- mediately upon its return from a pil- grimage to Mount Vernon Schools to Be Closed. The band consists of seventy-two pleces and will be accompanied by & maie choir of forty-five voices, with their celebrated patrol, numbering forty-five. Selections will be glven Dby the choir at the temple site. The public schools here will be closed for the event, and they also will be closed Tuesday in order to permit the children to attend the Shrine parade w ington. ‘"(‘.n\' Trnsk‘e will make the trip to Mount Vernon with Imperia] Poten- tate McCandless and his officers. The imperial potentate and the members of his party will leave Washington on a special electric train for Mount Vernon and are scheduled to reach Mount Vernon at 9:30 o'clock. The governor will precede the imperial potentate and meet him upon his ar- rival at Mount Vernon. Jameés H. Price, grand master of Masons in Virginia and deputy grand master of Masons in Virginia, of Alex- andria, and Potentate Keese of Acca Temple, with a committee from Alex- andria, will go to Mount Vernon ahead of the potentate and hf officers and meet them on their arrival at that lace. 5 Potentate May Stop Oft. It has not vet fully been deter- minded whether or not the imperial potentate will stop off in Alexandria to view the temple being erected here. This, it is stated, will depend on con- ditions. 1f, however, the, program is carried out as per schedule without delay it is expected that the imperial potentate will stop over in this city. Upon arriving at Mount Vernon the famous band will play a number of hymns and selections will be given by the choir and a handsome wreath made of California foliage brought in a special refrigerator car across the country will be placed on Washing- ton's tomb by the imperial potentate. Arrangements have been made for the distribution of five thouaand leaf- lets to the visitors at the smple site on Monday and it aleo is announced that Charies H. Callahan and Robert S. Barrett will alternate in making talks to the visiting Shriners regar ing the temple, this to be given dai during the progress of the Shrine atherin, B en thousand copies of a folder, giving a full description of the tem- ple and also containing relerence to Phe various points of historical inter- est in the city, also are to be dis- tributed to the visitors Cornetist to Give Concert. A feature in connection with the band concert at the temple will be a solo by David Cobb Rosebrook, one of the most celebrated cornetists in the United States, from San Fran- cisco. Mr. Cobb is a member of Islam » e and is a direct descendant of Jesse Perry, the famous drummer boy of Bunker Hill, and another ancestor was David Cobb, who was an_side- de-camp on the Staff of Gen. Wash- IR rooms nave been provided in tents at the foot of the hill of the temple site for the accommodation of the visitors, and Miss Cora Coch- ran will be charge. Lunches and Soft drinks will be served at the tents. About thirty local Masons will Dbe on hand to give assistance to the visitors and also to act as guides. Alexandria-Washington Lodge rooms will be open all day tomorrow for the accommodation of the visitors, and it 1s announced that throughout the Shrine convention no charge for admittance will be made. Practically everything has been completed by the Alexandria Masons for the accommodation of the visitors. The new traffice rules will go into operation tomorrow and the provost guard will at once begin to function. Traffic regulations eftective here from 6 a.m. tomorrow morning until midnight June 10 were announced by the city today. They are for the Shrine convention and, it is expected, will greatly aid in handling the hun- dreds of automobiles expected here. The following streets will be used exclusively as one-way streets _fll’ld will be marked with appropriate signs designating direction of traffic: Duke street, westbound trafic from West to Diagonal road; Diagonal road, east- bound traMc from Duke to King street; West street, southbound traf- fic from Duke street to King street: West street, northbound traffic from King to Princess street; Patrick street, eastbound trafic from Frank- lin street to the city limits; Alfred street, southbound traffic from King to Franklin street; Franklin street, westbound traffic from Alfred street to Patrick street; King street, east- bound traffic from st street to Russell road; Russell road, south- bound traffic from King street to city limits. » Ban on Parking. No parking will be permitted on the following streets: Franklin street from Alfred to Patrick street, Duke from ‘West to the city limits, King from Fair- fax to the city limits, Russell road from King to the city limits, Diagonal road from Duke street to King street, West street from Duke to Prince street, Patrick street from Franklin to the city limits, Alfred street from Franklin to Cameron street, Noith Washington street from Montgomery to Poor House lane, Royal street from Wolf to Cameron, Fairfax from Prince to Cameron, Cameron from Washington to_Columbus, Cameron from Royal to Fairfax, Prince from Royal to Fairfax. Certain streets in the business sec tion are restricted to one-hour park- ing limit. These streets will be placarded. A delegation of officers of Company M. 1i6th Virginia Infantry, left last night by motor truck for Richmond and will bring back with them equip- ment for that company, including rifles, shoes and suits. ' They also carried to Richmond with them cer- tain condemned government property. Those in charge of the trip are First Sergt. Pettit and Sergt. Robin- son. They expect to return tomor- row night. A bold automoblle thief early yes- terday morning entered the garage in the rear of 408 Duke street and acked up the automobile of Miss oberta Moncure and carried off the four tires of her machine. and also the battery of the car. Thus far no trace of the thief has been found. The thief left his jack. The body of Mrs. Jennle B. Moore, a hotel proprietre. at Mount Jack- son, Va., who died several days ago, was brought here yesterday after- noon and her funeral took place from Wheatley's chapel. Servic were conducted by Rev. Edgar Car- penter, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, and burial was in Ivy Hill cemetery. —_— VETERAN PHYSICIAN Dr. Robert Bruce. Johnstone Prac- ticed in Prince Georges for Thirty Years. H i DR. ROBERT B. JOHNSTONE. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md, June 2.— Funeral services for Dr. Robert Bruce Johnstone, whose death occurred at his home in Maryland avenue here about noon yesterday,” will be ar- ranged for late this afternoon upon the arrival of his sons from Chi- cago. Dr. Johnstone had been ill for sev- eral ‘months, and had been conined to his bed for several weeks. He had been a practicing physician, n the upper section of Prince Georges county and the District of Columbia for the past thirty yvears, moving to Berwyn from Washington and later coming to Hyattsville, where he had lived for about twenty yeara He served several vears as health offi- cer of this municipality, Dr. Johnstone was a first lieuten- ant in the Medical Corps, Maryland state guard. He was born March 17, 1858, at Beachwoed, Wayne county. Pa. He was graduated from Hahaman Medical College, Philadelphia, receiv- ing his “degree in 1888. He first practiced in Pittsford, N. Y.; but his wite's health being poor, he returned to Philadelphia and took the post graduate course at Hahaman. His wife, who survives, was Miss Mary Elizabeth *Graff of Germantown, Philadelphia.. In addition to his wife he leaves two daughters, Mi Marie M. Johnstone of Harrisburg, P’a.. and Miss Katherine S. Johnstone of West- ville, N. J., dnd four sons, Robert F. and Thomas S. Johnstone of Chicago, Mortimer C. Johnstone of Berwyn and George D. Johnstone of Hyatravilla Dr. Johnstone was a member of Oriole Lodge, I. O. O. F. of Hyatt ville. \While studying mad'cine worked as a printer at the casos was also a feature story several New York ne he and apers. ALL-DAY SERVICES WILL OPEN CHURCH New Structure at Hyatts- ville to Be Used First Time Tomorrow. Special Dispateh to The Star. DIESIN HYAUSVlLLE i writer tor | Gosh-Awful Solemn Ceremony ‘When the eerfe hour of midnight announces its passing in deep-throat- ed tones across the sleeping capital, two score of fezz-capped nobles of the Mystic Shrine will quietly gather in the Garden of Allah and there perform the solemn rites of en- throning the sphinxes. It will be the finishing touch to the order’s holiest 8pot in the sgered city of Mecca. In words uhintelligible to all but the faithful, they will raise the four queer, silent guards to the stations and there upon bid them stand watch over the house of the temple in speechless reverence until they are again released upon the command of U. . ENVOYS CAUSE PARLEY SENSATION Leave Chamber During League Discussion of Drug Traffic; Deny Rupture. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, June 1.—A sensation was caused this morning at the league of nations’ headquarters during the ses- | sion of the opium advisory commis- | slon, when the entire American dele- gation abruptly left the meeting. There were immedigte rumors of a rupture, but this proved incorrect, as the American delegates, not having & vote, in view of the American non- membership In the league, retired when their report was presented, with the intention of returning at the after- noon session. Their action, however, met with some adverse criticiem The commission met to discuss the limitation of the production of oplum. | Before the debate began, Stephen G. Porter, chief American delegate, ln-x nounced that he and his colleagues | preterrsd to retire in order that the | commission could discuss more freely | the propositions already submitted by his government. He added that these propositions were accompanied by a | vi full, detatled explanation and that an: supplementary explanation would fo: the moment be useless. The commission, he continued, was | free to adopt the American proposi- | tion or to prepare new proposals, but | in the latter case the American dale-i gation would require time in which to study the question After Mr. Porter's declaration, Mr. | Campbell, representing India, persist- | ed in his desire to put certdin ques- | tions to the American delegates in| order, as he sald, to obtain the exact | gense of the American propositions. | Mr. Porter replied that he did not want to enter a discussion of this| kind, and then left the hall with the other members of his delegation. The meeting of the commission was sus- pended for a half hour, during which the incident was the subject of ani- | mated discussion Upon the resumption of the meet- ing, 8ir Malcolm Delevingne of Eng- land explained his understanding of | the American propositions, and said that, to render them more acceptable to ail the governments. he would pro pose a resolution inviting the opium- producing nations to begin negotia. tions for an arrangement in regard to the use of the drus. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md.. June 2 (Special). —Mrs, Emma A. Harwege, wife of | John H. Harwege, died Thursday at her home, near Cabin John, this yi r HYATTSVILLE. Md.. June 2—Open- ing of the new $21,500 graystone| {bullding of the First Methodist Epls-| copa] Church, South, of Hyattaville, | at Marion street and the Washington- | Baltimore boulevard, will take place | tomorrow, when all-day services will | be held. Following Sunday school at 9:45 am. the principal service will bej held at 11 o'clock, at which the ser-] mon will be delivered by Dr. E. V. Regester, presiding elder of the| [ Washington district. An organ prel 1 ude and a solo by Mrs. J. Frank Rice o Washington are schedmled. Young People's Rally. At 3 p.m. a young people’s rally, in| which young people's socleties of Hyattsville churches and the Brent- wood M. E. Church, South, have been invited to participate, will be held, M. H. B. Hoffman and T. D. Jarrell being in charge of the program. Spe- cial music, short talks By former pas- | tors and Sunday school specialists are | included in the program for this fea- ture. An Epworth League devotional meeting, in charge of student vol- unteers of the University of Mary- land, Miss Lillian O. Earnest, leader, will take place at 7 p.m. The day’s program will be concluded with an -inspirational service at § o'clock, when the sermon will be de- livered' by Dr. J. Howard Wells, pre- siding elder of the Ealtimore district. There will be selections by the church choir and solos by Walter M. Mac- luckie of Washington. Many Guests Invited. All former pastors, members and friends of the church are cordially in- ‘vited to attend the services. The com- mittes op entertainment comprises: Mrs. James Severe, chairman; Mrs iM. H.'B. Hoffman, Mrs. B. S. Pendle ton and Mrs. Loufs Dashiel. About $15,000 has been raised so far toward the $21,500 estimated cost of the building. The bullding committes of the church inciudes the Rev. C. H. Can- non, pastor, chafrman; T. D. Jarrell, secretary; M. H. B. Hoffman, treas: urer; Alex Gude, Mrs. James Severe, Miss Eliza Roszell, I. K. Gruver, K. J. Morrls, T. Ray Stanton and M. A. Blasey. The architects are Mitchel & Hunter of Washington, and the builder, Frank Ginechessi of Chevy Chase, Md. The present church, on Locust ave- nue, is one of the oldest in this sec- tion, having been bullt considerably more than fifty years ago. 9,000 CONFEDERATE VETS GET PENSIONS Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., June 2.—The state of Virginia has malled out checks to the 9,000 old soldiers and their dependents for the sums allowed by the state for services in the Confed- {Judge Samuel crate States service. These checks are for varying sums and can be cashed at any bank in the country at face value, there being a penalty for any person toymake a charge for paying the same. The average age of the pensioners is lower now than a few years ago, dus to a change in the law whereby 4 county, aged sixty.seven yvears. Her death was due to a complication of diseases, and followed a Jong illness. She is survived by her husband. The funeral took place yesterday after- noon from the family residence, Rev, George §. Duncan. pastor of Herman Presbyterian Church, near Cabin John, conducting the services. Burial was in the cemetery adjoining Her- man Church Commencement Dates. The county board of education has announced the dates of the annual commencements of the various high schools of the county, as follows Gaithersburg. June 12; ‘Sandy Spring and Rockville, June 13; Poolesville and Dickerson, June 14.° * Upon the advice of Drs. M. P. and Charles S Hill, the county commis- sioners have adjudged Mrs. Emma E. Simpers to be of unsound mind. and have directed that she be committed to Springflield Asylum. at Sykesville, Nd., for care and treatment, at the expense of the state and county. Motorist Fined $70. Charles Adams of Halpine, this county, was fined $70 and costs, by Riggs in the police court here following his conviction on two charges of violating the motor vehicle regulations. It was represented that he was guilty of speeding and with recklessness on the Rockville pike, near Montrose, Mem- orfal day, when the thoroughfare wss crowded. He noted an appeal to the circuit court. Others paying fines, or forfeiting collaterals for violations of the motor vehicle regulations were John Johnson, $18; Charles Schuchardt and D. A. Darrock. $6.50 each; James Nerston, $11.50, and Bernard Botts, 20 ’ John Lee was unable to pay fines aggregating $55 for four violations and was given a day in jail for each dollar of fines imposed. Marriage Licenses. Licenses have been issued by the clerk of the circuit court here for the marriage of Miss Fannie M. Ben- nett of Washington and John_ R. Darne of Cherrydale, Va., and Miss Margaret E. Hughes and Garrett D. Bayne, both of this county. On charges of_disorderly conduct, James O'Connor, Sadie Doy and James Diggs were adjudged guilty by Judge Riggs and each was fined $20 and cost: Under an_order passed by Judge Edward C. Peter in the circuit court here, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Guy Cassa- | the negro in the south is day of Takoma Park, this county, adopt as their child Juanita Thelma Moriarty, whose father consented to the arrangement. The little one's mother is dead. the omnipotent , the all-powerful imperial potenta nly at midnight, says the Shrine may this most gosh-awful solemn ‘service be performed. Should the time vary a single minute, it might invoke the wrath of all the genils of Islam and spell destruction to those faithless enough to question the dictates of the Koran. Each sphinx is nine feet long, and has every appearance of being a master- plece of sculpturing. As a matter of fact, the images are made of wood. They form a most important part of every ‘“garden of Allah” their real duty being known only to those who hase crossed the burning sands and been formally initiated into the An- clent Arabic Order, Nobles of the Myetic Shrine. GOVERNOR WARNS NEGROESOF EX0DUS McLeod of South Carolina Writes Leader of Danger in Removal. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, S. C, Juné 2.—The exodus of the negro from the south is‘more the problem of the negro him- self and the community to which he §0és than of the southern white man, Gov. McLeod said In a letter written o @ negro leader In this state. Eco- nomlic conditions were held respon- sible by the chief executive for the migration of negroes. eclaring that the negroes had not been the only class to suffer from hard times in the agricultural dis triots, the governor continued: Own Problem Firat. “The most serious problem from the standpoint of the colored man is Whether or not his condition is goin, to be better and permanently im proved by removal to the north. You must bear in mind the proven his- torical fact that while the northern people love the negro en masse and a8 a race they have no affection or derdtion for him as an indi- The problem created for the south | by the exodus, the shortage of labor, can be golved in v can b time, the governor The letter was written in reply to one containing a protest against the Prohibiting of labor soliciting and other measures to impede the migra- tion of the negroes by tl - LR 1 ¥y the state au A Part of Letter. Following 1s & part of the gov- ernor's letter: “The lack of prosperity coming to altogether to be blamed, or even in a large measure, to the treatment he received here. It is due more espe- cially to economic and other condi- tions which neither he nor the white people who likewise are engaged in farming have becn able to control. These conditions, we all hope, wili change for tha better, and south I am quite sure the exodus would stop in itself. My observa. tion is that our colored people shared in and enjoved the days of prosperity. They have, of course, suffered 'in the days of adversity. “They have not been alone, however in thls suffering. “Certainly no upon a | return of profitable farming to the; Starts as Midnight Bell Peals) one will disagree | with you on the proposition that the | egro is entitled to justice in the courts. The law agaiist the solici- tation of labor from this state is upon the statute books and is the law of the land. It applies to the solici- tatfon of labor of any kind. white or colored, and is primarily intended to prevent either agricultural or in- dustrial stagnation by a eneral exodus of 1abor &t any tim GIVEN YEAR TERM FOR MANSLAUGHTER New Sentence Added to 24 Months | for Assanlt—Wrestler Gets Another Year. Moses Wormley, colored, will serve one year at Occoquan following his conviction of manslaughter in con- nectlon with the death of Jesse Dud ley, who dled last February. Wormley stabbed Dudley in November last and | was indicted for an_ assault with a dangerous weapon. He was convicted on that charge and given a term of two years in the penitentiary. Dudle: dled in February and the indict- ment for manslaughter was reported against him and he was convicted. Justice Stafford today imposed the additional one year's imprisonment after the.other term has expired Louis Zerega, known as a wrestler, was given another year at Occoquan today by Justice Stafford for stealing two mattresses from a furniture store. Zerega is serving one year on a sens tence for using dope, imposed some weeks ago by Justice Stafford. James Jimerson, colored, a railroad porter, was sent to Occoquan for one year on a larceny charge. He took a number of tablecloths from one of the dining cars of the Atlantic Coast line in_the yards at Eckington. Four months in Occoquan were given ‘Walter Allen, colored, for joy-riding. He 18 said to have used a truck belong- ing to his employer without permis- sion. CUPID BREAKS RANKS OF MIDDIE GRADUATES ANNAPOLIS, Md. June 2—Dan Cupid has made a big raid among the ranks of the midshipmen to be grad- uated from the Naval Academy next Thursday. 1t is reported there will be upwards of 15 weddings, some to ‘take place either in the naval chapel or the city churches immediately after receipt of diplomas and _commissions. The number to join the ranks of the bene- dicts this year is greater than ever i before. Has This Day Been Admitted to General Partnership . “or even in!C | franchise FLETCHER LAUDS JEFFERSON DAVIS Florida Senator Eulogizes Southern Confederacy President. Describing Jefterson Davis, presi- dent of the Confederacy, as one of the greatest men of all times and uphclding as lawful and oconstitu- tional the part that the sputh played in the events which led up to the civil war, Senator Dunchn U. Fletch- er of Florida addreseed an audience made up of Confederate veterans, the Confederacy at the First Dap- tiet Church, 16th«and O streets northwest, last night. The occasion marked the -celebration of the 115th anaiversary of the birth of the for- mer southern leader and was held under the auspices of the District ot Columbla division of the United Daughters of ghe Confederacy. Senator Fietcher said Jefferson Davis was “one of the outstanding figures of all time.” Events in Life of Davis. The senator related many events ing his career as statesman, soldler and private citizen. He sald he could not recall any attack ever having been made upon his .char- acter. In conclusion of his eulogy, Sénator Fletcher said, in paft: “No cause ever & bolder defender, purer victim, proved to be." In champloning the cause of the Confederacy, Senator Fletcher as- serted that it was not for the pur- pose of creating animosity that the facts relating to the Confederacy should be known, but that animosity should be done away with through the knowing of facts, Welcomed by Dr. Tupper. Dr. Henry Allen Tupper, pastor of the church, welcomed those attend- ing the celgbration and made a brief address In ‘Which he related several sketches from the life of Mr. Davis and of Gen. Robert E. Lee Other features of the program were the awarding of a veterans' cross to Henry D. King and a descendants’ cross to Miss Jennfe Louise Lunsford. The presentations were made by Mrs. Alblon’ W. Tuck in the absence of Mrs. Gustavus Weber. “Dixie,” “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia® and “Down Whgre the Swanee River Flows' were among the southern songs and melodies sung by Miss Josephene Houston, Miss Lilllan Chenoweth and Miss Winifred De Voe Frank Conw no_principle a than Jefferson Davis commandant of V., said a few words of greetings and Mrs. Walter Everett Hutton, divisional president of the D. C.. made introductory remarks, Concluding Exercises. n organ selection was presented Augvst King-Smith Invocation was delivered Reyv. W. Duffy, chaplain, Camp U /.. and the benediction was by ndrew R. Bird, chaplain. Camp ey Following the celebration Mrs. Cor- nelia Branch Stone, past sident | general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and now known as “the sweetheart of the Confederacy, invited the members of the Children of tha Confederacy present to shake the hands of the veterans attending. SEES SUFFRAGE GROW. Mrs. Catt Says Movement Will Be World Wide Soon. NEW YORK June 2.—Woman suf- frage will be universal within twenty- five years and France and Italy will be the next European nations to en- women, Mrs. Carrie Chap- man Catt, honorary president of the International Woman Suffrage Alli- ance, predicted upon her return on the Berangaria from an eight-month tour of Europe and South America. If Mussolini remains premler of Italy another year the women there will vote, she said STILLS IN GARAGE. Tearing Down Wall. N YORK, June 2.—Prohibition agents smashed in the brick wall of a downtown garage yesterday to enter a cellar. where they said they found two stills of 100 gallons each in operation. Had they known of a se- cret push button the destruction wouldn't have been necessary, they for the button automatically cried the door to a spiral stairway. y worked three hours tearing down the wall W *1002 Round Trip Washington | thing would be in readiness for the Sons and Daughters and Children of | j basis is about $35,000,000, and some in the life of the southern hero dur-| had a grander champion, no people| New ¥York Police Raid Place After| Colorado HASTENING PLANS FOR NEW TAX LEVY Montgomery County Officials Put- ting Data on Reassessments in Slmpe' for Commissioners. Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 2.—The work of reassessing all real and per- sonal property in the county, which began early last fall by direction of the state tax commission, has been completed, and the clerical force is now engaged in getting the data in shape for the annual levy, which must be signed by the county commliesion- ers not later than June 30. The work of making new books is a big task, but Berry E. Clark, clerk to the county commissioners, who is in chargo, declared today that every- commigsioners to 8ign the levy on time. While figures are not available, and will not be for several weeks, it 1s known that the new assessment will show a very large increase in the county’s taxable basis. Values were increased all over the county, more in some sections than in others, and the total increase is expected to run well into the millions. The present think the new basis will be In the neighborhood of $50,000,000. As a result of the increase the county tax rate for the coming year is cértain to be much lower than that of the current year. FIRE THREATENS. TOWN. Business Block Badly Damaged Be- fore Flames Are Subdued. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star CUMBERLAND, Md, June 2.—The leading business block in Hy fourteen miles northwest of was threatened yesterday morning, when fire broke out in the O. D. Blair Puilding, occupied by Mr. Blair as a) clothing’ and men’s furnishing store, | and the H. S. Funk bakery and flats above. The fire started in the rear of the bakery and caused considerable dam- age, but was subdued after forty-five minutes of hard fighting. The volun- teer fighters were aided by excep- tionally good water pressure. —_———— SUICIDE IS SUSPECTED. Will Drag River at Morgantown, W. Va., for Missing Map. Special Dispatch to The Star. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., June 2.— The police have been asked to drag the Monongahela river for Willlam Dav ged forty-one years, who has been missing since Sunday night from his boarding house, conducted by Mrs. Clara Meek, to whom he gave | his watch and a sum of money before leaving shortly before midnight Tracks were found to the river| edge. Davie had besn employed by | a transfer company. DEATH HELD ACCIDENT. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTO , Md., June 2.~The death of State Policeman Raymond . Eicholtz while pursuing a speed & motorist was unavoidable, ac- cording to the finding of a corener's | here last night holtz was fataily injured when| collided with the machine of| Stoner. Mrs. Stoner was injured in the c El he Samuel 1y {1s the citizens of this country that | Speciel Dispateh to The Star. l 2,000 VIEW KLAN | INITIATION OF 100 Crowd Gathers to Witness Ceremony Held at Capi- tol Heights, Md. ‘While 2,000 spectators looked on 100 men were made citizens of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan last night on the grounds of the Capital City Base Ball Park, Capitol Heights, Md., just a few yards from the District line, at exercises presided over by J. H. Haw- kins, imperial Klan representative of Maryland and Delaware. About six imperial representatives from Atlanta were present at the ceremonlies. Just before the initiation Dr. Haw- kins delivered an address on the principles of the order, In which he declared that “any organization that stands on the Holy Book cannot go down In failure.” He declared the United States was a Christian nation and must always maintain the su- remacy of the white race. He aiso auded the public schools as one of the greatest institutions of tis gov- ernment. ‘Warns Allens Living Here, “We owe obligations to other gov- ernments,” he said, “but at the same time they owe the same obligations to us. If our population of forelgners cannot assimilate our ideals of a democratic government, let them re- turn to the land of their nativity. It make our nation great, anything else.” Preceding the ceremony a huge fiery cross, twenty-five fest in height and about ten feét across, was ll‘i'- ed. The flaming cross cast its glow over the whole gathering, providing a dramatic background fer the cere- monies. Its light illuminated the en- tire base ball park and threw Into relief the action in each part of the initiation to the public that was massed in a circle not ten feet away. Skyroekets Light Sky. Glant skyrockets were touched off, and the flaming trail of their mid- air flights could be seen for a dis- tance of miles. Firecrackers were also exploded at intervals . A grandstand was jammed with a capacity crowd of women and chil- dren, who gained their admittance by paying 25 cents each. Soft drinks and sandwiches were on sale. Hundreds of Autosa. Three or four hundred automobiles ot all makes and bearing many - cense tags of far-away states formed an_outer circle of the gathering. Probably the most Impressive part of the ceremony was the raising of the flag to the peak of a lofty stafr, while beams from searchlights at. tached to various automobiles played on it. As the flag went fluttering to its place, buglers blew “to the col- ors,” trumphét notes gchoing through the othérwise rural silence. At times the entire assemblage joined in sing- ing “America” and “Onward Chru-i more than tian Soldiers.” GUILTY OF SLAYING. HAGERSTOWN, Md.. June 2— Wil- liam Heiser, fifty-three, was con- victed of second degree murder by a jury here last night for the killing of his son-in-law, Bérnard <. Myers, during a drunken brawl Heiser claimed self def ARLINGTON AMUSEMENT BEACH NOW BATHING DANCING BOATING RIDES GAMES HALF MILE OF FINE SANDY BEACH REFRESHMENTS OPEN 0 SOUTH-END | OF HIGHWAY | BRIDGE Il on OneTicket Yellowstone derful Tabernacle and world-famous ¢ organ built Deseret Museum filled with relics of early days and the cliff dwellers. Great Salt Lake so buoyant you can’t sink. high, the air A new marvel at every turn. Leaping geysers, belching mud volcanoes, splut- tering “‘paint pots.” Petrified trees stand- ing a million years. Boiling springs and sapphire pool: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone—the world’s scenic climax in colors. Bear, buffalo, deer and elk. alt lake Cify=: = ‘The ridge-pole of the continent, where the mountains are nearly three miles of the West, with its won- by the Mormon pioneers. like wine and there is every out-door sport. Health and recreation forall the family. All at the cost of a ticket to Yellowsione alone when you travel via the West Yellowstone entrance —an advantage exclusive to this route. You candoit in two weeks or stop atany point as long as you wish. Automobile tion in Yellowstone with ‘accommodations at hotels, $54.00 additional; at camps, $45.00. (Season opens June 20.) Side trip from Denver to Park, $10.50. 3 Rocky Mountain National (Esvs) It going o the Pacific Coast, visit all these places en routs Write for Let us help Free Booklets beautifully plan your trip and send you strated booklets with maps. For information, ask any Railroad Ticket Office, or D. Davis, Gen'l Agent, 14 Penins; ania Bldg. 15th and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphla & N. W. Ry, Gen'l Agent, BB tem, o8 Com'l Trust Bide, 15th & Market Sts., Philadeiphia DISTRICT DRIVERS LOSE MD. PERMITS Five Have Rights on Roads Denied Ten Days—One Has License Re- voked for Intoxication. . Spectal Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, M4, June 2—Five Washington motorists had their li- censes suspended and one revoked during the past week, according to the weekly report of metor vehicle violations made public by Automobile Commissioner Baughman today. Morgan B. Callahan, 1416 F street northwest, had his license revoked on a charge of operating a car while intoxicated, Charles Baunback, 11 N street northeast; T. Morris Wampler. 3216 Macomb street, and Richard E. Willlams, Ontario apartments, lost thelr right to operate a car in Mary- land for ten days on charges of speeding in exceeding thirty-fiv, miles an hour; R. O. Kleber, 252, street northwest, suffered a 1i pension for reckiess driving, z ward F. Barker, 312 C west, fifteen days for a one else to use operator's card. CHILD DIES OF LOCKJAW. Ten-Year-Old Girl Had Been Bitten by Pet Bear. $pecial Dispateh to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., June 2.— lic Pearl Corley, aged ten years daughter of Edward Corley, a Balti- more and Ohio railroad fireman. who contracted lockjaw from the bite of a pet bear, Is dead at her home at Hyndman, fourteen miles northw of here. Tire little girl's foot had been half bitten off. She was teasing a bear belonging to Somers Fischer and had put her foot against the cage. The diseased tissne was removed ar serum administered. but the disease s too far advanced TOOTH CAUSES ILLNESS. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. MOUNT SAVAGE, Mrs. age. Keyser M4, June Ralph E. Wilson of Mou who was a Miss Coffroth W. Va, is in a critical con dition. the result of the extraction of a tooth. Her entire comé poixoned. tem has be In the Grand Old Chesapeake Bay BAY SHORE Baltimore Reached by steam roads or W.. B. & A. electric_to Balt more, thence via Baltimore trolleys, or roads direct to Park over delightful route. Washington Boulevard to Baltimore to East Fayette St., to Philadelphia Road, to North Point Road. Going through historic North Point Battlefield. Delicious Sea Food Dinners —fine auto Da_;;c_ing All forms of entertainment and thrills a-plenty. 1,000-ft. Concrete Pier Sea-bounded horizon Bay Shore Park Baltimore $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester. $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN SUNDAY JUNE 3 SPECIAL TRAIN Eastern Standard Time Leaves Washington (Cnlon Station) 7:30 A Arrives Wilmington 10:05 A.M . Chester 10:25 A.M., Philadelphia 1050 A 3. Returning. leaves Broad Street §i tion 730 P.M., West Philadelphia 7:35 P.M., Chester 7:36 P.M., Wil- mington §:15 P.M. Tickets on sale Friday preceding Ex- ‘cursion. g Similar Excursion Sunday, Juse 17 Pennsylvania Railroad System The Route of the Broadway Limited. Cuticura Talcum To PowderAnd Perfume ‘To soothe and cool the skin and By mixing paraffin spirit, bone oil distillate and metallic lithium in a powerful cast-iron tube and heating the compound in a reverberatory fur- nace, an English chemist has obtained artificial diamonds identical in com- position with the original gem as dug from the mines. But the proce: 1s long and costly, while the dlamonds resulting are so tiny that mine stones of the same size can be bought for a | statement by quarter of the money. party is deas women were given pensions on ac count of service of their husbands, and this was made to include such women as had been married up to thirty years ago. The age of the old soldiers is above eighty years at this time and the number of these is being reduced each year. An average of about 10 per cent of the checks come back with the e postmaster: “The overcome heavy perspiration, dust lightly with this pleasingly scented powder. It imparts a delicate last- fragrance and leaves the skin John L. Edwards & Co. June First, 1923 Chicago & NorthWestern Union Pacific System