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News NEWARK, N. J. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. EWARK, June 6.—Adam Dresch, former policeman, wanted in a mur- der and police scandal, is now re- ported in Mexico. while. it is rumored. authorities seek him near the Cana- dlan border. corner theater crowd last w an auto truck hit Misses and Catherine Conothen of Nutley, the latter dying from Juries. A dog. ran amuck reet School was killed be- mad, believed among South Eighth pupils at recess, but Tore biting any one Sam H. Cone. former chief prohibi- tion awent in the state, and six others pleaded not guilty to bribing prohibition agents when arraigned. The executive committee of Essex cemocrats is to meet soon to consider candidates for sheriff. senatorial as- sembly and freeholder nominations. OKLAHOMA CITY. Special Dispateh o The Star. OKLAHOMA CITY. June 5.— Twelve members of the A, and M. College faculty resigned when state board of agriculture met ves- terday. The meeting. called to hear recommendations of George Wilson, new president, adjcurned to Wedne: day ‘when John Whiteffurst. presi- dent of the heard. declined to e company the board to Stillwater for meeting day. Whitehurst* said he would nci be “ordered about by Gov. Walter” M. J. Otey, financial sacretiry the school. was ousted Hermann state pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two vears on ibery charge. 0. G. and E. has been ordered to pa interes or money owed the Public as refunds. Mrs. Renistine Dodd Henshaw is dead in Baltimore. The body will be_sent here, D. R. Brown died Monday after- noon. A new issued. t flood warning has been NORFOLK, VA. ®pecial Dispatch NORFOI o The Star. Va.. June 5—Norman, six-vear-old son of Norman F. Levy. died todayv in Suffolk Hospital of in- Juries sustained when the automobile of M Greenwood turned over near Suffolk Gireenwood and party were motoring to the Washington Shriners’ gession when the accident occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Levy and {ireenwood, Tecovering. returned . to Norfolk Rotary Club today had farewell program 1 honor of Admiral An- drews, raval district commandant, Who turns over the district tomorrow 10 A iral Zeigemeir. Andrews goes 1o relieve Admiral Long as com- mander of the American naval forces #n Burope eit mass meeting in Colonial The; er tonight opens the campai [ Nomination lists close Wednesday. Thirty thousand have paid pelltax, City Treasurer Tunstall announces Because of repairs to armo: roof under way, drill by National Guard units is suspended thirty day Indictment charging mansiaughter \\’r s r»’!urned against Hyman Aron- off, whose automobile ‘stri Killed Miss Georgia Claude, May s ronof trial is se co: At \ court for June 22 v thoration CHICAGO, ILL. Special Dispatch 1o The Star. _CHICAGO. 1Il. June 5—Trial of Fred Lundin, former political boss and co-defendants charged with con- spiracy to loot the Chicago school treasury. opened today with an ad- dress by the prosecuting attorney out. lining charges, which inciude fake gontracts, overcharges and bribes Counsel for the defense w k Cour il speak The threatened street car strike has been delayed pending new negotia- ions Judge Thomas G. five Jears old, thirtyone years on he Cook county bench, died a home in Winnetka. S John E. Earley, chief prohibition fleld agent in Chicago, has been trans- ferred. Denial is made that politics is_responsible Evanston proposes to change the name of its “Main street” because the name is considered “indicative of a yokel condition.” Cooler weather arrived today after three people were prostrated by heat and eight persons bitten by dogs. DAVENPORT, I0WA. Special Dispaten to The Star. DAVENPORT, la, June 5—John Dau, forty-four vears old, is battling for his life in a local hospital as the Tesult of bullet wounds inflicted when a revolver he had been cleaning fell to the floor of his home and was dis- charged. Dau is the father of eight children, ranging from three to eight- e:n veurs. Charles Wells, twenty-three years ©id. was drowned when he fell off a diving board at Flemings landing into the Mississippi. A large crowd of bathers witnessed the accident, but all supposed Wells could swim and made no effort to rescue him until t00 late, Windes, seventy- EL PASO, TEX. ®pecial Dispatch to The Star. EL_PASO, Tex., June 5.—New Po- Qice Chief Reeder has announced that his force will not be increased as the city is becoming more law-abiding daily. Trustee Wyeth Doak objected at the ®chool board meeting to the salaries of Supt. Hughey's assistants. The to- gal is $17,900 ‘as approved by the Yoard. Children playing with matches ®tarted a fire destroying a shed at 204 North Mesa, sparks damaging roof of @partment at 207 East Yandell street. El Paso pioneers are having their annual picnic today Adolfo Vinci, Italian ambassador's consul advisor, is expected to come here from Washington to hunt for 120 Italians who entered Mexico last year en route to United States and haven't been heard from. Bathing beauties are getting ready or competition in the parade at com- Hnunity picnic Saturday at Washing- ton Park Lake, WACO, TEX. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. WACO, Tex., June 5.—Henry Thiel, father of M. B. Thiel, assistant secre tary of the Waco Chamber of Com- merce, died suddenly at Grandview, after having visited his son in Waco, The elder Thiel, at the time of his death, was making an overland auto- mobile trip. He will be buried at Brenham. Gov. Neff has signed the bill sub- stituting electrocution for hanging in Texas. The new law becomes effec- tive ninety days after the adjourn- ment of the legislature. This action may result in the electrocution in- stead of hanging of Roy Mitchell, no- torious negro “blue beard,” who has been convicted and sentenced to hang for five mysterious murders. S. E. Moore, day clerk at the Metro- pole Hotel, was injured internally When he slipped on a banana peel while riding on a North 9th street car. The Texas Paper Company, with headquarters at Dallas, announces It will open a branch house in Waco at an early date. ———— The plans accepted for the $5,000, 000 municipal auditorium to be erect ed in St. Louis make provision for smoking rooms for women as well as Zor men. in-| the | invetsigator. | NEW YORK. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW Detective Robert McAllister, the po- charge of perjury. review the case, Judge Crain. as a committing magistrate police bootleg graft inquiry, in Ferdinand Pecora, attorney, announced meantime he would ask the grand jury for an charge of bribery brought {him by Mrs. Mary Castro. until Friday at 10:30 o'clock. In White Plains A. Cuvilller asked Justice Le Young for a change of venue the o him by Frank } for June 1% Commissioner flex of the United States now in use the pubtic schools of this city as pro- British brought out the fact today that ?rof. David Saville Amerzcan History, cials er of accounts for attack, is now be- ing considered by the board of super- intendents. The hoard will take up lh](‘t‘,llllb: next Thursday afternoo The Earl of Northesk. in melan- | choly splendor at the Ritz-Carlton to day. contemplated his well polished naile and the tangle of American di- vorce laws. He and Jessica v {the dancer, cannot marry in New York state. because of a_technicality in the procedure under which she got her divorce at Chicago. Nor can they I marry in Illinois until next October, Then a vear will have passed since the decree was granted. In other states—"Why not?” i His lordship and the fair Jessica would have furnished Jesse 'Lynch Williams with a subplot for the play which equity put on for him last winter. Striking bricklavers and contrac- tors on public school buildings have ibeen called for a conference [ with a special copmittee of the board of estimate. to work out a plan where- by bricklavers may be obtained for the twenty-one school buildings un- der way and the twenty more that {are proposed. Already five months' | delay has been caused by the short- lage of bricklavers, and where it was contemplated that 40,000 more would he available by fall, the estimate now | is 10,000 The administration’s whole school- building program, calling for the con- truction of forty-one scheols. at a cost of $66.000,000, is threatened Infuriated with the motorman of a 2d avenue trolley car, who had run over and killed a bo. a mob battled for half an hour this morning with policemen 4nd reserves at 2d avenue nd 99th street. Oficers with revolvers stood the crowd back, part of whom were yelling. “Lynch him.™ The panes of the trolley car windows were shattered by a hail of stones The motorman was vindicated later by the police and released when it was found he was not responsible for the accident. Two-year-old Soloman Silzerberg of 311 East 99th street, stepped from a plle of dirt, near where the founda David Prompt Mai | master of Washington, is seeing to it that every visiting Shriner gets the mail sent to him by the folks at home. Elaborate prepartions, made for several weeks before the convention began. with the backing of Noble Harry S. New, Postmaster General of | the United States, and Noble John H. Bartlett, first assistant postmaster general, make certain that every | noble receives his letters. When Postmaster Mooney, who is from Ohio, was appointed head of the | Washington city post office a few | weeks ago, the very first task he set himself to mas the big job of han- | aling the eity’s mall during Shrine | week. | He immediately called conferences | of his assistants and made the ar- | rangements which are in perfect | operation now, with a great “Shrine | post office” established in the Post Office Department itself, branch of- | fices in hotels. and a “post office on | wheels" helping out at 13th and F | streets. | Population Almost Doubled. With the normal population of 450,000 almost doubled, it has taken the entire resources of the lacal post | office, with its nearly 2,000 clerks, | carriers and supervisors, to place the | mail of the visitors into their hands. But they are getting it, whether at hotels, private resldences, or located |in_the “sleeping car towns.” More than 100 additional clerks and twenty carriers are at work this week, some at the city post of- fice, where the mail comes from the Union station, some in hotel stations, and others at the “Shrine post office. | The latter office, located in the rear |of the first floor of the Post Office | Department, at 11th street and Penn- sylvania_avenue, is open each day this week from & am. to midnight, to serve the visitors. - Several weeks ago notices were sent by Postmaster Mooney to every tem- ple in the United States, informing the members, if they did not know their address here before they start- ed for Washington, to_ instruct those at home to simply address their let- Today The Evening Star building. with comparatively .new walls, can appreciate the tremors which ran through the structures of anclent cas- tles when groups of serenading chant- ers stood outside the gates and sent up choruses of song and ballad. Last night The Star was the ecene of four Shrine serenades from singers gath- ered from points thousands of miles away from each other. One group was from Wheeling, W. Va., and another from Wichita, Kan.; the third was from El Paso, Tex., and the other from Minneapolis. A band from El Maida Temple, El Paso, Tex., and a troupe of Spanish dancers rendered selections and _a Spanish fandago, respectively eany last night. The temple has brough 135 nobles and thirty-five women tu Washington, under the leadership ot H. E. Christie, potentate. N. N. Bour- land 1s conductor of the band. Chanters from Osiris Temple of Wheeling, W. Va., followed El Maida's renade with renditions of ballad: West _Virginia,” an _original 3 was rendered by the chanters under (direction of W. M. Stectal, while 365- YORK, June 5.—Counsel for lice athlete held by Judge Crain on a way attempting today to get a writ of habeas corpus 80 that a supreme court justice might Who has been sitting the fixed McAllister's bail at $1,000 vesterday. acting _district that today indictment against McAllister. The detective standy cleared of the against Judge Crain adjourned his hearing Assemblyman Louis in vil libel actions brought against Police Commissioner Enright, and argument on the motion was set Hirshfield's denunciation of school histories in Muzzey's which was espe- | ngled out by the commission- | Brown, | today | drawn | Noble Mooney, City P. M., Makes Elaborate Preparations Made to Insure That Visiting Shriners Get Their Let- ters From Home—Entire Force Active. Noble Willlam M. Mooney, post-| Evening Star Building Center of Serenading Shrine Musicians THE: EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, { tion for a building is being excavated, to the tracks at 99th street. Marion Santani of 1905 2d avenue saw the child's” danger and jumped to the track to save him. The motorman. | William Mooney, forty-five years old. of 1644 Park avenue applied the ! emergency brake, but the car dragged | the two eight feet before he could bring it to a stop. Santanl was thrown clear but was badly bruised. it was found at the Metropolitan Hos- | pital. The boy's body was pinned be- neath the car, so that it was neces- gary to send for a wrecker to remove it MEMPHIS, TENN. Special Dispatch to The Ster MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 5.—Mrs. Louise Miller, 664 Pearce street, killed in an auto crash at New Albany, Miss The police arrested Philip Gentry, colored, sought for the murder of Mrs. Ruth Tucker, Duncan Waller and Obe Spencer, victims in_petting party slay- ings. Inspector Griffin says: I think I |have got the right man at last.”” He has been seeking Gentry since Spencer was killed a week ago. A John M. Dean, realtor, was appointed by the mayor to succeed Milton An- derson on the water board. Charges against E. M. Johnson, for- mer policeman, who is said to have extorted money from petting parties, may fail because business men refus their identities revealed was 1 His Chief Aim! All such addressed mail goes to the Shrine Post Office, which is in charge | of Col. George R. Tait, who also is in charge of the regular post office branch located in the west corridor. At the Shrine office during the hours named, Shriners may ask for their! mall or send letters or parcels home. Locations of Temporary Stations, Temporary stations also are estab- lished as follows: d In the New Willard.Hotel, in charge of Miss E. K. Byrne. during the day. and L. F. Fowkes, during the night. Hotel Washington—Miss C. Thomp- son, day clerk; A. L. Jacobs, night Ell":v‘:vha(an Hotel—J. J. Snyder. day clerk; E. J. Graham, night clerk. Harrington Hotel—F. M. Holford, day clerk: H. Furnman, night clerk Sbbitt Hotel—E. L. Lynch, day clerk; W. H. Fitzsimmons, night clerk. Cairo Hotel—M. J. Behan, in charge. Information Booths. Information booths, scattered along Pennsylvania avenue, contain substi- tute carriers, men thoroughly famil- jar with the city, and the location of yits various points of interest. These men include T. Sullivan. D. E. Thomp- son, G. E. McCalmont, L. M. Pugh, R. M. Fahrney and C. B Lott All the branch stations, including the “Shrine post office” or Shrine general { delivery office, are open from 8 am. each day to midnight for the express accommodation of members of the ine. Sh’!’rhe mail of the Washington city post office Is running heavier day by day, but an exact count of the In- crease of the mail will not be made public until after the convention. It Ts safe to say, however, that literally a million more letters a day are flow- ing into Washington: Extra Counters for Parcel Post. The post office had to secure four extra parcel post counters and twelve scales for this week, and also the following articles: One special booth, 16 distributing cases, 10 post office s and 10 cash boxes. A ast, but not least, there Is that “post office on wheels,” which is to be seen—and used—at 13th and F streets. This “rolling post office™ was buiit at the local post office several years ago, but in the past has been confined to use at Christmas time. This is its first use at any other time of the year. pound Albert Albinginie, the band leader, wielded the baton for his mu- sicians’ accompaniment. The Temple is here under thé guidance of Poten- tate Herman Fredericks. The sixty-plece Midian Temple Band from Wichita, Kan.. backed a steam calliope up in front of The Star building, and Musical Director Dr. Tracy York, assisted by Prof. Forney and Drum Major A. G. King, conduct- ed another serenade. With the band is a patrol of sixty uniformed Nobles under direction of Capt, House and Lieut. Barr. —_— DU PONT DIVORCE ASKED. Suit Filed by Wife of Ernest du Pont of Wilmington. PHILADELPHIA, June 5.—Suit for| divorce has been filed here against Ernest du Pont of Wilmington, Del., by his wife, Josephine L. B. du Pont. Neither Mrs. du’ Point. who lives in this city, nor her counsel would di cuss. the case. It coula not be learned on what grounds the suit was based. Mr. and Mrs. du Pont have been living apart about two years, They have four children. red at San Fran vention JUNE 5, 1923, luxt year. having been picked an the best uniformed drill team there. I READING, PA. | | SAVANNAH, GA. | READING, Pa. June Judge Schaeffer, assailed by noise from a concrete mixer of the sidewaik, hunts a soundproof room for the Reading court session Six hundred Lutheran delegates, representing 172.000 members in three states, open their yearly meeting here. The president of the body swats fundamentalists and modern- ists alike. The widow of Capt. W. was fatally hurt in a fall. Milton Young, veteran police officer, is accused hefore the mayor of a sav- age attack on a prisoner. Seventeen-year locust expert the pest is due here this year. Anthracite mining and farming i Schuylkill region are seriously me by another drought. There has be rain for three weeks. The fourth advance in six was given 350 men by the Iron Company of Birdshoro New homes in Bethlehem are ex- empted by the city for five vears from all taxes to encourage building. Allentown needs 6,000 new homes for_surplus population Earl Wanser of Pottsville was rested here. He is a woman's apartme Gov. Pinchot haS Berks public officials to speed the naming of a new state school chief. Enos Godshalk of Easton and John Godshalk of Slating, hrothers, died within few minutes of each other. H. Riland months Brooke ar- ccused of looting t been asked by Special Dispatch to The Star. SAVANNAH, June 5.—Roy M. Allen, | arrested Sunday for thefts from poor boxes at St. Patrick’s Church, has confessed he set fire to Sacred Heart Church Sunday afternoon. The voters of Tybee unanimously have approved a bond issue of $110, 000 for paving purposes. John N. Holder, chairman of the state highway commission, has been invited to speak to the board of trade on good roads. Col. Alstaetter, retiring United States engineer, was elected vice esident of the board of trade, on lary Raiford Falligant delivered an ad- dress on Jefferson Davis at a meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy last night Jessie 1. Himes, a marine at Paris Island, was indicted for manslaughter in the killing of Miss Myrtice Brad- ham with an automobile, 0l. Bradley has been arrested at Hotel Savannah as a bootlegger. J. B. Davis. who killed W. J. Gay- or eleven years ago and was sent to rison for life. has been paroled. Savannah rifle associations will hold their annual banquet at Thunder- Dalt tonight Robert J. Ward and Joseph A. Konter died vesterday. Funmakers From Montan s oy «Sailor King Tut Mayer an@ “Lula™ Davis of Bagdnd Temple, Butte, Mont. ORDERED TO PRODUCE 8TH IOWA DISTRICT SENDS PRISONER BEFORE TAFT REPUBLICAN TO CONGRESS abeas Corpus Writ Served on‘(Judge H. K. Evans Shown as Win- Sheriff Holding Man as Boot- legger Without Bail. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 5.—A writ _of habaeas corpus directing Sheriff H. O. walker of Kanawha county to produce Charles Simpson, alleged bootlegger, before Chief Jus- | tice Taft of the Supreme Court of the United States, was served here in Simp- son's efforts to obtain bond on a liquor charge in the United States district court. A $10,000 bond-for his appearance | was forfeited at the April term and later he was confined in the county jail and refused bail. Simpson's at- torneys declare that at the time he was supposed to appear here he was serving a thirty-day term in the Monroe county Jail in Micnigan and ! that he notified ‘the federal court by telegram of that fact and came here and voluntarily surrendered as soon as he was ‘roleased .trom. the Michigan Jail. ———— Great Britain has a longer seacoast than any other country in Europe. | tually ner in Special Election to Sue- ceed H. M. Towner. | By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa. June 5.—Vir- complete unofficial returns from vesterday's special _election show that Judge Hiram K. Evans, re- publican, of Corydon, won over his democratic opponent,'J. P. Daugher- ton of Grand River for representative in Congress from the eighth Iowa district to succeed Horace Mann Towner, republican representative in Congress, resigned. The vote for Evans was 13,635, against 12,100 for Daughton, in 217 out of 223 precincts. Daughton opposed Towner in the November election. Evans was a di trict judge in Wayne county for a number of years, Under Duress. From the Boston Transcript. Lady—Have you a reference from your last mistress? Bridget—Shure Of hov. Of held the poker over her till I got it. Lend Your Car for One Sightseeing Trip During Shrine Week Drive It Yourselt, Provide a Chauffeur, or the Committee Will Supply a Careful Driver. Notify Almas Temple Shrine Committes, Homer Building, Giving Name and Description of Car, Phone Main 6723 INDIANAPOLIS, | Spectal Dispateh to The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, June b5.—Yeggmen {blew open a safe in the office of the Lyric Theater, bound two men and es- | caped with $400, missing $2,500 in an | inner compartment of the safe. | The Indiana law prohibiting the teaching of German in the elementary | schools is belleved by the attorney gen- grale department to have been made invalid by the United States Supreme | Court dectsion of Monday. ‘The Indiunapolis water company will |file a petition for a 20 per cent in- | crease in rates, full metered service and asking permission to set aside a greater depreciation_sum annually. Lawrence V. Sheridan, consulting en- gineer of Park Board, hae accepted em- ployment to succeed George E. Kessler in drafting the plans for the new But- ler University. The ministerial union has started an investigation of the teaching of a teacher of literature at a high school, who is said to have reflected on the Bible. The county authorities, in a raid on Liberty Beach resort, conflscated a large quantity of liquor fmported from Chi- cago. The Schwartz dairy, 63d street and Allisonville road, has been burned, with loss totaling $50,000. The state department of the Ameri- | can_Legion has protested against two bhooks on history. one of which has been adopted for a five-year period by the state board of education. Arabia Temple Raises Fund for Crippled Kiddies Arabiz Temple of Houston, Tex. at a ball given February 2 last raised more than $8,000 for their crippled children fund, a feature be- ing the auction lby - Mrs. Lilltan Adcock of two dances. D. W. Michaux is chairman of the temple crippled children's fund. Mr. Michaux is a representative to the Imperial Couneil of the 'Shrlna. Crippled chil- dren are treated| without cost by Arabia Temple. Twenty Houston — &S, ADCOCK. doctors donate their ~services. The children treated as they apply, restrictions as to race or creed. More than sixty children were treat- ed in 1922, PRAYERS ANSWERED BY PRISON SENTENC Man Who Failed to Get to Elec- tric Chair Glad of Jail - Penalty. are KNOXVILLE. Tenn., June 5.—Royal Harris, who said he had attempted to fake himself into the Sing Sing electric chair as the slayer of Joseph B. Elwell New York turfman and whist expert, asked Federal Judge Xenophon Hicks yesterday to sen- tence him to the federal penitentiary and won his plea. Harris, after pleading gullty to im- personating a federal agent, said: “Ever since I was ‘so high’ I've been so crooked I could not lie straight in bed. I have prayed every night to become straight. but the next morn- ing T would do the same thing again. I think my first prison sentence is the answer to all my prayers.” Judge Hicks imposed the limit, a fine of 3500 and a prison Sentence of two yeart Harris, in speaking of the Elwell case, said: “I was arrested on another charge and I told them I killed Elwell. They ut me _through a grueling third egree. I persisted and tried to be sent .to the electric chalr, but Gov. Whitman, who had studled the affair, caught me in some discrepancies in the description of the apartment. They wouldn't send me to the chair then and I'm sorry of it.” CHARGE COMES BACK. ‘Woman’s Suit Against Husband Used Against Her in Turn. NEW YORK, June 5.—Mrs. Julia A. Wheelock, widow of George A. ‘Wheelock, onoe president of the American Turf Association, and for- mer wife of Norman Selby (Kid McCoy), heard her own petition to have Wheelock declared incompetent used against her in an effort to break the horseman’s will, in which he left her his $500,000 estate. The suit to break the will was brought by Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Grif- fith of Granite City, Ill, a sister of the testator. The contested will was dated January 12, 1922. On March 22 of the same year counsel for Mrs. Griffith said Mrs. Wheelock contend- ed in a petition to the supreme court that her husband had been unable to manage his affairs for the preceding six montha Ae a result of Mrs. ‘Wheelock’s petition, she said, Wheel- ock was declared incompetent. “The bank depositor is apt to lose be :mu when the cashisr e B kg there being no | DES MOINES, IOWA. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. DES MOINES, Iowa. June 5.—Rob- ert Leeper of lowa City was found gullty yesterday in district court of Johnson county of the murder of his father-in-law, Roy Wertz, at Jowa | City, December 27, 1922. The jury was out eighteen hours. It recom- mended life imprisonment for Leeper. Joe Williams, negro, on trial for the murder of Sara Barbara Thorsdale, school teacher, near Valley Junction in June, 1921, took the stand in his own behalf at his second trial here today In district court and testified that he did not commit the crime, nor was near the scene of the murder when it took place. He accused George Davenport, negro, of having done the killing. Drake University largest senior cla Egbert M. Cockrel | Worth, Tex.. and a' Drake alumnus, [ delivering the graduation address Honorary degrees were bestowed on Cockrell and on Johnson Brigham, state historian Claude O. Horton, credit manager of Mandelbaum & Sons' department store, died at the Iowa Lutheran Hos- pital after an illness of three months. RICHMOND, VA. RICHMOND, Va. June 5.—About 200 members of Acca Temple left ves- terday and this morning for Wash- ington on special cars. The alumni of the Medical College of Virginia plan a drive for $3,000.000 to meet the increasing needs of the college. Thomas E. Yuille has resigned as president of the Universal Leaf To- bacco Company. He s succeeded by W. A._Willingham, vice president. Oscar S. Gregory succeeds Willing- ham. Richmond Kiwanis Club stands third in efficiency and club activities in group of 1.040 clubs, says President Clifton M. Miller, returning from At- lanta Richard F. Reld, Forest Hill, who broke his neck diving at Ocean View Sunday. dled last night Tweive Stuart Circle nurses graduate tomorrow. Trial of Joseph Enoch, charged with | murder of Celia Shevick, has been set for June 11. | Dr. Boatwright, president of the University of Richmond, urged large expenditures for expansion of all col- lege activities in commencement ad- | dress today. graduated the in its history, . mayor of Fort Hospital NEW ORLEANS. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW ORLEANS, June 5.—The city council holds first hearing under Beeler plan, residents protesting against proposal to end belt service. Fifteen-yvear-old girl tells of being kidnaped in Canal street d daylight The Ministerial Unfon has issued a statement holding prohibition and race track gambling the biggest issue of coming campaign Piggly Wiggly head sued by Ciar- ence H. Colgin on $41,775 note al- leged overdue. elicans have obtained pitcher Winn from Cleveland. Red Hill defeated Sailor Wallac 'TWO BRIDES COME “IN BAGDAD PATROL Grooms Locked in Baggage Cars While Nobles En- tertain Wives. The “bridal special” is the name ap- plied to the train that brought the members of Bagdad Temple of Butte, Mont., to the conclave. This is well applied, as there are two couples on | their honeymoons, having been mar- ried in their home town a short itme before the special left for Washing- ton. The grooms are Arthur Rosenstein and Joseph Ambrosetti, both mem- bers of the Bagdad Patrol. Mrs. Ro- senstein was formely Miss Amelia | Netzner of Butte, and Mrs. Ambro- | setti was Miss Effie Macauley, also of | the same city. The nobles kept the newlyweds well | entertained on the trip east. On the | first day out the grooms were &ep- |arated from their voung brides and ere tied up in the baggage car. ! When the special reached Harrisburg, Pa., members of Zembo Temple board- ed the train and presented the brides with large boxes of candy. Later the Bagdad Temple members were enter- | tained by the home temple. It was not only the newlyweds who were entertained on the trip. Noble Coolbaugh and his wife, residents of Butte, while at Columbus, Ohio, last Saturday announced their thirty-sixth wedding anniversary. There at Aladdin Temple the couple |were called to the stage and pre- sented with a silver berry spoon. | Members of Bagdad Temple also re- | membered the couple with valuable | presents. i Members of Bagdad Temple |noting the weather in Washington. LWhen they left Butte last week & '\hel\'y &now was falling and it look- {ed for all the part as if winter was | just beginning, they declare. | With the Bagdad Temple there is a clown band that has_won favor ever since it arrived in Washington The members of this band last night entertained on Pennsylvania avenue. Also Genes Hinkley, the six-vear-old daughter of Noble Guy Hinkley, en- tertained with Spanish, buck an clog dances. FRISCO BAND SERENADE. Tribute Paid Star by Islam Temple, Shriners’ Host Last Year. Islam. Temple of San Francisco, which was host to the Imperial Coun- cil session last vear. serenaded The Star yesterday with its famous band of seventy-five pleces, headed by D. Rosebrook, director and manager, Pretty Miss Lucille Shirpser, aged twelve, acted as conductor. Included in the band is a Chinese section, which has a "real China dragon.” The nobil- ity of this temple, numbering 400, ar- rived here yesterday. Islam Band is one of the few bands that has ever played at Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon, having gone there yesterday morning. A box of Galifornia fruit was presented The ar. are Seeking Experience. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegrapk. The girl was very rich and the young man was poor. She liked him, but that was all, and he knew it. “You are very wealthy,” he re- marked. “Yes,” she replied frankly. worth a half million dollars.” ‘And I am poor,” he continued. “Yes," she asserted. “Will you marry me?” he asked. “No.” with emphasis. “I thought you wouldn't,” he said. “Then why did you ask me?" “Oh, just to see how a man feels when he loses & half million —_— In_an important test case before the English courts it has been decided that women teachers may be dismiss- o4 it they marry. T'm in broad | T rom the “Home Town” for Visiting Nobles at Shrine Convention Drill Team of Arabia Temple, Houston, Texas TRENTON, N. J. Special Dispatch to The Star TRENTON, N. J., June Caroline Baines, nineteen of Philadelphia. was sent to pital in that city today from Hospital here, after having been feund in an unconscious condition on the road near Wheatsheaf. She had been lured into an automobile t a man who told her that her brother had been injured and that he would take her to the vietim. As the car sped toward Trenton, the girl be- came alarmed and leaped. No trace has been found of the man James J. Barrett has been directed by the freeholders to appear n Tuesday and explain the delay rting to pave the trolley track area of East State street from city line to Whitehead road ; work under the contract, was to have beer started May 15 Mayor Donnelly's cit tee today announced municipal Fourth of The Catholic Girls' sent a pageant evening preceding the holiday there will be the usual sports certs and fireworks displays on Fourth Emmanuel Bookbinder, restaurant proprietor of Walnut street. Ph delphia, arrived at the county here today to serve ten months for violation of the Volstead act He had fought his conviction through the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Jim Hammona GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Special Dispatch to The Star. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. June Willard and Edward Nellis, sons of Cernelius Nellis, were serfously in- jured in an auto accident vesterday Col. John H. Schouten is recruiting National Guardsmen. The Armory Club facilities are open to members. The city water works shows a net surplus of Gross receipts were $558.4 5 Manager Locke reported to the city commission Betty Simpson, baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Althen Simpson, fe from a second-story window. suffe ing slight bruises. Local Billbobs defeated the Sagi- naw team Sunday, 3 to 0; Johnny Horan, pitcher, starred. The flelding of Allent and Kimbles featured A freak thunderstorm vesterday saved crops from a million-dollar damage. There was no rain in the city. The pageant given by 3.000 public- school children was a huge success More than 20,000 attended MILWAUKEE. { Snecial Dispatch to The Star MILWAUKEE, Wis. mysterious _explosion early Mond. damaged the home of Walter Kieckhefer, 1365 Lake drive. No one was injured Sol Eckstein, president of Wright Drug Company here, died Sunday following his collapse front of a street car. Rev. John Rose Catholic Mi vears old a h Mercer in zens' commit- plans for the ¥ celebration Club I3 in Stacy and the ail is still missing. June 5.—A in Piette. pastor of St Church. Racine, is to be removed by Archbishop Messmer within ten days. This follows a fac- tional fight of several months Gov. John J. Blaine on Friday will listen to petitions for pardons for Mrs, Vioia Brinkman Glenway Maxon and others. — WATERTOWN, N. Y. Special Dispatch to The Star. WATERTOWN. N. Y, June Miss Mauld L. Wright is willing settle $50.000 breach of promise suit against Carl Nill, president of the Nill & Jess Company. for $3.000. Nill, while anxious for settlement without trial is awaiting lower offer, John a Flummerfelt returned from European trip which was without in- cident. One hour after arriving in New York, a man pursued by another with knife in his hand dodged behind Flummerfelt _for protection. The as- sailant reached over Flummerfelt's shoulder and stabbed the man he was suing. Bert Henshaw, former manager of the Hotel Woodruff. is dead in Buf- falo. The funeral will be held Tues- day. Forest fires near Saranac and Tu per lakes were brought under con by showers, which checked progres CLEVELAND, OHIO. Special Diapateh to The Star CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 5.—West Park is _to gel city car service as far as Kamms corners within two weeks. This was the promise of Traction Commissioner James Hol- comb. The rate of fare will be 7i: cents. Josiah Kirby. | who arrived in Clev, land vesterday from Los Angeles plans a new mortgage company in California_in whieh he will act as a selling agent Council President Clayton C. Townes descended from his rostrum last night to ecriticize Mayor Kohler, claiming that his rule was colorless, save for Lis paint. The mayor's reply w “What office are you running for this fall?” Leon C. Herrick, state bighway di- rector, yesterday wired positive ir structions to C. C. Hadden, Lake county engineer. to see that the ney paving on Euclld avenue between Willoughby and Wickliffe is com- pleted by July 1. The heat wave which has gripped Cleveland and most of Ohio since June 1 claimed two victims yesterday Two boys lost their lives by drown- ing. The official temperature reached 88 at 6 o'clock vesterday afternoon There has been a hitch in the pro- posal to give G. A. Gesell unlimited authority subject only to the board of education over the finances of public schools. It became known ves- terday the hitch involves the board's legal right to delegate so much au- thority to the treasurer, the position to which Gesell was elected a week ago. Miss Beatrice Schwartz of 2553 East 59th street died last night +in Stalexi's Hospital from the effects of poison iaken seven days ago by mis- take. Ernest Banks, a crane operator for the Walworth Run_ Foundry Com- pany, was instantly killed last night when his foot came in contact with & charged high tension wire while he was repairing the mechanism of his crane. Appointments of four assistant ©nited States district attorneys for the Cleveland federal district were announced Tuesday by District At- torney Bernsteen. They are Fred Grabien, Fred S. Day, Miles E. Evans and Miss Irene Nungesser. BOSTON. Special Dispatch to The Star. BOSTON, Mass., June 5.—Fire de- stroyed one house and damaged five in Arlington. Heat prostrated four in Boston. Lightning injured two. Store- ham council has accepted the act enabling that city to buy Hyde Park car lines. A Revere child fell into t sea and was drowned. One-hundred - thousand - dollar _fire visits the Chelsea woolpulling plant. The Brockton shoe firm says the end of the strike is near. A Dorchester man attacked his son and was sent to the asylum Charles E. Heitman of New York was chosen Roosevelt Rough Rider president. The Christian Science Church of Bangor defeats daylight- saving. — Britaln has 200,000 women out of employment, including 65,000 in the textile trade, according to the latest {!:;;ru supplied by the ministry of T -