Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1923, Page 12

A 12 * S0 ATLUNCHEON AFTER BIG PARADE Imperial Officers and Council Gather at Washington Hotel Only to Eat. Flushed with excitement over suc- cess of the parade, Imperial Potentate James S. McCandless, his entire im- perial divan; Leonard P. Steuart, il- lustrious potentate of Almas Temple, his divan, and about 750 representa- tives to the Imperial Council bowed their acknowledgments to the cheer- ing throngs that filled the lobbies of the Hotel Washington, when they entered the Salon des Nations to par- take of the luncheon arranged by Jzmes C. Hoyle, chairman of the ban- quet committee, immediately follow- ing the finish of the demonstration. zreat hall was beautifully ted with colors of the Mystic and Chairman Hoyle ~had & suitable souvenirs at each place. There were no speeches, the delegates bei desirous to return to the late session of the Imperial Council as soon as possible. Gathering at Raleigh. Appreciating that the room would not accommodate the woman folk of fhe imperial delegates, Chairman ¥le arranged another luncheon for sweethearts and daugh- hed nobles at where another at_luncheon. i Willing Known Temple Mr. Hoyle is provi title these duys, for is over will anged for the a 14800 visiting noble anquets to be given tonizit rd Hotel the Imperial Divan Almas Divan will be evening, while the visiting ladies, with Mrs. Leonard P. Steuart, presid- ing. will dine at the Wardman Park Hotel, and the leaders of all bhands, atrols, chanters and drill teams will &ather ‘at the City Club. Besides these ‘entertainments, Hoyle will continue to ov 3 daily luncheons at the Hotel fngton tomorrow and Thursd NATION TO RETAIN SONE TRADE SHPS Board Decides to Keep Flag Flying on Chief Sea Routes of World. aim to the fore the per: ition of more Mr. the Wash- government operation of celx to keep the Amer- A1 worla trade routes ded upon by the Shipping vesterd: A committee, com- posed of Chairman Lasker and Com- missioners O'Connor and Thompson, was named to map out administrative plans Under a resolution adopted by the board the committee will “prepare a plan to be submitted to the Shipping Hoard with a view to the formation of such companies of organizations, t8 i owned and controiled by the Ship- ping Board, as it may ascertain to be necessary for the purpose of operat- ing sufficient vessels to fully cover world trade routes under the Amer- ican tlag.” Three Blds Remain. The board reached a decision to name the committee after Commis- sloner Lissner, who had been in New York conferring with some of those SR Smitteds Lids oy routes mot NOW operated by the government, re- ported that only “three or four prom- ising bids remain.” A statement 1ssued last night by the board said that Commissioners Liss- ner arfd O'Connor. together with Crairman Lasker, would ‘“continue in negotiation, so that when the new plan _of operation is determined on, the Shipping Board. will know just which of its lines, if any, are to pass into private hands.” Period of Study. After Mr. Lasker's retirement as chairman next Tuesday his place on the committee will be taken by the new chairman, Edward P. Farley. During the period of study and until the plan evolved has been adopted by the board, it was announced. op- erations will proceed through man- aging agents as at present. “It is the hope of the board, how. ever the statement continued, “that not long will elapse before the new plan will be fully operative, as in principle many of the details have already been developed.” SEES WORLD CONTROL OF DISEASES NEARER Br the Associated Press. PARIS, June 5.—Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming of the United States public health service belleves that one of the most important re- sults of the sixth session of the league of nations health committee was the framing of a plan for co- ordination of the international hy- giene publique With the league's health organization. Dr. Cumming represented America in an advisory capacity. “The" question was also settled,” caid Dr. Cumming, “of establishing close co-operation between the Pan- American Sanitary Bureau at Wash- ington and the League health organi- zation. ~Thus all existing agencles for intergovernmental health work are being drawn together. This has heen a great step forward in better- ing European health conditions and in facilitating International co-opera- tion in public health matters. “Epidemic_diseases today, with the exception of yellow, fever, are more widespread and sévere than they have been for a century, as a result of the war and the disturbances caus- ed by the war. “Owing to the large amount of shipping now under the United States flag, our world-wide commercial inter- ests and the question of immigration, we are directly and deeply interested in the whole problem of preventing and controlling epidemic disease." WOLFE GETS TEN YEARS. Confessed Pay Roll Bandit Is Sen- tenced at Hagerstown. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOW:! June 5.—Ross C. ‘Wolfe, confessed Roulette Knitting Company pay-roll bandit, was sen- tenced to ten years in the Maryland penitentiary today by Judge Frank G. Wagaman. Willilam Heiser, convicted of the murder of his son-in-law, Bernard C. Myers, was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. He was found gullty of second-degree murder. Quinton Shrader and Robert Yea- kle, charged with numerous robber- ies in the southern section of Hagers- town during the past year, were sent to the St. Mary's Industrial School. Shrader confessed to the robberies and implicated Yeakle, b s Direct 2 fax dect s feted this | GIRL OF 15 DROWNED IN MUNICIPAL POOL Special Dispateh to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Jume 5.— Ethel Dodd, fifteen-year-old daughter 6t Mr. and Mrs, Stuart Dodd, this city drowned while swimming in munici- pal swimming pool here late yester- dal. She went beyond her depth and sank before assistance arrived. The body wae recovered and efforts made to revive her, but without avail. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va. June 5.—The eighty-fourth annual commencement of the Episcopal High School of Vir- ginta took place this morning at 10:30 o'clock in Liggett Hall, and were at- tended by the students and faculty. Certificates of graduation were con- ferred upon the following: Edmund George Laird, Delaware: Llewellyn Miller, Maryiand: tmwrge Dudley Morton, Ga.; Morris Pinckney, Rich- mond, Va.:-Abel Alexander Shuford, Jr.. North Carolina; George Tazweli Thomas, - Maryland. _Presentations were made as follows: For reading at sight. Thomas Stanley Meade. Rich- mond: Morton Morris Pinckney Richmon for reading, Lawrence Ay lette Daffan Gilmer, Texas; Middleton Elliott Randolph. _Warrenton: declamation, Armistead Lloyd Boothe, Alexandria; Lawrence Angelette Daffan Gilmer, Texas; for scholarship. Russell Buxton. Newport News; Edward Gasson, | Alexandria; Joseph Forney Johnston, Washington, D. C. Laird, Deloware; ‘Norwood Bentley Orrick, Washingion, D. C.; Thomas Page, Washington.” D. Cl: ~ Albert Rhett Stuart, South Carolina; John Poe Tyler, Florida. Johns' | prize, Armistead Boothe, Alexandria; Harrison Leigh Buck, New York: Lawrence Avlette Daffan Gilmer, Texas; Douglas Deane Hall, Washington, D. C.; Southgate Leigh, jr. Norfolk: Hunter Holmes Moss, West Virginia; Walter Herron { Taylor, Norfolk; John Addison Wil- {1ett. Newport News Meade prize, Archer Ande lams. Richmond. Laird prize. Lawrence Aylette Daf- {fan Gilmer, Texas, { Papin prize, Arm Alexandria, Va. Quentin Roosevelt memorial prize, James Walter Thomas, Brazil. Presentation of medals follows: { Theodore Roosevelt. good citizenship medal. for essay on patriotism, George Tazewell Thomas, Maryland: Lancelot Minor Blackford medal. for excellence in Latin, awrence Aye- lette Daffan. Gilmer, Tex.; Joseph Bryan memorial medai. for excellence in English, Lawrence Ayelette Daf- fan, Gilmer, Tex.; Randolph Fairfax memorial medal. for excellence in general scholarship, Edmund George Laird, Delaware: Willlam Henry Laird medal, for excellence in Eng- lish composition. Douglas Deane Hall, Washington, D. C.; Liewellyn Hoxton memorial medal, for excellence in mathematics, Thomas John Hall, Tap- nell, N. J.. William Garrett Bibb medal, for excellence In Shakespeare, Lawrence Ayelette Daffan, Gllmer, Tex.; H. S. Liggett memorial junior medal. for excellence in general scholarship, Alexander Hamilton Bryan, Richmond. The joint final celebration of the Fgirfax, Blackford and Wilmer So- cleties of the Episcopal High School were held last night. The program rson Wil- tead Lloyd Boothe, follows: Address of welcome, Wat H. | Tylor, North Dakota, president of the Blackford Soclety: presentation of the Fairfax Literary Society declaimer’s medal to George D. Norton., Georgia declamation, Parrhasius and the cap- tive: presentation of the Blackford Literary Soc _debater's medal. RTLAT cond Blace HincicFord Literary Society debater's medal, J Poyntz Tylor. " jr. North Dakota; presentation of Fairfax Literary So- ciety reader's medal, M. Elliott, Ran- dolph, Warrenton, Va.; presentation of Blackford Literary Society de- claimer’s medal. Armistead L. Boothe, Alexandria; declamation, “The Death Bed of Benedict Arnold”: presentation of Fairfax Literary Society debater's medal, M. Morris Pinckney. Rich- mond; presentation of second place. Fairfax Literary Soclety debater's medal, L. A. Daffan Gilmer, Texas presentation of Blackford Literar. Society reader's medal, John Nichols, Hampton, Va. Presentation of trophy for superiority in the dual contest May 25, on reading. declamation and debate of the Fairfax over the Black- ford Society for 1922-1923. Presentation of the Wilmer Society prizes, W. D. Staples, reading; B. Harrison, declamation; N. H. Orrick, debating. Joint valedictory addr i Georme D. Marton. Fairfax Literar: SSSES. TGeormian "Anal dinminaal of the audlence by Ernest L. Woodward, Nebraska, president of the Fairfax Society. This city was practically depopu- lated today by the Shriners’ parade in Washington. Outgoing trains and busses and private cars carried ca- pacity crowds. All city officers were closed, the public schools were closed and many stores closed for the day in order that their emploves might have a holiday and see the big parade. The Pullman city at the Southern and Potomac vards appeared desert- od shortly after 8 o'clock this morn- ing. the several thousand inhabitants of those places leaving early in the morning_for Washington. Local Shriners also left early this morning, and are represented in the parade. they being identifled with Acca_Temple. Notwithstanding the parade, many Shriners passed through the city during the day, en route to Mount Vernon, and also this after- noon. The lodge room of Alexandria- ‘Washington Lodge of Masons has been packed with visitors since yes- terday, and the attendants at this place are kept busy from the open- ‘lng until the closing of the lodge room showing"the visiting Shriners the | Washington relics. Many alse visited the site of the temple heing erected at_a cost of $4,000,000 by the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association. At a_meeting of the guarantprs of the Alexandria Swarthmore Chau- tauqua, held last night in the rooms of the chamber of commerce, officers olected for the year follow: Chester A. Gwinn, general chairman; Charles T. Nicholson, _assistant ' general chairman: Mrs. M. H. Troth, chair- man_of the ticket committee; Mrs. E. E. Carver, hospitality; W. Cam- eron Roberts and T. Mack Cragg. grounds; Miss Leslie Cox. junior work: Miss Linda Carver, assistant: J. Frank Mvers, light committee and Sunday service. Meotings of the guarantors will be held each Monday night until June 23, when the chautauqua will open here, and it will be continued | from that time until July 10. This year the Chautauqua will be located on the north side of King street, facing the Alexandria High School. Robert S. Barrett last night deliv- ered an address at Lee Camp Hall at the celebration of the birthday of Jefterson Davis under the auspices of the United Daughters of the Con- federacy. During the evening vocal selections were given by Miss Es- telle Wentworth, Mrs. Robert Good- ing and Mrs. Sherman B. Fowler. The state corporation’ commission has granted a charter to the Brandy Mining Corporation, McLean. Va. The concern has a maximum capital stock of 350,000 and a minimum of $20.000. Officers and incorporators are: James ‘W. Traver, Washington, D. C., presi- dent; John C. Mackall, McLean, sec- retary; Fred N. Hagmann, Vienna, and George D. Donaldson, Washing- ton. Purposes are to mine and deal in minerals and oils. Islam Band of San Francisco, which was to have played at the site of the George Washington Masonic natidnal memorial temple yesterday and which was delayed in Washington owing to the strict enforcement of the traffic rules, will play Thursday afternoon at this place DANCING PAVILION BURNS. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., June 5.— The dancing pavilion at Rosemont Park, a suburban summer park, was burned late Sunday night, with an estimated total loss of $8,000. The fire is.believed to have been the work of an incendiary. Last fall the re- freshment stand at the same park was burned. —— The organs of smel in a vulture and a carrion crow are so keen that they can scent their prey for a dis- tance of forty miles, for | Sdmund George | Lloyd ! THE EVENING STAR, ‘WASHI'NGTON, Di-C., REPLES T0 ADANS LEARUE CHALLENGE Chairman Hull Tells G. 0. P. Democratic Convention Alone Writes Platform. Chairman Hull of the democratic national committee has issucd a state- ment in reply to the challenge of Chalrman Adams of the republican rational committee vesterday, that he define the attitude of the demo- cratlc national organization on the league of nations. Chairman Hull's statement, in part, follows: “Chairman John T. Adams ef the republican national committee cannot dodge or evade the issue he has raised within his own party through his open opposition to the foreign policy of President Harding and Sec- retary Hughes by interrogating me on the attitude of the democratic na- tional committee concerning the for- eign policy of the democratic part Unlike Chairman Adams. I do not rec- ognize the authority of any one to write party platforms except the na- tional party convention. Says Republicans Play Polities. “Dominant republican national lead- yers played politics with our foreign affairs during 1919 and 1920, and the irreconcilables have endeavored to do so since that time. while most democrats and a vast number of pa- triotic republicans, on the other hand, have earneslty tried to keep our for- eign policies free from vicious parti san politics. 1 shall pursue this non partivan course. and shall not ¢ operate with any republican leader in injecting cheap politics into foreign | questions. nor shall I accede to Chair- | man Adams’ proposal that I proceed to define a platform for democrats. The 1924 democratic platform will, no doubt, refiect the impartial non-parti- san views of democrats, and intelli- gent republicans as well. by propos- ing a practical application of the doc- trine of international co-operation, embracing ail the fundamentals and essentials of the foreign npolicles of the recent democratic administration, to conditions as they may then exist. Adams' Attitude Surprises. “Chairman Adams has been so de- nunciat of one-man government that it is rather surprising to see him in the role of dictator not only to his party but to the incumbent republican administration. It is equally surprising that he should wish to add to his present troubles by seeking a controversy with me. If his questions came from President Harding or Secretary Hughes, whose functions under the Constitution make them responsible for the admin- istration's foreign policy, the ques- tions would be worthy of ‘serious dis- cussion, but I have no assurance that statements now made by Chairman Adams will not be recalled by Secre- tary Hughes. NEW TYPE TANKS SHOWN AT MEADE Demonstration Given at School — 40-Ton “Ele- phants” Cut Through Tree. TUncle Sam's herd of mechanical elephants were on display yesterday at the Army tank school, Camp Meade, in a demonstration put on for the benefit of some seventy officers and instructors from the staff school at the Army War College. Half a dozen of the huge, lumbering Mari VIIIT miant tanis developed during the war but too late to share in the fighting, and a whole flock of the six-ton French type which did get into action participated in the show. The demonstration is one of the serjes of educational exhibits for the staff college students, all of whom are experienced officers whose military instruction is being rounded out to insure an adequate supply of gen- eral officers and men with general staff qualifications. The present class will complete its course in time to g0 out to the summer training camps as instructors in the higher branches of military work. Break Many Trees at Once, To introduce the students officers to the possibilities of modern tank war- fare, Col. S. D. Rockenback, com- mandant of the tank corps and school, sent two of his huge, forty-ton “Mark VIII'"' monsters skirmishing through the heavy woods on either side of a narrow roadway. When the signal to advance was given the land battleships surged forward resistlessly, tearing great| swaths as they passed, as though twin, narrow gauge cyclones had cut parallel paths of wreckage through the woodland. Towering trees went like reeds, the down before them tanks grinding them remorselessly under the steel-shod runners. At times each tank was knocking over half a dozen trees at the same time, literally rooting them from the earth and lumbering_forward over pros- trate trunks a foot or more in diame- ter. The sheer power of the geared Liberty engines overcame every ob- stacle of ditch or bank or bush or tree clump, and not an inch to right or left from the selected course were the monsters forced to swerve. Launch Tank Attack. Later a miniature tank attack was delivered over the rough. sandy fleld Imn is the playground of the school herd. Three “Mark VIH's” led the !drive, their six-pounder guns roar- ing and machine guns snarling as they crept forward from behind a smoke barrage hurled from thelr guns. They looked like crawling dragons, breathing smoke and flame as they shouldered their way over ditches RICHMOND LAWYER - DIES IN CAR PLUNGE Five Others in Virginia City In- jured in Auto Accidents Yesterday. Special Dispateh to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., June 5—One dead and five in local hospitals are results of the more serlous of many automo- bile accidents here. R. C. Smith, a Yyoung lawyer, was fatally injured when a car in which he was riding went over an embankment near Glen Allen. The car turned turtle in a creek and caught all hands under it. Others with him were badly bruise: Mrs. Fred Nash and Mary William are in the hospital as the result of a mishap in a car on the Petersburg turnpike. Two men who were with the womén say a car with a Georgla license ran into_them. Physicians says that Mary Williams may have a fractured skull. STUDY CLUB IN SESSION. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., June 5.— The Chillum District Study Club of Mount Rainier, Md., today is holding its monthly meeting at the home of the president, Mrs. Ella Q. Nalley. The business meeting will be called to order at 8 p.m, after which the ollowing program will be rendered: “South America—the Continent of Op- portunity,” Mrs. Lulu Castle; “South American’ Citles,” Mrs. Mabel Tilp; “South America—European Invasion.” Miss Anna Gibbons; “South American Independence,” Mrs. Julia Drummond; “Americans South of Panama.’ Mrs. Mary Gooch; “Current Topics.” Mrs. Isabel Rav; Latin American Civiliza- tion.” Mrs. 'Mary Fuhrman; “A Menu of South American Products.” Miss Helen Rose; reading of the “Club News,” Mrs. Lulu Castle, KEY TO FORTUNE IN HAT. Grumbled at Use ;}Iendgen as| Ore-Sampling Bag. In April, 1919, writes James H. Col- lins in “The Romance of Metal Min- ing,” in the April St. N prospectors In a wornout were bumping over a California road —John Kelly and Hamp Willlams— the latter a half-breef Piute Indian. Kelly's hat blew off. Hamp got out and found it in a small hole some prospector had dug years before. Looking at the exposed rock, he sald, “This looks like silver ore to me,” and filled Kelly's hat with the stuff. hat's the best hat I've got” ob- jected Kelly. “I wish you would use something else for an ore- npling bag; but we'll have it assayed.” Thus was discovered California’s largest| silver mine, the California-Rand. at Randsburg. ' In its first year it yielded more than $1,000,000 worth of silver. MOTOR CAR BECOMING POPULAR WITH CHINESE From the Detroit News. The anclent city of Peking. capital of the Chinese republic and the resi- dence of the emperor during the Chiness imperial regime, 18 sur- rounded by an earth and conerete wall faced with brick and stone Which ‘Aztirea larmels S the RVTEUARE the past. This wall is quite a proposition | for any invading force to contend with, being about thirty feet in height and correspondingly thick at the base. It was seized by the revolting Chinese during the Boxer rebellion and from its top they fired upon the allied forces and threw down burning brands on refugees in the legation quarters. Since that time, in order to prevent a recurrence of this incident, the wall has been divided off by fences and barricades to preverit any single force of men from getting control of all of it. Some of the wall, moreover, is reserved exclusively for use of for~ eigners. Leading up to the top of the wall are long ramps. paved with rough brick. and pitched at a Steep angle. The grade of these ramps is 21 per cent. Peking, by the way—still a sacred city to many Chinese and once abso- fute1r” Darrea to foreimners—readily is acacessible to motor ca The beautiful playgrounds of the Ming regime, with their artificial lakes and carved bridges and temples, the pa aces of the emperor. the old impe- clal government offices—all these may be glimpsed by the motorist driving within the city limits. China, like the rest of the world, rapidly 1s becoming modernized, one of the most typical examples of thiq being the Increasing use of motor cars by the Chines: —_— Truism From the Richmond Times-Dispateh. Proof is something that no woman accepts against her will. Absence cures many a grief of pro- pinquity. Take a long trip and come home cured. Too much of anything is less than nothing of what you want. w ant.stens| TUESDAY, PASTOR SHOT DEAD IN VIRGINIA FEUD | Two Others Also Reported Wound- ed—Details of Affair Are Lacking. | SEEEEET | Special Dispatch to The Star. E. L. Pierce, a Baptist minister, was ! shot and killed in his yard, at Cum- berland Court House, this morning, ac- cording to a long-distance message to police headquarters. The same Infor- mation was that R. O. and L. C. Gar- rett, brothers, had also been shot and badly hurt. Whether any others were hurt s not known, and there is noth- 1ing to indicate as yet who shot the minister or the Garrett brothers. Im- mediately on the filing of this infor- mation the telephonic communication was cut off entirely, no reply being made to repeated calls. It is believed that the shooting to- lday was the outcome of the bitter po- !litical feud existing there for years. A nearby telephone operator, after many effoits to get information, said that no one at the scene of the xhoot- ing knew anvthing, “and they say lexs.” Up to noon the Garretts had not reached this city. Plerce leaves a wife and seven children SENTINEL FIREMEN - T0 CHOKE FLAMES Chief Watson Stations Men at Strategic Points for Prevention. Scores of firemen, armed with ex- tinguishers, were stationed under the grandstands and at other strategic points throughout the downtown sec- tion today, ready to put down the first sign of fire that might appear. Chief George Watson looks upon fire prevention as having as much im- portance as fire extinction and he be- leves that by scattering some of his men on sentinel duty they might choke off a smail blaze before it grew into a real fire, This force of fire patrolmen is un- der the direction of Fire Marshal L. V. Selb, who was here, there and everywhere throughout the day su- pervising his men Firemen promptly checked a blaze discovered at 10:30 last night in the Loeffler & Co. smokehouse at the Washington abattoir at Benning. The fire started on the second floor and was extinguished before more than $800 damage was done. Police state the loss is covered by insurance. Clothing on the rear porch of 1373 Pennsylvania avenue southeast caught fire at midnight, but the blaze was put out by firemen before it spread into the hous Five Gutomobilen caught fire lasc night and early this morning in dif- ferent parts of the city and all of them were saved from destruction by the fire department. A general going into battle never prepared more elaborate plans than those worked out by the city author- ities for getting fire apparatus across Pennsylvania avenue during the pa- rades. Ten intersectlons between Peace Monument and the White House wer designated “emergency traffic lane! with two policemen on duty and a steel cable which could be dropped at a moment’s notice. i On a lamppost- at each of these lanes a huge electric siren has been erected The moment an alarm fis sounded in the downtown section these sirens will begin to shriek a warn- ing to the police that engines are on the way, giving the bluecoats time to drop the cable and clear a pathway, While Chief Watson s proud of his arrangements, he is hoping it won't L temmary | to. apply them during the several parade; ——e GATHER AT ANNAPOLIS. June Week Visitors at Naval Academy Find Reign of Heat. | Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., June'5s.—Extreme heat marked the opening of June week at the Naval Academy. There was no ceremony and the day was largely one of recreation. nothing being required of the midshipmen un- til dress parade. There will also be a garden party at the residence of the superintend- ent. The town is filling up with visi- tors, indications pointing to as large a number as has ever been present. This morning the program of practi- cal exercises began with an infantry drill in closed order. 4 JUNE 5, 1923 HAIL SPREADS RUIN NEAR HAGERSTOWN Homes, Orchards and Fields Suffer Loss Between $150,000 and $200,000. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, June 5.—A terrific hail storm cut a swath through the fertile Sharpsburg and Rohersville sections of Washington county early yesterday, leaving a path of ruin and desolation. Conservative estimates of damage caused to homes, farm build- ings, flelds of wheat and corn and to frult orchards were placed at be- tween $150,000 and $200,000, but there were others who predicted that it may reach a quarter of a million dol- lars when a careful check is made. Entire fields of wheat in the path of the storm were left as if a great scythe had passed over them, while entire orchards of apples and peaches were stripped of thelr friut in a sec- tion fifteen miles long and two miles wide, stretching from the Potomac' river, about a mile sotth of SHarps- burg, to the top of South Mountain, above Rohersville. Window Panes Smashed. Hundreds of panes of glass were smashed by the hail stomes, which were as large as hen eggs in some places. At Rohersville, a small vil- lage at the base of the mountain, where the storm appeared to halt, the hail stones were smaller, but for half an hour they fell in torrents. The storm gained in intensity, ac- cording to campers along the Potomac river, just after it had crossed this stream near Sharpsburg. From the river it cut a clean path for fifteen miles. This path ranged from a mile in width to two mjles. When the clouds, which had a reddish appear. ance, reached the high ridges of South mountaln, they appeared to halt. It was then that the storm ap- peared to settle over the town of Rohersville, the village being pelted with hail stones for half an hour. Wheat Cut to Pleces. Wheat on the farms of Walter Stouffer and Edward Thomas, about a mile and a half south of Sharps- burg, directly in the path of the storm after it crossed the river, were cut to pleces. Cherry trees 'also were stripped of their ripening fruit. Lookout Mountain Orchard, owned by Lancelot Jacques, sr., and tenant- ed by W. E. McAfee, the largest or- chard in the southern section of the county, which is located on the top of the mountain above Rohersville, suftered thousands of dollars dam- age. Every window in the McAfee home was knocked out by the hail- stones. A high wind, accompanying the storm, uprooted many trees. A num- ber of small roads were blocked by fallen trees and branches of trees torn off by the wind. The storm was confined to this one small section of the county. There Was \a_settled raln here during the late afternoon as well as in other sections of the county west and notth of this city. but no hail or 40 ACRES TIMBER SWEPT BY FLAMES Shortage of Firefighters Perils Vast Property Near Thurmont, Md. | RICHMOND, Va., June 5.—The Rev. | By the Assoclated Press. FREDERICK. Md.. Juns 5.—A forest fire which broke out on Catoctin moun- tain, near Thurmont, Md., has destroy- ed over 400 acres of new timber and is reported by District Forester Klein to be beyond control. Mr. Klein said he was having great difficulty in procuring men to fight the flames because of the large number of rattlesnakes which infest the mountain and which are being driven from their retreats by the advancing flames. The men refuse to stay in the moun- tains at all after dark. One man is re- ported to have killed three rattlers yes- terday. —— The St. John del Ray mine in | Brazil is not only the deepest mine in- the world, but operated by the oldest registered English mining company, organized in 1830 to work a mine at a place some distance from the present workings. Shriners and Other Visitors are cordially invited to inspect our assort- ments of Home-Furnishings, comprising and sand dunes to disappear over a ridge beyond In clouds of dust and spouts of flying debris flung up from land mines that gave a realistic bat- tle picture. Behind the big fellows came a far- flung line of the little. six-tonners, spitting with machine gun and one- | pounder fire. A dozen or more of the two-man tanks made up this second line. Col. visiting officers that what they had seen thus far were tanks developed during the war. He recalled that in the first requisition from Gen. Per- shing for tank equipment the call came for the elements which would make up a land fleet, the fighting tanks with auxillary equipment of cross-country. rough-going machines to bring up the artillery and supplies. Since the war, he added, some prog- ress towail In, that re R e made & quisition s & signal the new types, the fif- teen-ton “medium tank” of the future, charged out into the rough field. It fairly raced over bumps and hum- mocks at a twelve-mile gait, twisting and turning like a motor boat. Be- hind it came a seventy-five gun rid- ing a similar mechanism and pluns- ing about the field at high speed re- gardless of holes or ditches. It traveled with equal speed in either direction. Behind these two came the cross-country truck for ammunition, gasoline, ofl and supplies. These three, Col. Rockenback sald, were the beginning of the-American land fleet that would play a great role in any future war. None of them was per: fected as vet, he added. but. within them were the elements of a new day. in battle, when machines would take g:‘\: of the burden from the fighting ORIENTAL and CHINESE RUGS DOMESTIC RUGS FURNITURE Rockenbach explained to the| CARPETS This store is a representative branch of the well known establishment of W. & J. SLOANE, New York, carrying one of the largest and finest stocks in the United States e e [ar the union and non-union workers TWELVE CARS DERAILED. ; 4 of the Georges Creck region, culmi- CUMBERLAND, Md., June 5.—|nated in a shooting affair ne Twelve coal-laden cars of a Western | coning yesterday. in which Fwand Maryland railway frelght train were | Miller, aged thirly years, a striking deralled and badly damaged, west of [miner was wounded in the right Gleason, Saturday morning as a re should=r. sult of & broken wheel on the for- | - ward car. 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