Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1923, Page 4

| 57 T e s NEW_YORK..:... . Epecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, June 6.—Four persons, tncluding the driver, are suffering today from injurfes infiictod by.a taxi- cab, which speeded up Averiue A late last night at the rate of forty-five miles an hour. Twe of them are women, both of whom are fn hospitals in a serious condition. - Tt in bellevea that the driver lost control of his car. During the wild run of the taxicab it crashed into and overturned an auntomobile standing at the curb, and later plowed through the plate glass window of a drug store at 1494 Avenue throwing the patrons into & panic “In time a few ‘superpower’ drawing upon_all economfeal of power within the areas the: Wil supply electrical energy u greater vart of the North Ameridan continent.” Gen. Guy B, Tripp, chalrs #an of the boord of directors of the Westinghe ectric and Manufec- turing Company, predicted today. There i a fendency to connect groups of electric generating plants, he explained, to form composite &Y tems for tha more economical produc- tion of energy. Iindividual plants are disappearing into the spreading £vs- tems becaute they cannot comnete with them, and it is well that they are merging. he said. Jerry Anunalato: thirty-nine years 01d. of 346 Eact 108th street, and Pas. | audle Mafonl, forty vears old. of 215 Tast 16Sth stre both laborers, are under arrest today after fighting a Bloody duel with knives last nieht The duel. which took place on East 108th street between 18t avenue and the Harlem river, startéd over the poesession of a _small Piece of rope. | The nolice found Anunziate and Ma- foni hacking away at each othar with long, evil-looking knives, and hleed~ ing profusely about the heaq and shoulders. A large cfowd sarround- ed them, urging and ‘cheerfng them on, The nationad merchandise fair will be advertinod intensively during the next few weeke By Arthur L. Perpef. who leaves New . Ybrk today for a| motoring trip tg theprincipaicities of the weat, accompanted by his busi- ness associate, Frank Rosenberg. During his trip Mr. Perper will visit Philadelphin, Pittsburah, Chi- cawo, Chevenne, Wyo.; San Franciseo. Onkland, Los Angele. Santa Fe. N. M.; Denver, Kansas City, Loulselile and Washington.. - A fire in_the woodworking plant of | Bregman & Co. Inc, caused consid- erable discomfort carly today for the occupants of tenement houses in the vicinity of 3d avenue and 88th atreet. The flames swept a three-story el which abuts on the large bullding oc. cupied. by the Soglety of Catholic Me- chanicy at 165 and 167 Fast 8Sh stroet. The Damage Was $20,090. were aroused, and the heav. also drove to the streat- many otherd in the | neighbarhaod. The monetary damage | is estimated at between $20,000 and| $30.000, Axsemblyman Louis Cuvillier, net- tled by the refusal of Nis colleagues | in the legislature to &peai to him, and by thelr constant refefences to him as | of inferior mentality, s prepared to o on the warpath against Tammany Hall, Mavor Hylan and every demo- | crat’in the city. i After a_confer#nte with Col. Willtam | Hayward, federal dlstrict attorney, in relation fo 1fnuor cases in which he is counsel for tho defendé, Cuvillivr de- | clared he had done the “dirty ork for Tammany for twenty vearn' He demands a nomination for the sus preme court thi Failure to get it will result in his running inde- pendeptly, he said. Mes, Mary F. Coig Jewrs ol will tecy Tivo” indietments, erch chargink :Bystidexrda murder, when she f¢ able (6 laave ‘the Néwark. hotiee_of detentiop and toAppédr in. OIS G Tt ey The latest rhored, Jz 8 uderstodd. alleges that Mra Qréfetitanls resnons: I.llhlo“flir lAhb “’&;'}' %;h"r’"h‘;‘"""" aw, Mrs. Anna SRt farty-spven vorrs old, WHo - distl o ewhtr'f’ 1928, dnn whosd Wiy cexhumad immadiately after Mr& Creighton ami her hushand: Johin had. Hokn" atréstad: chr=ged with poidentpg Mrs. Creich- tantk " saventheniyearsold , - brother, Charles Ravmonf AVerw. twith arsenid to nhta‘n 210406 ineurance. The fir: death from -heat nrostrae tlon wa~ renorted trom New Rochella, when John Rapp, Rixty-one vears old. a gardener. succumbed while working in his garden, As ® result of the comments on the action of Gov., Alfred E. Smith in slening the: s Mulian-Gase - repealer Tammany hax nnt Gn-£00t -a move- ment that. doubhtjess. will. get great momeritum . hefoFe the Kummer ix over, to bring the damocratic na- tional convention to this city next year. Tammany -fiknsés that If .the Adelegates fronr.south 6f the Mason and Dixpn™fine can comie to this eity and sce how popular A} Smith.is in Ris home town he will sweep the McAdon boom out of the convention hall before it assumes dangerous proportions. I COLUMBUS, -OHI0. pocial Dispateh to The Star. COLUMBUS, June 6.—Instruction in the German ladguage in Ohlo schools below the elghth grade is not prohibited, the United States : Supreme Court hae ruled in a case i taken through the Ohlo covrts to the highest tribunal for the German Lutheran Church by Attorneys T. 8 Hogan and George B. Okey of Columbny, Howard C. Park. vice preaident of the Citigens' Trust and Savings Bank, | who has heen manager of the cen. tral branch of that organisation, as- sumed the duties of an active vice president today In the main office, at Qay and High streets. The manage- ment of the branch bank was taken over by his son, Warren 8. Park. Licut. Col. Charles L. Leonard, re- tiring commandant at Ohio State University, has been presented a gold | bullet as a_token of appreclation by members of the Scabbard and Blade Fraternity, of which he 1s a member. Revival of the proposal to establish a 1oop plan of routing sgreet cars or some other practical method of solving the ftraffic congestion on downtown streets will probably re- sult from the introduction in the council by Councilman Justus of a résolution asking that Parsons and Pennsylvania cars be routed over High street instead of Front. A new fire engine house will be erected at the corner of Cleveland and 11th avenues as a result of an ordi- riance passed last everfing’ by the council directing the city to acquire this site. Work on the proposed widoning of Oak street will start July 1, according to a report of Serv- ice Director DUfTy to the city council. Miss Olga Anna Jones, lohe councll. woman, presided over the dity council Iast evening while Council bresident Zimpher occupled the place of mayor during the absence in Washington ot Mayor James J. Thomas, who is at- tending the Shriners’ convention. 500,000 Calls .On City Phones b Is Day’s Recard { i ntam, twenty-four | Thelephone calls in- Washingten have increased enormoisly sfnce. the Shrine convention started. The telephone girls handled over: half a million calls yesterday, the: peak coming betw: 7_and § ©o'clock in the morning. This, of course, was occasioned by the fact that so many.peple were leav- go o r ! I ! i | { 1 ! ing early to whn to the | parade. isto s “Shrine,” the trmg.drnr - change instgl] by” %:n eake angd ° lephone . fompany for wisiting. novles: has handied’ between 18:000 And g)u clflla a day, x“ which a ‘third eré from ple asking for all kinds of inform o | Bpeclal Dispateh to The Star. | was killed, .BANGOR, ME.. 3| BANGOR, Me., June 6.—Bangor voters killed the daylight saving bill at a speclal election by 110 majority In a very light vote, totallng 2,514. Three fires that were raging near Moosehead lake are reported under control. Twenty-five thousand acres | ware burned over and the loss is es- | timated at $250,000. Utah Kid won a decisive victory over Young Josephs in the scventh round at Ellsworth. Charles I. Doble, a prominent resi- dent_of Lagrange and proprietor of the Dirigo House there, is dead. The June term of the United States district court convened in Bangor at 10 a.m. yesterday, Judge Peters pre= siding. The term is to be of brief duratjon. Albert Ware, forty years old, of Troy, was pinned beneath an overs turned and blasing truck and burned to death and Irving Prentiss of the same place was badly burned Monday night on the way from Troy to Pitts- field. The truck was owned by Pren- tiss, by whom Ware was empioyed. Change of wind and heavy down- pour of rain checked forest fires. Situation greatly improved. Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards will be principal speaker at University of‘ Maine commencement exercises Jiine 11. Moses A. Colburn, veteran of the civil war, dead. He was identified for many years with the early history of FEuropean and North merican railw a_member of the Masonic order and G. A. R. C. J. Atkinson, executive mecretary Boyk Giuhs Assoclation, urges Ban- Eor Rotarfans to get hehind move- ment fer clubs for younger bhoy: The June term of Maine'law was formally convened in Tyesday. Memorial exercises are held for late Justico Frederiois Powers of Houlton ourt, Bangor John W. Goode of.Calais. & former | five ! customs official.’ waa _glven months in jail by federal court on Charge of conspiracy in wool smug- gling case. OKLAHOMA CITY. Special Dispatch to The St OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., June 6.— Four hundred and fifty-one will grad- uate from the Unfverkity of Oklahoma. There was $500,000 damage and three Jrore siightly hurt whed an oil train Jjumped off the Cimmarron River bridge. The oll ignited, burning rall and road ridges. Charles Harbolt, seventeen vears old, and two others a motor cycle crash. The North Cangdian river is steadily ), Injured, in | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. OC. News From the “Home Town” for Visiting Nobles at Shrine Con DETROIT, MICH. Special Dispateh to The Btar. DETROIT, Mich., June 8.—Julius A. Dresser, enty-four, member of Moslem’ Shrine Detroit Commanders and Michigan Sovereign Consistory, died suddenly Sunday night. Michigan supreme court freed an Ottawa county man because his home was ralded in search of home brew. The court holds that the sanctity of the home cannot be frittered away by dry enforcement officers. Dr. Jossph Aarons, president of the Michigan-Ohlo Fuel Company, was arrested on caplas in a case in which ho is charged with defrauding a man of 37,600 by selling him stock in the company. ‘The weather Is still sweltering hot in Detrolt, with relief promised by Brother Conger. Two unknown foreigners beaten to death in a feud. The supreme court has decided that Charles Jones, head of the Sinkula &ang of stock swindlers, must serve & two-year term handed him by Judge Keldan. were ROCHESTER, N. Y. ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 6.—Fire yesterday wiped out a grocery store about to be opened by Illison” Kosoff on Mount Hope avenue. The loss is placed at $3,500. Republican leader Hotchkiss has gone on record for strict enforce- ment of law in a statement criticl ing the Mullan-Gage repeal. He indi- rectly criticised the actions of As- semblymen Murphy and Griffith. Rev. (eorge Norton of $t. Louls accepts a call to St. Paul's Episcopal Church here. The old guard Investigating com- mittee finds poorly prepared food and lack of bathing facilities as the prin- cipal ecause of complaint at the county tuberculosis sanitarium. The Gas and Electric Corporation applies for a permit to inatall a de- vice to melt snow next winter on the walk in front ot its office by ¢urrents of_hot air. The city 18 declared far behind its {quota in clothing for the near ecast drive, which ends tonight. MILWAUKEE. MILWAUKEE, June 6.—Judge Emil Wallber, former mayor of Milwaukee and for many rs prominent in political circles, s dead, at the age {0t eighty-two years. The explosion at the home of Wal- | ter Kieckhefer is still & mystory. Gilbert Benson, record clerk ana | for twenty years on the staff at Wau- rising, the flood crest belng expected today. pun rtate penitentiary, will be a; sistant ispector at the house of cor rection President Waves Greeting to Shriners on W hite House Lawn The White House and the front lawns were again today the center of attraction for the thousands of visit- ing Shriners and members of their party who were inclined toward sightseeing. From an early hour right on through the day these visitors swarmed through the first floor of the famous presidential mansion and about the tawns and shaded walkway The Presfdent and Mrs. Harding had given orderk 8 the police and other at- efies to do everything possible for he' pleasure and ‘interesf’ of these visitors; 3 The - executive “appeared a4t a first flootswindow for several moments be- fore ‘staiting over to the exccutive office and waved and smiled acknowl- edgment of the cheers and handclap- ping By the large group in front of the building. edness of the salutations it was evi- dent that brother nobles were greet- Ing one another and it was not merely the chief executive of the United States being applauded by some plain sightseeing cltizens. Throughout the day there was also a growp .standing .about -the front ortico antiei resldent “or 5. Harding. Several times during the day the President went to a4 front: window and waved a greeting 16 those gathered about the_front.of the mansion: :Frequently during the day Mre. Har@ing person- .Ll‘y greated -visiting riners and ladles of their party who were going through_the first-floor rooms. The President's order throwing open_the first floor of the house to the Shriners and thelr families will atay in force throughout the conven- tion. As the noon_hour rolled around the grounds presefited a most democratic and truly American picture. Besides the throngs along ths walkways and those pouring in and out of the big white mansion, several hundred men and women and children were lolling comfortably on the soft lawn beneath the many big shade trees. The pect Was One suggestivi picnie grounde. Some-of beneath the trees had brought lunch- es with them and they mat and ate; and talked in great comfort. 1t was a source of disappointment to President Harding that he could not personally roceive all of the visit- | ing nobles who called at the execu-! | tive office and asked for the privilege of shaking hands with thelr “brother. Also there wero scores of requests from various Bhrine organizations to call in a body and to make presenta- tions of gome kind. This would have been a_physioal impossibility. The President did, however, receive some of the organizations, ‘the en- gagements having been made some- time ago. A committee from Bagdad Temple, Butte, Mont. ing & bronze #tatuette of a cowboy on & reatifig” broncho, the work of Willlam Ruseell, the noted “cowboy artist and seulptor. The Bagdad delegation was headed by Potentate A, J. Wilcomb and the introductions were made by Judge Edwin 8. Booth, special assistant United States attorney, a member of Almas Temple and a citizen of Butte. The. others_in the delegation wers: Dejegate Charies E. Beebe R. R. Rathbone -and A. J. Gles, imperial delegates, and George N. Short and Edwin J. Hanmer of the executive committee; Dr. J. H. Phillips, H. W. Burton and George R. Good. Noble Good, who made the presenta- tion speech, said among other things: “This, Mr. President, is a little gift as an expression of our appreciation and love for what you have done, are doing and will do in bringing this great nation from chaos to peace and| comfort.” The Presidont then recelved a dele- gation from Nile Temple, Seattle, ‘Wagb., and_after handshaking and an exchange of greetings the famous badge of this outfit bearing the words “smile- with Beattle” was pinned on the President's coat. This delegation was_introduced to the President by W. W. Jermane, former grand master of Magons of the District of Columbia. James Rolph, mayor of San Fran- ‘elkco, who I8 -here with Islam Temple '8¢ that city, and seyeral members of that organisation ‘Were raceived by the Presidet. With the mayor were Nobles Duncan Matheson and John Hepburn and Danlel O'Brien, chief of pelice .of San Frahcisco, and Henry Gleason, ehief of the traffic depart- ment: Don_Fostér of Za-Ga-Zig Temple, Des Moines, Towa, headed a small delegation 6f AOBIEK of that temple re- celved by the President during the afternoon. Prenident Recelves Officers. .. Probably'the most imposing and in- apiring fneident at the White House today was the arrival of Imperial Potentate James McCandless and the amembers of the Imperial Divan sad From the wholeheart- | ing_a gilmpse of the | i of a public| the groups presented Noble Hard- | [ Deputy Potentate Conrad V. Dyke- mnan, who will lead the Shrine during the next year,and other high officers of the organization. They were for- mally recetved by President Harding at_nmoon in the executive office These high Shrine officials were e corted to the door of the office more than 600 members of Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, N. Y. as well as by the special guard of honor for the imperial potentate. At the head of this escort was the famous Kismet Band of more than fifty pleces. { ms, who has been a prominent fig- ! ur. many Shrine demonstrations. | As this body moved down Executive {avenue toward the west entrance of the White House grounds it at- tracted a large gathering along th sldewalk and was given an enthusia. tic ovation as it turned Into the gates to_the grounds. When 1t reached the front of the office building & lane was formed thorugh which the imperial officers iand their special honor guards walk- ed. On one side of this brilliantly arranged lane was Legion of Honor of Kismet, composed of nearly half a hundred veterans of [the world war, headed by Capt. C. F. | Dykeman, & brother of the deputy im- perial potentate. The Misket Mounted Guards, commanded by Capt. A. Voight, formed’ the other side of the lame, In | group formation at their side of the i doorway were the members of Misket patrol. ~ Directly behind the {mperial party walked the special detall of six police Shriners from New York city. Following an exchange of greetings the President congfatulated these high officors for the good work they {are doing and upon the splendid show- ing made by the organization since it has been In Washington. He told of his and Mrs. Harding's high apprecia- tion of the parade spectacle yester- The visitors assured the Execu- tive of their support and told him of their appreciation of what he has done as the head of the nation and expressed the hope for his continued £ood health and success. The visitors then presented a large basket of pink roses as a gift for Mrs. Harding. Mrs. Harding entertained the wives of the imperial officers at luncheon at the White House this afternoon. The large state dining room was prettily decorated for the occasion with Shrine colors and a large array of Columbla roses, Gladiola, Coreopsis and Maiden hair ferns. —————a BAND AS JOY DISPENSER. Egypt Temple Aggregation Tampa Delights Star Employes. The Egypt Temple Band, from Tampa, Fla., consisting of forty-four pieces, journeyed to the eighth floor of The Star buflding today and dis- pénsed joy to the employes of The Evening Star by playing and singing several airs of their native state. Cigars manufactured in Florida also were generously distributed by the visitors. Noble M. L. Price, bandmaster, was in charge of the merrymakers, SHRINER DISAPPEARS. Search Made Here for Asheville Doctor. Search is being made in Washing- ton for Dr. W. C. McCurry of Ashe- ville, N. C., a member of Oasis Temple of Charlotte, N. C., who was last seen at Sallsbury, N. C., while en route to this city. Dr. McCurry was in company_with J. H. Hutchins of Kingsport, Ten: gnd startod Monday ffom. Ashevills for Washington. He was last seen on the train at Salisbury. Bhriners are asked to communicate with Oasls Temple members, at 35 B street, or at the 8pecial train in the Alexandria vards, {f any trace is found of the missing man. of ! The band was lead by Ernest Wil- | the fraternity TRENTON, N Special Dispatch to The Star. TRENTON, N. J.,, June 6.—In its effort to locate Middlesex County Clerk “Barney” Gannon, whose testi- mony Is much desired because of allegations that he acoepted $25,000 for his influence in the Perth Amboy land purchase scandal, the ~speclal legislative committee, now sitting here to inquire into contracts of the ousted state highway commission, has called on the state police to serve the subpoena. Gannon s reported to have fled New Jersey. Trenton Shriners who are members of the Lions' Club will be Interested to learn that the local organization has declded to conduct an annual event to be known as the Lions’ mu- sical competition. Gold . and silver medals for the next ten years have been pledged. Maure Tesauro, serving a fifteen- to-thirty-year sentence in the state prison here for second-degree mur- der, killed himself today by stran- gling himself with a bed sheet, Charles Lewls of Eaat State street, father of Mrs. George Debkeim, is in a critical condition at St. Francis' Hospital with his throat cut. The tamily says his razor slipped while he was shaving. The police call it an attempted suicide. The man is seventy-six vears old. The commission decided in confer- ence today to have West Hanover street paved and levy a proper share of the $50,000 expenmse against. the traction company. Jim Hammond is still missing. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Special Dispateh to The Sta 3 BROOKLYN, June 6.—The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Monday called a conference to guard agalnst renew- ed coal shortage next winter. It found but little anthraclte in dealers” bins now. The Heights Public Forum Monday tabled & motion thanking Gov. Smith for vetoing the bill giving Brookiyn four new municipal court justices. Two policemen ongincerad a rescue of a fifteen-year-old invalld and baby from a fire at 375 Prospect place Monday. Max Lance, living at 100 Prospect place, choked to death trying to tie his shoe on the steamer United States while on_the way home Monday. The grand jury has examined wit- nessos in the case of Charles Frenz, accused of fraud. The Methodist Episcopal Hospital | predicts a greatly lowered death rate. The advance guard of the seventeen- year locust has arrived in Brooklyn, The Willlamsburg Savings Bank has boosted dividends from 4 to 4% per ent SHRINE HOST SEES - RAGING MOCK WAR |Infantry, Cavalry and Field Artillery in Action at Monument. Salvos from a battery of field ar- | tillery, popping of rifies and the | rapid tit-tat of machine guns thrilled | hundreds of Shriners and other vis | itors who witnessed a mimic war- fare demonstration this afternoon on the Monument grounds-staged by | Regular Army soldlers. It was a re- !alistle spectacle, which included ma- neuvers by infantry, cavalry and fleld artillery. The demonstration was opened by an attack on a machine gun emplace- ment by a cavalry platoon and a ma- chine rifle squad, which illustrated the work of mounted soouts and a combined mounted and dismounted assault. inclufling a fire-swept zone, mounted. The movements were ex- ecuted by a platoon and A machine rifle squad of Troop G of the 3d Cavalry, from Fort Myer. The cav- alry exhibition also included a fire jump by officers and. & squad of Troop E of the 3d Cavalry. { This was followed by a review of [the 2d Battalion of the 16th Field Artillery, ~ stationed at Fort Myer. The fleld pleces passed at a walk, trot and gallop, to music_furnished by the mounted band from Fort Myer. After the review they formed a doubls section line facing the spectators and exccuted action, rear, and firing a salvo right with blank ammunition. A bat- talion volley followed. ~The. units lim- bered again and formed a double action line. concluding the exhibifion with a few minutes’ drill. Wl Cross . Stream. At 4 o'clock, near the Tidal basin, a demonstration” will be given of how troops cross streams in the face of an enemy, under fire, one of the most dif- ficut tasks engineers must execute for the infantry. Actual combat conditions nul be_simulated, using blank ammuni- on. Company A of the 13th Engineers from the "engineer school at Camp Humphreys, will construct a Lampert foot bridge, which was designed and developed during the war by Maj. Lampert, an_engineer -officer. The bridge, 285 feet long. can be con- structed in thirty-five minutes by twelve men. Arrangéments have been made to build it from the bathing i beach to the diving float in the tidal basin. The enemy will be represented on_the opposite shore. The situation will be as follows: An American division has reached a body of water; an enemy holds -the other bank. The American com- mander must cross the water to de- feat the enemy, so the engineers are {ordered to construct three foot bridges across the water in order that the infantry can oross and hold the other bank while heavier bridges are constructed for the entire division to_cross in the attack. The problem will illustrate the construction of one of the foot bridges. Preceding and following the mili- tary maneuvers on the Monument grounds, the Army Band from Wash- ington barracks gave a concert. AR BARTLETT SERENADED. Shriners from New Hampshire today serenaded Noble John H, Bartlett, first assistant postnaster general, in his offices on the fifth floor of the Post Office Department. Gov. Bartlett, who is acting post- master general, in the absence from the city of Postmaster General Harry S. New, thanked the visiting nobles from his home state, and told them that the department was theirs. ew Hampehire Shriners are being ‘weloomed this week at headquarters in the International building on F street, which_is_ owned by Gov. Bartlett. Lend Your Car for One Sightseeing Trip During Shrine Week Drive It Yourselt, Provide a Chauffeur, or.the Committes Will Supply a Careful Driver. Notity Almas Temple Shrine Committes, Homer Building, Giving Name and Description of Car. Phone Main 6723 CLEVELAND, OHIO. Soecial Dispateh to The Star. CLEVELAND, Ohlo, June 6.-The wave of midsummer heat which has smothered Cleveland since June 1 continued nuabated yesterday, bring- ing with it the menace of a water shortage in the suburbs and inabllity on the part of ice manufagturers to meet the heavy demand. The oficlal temperature reached #8 yesterday. Mrs. Josephine Richardson of 1204 East 1434 street was in a oritical condition in a Columbus hospital 1 night the victim of a mynsteriou attack, Richardson, relatives against wife's plight because of his own fll- ness, Only thirty-five of Idlewood villa ge's 160 voters braved the heat y terday to go to the ron- and pa bond Issues totaling $31,32 | Deaths of & woman and a man from stabbing wers being investigated b: police last night. Mra. Lillian Wari was stabbed to death in her home at 330 Bast 83d street: Robert Henson of 2353 East 71t street dled last night as the result of knift wounds received Saturday night. Alsey Champlon, under indlctment for shooting to kill, will be taken to Los Angeles to face trial for first de- gree murder in connection with the killing of James Goldy In a dice game, January 10, 1922, A charge of failing to stop after running down fourteen-year-old Vera Misejako of East 40th atreet Was lodged by police against Thomas So- glano of 2350 East 39th street. The Citizens’ building, East 8th and Buclid avenue, again figured in & real- deal, tho Union Mortgage Company acquires shares and will give the structure its name. Special Dispatch to The Star. CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 6.—Police scattered & crowd that had captured and threatened Willlam Peck, 1923 Fast- ern avenue, after a girl told of an at- tempted attack. J. A. Whitaker, seventy-one, chief police court officer for thirty-five years, is dead. A better business commission, to check advertising frauds, is being or- ganized, the Ad Club announces. Billy Sunday, rapped evolution at the Y. M. C. A. Monday night. Methodist _ministers _assail Smith's New York dry repeal. Hot weather originated a blaze that destroyed the barn and_threatened the home of Philip A. Cook, 2328 Beech- mont avenue. Judge Robert Marx, after moving his courtroom across the courthouss to ese cape street noise, flayed city hall for allowing vehicular traffic to disturb courts, Gov. ‘Marines Fly Nea . To Entertain i | In aerial entertainment stunts for the visiting Shriners yesterday M- rine Corps aviators flew nearly 3,000 miles, completing one of the mosat ardoous days in the history of the fiying field at Quantico. | Most of the mileage was made on' trips to and from Quantico, but per- haps & third of it was on work over the Potomac fiver and in the environs | of the capital. Everything at the/ Quantico fleld that would fly has been overhauled and put in the air, 50 the visitors can see as many types of airplanes as. poswible. | Formation flying, bombing tn con-| nection with the Navy, exhibition fiy- | ing and a parachute jump featured the marine air program yesterday, and an exhibition was given of the| transmission of messages by radio telephone from a fast-moving air-| plane to the ground, when message: ot ome from President Harding, TORPEDO SHOOTING THRILLS SHRINERS Destroyers Give Realistic Ex- hibition of Bombarding Enemy Craft. | Cannonading oft the sea wall of the Washington chennel brought thousands of spectators this after- noon to witness a realistic bombard- ing of an enemy by Division 26, United States destroyers, in command of Commander L. W. Townsend, who also is captain of the Worden. Salvo after salvo was fired by the three destroyers as though the charge was from one gun. It wa¢ the first opportunity many had had to witness such & naval demonstration, and when it Was over they could realize more than ever how much the Navy is needed to guard the ¢onsts of the United States against dn enémy. HBetore the battie began sailors in | their spotless white umiforms could Dbe observed fram the seawall mov- ing about the decks, then those on shore saw them break inte a rum. Some - disappeared quickly through | —_— ————— WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1923. INDIANAPOLIS. Special Dispatch to The Star, INDIANAPOLIS, June 6—Roy D. Aliman, 929 Bancroft street, and Gil ‘Warren, 5863 East Washington street, were drowned at Ravenswood. Ruby Rogers, who was with them, was res- cued. The efforts of the two electric pow- er utilities of Indianapolis to prevent the Terre Haute, Indlanapolls and Eastern Traction Company from en- tering the local power fleld falled, when Judge Fred C. Gause sustained a demurrer to their injunction suit. ‘The city council has an ordinance to legalize Sunday dancing in public dance halls, and_dancing also after midnight. The Church Federation is preparing a protest against its pas- sage. "% A. Bastian, attorney, is dead. Fred Willlamson of the Willys Overland Company, was swindled out of a sum of money by a stranger who used the Barnum & Bailey circus as his selling scheme. Heydon Buchanan, city couneilman, was discharged from liquor law vio- lation charges in the city court. The American Legion state depart- ment has withdrawn from its stand on text books, when it learned the book opposed was not adopted. The Adelaide Fairbanks case against Hanna & Dalily, attorneys, been tled and all action in federal court dismissed. SAN FRANCISCO. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, June 8.—Patrol- man Thomas Kelly was shot and pos- | aibly fatally injured by George Paris, an esoaped Napa asylum maniac, at 15th and Valencla streets, after Paris threatened Sigmund Stern of Levl Strauss Company and terrorized the neighborhood. Drys raided the Roman Gardens Cafe, at the beach. The board of supervisors killed a proposition to extend the Municipal rallway along Masonic avenue. Daylight bandits held up the Gold- en State lAv)ln Office, 41 3rd street, a4 got $500. flnfllx‘leen’—yelr-nld Leland Joseph fought in vain to prevent his mother, Theodora Joseph, 2319 Jones street, from hurling herself to death over Telegraph Hill Cliff. Her body was recovered by the father, 400 feet below. Harold Sampson, Lincoln Park pro- feestonal, won the professionai golf championship of northern California by defeating Arthur East at New Lake Merced County Golf Club, 2 up and 1 to play, Sampson will now represent this dlatrict at the national open championship play at Inwood in July. rly 3,000 Miles Shrine Visitors Secretary Denby, and Gen. Lejeune, commandant of the Marine Corps. were read in a plane and caught and repeated to the throng on Pennsyl- vania avenue by receivers with loud- speaking attachments. In. all, eleven marine planes figured in the day's program. including De Haviland, Voigt and Martin bombing planes. The plane which sent the radio messagés was a De Haviland, especially equipped The parachute jump was made at about 1:30 {n the afternoon as A part of the ceremonies center{ng around the Potomac river. The jump was made by Marine Corp. J. W. Peel of the Quantico marine afr station from a De Haviland plane flown by Capt. Arthur H. Pagé. Thé jump was mafe at an aftitude of about 4,000 feet in the sight of thousands of spec- tators. After floating slowly over the Potomac river Peel settled to earth on a stretch of low, muddy ground on the banks of the river just south of the naval air station at Anacostia. He made the jump in fine style and not injured in any mannel Mooney Invites Visiting Shriners T o See Post Office| City Postmaster Mooney today extended a cordial Invitation to visiting Shriners to inspect the Washington city post office, ad- joining Union station By calling at the offices of the postmaster a guide will be pro- vided and the various divisions and #hops, with their up-to-date equip- ment. will be pointed out, it was state v Was ing which a today during g"y Arif um: thrown into the water. Inta: hands were on deck and launched & lifeboat and picked up the “man” in the minimum of time. ~Then there NEWARK, N. J. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEWARK, N. J, June 6—Mrs. John Creighton has been indicted én a charge of poisoning her mother-in- law. She and her husband -already hawe been indicted as poisoners of her brother, Charles R. Avery. Detectives went on a vain chase when @& report was received that Adam Dreech had been seen near the county jail by the keepers. The com- mission” offers $1,000 reward for his capture. n epldemic of measles is now on in the Forest HIll section, 155 cases oing reported there In the last tw eeks. An attendant at the city's health cooled off a cow there with an entfre can of talcum powder. PEORIA, ILL. Spectal Dispatch to The mar. PEORIA, 111, June 6.—Fifty-fourth in asseries of safe robberies in Peorla this year, the Madison Theater was looted of $800. Mayor E. N. Woodruff, in an ad- drese at the Ivy Club, urged con- struction of modern doeking facilities on Peorla’s water front and of a new sewage-disposal plant, which would elimfnate the use of the Illinols river for sewage dlsposal. Tractors lost to Decatur, § to 2, sending them into third place. TULSA, OKLA. Special Dinpatch to The Star. TULSA, Okla, June 6.—Tulsa ap- proves Dr. J. M. Temples, elected president of the school board. Trustees have re-elected J. M. Gor- don president of the University of Tulsa. Thirty robed Kamellas interrupted a service to present $25 to Evangelist Richey. A temporary injunction was granted physiclans whom county medical offi- olsls would bar from hospital prac- tice. DES MOINES, I0WA. DES MOINES, lowa, June 6.—Bonus checks have been sent out to 5500 former service men of Iowa follow- ing the sale of the bonus bonds Sat- urday. State Auditor Glenn C. Haynes announced that somewhat more than 5,500 checks a day would be sest out up to 44,000, when the work will proceed somewhat more slowly pending the examination and verifichtion of bonus claims. Judge Hiram K. Evans of Corydon, repubBican, was elected to Congress from the eighth Iowa district to suc- seed Morace M. Towner, who resign-| €A several months ago to become gov- ernor xeneral of Porto Rico. He de- featediS. P. Daughton of Grand River, Towa, by & majority of 1500 in the closes€ election held in the district since W. D. Jamieson, democrat, de- feated’ Hepburn in 1908. The vote| was very light. Athletle Director Mayser of Iowa State College handed his resignation to President Pearson of that inati- tution as the culmination of a long disputd between the athletic director | and the board of athletic control at the college. Mayser's resignation was -aocepted at once. The bbard of athietic control will also resign and ! there 'will be “a new deal” in col- lege aghletics, Fresident Pearson as- serted. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ' “Conviktion of Frank J. Cook, former cashier oOf Farmers and Merchants' Bank, charged with fergery of the name of Wilkiam Degolla to a note for £0,855.6p;, W8 met aside by the Michigan suprem court and a new trial ordered. Supremp court ruled testimony taken was noy confined to the issue. Chi ?r L. Weldon, Leroy Metzgar and Seytmour Barkwell cénsuring Ar- thur Andrews, principal of Central High, for depyiving credits from three sons, seniors, ifor minor offenses, appeard be- fore the, school board with complaint. Supt. bt Schools W. A. Greeson was ordered to settle the matter by re- storing rthe credits. Cits _planners recommend opening of State_stqeet from Jefferson to Sheldon and Wesiton and the creation of traffic squad tween Lagrave and Sheldon and wickning of Sheldon and Fulton. Division avenue business men ask that “Bysiness alley,” in-disgraceful condition, be widened at once, taking vention - LOUISVILLE, KY. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 6.—There 8 no place in Loulsville' for the: Ku Klux Klan. This was the word pro- mulgated by Mayor Quin and mem- bers of the board of public safety in a formal statement denying to the Rev. E. W. Parkes, pastor of the Portland Avenue Baptist Church, the right to hold a meeting in & down- town church Thursday night for the purpose of explaining klan ‘princi- ples. The preacher “gracefully” vielded to the judgment of the mayor and the board. Four policemen have been asked to resign from the Loulsville force by Chief Braden, three of them be- ing charged with grafting at Churchill Downs during the race meeting by selling favorable park- ing space to taxicab men snd allow- ing motorists to get inside of the grounds. The other is charged with having been disorderly on a steamer msp.my be viauallzed when a monument to twenty-five child acci@ent victims in Loulsville last year is unveiled inlLlncoln Park with appropriate exercises. Mrs PPacty B, Semple, for many years active in all spheres ot women's work in Louisville, was found dead bed. In bed. o af the Stamp murder trial was heard when Mrs. Waiter P. Stamp, under her maiden name Of Miss Eva Stith, testified in a dam- age suit in Judge Henry S. Barkers court in bemalf of Mrs. Lucille Rus- Sell, widow of W. Smith Russell, who was shot and killed by Stamp. a Mrs. Russell sued George J. Ewald and his son, George, Jr., for $6.025 for injuries she alleged she received when an aute truck of the Ewalds struck a machine in which she was Fiding. Testimony of the defendants Indicated Mrs Russell was leaning “mighty close™ to the driver of the ar, e M. Phillfps, president of the Loulsviile Title Company. died at 2:30 oclock this morning of heart failure Jie was a member of the Masonic Lodge. week will MINNEAPOLIS. Special Dispatch to The Star. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. June 6.—The body of Mrs. Margaret M. Chough, wife of a special policaman, c had been missing since May 31, was found her home in a wood. a pistol clute! in her hand. She had been shot ough the head D ah tizens: representative charter committee has approved recommenda- tions of a subcommittee favoring a city ocouncil of seventeen members Wwith the mayor a member. A city manager would be elected by the council. The pian will be put before the public before a referendum is proposed. Francis W. Little, former vice presi- dent of the Minneapolis Trust Co, died Minnetonka. 1354 G St ty Club Hidsg. Buchu Buttons are not a patent medi- cine—but made by a formula compounded from experience. It is plainly printed on each package —and indicated in those disorders which cause backache and functional troubles. For yedrs Buchu has been a standard remedy— and as .combined in this prescription its effective- ness is greatly enhanced. For Sale at all Peoples and other good Drug Stores, twenty ifeet off the east side. — To Visiting Shriners Ok Washington, D. C. ard Surroundi was ® “fire and rescue” drill. one of the naval operations in which the of- ficers and ‘men age trained fo answor promptly calls from the beach as |well as for ships to aid in fighting n other rescue work. When i ded ail boats are in- y manned, and each member of the crow had to provide some plece of gear, such as fire extinguishers, colls of water hose, mozzles, axes, smoke heimets, sledge hammers, hawsers, etc. Secretary Denby of the Navy was acheduled to visit the destroyers this afternoon, but pressure of business, it was sald mt his office today, pre- venteq him from going. However, it was sald there that he will visit the craft_before they leave Washington, next Monday morning| The vessels are open to visitors every day from 1 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and hundreds of people have taken advantage of this oppor- a fire this Stant: hatches, others jumped to the bridge ana fife control stations, others manned the signal halyards up which were run signals by the vari-col- ored signal flags of the Navy to di- rect the firing of the-ships in the division. Show Efecient Drilling. i eneral alarm, which calls evéry officer and man to his bat station, had been sounded. ' It could not be heard on the beach, but every one could geé the blue jackets double- time about the decks, none getting in the way of another, showing what training had done. Every one knew his {lmo and he went quietly and 1y to it. % A eY {he saivos the batteries of four-incH run-. fired separately with- out direction from the .5 ip. Com- mander Townsend directed the firing from his flagship, and by signals di- rooted. all the drths. Then oame a sight which few per- sons heretofore have been,permitted ! 10 wee, except those who were fortu- nat enough to serve th NavYy in timé of war—that of firing a torpedo, onée of the death-dealing instruments of war that played such an important part in the world conflict. Use Dummy Torpedo. The destroyed Worden was swung broadside to the stream, so that those watching _the operation’ from. the beach could get 2 clear view of her torpedo tubes, which are of theabove- deck type. The torpedo was loaded into the tube and her tube directed downstream. ‘When - the torpedo, which had a dummy head on it, was i released it shot, out and dropped to the water with a splash and started on its way, leaving a<wake in the stream which was watohed with much interest by the spgctators. In service torpedo. drops mo surface when ‘fired, but to e peopls bet 1dea -its rudde; were locl 80 that it remained o the surface as it sped downstream direction of cmnbir‘o Point. It was ‘The low ive 6. he Corks of {he chanmeli cu) ¢ Fe Was & “man overboard” drill tunity to see these speed boats of the Navy. = A landing float has been pro- videq on the sea wall, opposite the flagship Worden, and visitors are takén out on the ship's boats . The officers and men have gotten into the spirit of the festivities and have posted signs on the side “Hop Aboard, Nobles.”, The flagship, the ‘Worden, is the first from Hains Point and bears the number 288: the Reid next, No. 293, and the Reuben James, No. 245. Astern of them are anchored two of the latest type submarines, the 8-48 and the S-49. | | SALT-WATER BATHING IN THE GRAND OLD CHFSAPE:AKE« BAY BAY SHORE BALTIMORE Reached by steam roads or W., B. & A. electric_to Balti- more, thence via Baltimore trolleys, or - Fine Auto Roads Direct to. 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