Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1923, Page 4

- l NEW YORK. l Special Dispateh to The Star. . NEW YORK, June 7.—An [nformal opinion given Richard E. Enrigh commissioner of police, by George P. holson, corporation ~counsel, holds that the police have no legal obli-| gation to enforce-the federal prohi- bition law. in the absence of a state enforcement act. 2 At the conference today at the cor- poration connsel’s offices, which Com- issioner 1 and’ representa- tives of the ~overal state district at- tupneys’ offices attended, Commis sloner Enright promised the fullest. co-operation within his power, as be-| fore the passage of the Mullan-Gage agt The corporation counsel, however, disagreed as to the legal obligatio of the police and he instructed ti police commissioner that he and his men were not under any legal duty 10 enforce the Volstead act or the cighteenth amendment to the Con- stitution. He said there was a moral duty to report any violations gvhich night happen to come to their at-y tention, but that it Would nod be their duty to look for dny. The Earl of Northesk waited in dejected solitude today at the ¥ Carlton for the time to arrive when he is to leave for Buffalo to join h fiancee, Jessica Brown, and hie across the line into Canada for the cerc- mony. which cannot be performed in New York. How long the earl will wait Is not certain. He said it would be only a “few days.” It was reported today that plans of the couple call for their marriage the latter part of the week, with a| six-month tour to the United States and Canada following. Great satisfaction was expressed | teday in virtually every branch of the bullding industry over a contract be- tween the allied building_metal in- dustries and local No. 52 of the Housesmith's International Union, in which there is a clause prohibiting | the “snowballing” of wages This is said to be the fir such a clause has ever been incorpo- rated into a labor umion contract. Coming at an unsettled time in the bullding industry, it is looked upon as_a great stabilizing influence. Many builders regard the present bricklavers' strike as a result of snowballing.” The members of the allied building metal industries, said to . include one hundred manufac- tyrers, signed the contract last night sranting the housesmiths an increase of $1 a day until December 31, 1923 The first indictment returned in the police bootlegging graft inquiry is that against Detective Robert Mc- Allister, the police athlete, who is charged with perjury. The indict- ment was voted by a grand jury last night and probably will be handed up to Judge Koenig in general ses- sfonstoday McAllister participated in a raid on the cellar of Charles F. Zittel, pub- lisher of Zit's Weekly, at 300 Central Park west, and testified later before Magistrate Corrigan that he had entered the storage room by turning the knob. Other testimony was to the effect that the door was broken down. Gov. Smith arrived in New York today to make is first public appear- ance since wiping the Mullan prohibition enforcement law from the | of the state. With his he will attend the! ition at Grand Central first time entire Jubilees Palace. The appearance expected to expos of the governor somewhat in the| of an ovation, as it became | today that wets intended to show their appreciation of his action Tammany Hall and ias allied clubs were also making preparations to demonstrate to the governor the pop- ularity of his decision. Friends of his olive street are planning a taxi fleet are plaining a taxi fleet parade in the governors honor. Mayor Hylan, Commissioner Wha- len and the exposition staff will meet the governor and his party at the Lexington entrance to the pala and escort them through the exposi- | tion The police band and glee club will be on hand. A climax will probably be reached Jate today in the official investiga-| tions of the brokerage failures here | when S. W. Silkworth, president of | the Consolidated Stock Exchange, ap- pears at the district attorne for examiration, Meantime five curb broker: ociated in business de: ings with the recently closed house | of Jones & Baker, are under investi- gation. The curb market committee is at work, and the “bucket brizade” of five assistant district attorneys are reported to be hot on the trail of_jrregularities. Mr. Silkworth's examination by the district_attorney is expected to bring ouf all the facts concerning the consoli- dated exchange's emergency fand of $102,000 for tottering brokerage houses. The board of directors of the Anti- Saloon League of New York, have an- nounced that, contrary to expectation, the league will not propose, have intro- ducgd, or waste any effort in supporting at the next legislative session any state enforcement measure or measures to take the place of those just repealed They have requested ather agencies and friends of dry enforcement to refrain from introducing or approving any such measure, if introduced. — LOUISVILLE, KY. is nature known | clua | st | £z Gage | SUS, OHIO. | | COLUMBUS, OHIO. | Special Dispatch to The S COLUMBUS, Ohlo. June 7.—Con- struction of a belt-line railroad at an estimated cost of $11,914,956 Is pro- posed in the plans of the Columbus Belt Line Rallroad Company, which was char- tered Tuesday, to relieve the terminal congestion which results from the heavy traffic through Union station. Columbus men among the incorpo- | rators are R. E. Westfall and Robert M. Hunter. The arrest J of two Columbus boys following an auto accident near Luray early Sunday may involve Mayor White of Hebron in difficulties with Gov. Donahey. It is understood that charges may be filed against the mayor and his removal demanded. Clark Sell, 644 Sheppard street. may die of his injuries sustained in the accident, but in spite of his condition he was compelled to remain in the Hebron jail for four hours before be- ing given medical attention, accord- | ing to the allegations. A petition to permit Lugene V. Debs to use Memorial Hall for a lec- ture in Columbus on June 22 will be presented to the county commission- ers by a special committee which in- Acting Mayor Zimpher. t Senator F will be the principal speaker at a plenic of the Benjamin Franklin Chapter of the R. and | the Columbus Chapter of AR Sunday at the Logan near Circleville. Senator Frank B the commencement addre: at . the Westerville High School Tuesday evening. He was the guest while in Westerville of Mrs. Mary E. Lee, postmistress. Columbus host on Tuesday evening to the uniformed band of the Los Angeles police and fire depart- | ments, which is en route to Buffalo, Excavation work has been started for a four-story building at the northeast corner of 4th street and 1st avenue, to be occupied by the Jeffrey Ma facturing Company. When the Y fell from the top of a| pole on which a water tank is being constructed at plant X of the Marble Cliffs Quarries Company _Ernest Banion, twenty-five, and Willlam Shinkle, twenty-one, both of South Solon, were instantly killed Tuesday. TRENTON, N. J. Special Dispatch to The Star. TRENTON, N. J., June 7.—At the evening meeting of the Trenton school board it Is expected Willlam G Wherry will be chosen president to sucoeed James Hammond, who fled from Trenton three weeks ago yes- terday. His place on the board will be declared vacant by nelly Edward Elm, Willis delivered Mayor Don- Erdy of Wolverton street in St Francis Hospital with a ab wound in the left shoulder. His her John. is under -arrest as the alleged assailant. It is charged the father and son quarreled over a woman Freeholder Bray today began the work of giving the Mercer county roads thelr annual coating of tar and oil. Harold vears ol a burglar s home of Supreme Thomas W. Tre™ hard. Chandler was found in front of the home after maids had called the polic Although rain fell yesterday in many_nearby places, Trenton “con- tinued to swelter and there was no relief in prospect today. The tem- perature hus not reached ninety, but the humidity makes weather condi- tions most uncomfortable. Creditors of the United and Globe Rubber Corporation have voted to continue the company’s business | through the executive committee ap- pointment some time ago. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. R @pecial Dispateh to The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 7.—Rich- ard W. Stegemcier, restaurant owner &nd business man, has disappeared. He had been ill. Police and relatives have joined in a city-wide search for him. He drew a sum of money from his bank. The body of a young woman )Jehn-\o(ll to be Miss McGroarty, former Park board secretary, has been found in the Niagara river. She had been missing several weeks. Hervey Bates, jr. society leader, is reported missing. Relatives cannot ac- count for his disappearance. Men associated in the City Trust Com- pany will open a new bank, the Postal State Bank, at Illinois and South streets. Flsa Huebner has been elccted presi- dent of the Little Theater Society. ¥. L. Burch and a number of business men have organized a new radio broad- casting station to supplant the two dis- continued months ago. Mrs. Helen Heron, sister of the late James E. Roberts, is dead. John_Giibert, former manager Horuff Shoe Store, has been arrested in Vir-| ginia for embezzling $2,500 from a local | company. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Special Dispatel to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June While their festivg' brethren are foot- twenty-nine rrest tollowing tiverside Drive Court Justice Fe— Speeial Dispatch to The Star. } LOUISVILLE, Ky., June T7.—That! James Brewer, in a hospital at Leba- | non. with a wound in a lung, Bnd% George Williams, in a Lexington hos- | pital and also wounded, were shot by | bhoatleggers on the Bardstown and| Springfield pike Monday night, was the statement of Mrs. Ethel Boone | Murphy, Winchester, who said that e and her sister, Grace Boone, were with Brewer and Williams, according to Lexington police. The purchase of $880,000 worth of new cars was gauthorized by the Joulsville Railway Company, James P. Barnes, president, announced. The cars, forty in number, will be used to replace those lost in fires last winter. Funeral services for Charles Moore Phillips, sixty-five years old, president of the Loui: le Title Company, will be hejd today. Judge A. T. Burgevin instructed the June grand jury to investigate the death, April 14, at the Central State Hogpital for the Insane, at Lakeland, of Willie Swift, a patient who is al- legpd to have been beaten to death. TPestimony in the trial of Leslie Combs, democratic defendant in the{ Clayhole election murder case now on trial in the Boyd circuit-eourt, be- ‘l'z yesterday at Catjettsburg. - he public school budget for the coming term was Increased $40,000 bv the board of education in granting a $60 vearly salary increase to all high school teachers and to all teachers in elementary grades who have served for three years. CINCINNATI, OHIO. Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. CINCINNATI, June 7.—When W.H. Brumbaugh, twenty-six, of 15 Faulk- ner street, reached for his pocket in a Carr street saloon, while he was being searched as a Kroger store hold-up suspeet, James Haynes, de- tective, shot him three times. Brum- baygh is expected to die. . Mason Howk, Covington police thief, says he will personally super- vise traffic direction while throngs are motoring to the Latonla track. Describing downtown _streets as *impossible,” the Cincinnatus Asso- clation has named a committee to demand immediate improvement to help business. Awakened by smoke, Henry Guen- ther of Dane street leaped from bed and drove his truck several squares ing it over the hot sidewalks of '@ Washington, the officers of the Grand | Lodge of Pennsylvania, including eputy grand masters and past | cers, under the leadership of | Grand Master Abraham M. Beitler, ' ill trek the broad Pennsylvania highways this morning on a pllgrim- age to Valley Forge. Twenty motor cars_will leave the Masonic Temple via North Broad street, Germantown and Whitemarsh_for 'the scene of Washington’s 1777 winter encamp- ment. Edwin S. Stuart, former Goyernor of Pennsylvania, and Mayor J. Hampton Moore will be members of the party of seventy-five which will visit, en route, historic spots in Germantown interésting to students of revolution ary history. The twenty-four-mile ride will be halted at Whitemarsh, where a visit will be made to the home of E. T. Stotesbury, who will entertain the travelers during a half- hour ramble over the grounds of his beautiful country place. The return journey Stop at Valley Green, on the Wis- sahickon, for lunch. 'On thelr way down the East river drive the last stop will be made at the Aquarium. The arrangements for the trip are un- der the supervision of J. Wallace Radcliffe, secretary to the grand master, who will be the party's official ' guide e Saved by Reputation. From the Los Angeles Times, Some years ago in a western state, then a territory, a popular citizen be- ame involved with an influential and overbearing character and killed him. Public sentiment leaned toward the | rlglcndant. but the law was against him, and when the day came for the trial of the defendant, his counsel and friends held a consultation, and, fear- ful of the consequences, they decided that the defendant should plead guilty and beg the court’s mercy. The jury was charged by the court and retired. Presently it returned, 1 include al THE EVENING STAR READING, PA Special Dispatch to The Star. READING, Pa.. June 7.—Grocers have decided against selling beer in stores. _ Relief from the hot wave is prom- ised. The mercury reached 95; a light rain brought no relfef. Reading split & double-header with Newark. . Aliens who dodged the draft have been refused naturalization. Maurice Bryan, forty-two, broke a leg through contortions in & den- tist's chair at Pottstown. Ernest Monroe of Reading, Amer- ican consul in Harbin, Manchuria, has returned with Russian bride. Alfred Turner, a retired Reading rolling mill superintendent, died in Scranton. An acetylene gas tank explosion caused a spectacular fire in the rail- way vards. Domenico Cafoncelll, wealthy Italian Hotel man, was fatally strick- en in a bank, . The legisluture has passed a 1-cent tax on gasoline. Dr. Albert Baker died at sauqua. Three students were drowned in the Lehigh near Bethlehem. The Fraternal Order of Eagles has convened at Lancaster, Bisnop-clect Z. B. T. Phillips of Philadelphia declines the bishopric of this district Episcopal church. _ The cries of . baby save eight fam- ilies from fire in North 10th street apartment houwe. Howard L. Boas, formerly prominent in business and City Hall, is dead. Boulevard lighting system for city's main streets proposed for 175th anni- versary was knocked out by a dis- pute between the city and electric company. American Legion plans huge outing. Delegates from nine states are at- tending Engineers’ convention The president of the United Luther- an Church is presiding over the con- vention here. F. H. Hnubell assalls K. K. K., Cou- ism and “gorilla” worshipers, the lat- ter designation being applied to those indorsing the Darwinian monkey ori- gin theory. Lawrence Betz was found dying in home with gas turned on. The state Odd Fellows' convention at Allentown picked Reading as meet- ing place for next year. The local ice retailers deny short- age, but raise their prices. Moths are doing great damage wheat flelds at Pottstown. The legislature may drop increased tax on gasoline and increase license fee on high-powered gas. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Special Dispateh to The Star. BROOKLYN, N. Y., June 7.—An un- identified woman took her life by leaping from Manhattan bridge. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt will review the Sunday school parade to- day. Trial of Albigio Mastrota for the murder of his rich uncle has started in Queens count Christian Coigne, twenty-two, 581 67th street, killed himself after his fiancee. Stephanie Duda, died Joseph B. Taylor, sixty-two, 83th street, a Fort Hamilton realtor, was killed by an auto. Arthur Heinrich of Baldwin seeks altitude record in a glider in a at Belleclaire Country Club, Cata- to an trial Catrone, 153 E was killed and two wounded in a gun battle near Jefferson avenue. A. V. Pitt, demoted policeman, has demanded the reason for his transfer, ph ergreen others 147 in LOCUSTS DESCEND UPON EASTERN STATES From the Kansas City Star. Shrill love notes of seventeen-year male locusts to their dumb mates are now being heard in fifteen east of the Mississippl. The parents of these creatures lald eggs seven- teen years ago _and died. ~Since then their progeny have remained under- ground. White settlers saw the ancestors of these insects near Massachusetts Bay in 1634. The seventeenth generation of the locusts seen then are now serenading the descendants of the Pilgram Fathers. They will not ap- pear west of the Mossissippi river, according to forecasts. The locust has been a plague to mankind for _centuries. “The land fs as the Garden of Eden before them,” said the Prophet Joel almost three thousand years ago, “and behind them a wilderness: yea, nothing shall escape them.” He de- scribed the coming of the locusts as “a day of cloud and thick darkness; as dusk spread over the mountains.’’ In 1915 the locusts again visited Jerusalem. Miles and miles of gar- dens were denuded; grape and fig crops disappeared. The swarm appearing now is the second largest, it is said, and one of the most widely distributed. It is of the kind known as the periodical cicades, some of which appear every thirteen and others every seventeen ¥ his variety does mot devastate the land it passes over in the same de- gree as locusts that descend from the arld steppes of Asia. Periodical ci- cades are growing less numerous owing to the cutting down of forests. The eggs are lald in tender twigs of trees and if no trees are at hand their propagation is prevented to a large extent. Birds are enemies of the-Jnsects, especially the English sparrow. : = The insects cause no permanent damage to mature trees, but may in- ire. seriously, YOUng trees or nursery stock. No remedy is _practicable against them in large numbers over large areas. even year Origin of Swastika. From Popular Mechanics M. zine. The origin of the Swastika symbol has given rise to protracted contro- versy. The latest contribution to the question is that of Hara Krisna Deb, in the Journal of the Asiatic So- clety of Bengal. Ha suggests that it is a modification of the mode of ex- pressing the ancient Hindu syllable Om, which is used in religious rites. in view of his record of 2,500 arrests | states | CLEVELAND, OHI0. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 7.—George E. Wilkes, until March 15 assistant man- ager of the Newburg office of the Cleve- land Trust Company, was arrested last night fn connection with an alleged shortage of more than $66,000. Detec- tives said Wilkes told them he had taken between $75,000 and $100,000, while & statement by Harrls Creech, president of the bank, placed the shortage at $66,000. The United States Guaranty Company will be the sole loser. Forest Hill estate of approximately 600 acres in East Cleveand and Cleve- land Heights, together with several smaller parcels in both suburbs, passed yesterday from John D. Rockefeller to his son, John D. Rockefeller, jr. Stamps on the deed, which was mailed from New York. gave consideration as $2,- 799,000, . Motions to quash the indictments against Fred Counts, former prohibitio agent, his brother, A. Frank Counts Joseph A. Shearer of Columbus, former prohibition commissioner of Ohio, and Samuel A. Hoskins, also of Columbus, were flled in federal court yesterday. Hearings were set for next Monday. The American Legion fired another broadside at the Eugene V. Debs meot- ing in the public hall, in a_statement Brig. Gen. John R. McQuigg legion regards Debs as in the same class with the soldiers of the enemy nations in the late war, only worse. A storm, which broke here yesterday shortly after 4 o'clock in the afternoon and lasted an hour, set a record rain- full within a short time, flooding streets in some localities, and also brought re- lief to the sweltering city. No rain had fallen for seventeen days. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCHESTER, N. J., June 7.—Fires late Tuesday caused losses of $125,000 in Penn Yan and Nundau. Nearby towns were called on for assistance. The safe in Tip Toe Inn, South Clin- ton, was burglarized for the second time in a few days. Thieves got $400. William F. Webster, pioneer shoe manufacturer, is dead at General Hos- pital after a long illness. The hot, sultry weathe ed by thunderstorms. it 96 in Main street. George Tibbits, secretary dent Noonan of the and_Pittsburgh by footpads at knocked unca $45 were stolen George W. Aldred is to be named commissioner of jurors despite oppo- sition. Baptists have raised $77,000 of the $250,000 church office bullding fund. s reliev- The mercury to Presi- Buffalo, Rochester iy, roup and Pine alle: ious and passes and OKLAHOMA CITY. Special Dispe tel to The Star. OKLAHOMA CITY, June 7.—Charles Evans has been made director of ex- tension of Oklahoma A. and M. Col- lege. The State board approved recommendations for eight other rter for Daughters of melia bas heen taken out Oklahoma University regents met yesterday without selecting a new preside Residents along river have ordered to move out before Walton has ecalled a reorganization meeting of labor and farm elements for June 18. Omitting farmer labor reconstruction leaders the action is take a move to repudiate league been flood. Trip During Giving Name and E ] CROWS STRIP OAK TREE OF ITS CROP OF ACORNS From the Philadelphia Record. The habits of our native crows have frequently caused considerable comment by foresters and nature stu- dents, but it seems no record has been made of their relation to the seed of forest trees, such as in the peculiar phenomenon witnessed by James B. Duke, a student of forestry at the Pennsylvania State College. While examining some timber growth in the mountains of central Pennsylvania, Duke noticed a large flock of crows, which seemed to con- centrate its effort to a belt of red oak trees. Upon investigating the cause of the commotion. he found they were stripping the oak trees of their fruit and in addition were breaking off numberless twigs bear- ing acorns. Although he followed the crows and watched them carefully for three hours, he never noticed one of them attempt to_eat the nuts. It seemed they were out on a plun- dering expedition, with no object in view except to destroy, for suddenly without the least cause for alarm, they ceased their operations. hovered above the trees and departed far out over the open country. This, a pothook with square ends, was | duplicated, one across the other, to form the, Swastika, meaning “bringer of blessings,” which goes back in In- dia to the seventh century, when it was used as a cattle mark. Another reference is well before 528 B. C. It is found on gold leaf on a vase with relics of Buddha, and it appears on the edicts of Asoka (272-232 B. C.) The earliest .example known is on a spindle whorl from the third city of Troy, about 1800 B. C., and it is fre- quent in Greek vases about 600 B. C. ¢ —— Paid the Bill. From Judge. A well known doctor was awakened one stormy winter's evennig by a man who stated that the former's services were- required three miles away. Just before they set out in and the foreman said: “We find the defendant not gulilty.” The judge viewed the jury in aston- ishment and sald: ‘Gentlemen of the jury, how be it? This defendant pleaded guilty and you find him not guijlty?” The foreman answered: “Well, your honor, the defendant is such a liar we can’t believe him un- der oath.” More Eloquent Tribute. to a fire box and called the firemen, who saved his home. ‘When council falled to grant a de- mand of water works laborers for a I.Fa in pay from §3 to §3.75 a walk- out, wlgh subsequent shutdown, was threatefied. From Life. Mr. Everbroke—Here's a rose for you, dear. I'm saying it with flow- ers this_evening. His Wife—I'd rather have you say it with potatoes andy'onions. There isn't a thing in the huse to eat, the ‘snowy night the visitor asked what the charge would be. “Three dollars,” was- the reply. When the house ‘of ‘the supposed patlent was reached ithe man alighted first and, handing the doctor $3, he said: “Tha will be all, doctor: I couldn’t find a taxi that would take me through the snow all the way for $3.” Making Use of It. From the Boston Giobe, His Father—Your ‘medical educa- tion cost me a lot of money and I don't see that you are making any- thing out of it. “Nothing,” $aid the husband. ' "I write my own prescriptions apd dodge the speed laws every night' merely showing my professional c All' Shriners séem to appreciate the significance of this—the form of a novice cli pended from a eable stretched across the intersection of yiith and P streets—and WASHINGTON, was held up ! COLUMBUS, OHIO. Special Dispateh to The Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 7.—Two lives were lost last night in a heavy thunder and lightning storm, which broke the heat wave which had grip- ped Ohlo for the past week and taken a toll of lives. Three other deaths by drowning, indirectly due to the heat, have been reported from various parts of the state. Maj. Edward G. Elliott, cavalry, now at the East Columbus general reserve supply depot, has been as- signed to the 1st Cavalry Division and will leave Columbus. Declaring that if the proposed zoh- ing ordinance went into effect there would be no place in Columbus where a working man could own a home ex- cepting in a factory district, the Co- lumbus federation of labor has gone en record as opposing the measure. P NORFOLK, VA. e Special Dispatch to The Star. NORFOLK, Va., June 7.—Under “no pledge to any organization” Mrs. Walter C. Fain has announced her candidacy for the house of dele- gates. She is the first woman to seek a state office. Other candidates for the house announced are: Dr. lsracl Brown, incumbent; Dr. Lloyd Wil- Hams, Albert S. J. Jakeman, Curtis Old. For senate, John Lesner, incum bent; James S. Barron. Georg Pilcher, E. S. Baum, Cecil Robertson. Barron opened the campaign last night for the “absolute repeal of the Volstead act.” The coast guard will blow up the British rum sloop Glen Beulah, sunk with 1,800 cases off Cape Charles by an unidentificd steamer Saturday night. Wreckers refuse to undertake salvage, declaring the sloop of little value; cargo no value legally. Federal agents destroyed three stills, 750 gallons capacity, in a swamp across the North Carolina line. One man was arrested. The school board, favoring enlarge- ment_of Maury High School, rejected the city managers’ proposal for a new high school in another section of the city. The owners of the schooner Blanche C. Pendleton, sunk off Hatteras in a collision with the steamer L C. White January, 1922, were awarded $114.842 hy Commissioner Rumble in United States district court. The council has authorized cluster lights for Plume street Judge Richard L. Mcllwaine, court law and chancery, ill at the Protes- tant Hospital. fs reported improved Funeral of Mra. Sallie Grifith Hox- ton Randolph, widow of Bishop A M. Randolph, will be held tomorrow morning at the residence of her son- in-law. James F. Wright, Stockley Gardens. Inferment in Hollywood Richmond. Mrs. Randolph, three, was a descendant of Rev. vid Griffith, first bishop of Virgini and Washington's pastor at Alex- andria The body of Rev. E. L. Plerce, Bap- tist, shot dead at Cumberland Court- house Tuesday, was brought here to- day for burial. Leon T. Seawell was elected presi- dent of the Lions' Club. Attorney B. A. Banks anno candidacy for the state sen obertson has withdrawn Norfolk Knights of Columbus have decided to occupy the Y. M. C. A building as their own home July 1 Rev. Richard M. Chandler. pastor of Oaklette Methodist Church. is dead at the age of seventy-six. He was a confederate veteran and for forty- four years a preacher of the Vir- ginia conference. wees his e. Cecll Lend Your Car for One Sightseeing Shrine Week Drive It Yourself, Provide a Chauffeur, or the Committee Will Supply a Careful Driver. Notify Almas Temple Shrine Committee, Homer Building, Description of Car, Phone Main 6723 Worse to Come. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Having been served with a wedge | of "some yellow substance, the hus- ! band poked at it cautiously with his fork, and finally turned it over heav- | 11y on his plate, asking: “What is this?" | “Pound cake. | wife replied. “Nothing.” said the husband. I thought my section welghed more |than a pound. What are you going | to make next?” “Marble cake,” | antly. What of it?’ the said the wife defi- Made It Unanimous: From the London Telegraph. | During a dinner party the conver- i sation turned to good looking people. One lady said: “I think all the good looking men have etayed away from { this dinner party.” | The gentleman to whom this remark | had been made said: “Well, I think |all the good looking ladies are with | us_tonight.” Then the lady, thinking a compli- ment had been paid her, added: “Of course, I should have said, ‘present company excepted.’” Whereupon the gentleman _said: “Oh! Of course that's what I meant to say.” D. C, THURSDAY JUNE 7, 1923. SAN FRANCISCO Special Dispatch to The Sta SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 7.— Beautiful Senorita Marla Pledad Acuna, twenty-two, daughter of a wealthy Guatemala coffee grower, was shot and killed by her spurned suitor, Juan Verzell, also a Guate- malan, in her home, 1676 Geary street. Verzell then committed suicide. A jury was selected to try Police Lieut. D. H. Brasfield and Policemen Mark Willever and William Barion for liquor smuggling. Seven civilians arrested in same case will be given a separate trial. Rev. Joseph Landor Scott, Presby- terian, of Los Angeles, has mysteri- ously disappeared In San Francisco. Four hurt as cable car runs wild on Hyde street grade. Michael Brown, conduetor, gets $35,000 for legs 1ost in. beach crash. Bogly incorporates as San Francisco Memorial Bridge Corporation; $20,- 000,000 to build bridge across bay from Little Coyote Point to Alameda county. Governor signs cemeteries bill roline Lange, wife of Prof. Alexis Lange, University of California, ed by gas James Flower, fifteen years 4 Oakdale avenue, killed in from playground trapeze. SAVANNAH, GA. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. AVANNAH, June 7.—The parent- teacher associations will start a cam- paign to raise $15,000 to pay school teachers whose salaries have been cut by closing schools prematurely Twenty-seven couples were granted divorces Tuesday and about the same number Wednesd, Georgia county officials are holding their convention. Roy M. Allen, charged with setting Sacred Heart Church on fire, is held for trial for arson. George L. Willlams of Blooming- dale was shot by dry officers in K tucky. Mrs. Henry J. Snooks is dead. R. J. Tumbleson, a former Savan- nahian, is dead at Trenton, N. J. Virginia men have bought 125 acres on Wilmington island to raise bulb plants. Tybee road celeb bigger and bigger. High school graduates were enter- tained by the Rotary Club. Ham- mond Eve and Carl Herman appeared as_high school girls. Col. F. W. Alstaeter will get $5,000 s vice president of the board old, fall ion plans get MILWAUKEE, WIS. Special Dispatch to The Star. MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 7.—Gov. Blaine has had introduced a new tax bill, and demands that any measure {passed_must bear the administration label. He threatens a special session. Special Prosecutor Francis McGov- ern has_filed a brief in the case against Winfred Zabel et al. claim- ing the state has proved its con- spiracy charge. The defense will file a brief in the case on June 16. Charles H. Bashford, for: dent of the People’s State F caster, Wis, was arrested with larceny of $11,500 of the bank's funds Hippers are safe in Wisconsin un- {less the searching enforcement offi- cer can produce a search warrant, according to a decision of the state supreme cour OUR ORIGINS. Four Separate Strains in American Colonists, Says Writer. Selden P. Delany, in North American Review. James Russell Lowell was once asked by Guizot, the brilliant French historian, how long he thought the | American republic was likely to en- | dure. Lowell replied: “So long as the |ideals of its founders continue to be | dominant.” He went on to explain | that by their ideas he meant also the | traditions of their race in govern- | ment and morals. What were the distinctive ideas of | the founders of this republic, the tra- | ditions of their race in_ government and morals? We can_ best answer | that question by a study of origins. | Four separate ‘strains were clearly discernible among the colonists: the Puritan, the Continental Protestant, {the Angelican and the Roman Cath- |olic.” There was also a free-thinking element represented by such men as | Thomas Paine, but this was a neg- ligible factor in the founding and | early development of the republic. | Puritans, Protestants, Angelicans and | Roman Catholics were at that time, |however, in substantial accord in | their ideals of government and mor- als. They brought with them to Amer- ica the fundamental principles of the civilized tradition of Christendom. They believed firmly in necessity of reltgion, the right of private prop- erty, the indissolubility of marriage. | They taught their children to respect | the ‘authority of their parents. They were vehemently opposed to race sui- | cide. They maintained a fervent love for their country, which to them was synonymous with the love of free- dom. Their steadfast devotion to law and order was never considered in- | consistent with a jealous regard for popular rights and an_ ineradicable beliet in democracy. They looked upon popular education as almost a panacea for every social and political ill. In the administration of the law they endeavored always to safeguard the rights of the individual. e We never get much comfort from the thought that the devil has a warml spot in his heart for us. “Don’t Let Go of the Rope!” ing tenaciously to cordage onjah the figure to keep charged ! EL PASO, TEX Special Diepateh to The Star. EL PASO, Tex., June 7.—Federal officers were auctioning flve forfeited rum automobiles, and while the auc- tioneer was shouting three more cars were seized on outgoing roads, all loaded with alcohol and whisky. « A $500,600 cotton mill will be built here, James G. McNary has said, and C. N. Bassett, another banker, in- dorses the movement. City and county have agreed on a $300,000 bond issue for flood pro- tection work on the Rio Grande river to keep water out of El Paso. A magnificent paved road running from the river, and being a continu- ation of an. El Paso street, will be completed in Juarez about the time the Shriners’ return. The road leads: to the center of festive activity in the Mexican city. The Masonic Hospital is having a special baby week observance. There are nearly a dozen brand-new ones s there, NEWARK, N. J. Special Dispateh to The § NEWARK, June Lohnes of Irvington, T.—Clarence S. superintendent jof the Martin Metal Corporation, is [the first heat victim here. He suc- icumbed at his desk. A man believed to be Harry Apple- gate, sixty, ended his life by hanging in_Branch ‘Brook Park. The new city directory gives New {ark. 474,187 persons. | “Alexander “Macarthur finally has | been extradited from New York on an jassault indictment. He pleaded not ‘5“1l“y and was released in $15,000 ail. Patrolman Thomas, who surprised the Bederskl gang and revealed police |corruption has been promoted to the detective bureau. BANGOR, ME. BANGOR, Me., June 7.—Special re- port by grand jury in United States federal district court at Bangor, calls for an indictment against the Canad- ian Pacific Railroad for ten alleged violations of the Elkins act in fail ure to collect demurrage charges in 1921. T ny distinguished lawyers, includ- jing former Secretary of War Garrison |and several New York attorneys ap peared in court as counsel in a patent infringement case. Judge Peters set the date of hearing for June 25. The alleged infringement is on a patent for extracting mineral from ore. The will of late Robert A. Jordon, former Y. M. C. A. general secretary 'us filed for probate. The bulk of | his estate goes to his widow. Freddy {Parent, a former big leaguer and | present coach of Colby College base | ball team. has signed as player-mana- ger with Easterns of Southbrewer. C. H. Babb and Company, for $8,948, is awarded a contract to install the heating plant in the city building on Court street, . Wilkie Clark has resigned as coach of the University of Maine base ball team. John T. Michell, Orono electrician has filed a_bankruptcy petition. Graduation exercises and annual meetings marked the 104th anniver- sary of the Bangor Theological Semi- nary held yesterday. The report of President Moulton an- nounced the gift of §100,000, the donor's name not to be announced. Professor Robert Drummond _and family are enroute to Switzerland for the summer. Dr. Segall, is to go to Paris. Robert Dougall, _instructor, family will go to South Africa. WHY WORKMEN REBEL AGAINST THE MACHINES Charles Mers, in the Century Magasine. ! 1 have stood at the work bench of a man of 45 of whom modern civil- ization has asked nothing more, from the time he was 18, than that he make over and over, thousands of times each day, one small part of one small spring in one small camera. He has never seen that spring put jinto place. He has no idea what it is used for. He has never had a cam- era in his hands. He does not look at pictures. There he stands, one foot working the pedal of a tireless machine that coughs out springs enough in one workday to fill & barrel. 1 am not sure that the prophets of revolt are alwuys right when they say that workmen will not stand this. But there are times when it is true. Industrialists apply the word “turnover” to the number of new workers needed to fill the jobs of those who quit or are discharged. And turnover figures ofien are impressive. A recent study of 105 factories in every part of the country—factories employing one-quarter million men—ai closes a turnover of 100 per cent an- nually, due in part to the fact that “the same thing done continually becomes tiresome.” Scan the reports of factory mana- gers, listen to organized labor blow off steam in annual convention, or, better still, talk with workmen 'in a factory yard before the post lunch whistle blows, and you may be per- suaded that the repetitive process sometimes recruits to discontent as| many men as low wages and long hours. The rebellious workman, with his key place in_industry, marches in the front ranks of most predictions of revolt against machinery. GOING AROUND THE WORLD. another Maine professor and | | Magellan Did It in Three Years— Present Record 85 Days. From the New York Herald. The records of traveling around the globe are: Magellan expedition, 1519-1522, three years; Phileas Fogg, 1873, 80 days: Nellie Bly, 1889, days George Francis Train, 1890, 67 days Charles Fitzmorris, 1901, 60 days; Henry Frederick, 1903, 5¢ days; Col. Burmley Campbell, 1907, 40 days; Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, 1911, 39 days; John Henry Mears, 1913, 35 days. Mr. Mears, the present record holder, says that he could not repeat his 1918 feat today, because the Trans- Siberian railroad is closed. That rail- way was the biggest factor In re- ducing the time for iraveling around the globe. To make the journey by airplane, Mr. Mears says, would re- uire only about twelve and a half ays in actual flying time, but prob- ably six months on account of delays “between hops.” Just a Minor Character. Prom Harper's Magazine. Jenkins was substituting for a day or two during the temporary absence of the regular soclety editor. He is a detail man, quick to notice omis- sions and call attentlon to them. So when Miss Daisy Blank came in with a long story about the wedding of her dearest chum, Jenkins took his pipe out of his mouth and studied the delicate missive. He grunted at the adjectives about the bride's costume, frowned over the elaborate. decor: tions and the lengthy description of the music and the singing, and then sald te Miss Daisy “Who was the unhappy man?’ “You mean the groom?’ “Yes. There has to be -a groom at thing of this sort, doesn’t there?” “To be sure’ ‘and M Daisy blushed a bit. Smith—didn't I ha’ Not that I can see.” “Well. put him In somewhere, please. Of course he wss present also.” §0 Jenking wrote at the bottom of Miss Dalsy's exaulsite little skatoh:, “Bill Smith was also present a News From the “Home Town” for Visiting Nobles at Shrine Convention WACO, TEX. Special Dispatch to The Star. WACO, Tex., June 7.—At next Mon- day’ commission meeting Some ac- tion I8 expected as to the attitude of the city government on the injunc- tion issued by Judge Munroe forbid- ding the enforcement of the “no turn to the left” ordinance applying to Austin avenue. City Attormey Mc- Glasson has intimated that a fight might be made to dissolve the injunc- on. Independence day plans for Waco were completed at a meeting of the !Young Men's Business League direc- tors. A night show will be given, to include patriotic fireworks and other events in keeping with the spirit of the day. A number of Wacoans went to Waxahachie today to attend the funeral of Judge T. B. Willlams, gen- eral attorney for the Texas Electric railway, who died in Dallas Tuesday. He was the father of T. H. Williams, Waco manager of the Texas Power and Light Company. All directors and officers were re- elected at a meeting of the McLennan County Farm Association Tuesday. Four new members were added to the airectorate. It is believed that the Woodbine sand has been struck in_the Wildcat oil well being drilled at Lorena. The well has been shut down and casing will be set. KANSAS CITY, MO. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June A. Moore, grain dealer, was or dead before a Milwaukee train severed his body Sunday morning one-half mile south of Milwaukee bridge in East Bottoms, according to the deputy coroner, who believes Moore was murdered The Club Presidents’ Round Tab unanimously favors a merger of fi festival activities in October and recommends a committee of 100 to handle arrangements Clayton L. Maltby, Kaneas City, Kan., died late Tuesday as a result of a suicide attempt Monday, when he cut his throat The council this week passed the zoning law proposed by the plan com- mission The fire and water board probably will recommend immediate sale of $8.500,000 in water bonds for the new water system. George W. Fuller of New York, supervising engineer for the mew plant, is here now working on plans for the system. DETROIT, MICH. Special Dispateh to The Star. DETROIT, June —Heavy storms here have broken the heat spell A coal truck crushed Claude Holzen- burg. fifteen vears old, 10507 North Lawn avenue. The boy was riding a bicycle. Police Commissioner Frank Croul has issued a statement demouncing fanatical drys, saying prohibition law is making drunkards of his police- men and has ruined the morale of the department and has increased crime in Detroit, because police have no chance to chase down criminals, a5 they are too busy pursuing beer drinkers. 7.—Guy injured TULSA, OKLA. Special Dispatch to The Star. TULSA, Okla., June 7.—Police are hunting 'hijackers who took three diamond rings and $1,000 in cash Tuesday night, and a house robber who stole clothes valued at $150. The proposal for sewer and park bonds was defeated in Saturday's election. The question will be sub- mitted at a special election in Sep- tember. The county fair building plans are ready for contractors. L.'V. Booker is recovering from in- juries received late Tuesday, when he was knocked to the street by a truck. P. J. Hurley has been named presi- dent of the Gilliland Oil Company in reorganization. BOSTON, MASS. Special Dispatch to The Star. BOSTON, Mass., June prostrated three in Boston. Two brothers were drowned at Wakefleld when their canoe capsized Gilmore seatenced to three years for stealing liberty bonds from Lynn bank. Supreme court has decided Lieut. Gov. Fuller needn't pay. Speaker Warner $1 libel suit award. Two million volts of electricity de- stroved a miniature village in the Pittsfield lahoratory in the greatest demonstration to control currents Thomas Lawson, former noted financier, has started gold hunting ir Labrador. James Booth's hands were burned clinging to a rope as he saved him- self and another when a six-story staging dropped. Roxbury woman's divorce libel claims her husband put red pepper in night robe. Cardinal Fanlhaber of Bavaria has appealed in the cathedral for a Ger- man nation. A verdict of $13,000 was given to James W. Costello from New York Central for the loss of a leg and toes. 7. —Heat that ex- NEW ORLEANS. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW ORLEANS, June 7.—A new political. faction has been formed at a secret meeting, headed by Gus Wil- liams, Judge Dowling, John St. Paul, jr., and others. Fight Promoter Pillsbury was fined $25 or thirty days in jail for an at- tack on a sports edltor. The Derby site for a hospital may go through, i A Villere street car conductor was fatally wounded while flagging at a Louisville and Nashville crossing. A parish prisoner sought sulcide in ?"leup from the third floor of the ail. DES MOINES, iOWA. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. DES MOINES, lowa, June 7.—Daniel Morehouse, acting president of Drake University for the last year, has been unanimously. chosen permanent presi- dent of the university by the board of trustees. Morehouse, who has been dean of men at the univereity for several years and is an astronomer of international renown, graduated from Drake in 1899. Drake is the only college or university in the state with one of its own alumni at its head. The school board has ordered the speeding up of work on the new Lin- coln High School and commanded the contractors to put more men to work on the structure so that it will be finished for the opening of school next fall. The board had heard re- ports that the school might not be ready for occupancy by September 5. The Iowa crop report just issued shows that 95 per cent of the corn planting in Iowa is done. Tuesday was the hottest day of ths year in lowa, the mercury going to 86 in Des Moines. Tuesday night a heavy wind and rain storm struck the central part of the state, blowing down many trees and doing slignt dumage to communicational facilities. There was an inch of rain at Iowa City and almost an inch at Des, Moines, Wichita beat Des Moines at base ball, 8 t6 1 in ten innings in the firs{ game of a series at Wichita.