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SUPPLY OFFICERS OBSERVE BIRTHDAY Quariermaster Corps Could! Mobilize in Day, Banguet Guests Hear. the to “meet stress peacetime wartime operation,” the of the Arn sgress that it could nty-four paring of trom administration Quartermast has made su and Corps it in hours vl the any emer- be mobilized tw and be transpe ready tat to furnish supplies & required to meet progressive demands of kerey,” Maj. Gen. W. Il Hart, qu termaster general, told more than 100 quartermaster officers of the Regular Army, National v and other distinguished oflicials, Joined in rating last night Ruuscher's the organmization of corps in 1775 milar meetings held through- vt the werld, including fitty posts and stations in' the United States, and At some places tiere were entertal e nd nholiday dinners for the on me Guard and reserve whao the st n Nees A we oal ad Gen. Hart many ways we have caught Jeetive Tield the re ready be ready in we ihe abead of us, the spivit of our ob. yed the industrial tical met to i in personnel, remount and wing ail b the waste said we will r » upply truetion, Hines, deputy the officers army virtue, hiif so des wred. “us disloyalty Wt Heintzelman, as work th for co-operation sistant the ef of ideals and asking eral from Tells of Budget. reminiseene Veric Quarters witn tor of the N Jord v then o ahici of Lis ex aster Cor the bure Herbert M . and asked Lo rest upon I the things for rank T, terans au, Quartermaster Cxpressing a ning he had received Hines 8 dired con- lated 2 o of regret at inability to 18 best wishes from L was read by the toast- William Woiff Smith ed the regrets of Weeks, Assistant bavis, Chairman Se military Chairm litary affairs ate adjutant Lansing A, Beach hief of fan ‘rank Melntyre, chief f insular affui . McCawley, Marine Corp: Walker. chief of finance Gen. Frank Hines, Veterans' Bureau Comm bration includcd Maj. « Gen. J. D, Bellinger. Dalton, Col. F. H Honnycastle, Maj. R almer, 1L Dreshack, Maj. Willlam Smith, Capt. « H. Huahn and G._A. Rentley Music was furnished by an vrches tra from the band of the Army Music School at Washington barrack The hall was beautifully decorated with flags and illuminated emblem of the Quartermaster Corps PATRON SAYS MODERN MUSIC IS DECADENT Brig. Gen dircetor s of n the Hart, Gen! Col. 11 apt Woltt Lieut Art of Harmony at Lowest Stage in History. Beecham Claims. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June Beecham, the millionaire English grand opera patron, who went bankruptey attempting to restore the opera here to its pre-war glory, out- the critics in diagnosini the ase of modern musie, which, the drama, he says, is in a very bay wa Ar th 16.—Sir Thor annual slinner of the critics cirele Thomas described himself as a scarred veteran of ‘music, who, f he really -thought there was some common musie: policy or demand that could be maimtained for ahout two or three consecutive ons, might seriously consider hoisting his to champion musical productions again ver as there written or in t beer e of music good music music wri history little s0 much bad ten and performed.” bewailed Sir Thomas. “We have never before struck such a really rotten patch of music. Composers—there are non. singers—very few; instruméntalists— a few; archesttaé are Almost non- existant.” > In closing his whimsical, satirical talls, Sir Thomas said that about the only thing he was sure of was t he ‘could meet the critics on mon’ ground 4 ENGLISH GROUP FORMS TURKISH TRADE COMPANY | §imilarity to Chester Project Is Seen in Corporation Which Will Get French Aid. iy the Ascovinted Press LAUSANNE, June 16.—A corpora- tion “for the economic development of Turkey.” designed as a sister com- pany to the Turkish national export and import company, has been formed by an English group under Leslie TUrquhart with the stance of French' capital, it was announced in confercnce circles tod The con- tract was signed before a Lausanne ry Trhe prometers explain that, through reciprocal arfangements, the new or- ganization will have a monoply on the impartation and exportation busi- ness of the Turkish national company with a vast commerclal program simi- lar in its extensive character to the Chester project, which is financed by an American syndicate, The corporation plans to organize a commercial neétwork throughout Europe radiating from Paris, and the French backers say it will provide an important .market for French pro- ducte, 500 MOROCCANS SLAIN. MADRID, June 16—DMelilla ad- vices say that the rebel Moroccan tribesmen suffered heavily in the re- cent engagement at Tizziazza, the Josses being placed in_ reliable quar- ters at 500 Moroccans Kkilled and more than 1,000 wounded. The rebels are reported to have heen scatfered in all directions by the Spaniards. but new encounters +~ phave been announced. S a into | SEE SERIOUS RESULT | IN HOSPITAL CHANGE Tuskegee, Ala., Aroused by Report Negroes Will Be Installed at Veteran Hospital. ; | 4 By the Assoviated Pross TUSKEGEE, Ala., mony between the white and negro vaces is threatened here hourly with a report current that President Hard- ing I8 prevaring to install negroes at the government hospitat fof dis- alled mezro war veterans at Tuske- CiRgfzens of Tuskegee dec tonight that such action will serious’ resulis, Althoygh no official announcement from Washington has been. given here relative to negro officials, it ix =aid “through rellable sources that officers at the hospital have received white employe ex- | cept- physicians will be repluced by a | negre force and that negro physicians would be placed in charge as fast as they could be secured s Senator R. 8. Powell, member of tha state lexislature and o’ member of the | committon that went to Washixgton to seo. protest such action to President Hard- ing, declared tonight “the government will_be breaking falth with the people of Tuskogee if negro physiclans are sent here, for the Treasury Department { promised’the people before the hospital was crected that white officlals and would be in charge hefore donated, and the hospital was istructed upon’ such guarantee from rnment. r members of the committee d the negroes of Tuskegee In- ire opposed to negro officialy @ hospital. believing it will harm v institution snd prove detrimen- to the co-operative spivit of the The result tal ra of such action by the vernment will prove serious, even trous. 1 fear it will mean fail- of the hospital to serve its pur- enator Powell said i | i | i | | | | | CHORUS GIRLS DENY PLEA TO JOIN UNION iEquity Threatens to Call Qut ] | Stagehands and Musicians { to Win Point. e The Star. 15 al Disp: NEW YORK all out ans of the F the Junc Threatening stage hands and rl Carroll Theater zing of the cast of 1923 the Actors’ Equity Association tovk ste: jtoward the control of the th fortificatio f heoming t union o union nities of another in the the the- equity cont with to persuade the \ the union were fruit- A s only alternative to a bitter fight is to become a mem- iber of the Producing Managers' As sociation, which Is protected oy contract with the actors organizatio providing for the open shop until the expiration of the agreement next year. pany to jo Girls Hold Balance. A pink and dimpled chorus of bath- suited girls appears to hold the of power in the present sit- The Columbia University men as well as the group of incip including the star, Peggy Hopkins agreed to join the actors’ union on condition that the chorus girls would follow. But the &i unwilling. and it was de- cided by leaders to go into caucus the Equity officials Mon- ay of their decixion Mr. Carroll himself expressed to company his desire that the cast join the unfon but he was worsted in his debate with ladies of the e semble. Then John Emerson, presi- dent of the Equity, Grant Mitchell and other oftic s went to the theater on Mr. Carroll's invitation to test thelr powers of suasion. Refuses to Join. “No," exclaimed a girl ip pink-check- ed rompers. “If 1 can't work without having somebody slip up behind me in the dark and threaten me, I'm going to Russia Taking the center of an interrupted rehearsal, Mr. Emerson pleaded the | virtues of equity and the advantages iur i membership. All he got was a complaint from a saucy blonde that Equity owed her $80 on rehearsals that d been unable to collect. been waiting two years for that §$80, Mr. Emerson,” she sald. "It was in a John Charles Thomas show. 1 {joined Equity at that time, but I never got paid for two weeks' rehearsals. And {1 need the money.” | “Well”” responded Mr. Emerson, “I'll | see wha! n be done about it.” S were the i DANCER, THOUGHT DEAD, SEES ANOTHER IN ROLE Nijinski Brought to Scene of Tri- umphs to Bring Spark of Life to Deadened Brain. By Cabla to The Star. PTARIS, June 16.—Nijinski, the great dancer who had been forot- ten and was supposed to be dead, reappeared recently at tie opera as a spectator of the ballet in which he himself had achieved great re- nown. At times Nijinski belleves himself dead, and imagines he has heen reincarnated in the body of an ani. Nijinski was brought back to the scenes of his greatest triumphs in the hope that a return to old asso- ciatlons might tring a gleam of liie buack to his deadened brain. The periment failed. He looked blank- Iy at the stage and at_the dancer doing his old dance. No gleam of aemory lit up his eyes. HURTWATCHING ROUND-UP Ralph Case, Washington Attorney, Kicked by Bucking Broncho. MISSON, §. D, June 16.—Ralph Case; attorney of Washington, D. C. who 18 here in the interests of the Sioux Indians, who are pushing a claim of 750,000,000 against the United States for the occupation of the Black Hills region, was severely injured here today at a round-up, when a bucking broncho crashed into the crowd of spectators The frightened horse stepped on and kicked Mr.. Case. The attorney -was taken to a hospital in an unconscious condjtion. —_— CRASHES IN HELICOPTER AS PROPELLER BREAKS By the Associated Press, MADRID, June 16—The aviator Lieut. AlejandraySpencer fell todsy at the Cuatrovientos airdrome, while attempting a_filght in the machine, similar to a helicopter, invented by the Spanish engineer Juan Le Clerva. Spencer was not hurt, although the machine crashed with tremendous force and was destroyed. Spencer had previously made sev- eral asoents in the .apparstus, which had acted with perfect precision.: In today's attempt the machine- reachéd a height of fifteen meters, when one f'the blades of the elevating pro- peller broke. todauy | ater ond | | June 16.—Har- | O.R.ANDREWS. Presidexnt. ARTHUR NASH, Trird Vice President. {RUM RING HOLDS Wisconsin Organization So Strong | Sheriff Admits He Is Powerless. By the Associated Press | SUPERIOR. Wis. June 16.—Holding | country residents in a grip of terror, there exists in Douglas county a “rum-running” ring so powerful that it cannot be brought to justice, mern- bers of the sherift's force said tod large is the ring that a “whole regiment of officers could not round up the moonkhires in the county,” de- clared Sheriff W. A. Haygreen The existence of the orgunization was brought to light today by an ap- peal Ly & farmer for protection. A note of wurning &igmed “the Moon- shine League” received by the farmer, suid to be a member of the organiza- tion. accused him of “squealing,” and warned him to leave the county at once on penalty of dire punishment Officers declared that glimpses of {4 mysterious horseman in regions where prohibition.raids are planned have strengthened the chain of evi- dence that the ring Is operating. They said that this man, always on guard, mounted on a_black horse, notes ' the approach of the raiding party, and disappears In the woods. Shortly afterwards two shots, ap- parently a signal to his confederates, are heard, answered immediately by other shots. The shots, officers Le- lieved, warn the moonshiners of their approach. The county. has -many lakes, rivers and stretches of wild forests. DRYS DECLARE WAR ON N. Y. LEGISLATORS Plan to Fight for Defeat of All Who Voted Against Enforcement. By the Assotiated Press. o CLEVELAND, June 16.—The Anti- saloon League of America has begun a campaign to unseat at the election next year the New York state legis- that recently repealed that liquor enforcement code and put dry enforcement entirely up to federal agents, Wayne B. Wheeler, national counsel for.the Antisaloon League of America, sald here tonight. Claiming that the wets have shown they want the whole of their liquor back again—'not merely beer and wines"—Mr. Wheeler said that the're- peal of the New York state act was the “first frank confession of their plan” and that war was on with the assemblynien who voted wet. We will call in all the federal bff- cials possible, and in the meantime, canvass every city and dlistrict in which a wet legislator resides, and m at his defeat,” sald Mr. Wheeler. With a new dry legislature in office, the enforcement code will go back on th books.” % ' “We don’t think the New York re- verse is so nationally important as the wets would indicate,” Ne declared, | “We fought battles like that in Illi- nois, Wisconsin, Connecticut ‘and Rhode Island, and won them all. We would have won in New York it it had not been for political maneuver- ing. Mr. Wheeler declared the New York action “places the prohibition ques- tion in the forefront of the most {m- portant issues of the presidential campaign. It focuses the mind of America upon the right of the ma- jority of the people to legislate for the nation.” Tl BRICK PLANT, STRIKERS REPLACED-BY NEW MEN Labor From Other States Brought to New Jersey to Reopen Kilns Closed Six Weeks. SAYREVILLE, K. J., June 16.—The Sayre "and Fisher Company, brick manufacturers, whose plant has been closed ‘for six weeks by a strike of 700 employes, announceéd tonight that it _planned to reopen Monday with labor from other tates. Vice Chancellor Buchanan in Tren- ton today issuéd an injunction against interferénce by sttikers with em- ployes who return to work and -us. lawful picketing. The ‘strikers de- mandéd .a 20 per cent' increase in wages and recognitfon ~of their union. 'The company recently agreed to a 15 per cent rafse but refused to recognize the union. % - DEPORTATIONS RAPPED. COLOGNE, June ‘1¢.—The ‘Agsocia tion o{ ac‘mgx l?"’"" 8 ties ';u Al aled '10. '0] “k"! L B Pness hain i ofMIng athntion to the deportations from the Ruhr of officials who have remained loyal to the German governmeltwy CLAUDE L.BAGEN, ¢Jreavurer MAJ. PHIL BWHITAKER Secretazry. Vanguard of Civitan Convention The vanguard of delegates to the third convention of the International Assoclation of Civitan Clubs, which will open at the Wardman Park Hotel Tuesday morning, will arrive in the city today. More than 1,000 visitors interested in’the activitles of this organization, are expected to par-| ticipate in the various entertainments arranged by the Civitan Club of Washington Announcement was made last niglht that all of the international officers and trustees wil 1be in the city by to- MOrrow morning in order to attend a meeting of the execugive committee in preparation for the administra- tion of the convention Prominent Men. Included among the roster of inter- national officers are men prominent in affuirs of their respective com- munities. Oliver B. Andrews of Chat. president of the internatio 18 a widely known manufa with fnterests throughout the solith. The first vice presid Ernest Greenwood of this city, American representative of the ternational labor office created the treaty of Versailles. F. A" Wilson-Lawrenson vice president, hails from New city, and is a vice president Yational Carbide and Carbon Com- pany. He is also the second vice president of the New York Civitan! Club. Arthur Nash, third vice presi- GERMANY SENDS NEW AGENT TO THE HAGUE A Dr. Schiffer Will Argue Keil Canal and Polish Minorities Issues. By the Associated Press. : BERLIN, June 16.—Dr. gen Schiffer, formerly minister of justice #nd minister of finance, has been ap- ointed Germany's agent or counsel n the proceedings concerning Ger- many before the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, Dr. George Martius, counselor of the foreign office has been named legal advisor. : It'is not expected the cases before the court affecting Germany will come up before the middle of July. Two ocases affecting Germany are on the calendar of the Permanent Court of International Justice. One involves the clause of the treaty of Versallles \which provides that’ the Keil canal shall be open to the ves- sels of all nationas at peace with Germany. The German government fefused access to the canal to the| steamship Wimbledon, a British ship | under French charter, when in March 1921, it was proceeding to Danzig with 4,00 tons of military material for Poland. Germany -maintained hers. was & state of war between land. and Russia and that German regulations regarding neutrality for- bade the transit of such matérial across German territory. The other case involves German minorities in Poland, specifically: the rights of Germans in parts of Polish territory - previously ~belonging to Germany to holdings of former gov- ernment owned land under contracts which Poland claimed were not com- leted before the armistice and which £‘0h\nd desires to cancel. tuger, the in- by second York of the MARYLAND.ALUMNI . FAVOR “M” CLUB PLAN ldelivered by COUNTY IN TERROR Delegations Is Due Here Today dent, Is a well known (¢ mern ufacturer: (¢ treasurer, is from Birmi and the secretary, Maj. Ph is widely knowu throughout Civitan circles. "His home is at Chattanooga Tenn rcinnati gar- sde Hag gHam, Program for Opening. opening session of the con- speeches of w will be dwin Denby. Secretary of the Navy; Justice Walter M Coy, chief justice of the § Court_of the District of Col and Claren Harding. presiden of the local Civitan. The response for the delegates wi{ be made by oS canoinie o Binine All ofdhe international oficers will make théir reports with-.gppropriate re- marks. and various u‘yfi Matters of business will come g, The local club has’fiade vast plans for the entertainmenfiof the visitors, the principal featur€@ of whick clude a boat trip to: Mount Vernon, a ball at the Wardpfian Park Hotel, a Visit to the tomb of the unknown soldie ling: where appropri- ate ceremonies wil] be held ir of Internationgl Civitan night at the, Wardman where all tie,business sessior At t vention T er Civitans Two fo ng ained luncheons lanned them. One of these AtUlybe by the ladics of locaPgarTtun other by the Soropfimist Washington, MARKS HIT 520,000 TO POUND IN LONDON Slump Follows News Reparation Issue Remains in Status Quo Over Week End. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, June 16.—German mark slumped here today to 520,000 to the pound on receipt of the news that the reparation issue will remain in status quo over the week en: Reports in the Paris pr thi morning to the effect that the French answer to the British memorandum on the reparation question will be delivered verbally here by Amba: dor Staulaire are taken as indi that President Poincaire does not wish to commit himself irrevocably on part r points—and, therefore, as forecasting a somewhat brighter chance of Anglo-French accommoda- tion than appeared probably a couple of days ago. Although Premier Baldwin has let it be known that he.is not averse to visiting Paris for reparation discus- gions with the French, if this is de- jred, it Is probable that no such move will' be made, at least until after the French ambassador and Marquis Curzon have gone thoroughly over the position of both nations in the face of the peneding German offer. The British belief that the offer de- serves an encouraging reply remains unaltered. SPIDERS WEAVE ROMANCE IN TWAIN’S OLD CABIN Good Residents of Sonora, Calif., Make It Worth While for Tourist to Visit Spot. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. SONORA, Calif, June 16.—This is a story of six diligent spiders and a Club of ting Representative Tydings Addresses Organization at College " Park Gathering. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star, COLLEGE PARK, Md, June 16— An_address by Represéntative Mil- lard D. Tydings of the.second con- gressional district of Maryland was among-the features of, a largely at< tended meeting of the alumni asso-’ clation.-of the College Park: branch of.'the” Univergity 'of Muryland here | yesterday. 5 . The project. to form :an “M”. club, the .niembership of which would in- .clude men_who have their-iletters in various anorts. supported by the. in- stitution, - was. given - approval and a committee . wWas named to draft a set of bytlaws -and’ a_constitution and select officers. The meeting w: attended by 120 who have earned1! right to wear ‘thfe ‘insigria. - « - g hese officers were re-elected 18 serve :another yekr: W. ®. .Cole of Towson,~Baltimore county, Md., pres- also. of Baitymore. Vice i president, and: H. G Ryrd of :Collegé Park; the' president of the university and' e e, BB Yelion and W urer;- % Veltchand “J.: W Diticerd cabin on Jackass hill. The cabin, during the gold-rush days, was occupled by Mark Twain. Since that far-away time the memory of Mark Twain has become famous, and increasing numbers of tourists pay reverence at the door of his former home. The good residents of Sonora saw the tourists and saw the cabin. They decided to rehabilitate it. A new roof was added, clapboards were nailed securely into place. An ancient bed, & few old chairs and a table were rounded up and inetalled. Other mementos, reminiscent of the pioneer era, were scattered around. LA ‘soup plate, which In Twain's Californian days served-as an ' all- around eating utensil, was.placed on the table, complete evén to the tell-" tale daub of an ancient egg upon its rim: Right now tourists, after care- fully examining it,. surmise that it was left by Twain. And now to the six diligent spiders. When all the work was done, when the restoration seemed complete to the last detail, one drawback was dis- covered. The cabin looked too new. So'six large and healthy spiders wers rounded up and turned loose within the cabin walls. They have spun, spun, | spun. Today the cabin looks the part. Its interfor roperly aged. other—rilte-- . =rush-da¥ys; rapea with cobwebby Jegends, awalts the awesome Interest of the eastern tourist. A T Whitaker, | tendered | and the | TAFT PONTS WAY TO LEEAL REFORM Courts and Lawyers Blamed | Unjustly for Law’s Delay, | Says Chief Justice. By the Associated Pross. BOSTON. June 16:-~LoMgrdeays in | the administration of justice In this country could be eliminated large extent by a change in court | | procedure, Chief Justice Taft of the Tnited States Supreme Court said in an address tonight at a dinter of| the Boston Bar Association. The Chief Justice was Introduced by Chief Justice Arthur P. Rugg of the su- preme judiclal court of Massachusetts, The public, the Chicf Justi hal been blaming the courts members of the bar for the law's deluys, when these are powerless in | the fact of the law as it now stands The remedy. he waid, lies in the hands of the people themselves, but proper leadership is necessary. “I belleve,” hé said, “that the peo- ple of the United States would be content to leave legal legislation in > hands of the ba s of the legal stession and reason lead- of the bur should stund for elee- to a as IS the need for reform in ture, he need of a change in tion of the crimir cven grenter of procedure stand between the public and application of e Ly ange i procedure fundamental” he <atd atters little how fine and high principles of Justice’ arq in the United States the rules of procedure prevent the public from getting the henefit of them. “The truth of the matter i the public needs education as (o whose fault it is the Jaw ix not | ficiently administered. 1t is very | itural the public to blame ‘the courts say they are not doing | their duty, when the trouble is with | the legislature where the law is| made and changed. STATE POLICE SEIZE - - BETTING MACHINES Winners at New Kensington, Pa., Opening Threaten to Break Through Lines. NEW KENSINGTON State police plaved the in the opening here toda meet. While thousands watching the of the afternoon’s card of state police swept Ting where the pari v {were operating, arrested kers, sgized all recc ting apparatus, togeth 1 thousand dollars in ting wagers on the race | There was a wild seramble the end of the race when those who had picked winning horses into the betting ring to colle - wit nings. It was a half hour the state officers succeeded in dispersing the protesting hundreds, who sev aral times threatened to . bre through the lings established by the police - Those that Pa pal role a 21-day of per- seventh raee rice ns were a lar o the b el m the as i r with se ash. repr uad ing chines rested w justice’ of -the on bail. for a There is horse leased w betti \ HYDROGEN"TO LIFT AMERICAN ZEPPELIN Helium Unobtainable for Flight From Germany to the ; United States. ! | B the Aseociated Prees BERLIN, June 16.—Hydrogen prob- Ably will be used to Inflate th can Zeppelin now building at Fried- rickshafen, preparatory to its flight America: Helium. a non-explosive s unavailable in Germany, and ped from Fort Worth, Tex the American government pro- {duces ft en u large ale, the cost {Wwoula be far in cxcess of hydrogen { The Germans have no h {conseguently never use it {sist, however, that there is less rea- fson'ta fear an explosion from hydro- gen here than in the United States as the electrical disturbances are less severe northern Europe than in America .and electrical storms, [the ocean are so widely dfstrib {that lightning endangers {less than when over land 1t would require 2,500,000 cubic feet | of helium for America’s mammoth {Zeppelin. BIG HOTEL-HOSPITAL | TO BE BUILT IN N. Y. Special Dispatch to The 3 NEW YORK. June 16.—The Hudson the twenty-two-story com- bination hotel and hospital, planned for the corner of 72d street and West End avenue, will be erected with the financial assistance of the Amerl Bond and Mortgage Company, wh is making an offer of $1,650.000 813 Iper cent first mortgage real estate bonds, secured by a closed first mott- gage on the land. The structure will be one of the most striking in New York, and the| ingenious combination which'it affords | of hotel and hospital will provide a feature which has been worked out {successfully in a number of cities and, which has grown in demand by both the public and physicians. The upper stories of the bullding wiil be design- ed for use as a hospital, with the most modern equipment. Access to these floors will be by a separate en- trance and separate elevators. The lower floors will be devoted to hotel purposes. There will be a magnificent lobby and entrance on 72d street. The site has a frontage of 85.6 feet on West End avenue and a measure- ment of 115 feet on 72d street. It is estimated by the owner that the buil ing when completed and ready for oc- cupancy will be worth $§2,600,000. Work on the structure of the build- ing wilk he begun at once. aring next law against | School Days as By the Associafen Trém. - BERLIN, June 17.—Herder school days aro -ahead for “fappet” frau- leins of Prussia. Woman's new place in politics and business has led the state to readjust its public school system in such a way that hereafter will be required to measure up B Mearly’ o ' the standard de- ded of boys. T reviously both boys and girls were required to begin school during the terme commencing mearest their sixth birthday, vet the girls could mitted. 1o higher institutions of-“Tenrning - When about sixteen Vears old, while the boys had to put in three or four y tonger in pleparation. | | | | re |garded | 1% also agrarian and a TWO DIE IN DUEL. Mortally Wounded, Other as He Falls. IRVINE, Ky., June 6.—Benjamin Rol- ling, jr, and Claude Waldon, natives of Estill county and ofl fleld workers, engaged in a pistol duel near here to- night. Both men are dead. The shooting was said to have fol- lowed a quarrel between a number of merrymakers in which Rollins struck @ brother of Waldon ovpr the head with a banjo. Rollins, according to reports eived here, beat Waldon on the draw and wounded him twi Waldon was One, Kills MEKLEIDAN WATS ANHERST VERDIT Special Trustee Comenittee Interviews Friends &nd Foes of College Heat. said to have fired one time as he fell, | By the Associsted Press sending a bullet through Rollins' body, | near the heart STAMBOULISKY AID MAY AVENGE CHIEF Lieut. Dashkaloff, Dead Pre- mier’s Right-Hand Man, Peril to New Regime. By €abie LONDO future of ™ June Star. 16.-—~The Balkans " immnicdiate the mist be With apprehension. amboulisky in’ dead, remains his most energetic 1i Dashkaloff, of the in- teriop then public prosecutor chiefly inst the former w condemned to 1 Even though gh s there late minister ana & ministers who ni terms imprisonment, imposed inow Apart from his z capacity, which ca Sofia 1o eall hir must Le borne in this gentleman is the new government than if he in Bulgaria. In‘ Prague he can not he arrested. Furthermore he is in the capital of a state whose premier man who has ign policy of benevolenge. with I and organizin sed the British “Little Trotsky d thi of a p Wt ,x'l\l')«_\x viewed the fore Stamboulisky with The Czechs. as the leading Siav na- tion_ now that Russia is temporarily out “of the reckoning, have always been favorably d <posed o tho :\ Vl/‘nr “#im v!“ to remove hostility .u';.u en the Slavie peoples. Dashka- toff, 't be thout the means of Proving u very potent thorn in the flesh of W government. a S Friendship. The new Bulgarian gove rnment pro- poses. it seems. 1o steal a little the nx thupder ntinue the amboulisky g with the This can he ists' pre doniar that t ous for The seen in the discluimer it was er were extr, LI overthrowing is overtures towa Macedonians have revolution- of any Mace- well Known nely de av' idea all xoutt deratior inhabitant place it cor in Prague | | { AMHERS' cial Amherst Colle situation ¢ sident ies committee 5. June 16—A epe- of the trustees o . named to study the cated by the of alumni for the remova Alexander Meiklejohn of todas members of the desire ome of se. interviews the faculty nt favor uble to pres and oppose to his policies, The committee, 1t was understoc tonight, will report to the full hoar of trustees next Tuesday Refe lege gathered exe the ng to the erisis address to the in the an for annual The tr to grappl thetr best things come He urged aside prej sion and uni of the college Make No a hard they ees have ith, to 4 rig utenant, | pere last to propos joh that New il 10 | je ford DEFENDS DR. MEIKLEJOHN P of Secretary Denby, Lauds Educator. J A g hn 48 ut Nephew Princeton, PRINCETON. N fense of Dr. Al L gt "pe law country Mr the Dex dedi inee W fart address tl world r aw by's emorate in the zettin m the was tres naval Mr reported t d be willing t Unless friendship with the Serbs fs | 10 teach at Amherst secured at the smooth new governm icate. It ria should t P which 1 Serbian foreign extending h is little hope in will float 8o the position particularly 1 that Bul- and of fr Nitehitch, the minister, has Wwisd been Cites Nich Government. the Nich confe common €s were agreed on with a view suppression 3 a 101 ot priv nd- [quitious zood feacher hix positi lege s trom doctri n n cou such e Stud doct ty “of college d analyze them re subversive convin ablenc pr America Wwith an leges bliat with it the trouble the This n sto ndship, 05U interesting 10 I be gove Zov tair a's The new actually co: as yet. has twe lied with the Koff, the new premier, v ind G rnme rnment while. Macedonians s—Dr n- being a great rotozarofr, o has re where ently he propagi r as though the Albania, nducting anti-Serbian It seems altogethe were being a return to pre-war con- ditions, and Bulearia, which h learned nothing, is striving to pluck the unripe apple from the diplomatic tree rather than bide its time. Taken as a@vhole the situation is such that it appears as .though there will be more trouble in the Baikans in the p$ 1 | near tuture (Copsright CHILD’S ASSAILANT ELUDES PURSUERS Eight-Year-0ld Girl in Serious Condifidn After Attack by Man Who Lured Her Into Auto. tea p: DJANOKE, Va. Juné 16.—Local tonight were without a clue ta identity of the man who is alleged to have attacked an eight-year-qld girl late vesterday after coaxing her: into his automobile. Every available officer worked on the case today and tonight but no trace of the man was found it was said. The little girl is stil] condition at a local cording to her stor: her if she did not want to go for a ride in his automobile. She finally assented, she said, and he drove out of the city and took her into the woods near a cemetery. After the attuck, the girl said, the man aban- doned her. ~She waiked to the city and told her story e OPEN BUYING APPROVED. BUFFALO, N. Y., June 16.—Los An- geles won the 1924 convention of the onal Live Stock Exchange at the closing session of the convention here y. President Everett C, Brown hicago and other officers Wwere T clected with the exception of vi presidents, who are elected by the lo- changes. The Los Angeles e change was admitted to the national organization during the present con- vention. At the closing session the conven- tion approved a resolution upholding the principle of competitive buying of live stock. 1023.) Br'the Assoc ® po the in a'serious hospital. Ac- the man asked Flapper Frauleins Face Hard Equals of Boys nder the new will have to study about longer than they have in 1o qualify for universities, education will take on more of a polytechnic nature. More arithmetic will be given and additional atten- tion will be paid to philosophy, his- tory..Janguages and religion. Needle- work will be given up to the sixteenth vear and after that the training will concentrate on mental sciences. Altogether the reforms are aimed at making the “flapper” better equipped to uphold Germany's repu- tation .for having more feminine legislators .and - officials than..any.| ogher country in the world, and also 1) take her place confidently along- ide’ men in the legal, commercial and other pfotesions. system the girls two Years the past and their 2| But Dry maintained by Bul- [ O not | al- | | aders nt Meiklejo Phe i tacked because he was said to he because he opposed the en this country into the war American 1o €XPress Courag convictions, de- we were getting over steria, and muking is country on tr canisn to 1 en_effort les of Ame princ; i i COLLEGE HEAD TO FIGHT. if Previous Attempt to Oust Him, Two Years Ago, Disclosed. 1 Dispateh to The Star AMHERST, Mass, June 16 nite decision has been made the board of trustees to remove Dr Alexander Meiklejohn as president of Amherst ¢ e. Positive ussurs ance of this de was give evening from that be questioned. Upheld by a scant half-doz members of his faculty and tically all of the students Meiklejohn is entrenched tonig he quaint old president house South Pleasant strect. quit letermined to stay right whe So the battle is to be wage The fact that the trustees tricd t oust Dr. Mciklejohn two years and failed was revealed by an cial of the college corporation that time. when the trustees ¢ the president before them and “We have lost confidence in will be best for you to res Meiklejohn quickly replied: “If have lost confidence in me tha your fault, not mine; I suggest the resign. 1 intend to main and complete the gr educational work that I have und taken. BONES OF DEWEY’S CREW BELIEVED RECOVERED Spe Deff- 11 on 1 a source Shells and Human Skeletons, B lieved of Civil War Sailors, Uncovered by Dredge. By the Assoclated Press. BATON RO La., antity of shells’ anc believed to be the remains of a eral war vessel communded | George Dewey, later Admiral Dew damaged by confedrate batteris ing the civil war pear Port Huds have been pumpéd up by a gr dredge a. few miles north of h The shells include one identified confederate ammunition. The. vessel commanded by Dew was one of Admiral Farragut's flect it became disabled below Fort Hudson when struck by a confederat> salvo. It drifted down the river ul finally grounded a few miles nort of here. where it burst into flam Most of the crew escaped SHIP. IS ‘FLOATED. " British Vessel, A'grp_und Off Cape Charles, Freed by Tug. NORFOLK., Va. June Y&—Ti British steamship Dominzo d& *Lar ringa. was floated at high & to- night after having been und since early Friday morning at’Nau shoals, off Cape Charles. She was pulled off the shoals by the tux I J. Chapman. The tug, dispatche from Norfolk to the assistance of th stranded vessel, went aground this morning, but was, floated at higi tide. The steamer was flofted “hulr an hour after the tug got off th ground. None of the steamer : was transferred to lighlers, June 16.-A human bones til

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