Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1923, Page 2

RAINBOY VETS ASK VOTE FOR DISTRCT "Delegates to Division Con- vention Instructed to Work for Suffrage. Electing delegates to the annual convention of the Rainbow Division veterans, to be held at Indianapolis July 13, 14 and 15, the District of Columbia chapter at its meeting last night fn room 121, House office bulld- ing, instructed them to urge the right of suffrage for the District, to oppose any effort looking toward the cancellation of war debts of foreign governments, to favor any resolution respecting the liberalization of the Volotead act and to commend the ef- forts of the Harding administration “in bringing o book so-called fraudulent war profiteors.” The delogates elected were Blmer | F. Neagle. president of the local| ohapter; Morris E. Dow and James F. Curtin. Dow was wounded in the ~fighting at Sergy, France, and Curtin was one of the original members of the first Distriet of Columbia hos- pltal which was formed - into “the | 5 ield Hospital Com: Ruinbow Division. o pany of the The District chapter adopted a reso- luticn condemning the Ku Klux Klan. “Any organiza of opinion only persons of certain religious be- liefs as the repository icanism is peculiarly ignorant of the composition of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the blood of which was spilled that America might live and American ideals prevail.” . Under the supervision of a commit- tee composed of Elmer F. Neagle. hairman; Maj. Davis G. Arnold, Col. Marlin A. Irather, Robert R. Potcer and Capt. Oscar W. Underwood, jr., the District of Columbia Chapter will participate in the entertainment cf Gen. Henri Eugen Joseph Gourand, i seder whose command the Rainbow Division fought in the bloody Cham- pagne. The local chapter will be in attendance on the eral and his party during his entire stay in Wash- ingten from July 4 to 8 COMONS Y ROW * ONRUN SEEZLRES Qaldwin Promises Aciion After Legal Aspect Probe * by Special Committee. of true Amer- | | { | 1 BY the Associated Press. LONDON, July. 2.—Prime Minlster| Stanley Baldwin gave the house of commons a gleam of light today on|stration, it is said, will consist either' Great Britain's attitude toward the|in adoption by the United StatesiOf pemalties to be imposed | Senate, 6r by a convincing popular | Ruhr because of the bombing of the troop train near Duisburg | ship lliquor seizures during the daily heckling on the subject from mem. | bers apparently dissatisfied becaluse | the government has shown no signs | of opposing the American measures. | { Mr. Baldwin said the government ! Was awaiting the report of a com-| mittee now considering the question which would enable the government to determine its attitude. He added that the report wag cxpected shortly, | ahd this seemed to"placate the ques- | tioners. 1 The committee is composed of mhembers of the foreign office and le- £al department, with Ronald McNeill, undersecretary for rorelgn affairs, as| chairman. Mr. McNeill was asked by Sir Wil- Ham ' Davison, conservative member for the southern division of Kensing- ton. whether the Supreme Court had laid down that the American gov- ernment might, out of consideration for the public policy, forego the ex- ercise of its jurisdiction, or exercise 1t in & limited way without foregoing its sovereign rights. Answer Refased. The undersecretary referred Sir Willlam to Foreign Secretary Cur- zon's recent statement of the matter, but the questioner was not satisfled with this and wanted to know whether the refusal of the United States to exercise this discretion was “simply to bring to bear pressure on this country to get us to extend the three-mile limit.” Capt. Viscount Curzon, tive member for the,south division of Battersea, interjected: “Are His Maj- esty's government to be understood to give the United States government an absolutely free hand in this mat- ter to do whatever they like?" Mr. McNeill said that would be quite a false interpretation of the situation. Sir Willlam Davison then urged that the American government had the power to fulfll @ request from Great Britain to allow transportation of llquor in steamers under seal when it would not be consumed while the vessels were in American waters. Called Laughing-Stock. Arthur Samuel, conservative mem- ber for the Farnham aivision of Sur- rey, asked: “Is it not & fact that the statement of the law has placed the United States government, much against its .will, in such a position that {t'has become the laughing-stock of the whole world?" Prime Minister Baldwin then took a hand in the discussion. He denied that he had official informetion that the American government proposed to arrest ship captains and seize for- eign vessels entering harbors with liquor under seal, and expressed the hope that the interdepartmental committee considering the question would before. long make definite recommendations enabling the gov- ernment todetermine its attitude. LONDON, - July 2—Lfeut. Col Charles Howardbury, conservative, wanted to know whether America’s enforcement of the law was due to a desire to protect its own mercantile marine and force foreign ships to position of equality with its own. The speaker shut him off, saying it was impossible to give interpretation to the motives of a foreign power. The last shot came from Emanuel Shinwell, labor leader, who said he thought it was about time to declare that the interests of British trade and British shipping were more important than the alcoholic tastes of the pas- sengers, 3 HURT IN ACCIDENTS. Bdward C. Kirby, 1457 Park road, and Charles Groff, 1188 Connecicut avenue, were drivers of automobiles that collided at Michigan avenue and 1st street about noon yesterday. Kirby sustained cuts and bruises to his face, and was taken to Garfleid Hospital. Mrs. Groff suffered minor injuries. Bhe was treated at home. Motor cle Policeman John Nichols of the tenth precinct suffered & fracture of the right foot late Saturday night when his motor cycle collided with the automobile of Earle H. Burdine, mem- ber of the Montgomery country traffic force, residing at ¥ sish avenue, Takoma Park, Md., at New Hampshire avenue and Monroe street. 'The lngred policeman was taken to Garfleld Hospital, Police of the tenth precinct charged Burdine with colliding and required him to deposit $40 col- Iateral for his appearance in-court. conserva- BOK GIVES $100, FOR WORLD PEACE !By the Assoela T OF THE TOWNS NEAR MOUNT “ontinued from First Page.) Former Editor Offers Prize to American With Best Plan for U. S. Co-Operation. ross. NEW YOI July $100,000 is open today to the Amer- ican with the best practicable plan for the co-operation of the United States with other nations for the attainment and preservation of world peac Edward W. Bok of Philadelphia, former editor of the Ladies’ A prize of to be known as the Amerlcan Peace Award—and said to be one of the most princely ever offered as a re- ward for a non-commerecial idea. Award fn Two Parts. The award will be given in two parts. The first $50,000 will be paid for the idea itself, while the second will begiven when the practicability 't the idea is proved. Such demon- endorsement. Although a policy comm administration of the prize has been selected, the jury which will pas upon plans and make the award ha not yet been chosen. The personnel of the jury, it is said, will be made before September 1. Clones in November. ittee for the # _“It has already been agreed that the competition shall be open to every American.” a statement of the policy ~ committee said, “and that plans have to be in probably not later than the middle of November, National organizations of every nd all over the country, with their state and local branches,” the state- ment added, “are now being invited to co-operate in the projec Organizations, uals, are eligible for the prize. The policy committee will have offices at 342 Madison avenue, New York city. ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL ORNER STONE LAID Papal Delegate Among Thou- sands at Ceremony for $200,000 Structure. Gathering before the quaint little structure erected in 1886 for the edu- cation of the few children then in St. Paul's parish, several thousand par- ishioners of St. Paul's, with repre- sentatives of every other parish and of the leading religious organiza- tions, marched yesterday in proces- sion to the site or the new St. Paul's Parochial School, where the ceremony of laying the corner stone was con- ducted In the presence of the per- sonal representative of Pope Plus XI. Rt. Rev. Mgr. James F. Mackin, the pastor who built the little schooi in 1886, and who is now bullding the $200,000 structure at 15th and V streets northwest, participated in the ceremonies, and in a brief address to his people, filled with affectionate reminiscences of his long pastorate, declared that the new school dedi- cated to the youth of his parish would be the last accomplishment of his life. Act as Honor Guard. The highest officers of the District Knights of Columbus, the National Council of Catholic Men and the Holy Name Soclety acted as a guard of honor to Most Rev. Archbishop Pie- tro Fumasoni-Blondi, apostolic dele- gate. and to Mgr. Mackin, who walk- ed with the delegate. Paying high tribute to the priestly achievements of Father Mackin dur- ing his fifty-five years of ministry, Rev. Michael J. Riordan, newly ap- pointed rector of St. Martin’s Church, declared that the new school repr sented the spirit aroused by Arch- bishop Curley in favor of religious tralning throughout the diocese. P. J. Haltigan, president of . the Archdioceran Holy Name Soclety, in an address lauding the Work of Mgr. Mackin, declared that the rector has celebrated more than 20,000 masses, heard more than 100,000 confessions, baptized more than 6.000 persons, performed more than 3,000 marriages and officiated at more than 2,000 funerals during his term as pastor of St. Paul's. s At the conclusion of the ceremonles the apostolic delegate bestowed his blessing upon the site. St. Paul's Sanctuary Choir rendered a musical program during the services. The new building. which iwill be finished in time to accommodate the pupils in early September., will rank with the leading educational ‘build- ings in the archdiocese and will su; pass them in point of modern . fea- tures. It is belng constructed by Schneider-Spleidt .Company and has attracted the attention of many of the diocesan clergy ‘In view of the recent ‘edict of Archbishop Curley that a school must be established In every parish under his directlon. The following committee was in Sh“" of the arrangements yester- ay: The Rev. James E. Krug, P. J. Hal tigan, Andrew 1. Hickey, Bichard L. Lamb, Thomas- E. McEnesney, Dr. Joseph Murphy, J.' B. Leonird, Dane iel E. Doran, Mrs. W. Breen and Mrs. Nellie -McLaughlin. i = A Home | Journal, is the donor of the prize— |Street traffic restrictions and penal- | as weli as individ- | Russlans whose visits are not author- ized. The German press says that commun in several citles, includ- ing Leipzig and Dresden, hive been instructed to increase th activity. FRENCH FIND BOMBS. Mayence Under Restrictions Fol- lowing Minor Explosion. ! { | : By the Associated P | COBLENZ, July iwere found at 2.—Two time bombs the entrance of the iMayence tunnel today. One of them ]r-xmudr-tl with slight damage. The {fuse was withdrawn from the other {in time by a French artillery officer. The French authorities have ordered {ties In other forms imposed upon {Mayence. The city officials will be | held responsible for the occurrence. CONSIDER PENALTIES. | Belgian Cabinet to Decide Punish- | ment for German Cities. | By the Associated Press, | BRUSSELS, July 2.—The program in the | Belgian | Saturday, in which ten lives were | lost and more than two score per- | sons injured, was | gian cabinet for consideration at its meeting this afternoon. Already the government has or- déred that prominent German clvil- ifans opposed to the occupation he {carried as protecting hostages on i Belgian trains crossing the Rhine ai Duisburg hereafter. In response to the widespread in- dignation caused by the outrage the newspapers suggest stronger meas- | ures, several of them urging the | adoption of the practice followed by | the Germans in Belgium during the war-—the shooting of selected nota- bles in reprisal after each act of { hostility. POPE GRIEVED BY ACT. | Regrets Acts of Sabotage Directed | by Germans at French. By the Associated Press. ROME, July 2.—Pope Plus is pro- | foundly grieved at the many acts of by the Germans in the occupied terri- tory, says a semi-official note issued from the Vatican today. His sorrow is all the stronger because these acts are contrary to those principles of justice "@nd charity which he has gteadily advocated and which inspir- :€d his recent letter to Cardinal Gas- parri, papal. secretary of state. It is understood that in his lengthy audience of M. Jonnart, French am:. bassador to the Holy See, on Satur. day, the Pope explained the spirit of his 'letter, fully confirming its con- tents. He said he was greatly con- cerned over the danger of bolshevism spreading in Germany in conseguence of the sufferings of the German people. FRANCE HITS PRESSURE. / Determined Not to Yield; Aroused by German Sabotage. | By the Awsociated Pross PARIS, July 2—A solution of reparations problem and the ! Ruhr oc- betore the Bel-| £ sabotage directed against the French | the | HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ETNA CRATER, IN RUINS CAUSED 000 French Seize Krupp Plant, Isolate Frankfort in Reprisal. 11:\!‘0!(5(!!\ question by pressure upon i France to change her viewpolnt is | doomed to fiilure, according to semi- { official information ained | Strong feeling | French fo dons was at Brit- i he sug | ges tter ‘tg Pope cone Germ il clare French governmental circles also are { cons that the | British and the Vatican to induce Ger- | many by persuasion to change her at- { titude will prove fruitless. | “We tricd persuasion for three years without results,” one’ high offi- ial was quoted as saying today. “Co- ercion is the only thing Germany understands. ‘Want SolMarity. The only way out of the present imbroglio is “absolute solidarity & the allics, as obtained during the war, and joint representations to Germany,” is the feeling voiced in official circles here. 1t is understood on good authority that France is prepared to change the character of her Ruhr occupation should the Germans abandon their “passive” resistance, which is quali- fied here as being rather active than The crop of time-fuse bombs loped in the Ruhr and the Rhineland is declared to have strengthened France's decision not to make the slightest concession until the German government gives a olemn undertaking to bend all its forts 10 Stop the outrages and | until the new German proposals are underwritten by neuiral countries or the allied and assoclated powers. 'D. G. SUPREME COURT { READY FOR VACATION Litigation Is-in Better Shape Today Than Ever Before. | | 1 | ) \ | Litigation in the District Supreme Court is in better shape today as the justices begin their summer vacations than ever before in the court’s his- tory. This time last year the civil | business of the courts was about two years behind, and the criminal docket | was glutted with cases. Today In the law courts cvery case that was at is- sue on April 1 had an opportunity to {be tried, and some were passed and |reached 'a second time. Some cases {flled as late as February, 1923, have been heard and determined. In the equity courts, where the domestic relations ci crowd the [dockets, a large number® was heard during the past court year, and not more than fifty cases from that docket were ‘carried over to the fall term. United States Attorney Gordon de- creased the number of criminal cases by keeping two courts in’session throughout the year and by nolle prossing a_large number of “dead” cases which had swelled the number of cases on this docket. There has been no computation of the total of nolle prossed cases, but the docket is smaller than ever. BOY MISSING FROM HOME. James McGowan, twelve vears old, is reported missing from his home, 5408 9th streef, since last Thursday. When he left home he was wearing khaki trousers, light jacket and a !red cap bearing the advertisement of an fce eream firm. | BESTOW’S BLESSING ON NEW SCHOOL. The apostoile delegnte, the Mowt Rev. Pletro Fumasoni-Biondl, blessing <orner stome of ‘the mew St. Paul’s Catholic Parochial School today. ! the | orts of both the | MONDAY, BY THE REC }UNDERWOOD‘S HAT MAY HIT RING SOON (Continued from First stand-patter on Wilson foreign poli- cies, though opposed to the fsolation- ist doctrines of republican irrecon- cillables in the realm of international affalrs. Opposed Amendment. Senator Underwood w. ponent of constitutional prohibition voted against the eighteenth iment. He believes the ques- s an | ter for the people of individual co munities to settle for themselves, rather than an issue for legislative deciglon. to enforcement of ex- | tsting laws, Underwoodites | decls © i3 as “sound” as Presi- dent Harding himself. They resent the imputation that the Alabama senator sceks to become chief mag- istrate of the United States on a platform calling for overthrow of the prohibition statutes. They con- vey the impression that the last thing in the world Underwood | thinks of is to advance his political | fortunes by becoming a militant and Y wet” of the Al Smith or i Edwards typeN H srwood sentiment throughout | country, the Alabaman’s pro- | tagonists will tell ‘you, is growing steadily. In the south it is declared to rest primarily on the belief that the southern democracy, if it is to retain its traditional viaco as a fac- | {8hip of a man’ of the Underwood itype. If leadership is transferred to men of less sturdy type—to men whose feet are not so solidly on the ground as Oscar Underwood's are— southern democrats fear their old- time position of dominance wiil vanish. With a leader like Underwood, they think they can legitimately and suc- cesstully “appeal for the support of democrats in all section: Native of Kentucky. Underwood s a native of Kentucky, spent some of his boyhood in Minne- sota, was graduated at the University jof Virginia, and then became a law- yer in Alabama. His fine record in Congress and his activities as a tarift- {maker have given him a wide ac- quaintance throughout the whole American business world. New Eng- land and the manufacturing east have come, Underwood paladins thoroughly as if he originated far north of Mason and Dixon’s line. for Dixie support—Willim Gibbs Mc- Adoo. Underwood has weathered ex- from Georgila. never was within sight of the demo- cratic nomination at Baltimore, his preconvention experience demon- strated his delegate-getting capacity, His admirers are persuaded he will years ago if. and actively plans. outlook. standpoint makes of geweral is without a serious rival. an’ official contender. FAMOUS LAWYER Among Profession in ‘Washington. Charles Henry Butler of this city, widely known in Washington, died home in Southampton, N. Y. He was in his sixty-ninth r. The funeral services will be held at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. Butler was one of the best known lawyers in this country. He was the senfor member of the law firm of Butler, Wyckoff & Reed of New York, and president of the Lawyers' Club, from the time of its organiza- tion in 1888. He graduated from Princeton in 1876, and was largely instrumental in securing the large lake of that university, upon which the water athletics take place. He was prominently identifled with the big fnancial interests of the metropolis and other sections of the country, belng a director in meveral of the iarge financial institutions of he was executor of many estates, among them being the Julian a member of the Metropolitan Club of Washington. Mr. Butler was a son of the late Wil. llam ‘Allen Butler and a grandson of Benjamin F. Butler of New York, who was the Attorney General under Presi- dents Jackson and Van Buren. He was 2180 & grandson of Charles H. Marshall of New York, owner of the Black line of clipper ships famous in the early faritime history of this country and its merchant marine. His wife, who was Miss Louise Collins, died two years ago. A son, Lyman Collins But- ier, ah officer of the Tth Regiment, New York National Guard, died in 1917. He is survived .by four 'children, Willlam Allen Butler, 3d; Capt. Charles Terry Butlef, United States Medical Corps; Mrs. Maitland Dwight, who was a resi. dent of this city for a number of years, and Mrs. Willlam E. She in Europe. His brother, Bautler, of this city also suryives, op- | | tor in the party, requires the lcader- | remind you, to know him and respect him as Underwood men look for a spirited contest in the southland between their candidate and another ardent bidder actly that kind of a contest before— with Woodrow Wilson. Preceding the | famous 1912 natlonal convention at Baltimore, Underwood and Wilson had a titanic struggle for the delegation | Underwood won it. He but far outstrip his achlievement of eleven Tor 1524, he seriously candidatorial They are content with the They believe that from the avallability | ment was adopted. President Hard- time will tell that Oscar Underwood| ing conceded that From now on, undoubtedly, he is to be regarded DEAD IN NEW YORK | William Allen Butler Well Known | ‘William Allen Butler, a brother of | suddenly yesterday at his summer| New York. In his professional capacity large | James property of this city. He was JULY 2, 1923. INEW IMMIGRATION Secretary Davis Says Steam- ship Lines Cannot Select Aliens Who Come to U.S. - On the eve of his trip to Europe for a personal Inspection of immigration | facitities and conditions in ten Euro- {pean countries, Secretary of Labor Davis announced today that the time has come for a true American immi- gration policy. “The time Davis said, of a truly tion pollc has come,” Secretary “for the formulation Amerjcan immigra- not a foreign policy |dicatea by foreign steamship com- panfes, but an American policy formulated by and in the interest of the United States. The time has come for us to say whom we shall take in and the time has gone when they shall say who they shall send to us: Mr. Davis will leave Washington to- night for New York. He will sail for Europe Wednesday on the Leviathan, accompanied by Mrs. Davis. He will visit England, France, Germany, Po- land, Austria-Hungary, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Holland and Italy. He will also go to Constanti- | nopie. and will visit Wales, his native {country. The Secretary expects to re- | turn by August 15 | Outlines Views. Outlining further his views on im- {migration, Mr. Davis sald he held {no objection to the nationals of any [nnunlry entering the United States {as immigrants. “I believe there are {g00d men and women in all races” he said. “I am not predljudced against any race or against any sect |on account of religious views; mor {am T agai 1y man on account of | his love affairs, provided he remalns within the law and keeps the Amer- ican family, the basis of the welfare {of_this country. intact. Mr. Davis sald the early rush of {immigrants to Ellis island yesterday {probably will not reveal many here {in excess of quota. Steamship com- |panies which have transported im- migrants in excess of quota, he add- , will, however, be responsible for the transportation of those Immi- { grants here in violation of the Amer- jican law; the steamship companies [ will also be fined in case immigrants are brought in against the law. PRESIDENT “DECLARING HIMSELF TOO MUCH” IS RANCHMAN’S VIEW (Continued from First Page.) i | 1 the War Finance Corporation saved i the state of Wyoming. Lots of peo- ple have forgotten that we borrowed $12,000,000 from the government. But we have got to pay all that back. Cites Rail Merger Talk. “I was in Kansas City the other day after the President talked there and I tell you the fellows up there were boiling mad over that speech, s, sir, they were bitter. Now, I sa what's the use of his declaring him- self_about consolidation of ralirpads. That's something the Interstate Com- mérce Commission can work out and he_needn’t get mixed up in it. “ghother thing., that speech at ! Demyer was a mistake. Just as sure !ds you and 1 are sitting here today {beer is coming back. The prohibition |Stuff is a farce. I voted dry, but I won't do it again. I'm not a drinking man. I don't believe T've had more than a quart of whisky In all my life. but this prohibition is terrible. It means graft and bootlegging and the stuff they sell the people is dan- gerous. I'll fell you why it's a farce. 1 travel from one end of the country to the ather every vear and I keep my eyes open. Within fiteen min- utes after you reach a hotel. you can get all the whisky you want. And| there's more high school girls drink- ling whisky today than ever was known. “Now, tell me, what's the harm in a good glass of beer or a little wine? That's what we are gomg to get after a while and_I believe it's a mistake for the President to get mixed up in that iseue when lots of {poople are changing their minds | about it every day Says More Stills Operate. Irwin said he thought there were more whisky stills in the west today than they ever had before. These so-called dry states have unques- tionably experienced considerable of a change since the federal amend- | i in his Denver speech when he sald: “A_good deal of testimony comes to Washington that some states are disposed to abdicate their own police authority In this matter and to turn over the burden of prohibition en- forcement to the federal authorities. It is a singular fact that some states which _successfully enforced their own prohibition statutes before the eighteenth amendment was adopted | have latterly gone backwards in lhls; regard. “Communities in which the policy was frankly accepted as productive of highly beneficlal results, and in which there was no widespread pro- | itest so long as it was merely a state concern, report that since the federal government became in part responsi- ble there has been a growing laxity on the part of state authorities about enforcing the law. Doubtless this is |largely due to a misconceived no- | tlon, too widely entertained, that the federal government has actually taken over the real responsibility.” Expected U. S. Help, ! 'That may be one explanation of it, {but western opinfon of the type of Charlte Irwin gives quite another.| As long as the western states had| prohibition, they really had no effec-| tive way to stop people from bringing | into those states in sult cases, trunks | and baggage all the liquor they or their friends wanted. Thers was ways some wet state not far away. The dry states along the northern ' tier got their_ liquor from Canada | without much dificulty. Other stat got what they wanted from Califos nia, and still others farther east| bought from Missourl. { Now those sources of supply have: been virtually stopped and the local! stills have sprung up and are doing| a thriving business. The truth is these western states never had the! same problem of enforcement before the eighteenth amendment as they ! have today. X i The advocates of the eighteenth | amendment used to say that only the ! federal government could prevent im- portations into the “dry” states. So| the latter fully expect the !eden.l[ government to make their communi- ties “bone dry,” and most of the trouble is not due to laxity of state enforcement, but to increased’ vloln-i tion of the law. Any one who says the “dry” states | of the west would vote against light wines and beer if the people ha referendum is merely guessing. 0 only thing that can be recorded at this time is that the sentiment is not so unanimous for prohibition as it| used to be and there is sufficlent pub-’ lic disgust over “bootlegging” and poisonous whisky to produce a re- action in favor of & compromise proposition if the “drys” are ever tact- herd, jr.. now | less enough to let such a thing come arles Henry 2 to a popular vote. (Copyright, 1923.) Slated for Offices On School Board \"\\ DAN Expected 1o be clected to presidency. MRS. HOWARD L. HODGKINS, Probable mew vice president. CALLAHAN TO HEAD DISTRICT SCHOOLS (Continued from First Page.) committee complaint was made by the teachers that not sufficlent time, was given to complete the examina- tions satisfactorily and efficiently and that they were subjects foreign to the regular school curricula. The recommendations of the commlittee, it is sald, are designed to remedy these conditions. The committee also learned during the hearings that the boards of ex- aminers had naires for the oral examinations, an; holds in its report that the oral ex- amination is mandatory by law and that the boards of examiners are without authority to make substi- tutions. The report glves a certificate of good character to the boards of ex- aminers and expresses the belief that its recommendations will improve the policy under which the group 6B ex- aminations are held. The investigation of the procedure of comducting these examinations re- sulted from a complaint by Civde C. McDuffle, a Latin teacher at Dunbar High School, who sald he failed In the test because the rating “S" xiv- en him during the Thurston regime was not valued at §0 per cent. COMMUNIST PLOT INBULGARIA NIPPED By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | Copyright, 1828. SOFIA, July 2.—The police have dis- covered the existence of an important examined on | substituted question- | ‘ NEW-TRAFFICRULE AIDS PEDESTRIAN Safety Council Begins Month’s Experiment to End Narrow Escapes at Corners. The Washington Safety Council be- { #an a month’s experiment today on a plan to bring about closer co-opera- tion between the pedestrian and the { traffic officer and to put a quictus on lrrumb[mgx that the pedestrian hasn’t 2 chance at street crossings and inter- sections. First, the council has posted at strategic points throughout the city, on automobiles, street cars and other vehicles this notice: “Co-operate with the police. “When crossing a street “Obey the semaphore. “Listen for the whistle.” Second, the council has caused Epe- cfal instructions to be glven traffic policemen that pedestrians should have & “reasonable chance at inter- sectlons” Every crossing officer will blow his whistle in sufficient time before turning the semaphore or otherwise changing the direction of trafc, to enable every pedestrian to reach the opposite curd in sifety. The officer will also by hand gesture hold all vehicles not already In the intersection back of the near side of the near cross walk between the time the whistle is blown and the sema~ phore changed. Cltes Past Abuwes. Pedestrians, says the council, have at times stepped oft the curb and started to cross a street in the di- rection indicated by the semaphore, only to be startled by a vehicle coming around the corner and caus- ing them to jump out of its way. To cover some of this danger the council was instrumental in having passed and effected the following regulation: “On approaching a policed intersec- tion the driver of any vehicle, whether intending to cross or turn right or left, shall not operate such { vehicle past the near side of the near cross-walk unless authorized to do £ by voice, hand or mechanical sig- nal from the officer on post.” The traffic officers have been spe- clally instructed to see that this regu- lation is complied with. “With the crossings thus made safer, will the citizens utilize this opportunity to safeguard themselves and comply with the request on_the posters?' asks the council. “Will they cross only in the direction in- dicated by the semaphore and stop at the curb when the whistle blows? Or will they continue to cross when and how they see fit, taking a chance at every crossing. unmindful of the direction of traffic? “Some cities, notably New York. have found it' mecessary to statio police at each cross-walk of an in- tersection o force pedestrians tc obey the traffic signs and thus save themselves from This neces sitates an incr an increased X ic money, and therefore order ito save police we ask our citizens not to take a chance with their own lives when crossing a street. The re- sults of the poster appeal to be made during July will help to answer thi question.” FUNDS FOR INJURED AN GROW SLOWLY The Star Will Accept Money for Electrician Hurt Dur- ing Shrine Week. i | i i of in iture i Only $112 have been received: for credit to the fund for J. E. ( young electrician, who was seriously | injured during Shrine week, while re- pairing electric fixtures on a pillar in the Garden of Allah. His condition continues serfous and communist and extreme agrarian plot. It originated in the town of Pleveu, a provincial town renowned for its communistc leanings. Local communists, alded by Rus- sians, hoped to set up a republic. It was intended first that Stambouliski, the late premler. should be president and that later the communists should take over full control. Large quantities of rifles, machine uns_and ammunition have been ound. Undoubtedly these were brought from Russla. Kolarev, leader of the Bulgaria communists, was arrested Sunday on his return from Moscow, where he attended meetings of the third inter- nationale. Perusal of found upon him indicate that the communists were afraid Stambouliski | would be overthrown, and they were | planning to prepare a counter stroke to any action that might be taken by the Bulgarian army and the bour geoisle. The army, however, fore- stalled the communists, whose activ- ities have suffered a severe check. documents | it s problematical whether he will | ever be able to work again. | The misfortune was augmented by | the fact that the wife of Mr. ‘Gale |had just recently returned from hospital where a major operation had been performed with such resultant | expense that the family funds were | at their lowest possible ebb at the | time of the accident. ‘Washington Topham started the {fund with a generous check. Since | that time the contributions have been | exceptionally far apart. Acknowledged today are the fol- {lowing: H. Lee Smith, $10; V. D., $20; J. K. Harrison, $5; Charles Stewart, $5; A L. E. 33; a subscriber, $2. Pr | viously acknowledged, $67; total, $112. { _Contributions may Dbe sent to “the {Gale fund,” care of The Star, and will be acknowledged. a months away, people eve: ing of candidates. Here about—what are ithe cha each for the Presidency? tics have proved reliable in Star a series of nine articles, on the following men in the Henry Ford Senator Samuel Ralston Gov. Al Smith William S. McAdoo PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES —and Impossibilities Although the two party conventions are twelve DAVID LAWRENCE —whose prophecies and interpretations of nationat poli- rywhere are already talk- are the men most talked nces and qualifications of the past, will write for The , beginning Thursday, July 5, public eye: President Harding John W. Davis U G Senator La Follette And other Republican insurgents