Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1923, Page 2

f'2 " GALEFUND NOW STANDS AT 16 Relief Collection for Injured Electrician Growing Slowly. Fhe relief fund for J. L. Gale, elec- trfelan, seriously injured s during Shirine weel while working on a den of Allah pillar, reached §164 to- day following generous contributions | dufing the past few days | ale was hurt seriously when the ladder on which he was at work wa stduek by a truck and he wes impaled | between ladder and pillar. He 3 rukhed to Emergency Hospital, sifjce that time has been in bed on! hig back with his chances for return- | ing to useful employment in the fu-! tufe growing more dim wiih h papsing day esides a death, which cccurred ot thé same time as h's wis virtually the only enc in wh a fnan whe w t Wshington a possible for v ; could, ‘wds stopped shori borg by misfortune. t migfortune, bece ou} of funds d_illness of his w hi 1 double 1 just uboy of the pro-| H le fund. ! 1 to The $3pR. M. D, cagh, $1: Alice Total, $164. $1,310,344 SURPLUS IN 0; [} K, TREASURY MARKS BEST | YEAR IN D. C. HISTORY | (Continu | — vanks, build- | ings of publ are also esti-| ing associations, mated. The amounts that may be collected under some sixty-five distinct items | of miscelluneous revenue gre cati- | mated. Revenue collections. fl from year io year, being dej B in,some mezsure upon the conditio of business and in large measure upon the ability of property owners to promptly pay their taxes. How great care may be exercised in bring- ing the el ents together upon which tax rates arve e blished, the actual revenue coilections within any year are bound to be obl ieal Total Approprintions, ete 1 of $600,000 the revenu ing the fi ing cash i > ob: H fund of §3 required | raised by Jul 27. The total charge for all purposes against nes for 1923 was, there- enue collections by the Dis- | trict during the fiscal available t other s, ! 1 To this sum was added $395. being the District's proportion lapsed cash ances of appropria- tions, and $17.909 paid into the the credit of the Dis- recorder of deeds i 315 i | by “federal | der municipal the: further sum of $169, the surplus revenues to 1923. These several amounts! made the gross revenue credits of | the District for 1023, from which $275060 to the policemen and firemen's relief fund, leaving the net revenue credits $16,101,178.14. Revenue Collections Classified. Using _the net revenue credits of $16:101,178.14 for 1928, and charging against that sum the District's lia- billty under appropriations for that | year and the first installment of the | cagh fund, a total for both purposes of $14,790,833.79, leaves a free sur- plug _of revenue in 1923 of $1,310,- 344.85, which amount is carried for- ward and used as an clement In fixing the'tax ratc for the fiscal year 1924. Revenue collections through the collector of taxes in 1923 and cred- ited to the District of Columbia are classified as follows: Real estate taxes, $9,473.811.34 an increase of $110,678.31 o the audi- tor's_estimate of July 1, 1922, and $1,042,631.11 over collections in 1922. Tangible Personnl, $1,213,728, Tangible perso: property taxes, 1 15, an increase over the itor's estimate of $108.728.13, and a fcercaso as compared with 1922 of | o personal property taxes, | 723,443.10, an increase of $223, .10 over the auditor's estimate and 4.385.10 over collections for the {lar purposo in 1922, axes on gross reccipts and earn- s of public utilitics, bank: assoclations, et rease of £6 's estimate, 8,21 similar collections of 192 n_all other revenuc items, sixty- sik in number, codlected in 1983 was $1.813.1 an increase over the audi stimate of $433 142.63 and §126.063.40 over the liKe| cofiections in 1922 | i Appropriations for 1924, The appropriations for vear 1924, actual and estimated, total $24.039,762, made up of the following ite District appropriation act, a; préved February 28, 1923, $21,737,59 ingrease of compensation ($240 bo- nus), $1,751,867; new bullding for Freedmen's Horpital, $60,000; refund- Ing erroncously puid” taxes, $40,000 payment of awcrds for land con- | demned for the extension of streets, ete., $50,000, and supplemental appro- | priations, $400,000. The proportion | chargeable to the revenucs of the District amounts to $14,581,788.40, to Which must be added the second one. fitth of the cash fund of $3,000,000, making the total charge against Di: trict revenues in 1931 $15,121,788.40. | To start the fiscal year 1924 is bréught forward the free surplus frém 1923, amounting to $1,310,344.35, | The estimated revenue collections during 1924 are: Tax on intangible | pefsonal property. $1,800,000; tax on ! public utilities, banks, otc., $1,600,000; migcellancous items, 31,818,000, mak- ing $6,528,344.35, from which provision must ‘be mado for the transfer of $450,000 to the policemen and fire- men's rellef fund, leaving net reve- nue credits from such sources $6,- 078,344.35. The differcnce of $9,053,- 444.05 to meet the District’'s liability of $15,131,788.40 under appropriations for 1924, and the second fifth of the reguired cash fund, must be raised frgm taxes on real estate and tangi- Dbl§ personal property. o meet this Mg and to provide against 22 credited | 1 | i build- | .97, an the audi- 2 over th 1 i ny shfrtage in revenue collections in 1934, I recommend the issuance of the following order \ “That, pursuant to the provisions n&‘the act of co:xr s, ~ approved Jhne 29, 1922, entitl ‘An act mak- ing appropriations for the govern t of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whble or;in_part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1923, and for other pur- poges,” the rate of taxation on taxa- ble real estate and tangible personal préperty for the flacal year ending Juhe 30, 1924, is hereby fixed at $1.20 Ofiulch $100, respectively, of the full Vi jue assessment thereof. _ Credited to U. 8. e District appropriation act for 1943 requires all revenue derived from perty not owned wholly or in part byé the District.to be credited entire- 1y the United Stat requirés the mt of a ground rent of 3 per h Pwas tan i Unitea s |and t | as ity share of the sa ! just | the presen the fiscal]. ] house s! GRANTED DIVORCE Actress Reveals Husband Struck Her in Winning Decree in Providence Court. By the Associnted Press. PROVIDENCE, R.-1., July 5.—Ethel Barrymore, the actress, was today granted u divorce from Russel G. Colt, son of the late Col. Samuel P. Colt of Hristol, on grounds of neglect to provide. Under the decision she is granted custody of thiee children. It is understood that an interlocutory decree will be entered, whereby Mr. Colt ~will - have the children with him st stated times. The testimony by depositions. Mes. Coit; in her deposition, stated #he was married on March 14, 1909, Sha said that o i while at a hotel, Mr. Colt struck her mes and that she had been (o assault on other ooca- he said she had supported 2nd children since ber mar- ” sev sub, hersel? riage. tam on the full value of propefty United States used for any mu- from which revenue ul provides that any derived - from any activity ource whatever, appropriated for both the United States and the strict, Ineluding the tax on motor shall be @ivided between the Unlted States and the District in the aine proportion that each contributes to the payment of the appropriations. Under this requirement of law the ates was credited during with the sua of §411,995.63, lded to the several items re- by eavlier jegislation to be credited to the i'nited States, made the total of such credit for the year 1325, 3R82.618.04, The provision for a 3 per centum ground rent works unjustly to the vers of the District. All moneys for rental of vault spaces, 90 & year, now goes wholly ited States, although the v¥s 60 per centum of sur- face k and street improve- meéntx; wll receipts from the whole- sale producers’ market, about $12,000 a year, are credited to the United b9} y23 | States, ‘and this amount 1t increased by half would not pay the fuil rental, yet the District pays 60 per centum of the salaries of employes at the market and contributed 50 per centum of the cost of the structures: he entire receipts from public convenience stations, nearly $8,000 a year, o0 to the United States, while the District pays $12,000 of the $20,000 appropriation for salaries and ex- penses and shared half the cost of the buildings. v, hares in ATl But Four Items. “Under the requirement for the divivion of revenue from activities appropriated for by both the United States and the District. the United States received. in 1923, §161.436 from the motor vehicle tax, and against that sum pald as itv share for the purchase of tags $6,000, and for sal- arles of the license bureau $5,280. From Police Court fines the sum of $194.114.19 was credited to the United tates, as against this paid $19 ries and ex- penses of the court. These items, prior to 1923, were ecredited wholly to the District. Of the sixty-six items of miscellaneous revenue belonging entirely to the District under the torms of the organic act the United States, es the resnlt of legislation passed from time to time. beginning wich 1888, now shares in all but four items, in Some cases, as shown, being credited with the entire amount of i collections, and in others receiving 150 per centum and 40 per centum | s estimated that in 1924 the moneys It eredited to the United States in this way will exceed $1,000,000. £1,200,000 of Surplus by Year End. “By the close of the fiscal year 1924 the District will dhave raised £1,200,000 of the c;ah f';ln: of $3, s 000 to be collected an eposite n the Treasury before July 1, 1927. The ne of this fund imposes an un- and unnecessary burden upon the taxpayers of the city, as the District now has to its credit on the books of the federal Treasury & free surpius of about $4,500,000, an amount more than sufficlent to enable the ! District within present appropriation | 1imits to operate on a strictly cash The ownership of the District to this fund is recognized by the controller _general of the United States, and in the recent investiga- tion into fiscal relations between the United States and the District by a joint select committee of Congress, the Committee recommended that Con- gress “recognize the existence of a free surplus in the United States Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia as of June 30, 1922, in the sum of $4,671,196.67." “After charging certain sums found to be owing the United States the committee found a net free surplus belonging to the District of $4,438,- 154.92. The raising of the additional $3.000,000 will_merely result in in- creasing the District’s oash in the Treasury to nearly $7.500,000, a sum far in excess of cash needs con- sidored with current collections and the semi-annual payment of taxes. Every effort should be made to have the free surplus appropriated for mu- icipal Improvements, or else that it be permitted to be used as an operat- ing cash fund and thus do away with t necessity of raising a new fund for this purpose. —_— SERVANT, LEFT ALONE, FOUND SLAIN IN HOME s Throat Cut and Back Cov- ered With Knife ‘Wounds. iated Pre B’;:‘Ev‘;“";onx, July 5.—Westchester county police today reported that the body of Dorothy Kauffman, a mald, had been found yesterday In a disor- dered room of the servants’ wing of the home of Magruder Craighead, at Scarsdale-on-Hudson. There were seven knife wounds in the girl's back and her throat was . A search has been instituted for S egro soen mear the home Tuesday e %maid had been alone in the ince Tuesday morning, when other servants left ona boliday. Mem- bors of the Magruder Cralghead fam- ily have been away for a week. FOURTH OF JULY ACCIDENTS. colored, 709 Mary- heast, Eldh:l in the utomobilo of L. 8. Carter, 94 Circet northeast, was slightly injured as a result of & collision be tween the automobile and a truck of the Union Transfer Company at North Capitol and K streets last night gbout 10 o'clock. She was given first ald at Casualty Hospital. Alexander one, inmate of Soldlers’ Home, sustained a fracture of his right arm yesterdsy afternoon when knocked down by & street car near 4th and Elm streets Surgeons at Emergency Hospital rendered first , two vears old, 804 ortheast, ~was knocked down by & strest car at 8th and 1 streets northeast and njured about the head and body. He was given surgical aid at Casualty cars 0ld, 2635 Virglnia avenue, was Jmockea down by an automobile near his home yesterday afternoon and bruised and shocked. He was treat- ed at Georgetown University Hospital. BAPTISTS OPEN SESSION. BOSTON, July &5 —The Baptist Young Beople of America opened their thirty-second annual conven- bas: Maid’s Gertrude Cole, land avenue nort James Greonwell, colored, three EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,.THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1923. S ONAT AL PW??'W Gen. Heurl Joseph' Gouraud placing n wreath on the grave of the “Unknowh Soldier” at-Arlington national cemete 20 KILLED, SCORES ARE INJURED, BY FIRE- WORKS BLASTS IN U.S. (Continued from First Page.) 8t. Cloud, Minn., and Orville Cramer of Danville, Ill, was instantly killed Wwhen a gas pipe loaded with powder exploded in his hands. Charles Conners, Huntington, W. Va., was instantly kilted at ad Eiks' lodge observance at Jackson, Ohio, when a glant firecracker “exploded -prema- turely, tearing off his left arm. A two-year-old child at Jacksonville, 1ll. died as a result of swallowing chemicals contained in fireworks. In New York Peter Vacarelli was shot and killed when a pistol in the hands of his chum exploded acci- dentally. Francis Gordon succumbed to heart failure when a firecracker was exploded under his feet. L G R PRANK CAUSES DEATH. Youth Held for Throwing Fatal Explosive in Celebration. MORRISSON, _Til, July Frederickson 'of Lyons, lowa, held in_the Clinton county Jail w out bail today for the fatal injury of Harry Gaarde, nineteen years old, also of Lyons. The prisoner is charged with throwing a torpedo at Gaarde and a young woman com- panion yesterday. The expioding torpedo injured Gaarde.xo sedously that he died In- a hospital this morning. FOUR DEAD IN MICHIGAN. Many Seriously Injured dn Acci- dents While Celebrating. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July celebration ° of Independence brought death to at least four day r- sons, while numerous others received injuries ranging from burned fingers to_the loss of eyesight. Explosion of "a cannon fashioned from & piece of gas pipe caused the deaths in Owosso of Clarence Cal- houn, seventeen, and Roy Wortman, sixteen four years old, was burned so seri- ously when her dress caught on fire from an exploding firecracker that| she died a few hours later. A bonfire started as a Fourth of July celebra- tion caused the death in Detroit of Mary Welling, three years old. FOUR PERSONS DROWN. Fireworks Cayse 14 Injuries in Buffalo on Fourth. By the Assnciated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., July Four drownings and fourteen injuries from explosive fireworks made up the total of Buffalo's Fourth of July casualties. There were no deaths from fire- works, most of the accidents result- ing in burns or loss of fingers. TEN KILLED IN OHIO. Accidents Over Holiday Are Heavy. Score Are Injured. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 5.—At least ten persons are known to have lost their lives In Fourth of July acei- dents yesterday in this state. Three of the deaths resulted from fireworks, while the others lost their lives in automobile 'accidents. More than a score according to reports. % 3 DEAD, 20 INJURED. were injured, Independence Day Observance Takes Heavy Toll in New York. By the Associated Press. 2 NEW YORK, July 5.—Three dead, more than a wcore seriously injur and nearly half a hundred minor acci- dents were found to be the result of the celebration of Independence day, —Ray the feet of 5. —Michigan's In Pontiac Alice’ Manekos, | when the noise and not a little smoke from the demonstration had passed away today. The victims were Peter, Zazarell, bullet from a revolver in the hands of a_celebrating friend; twelve-year- old Dominick Glordano, who died of kjaw after being wounded by the charging of a blank cartridge, and ancis Gordon, long a suffere® from & wouk heart, who dropped dead when some ore set off a glant cracker be- hind him The agreed opinlon of physicians and surgeons in tho emergency wards of hospitals throughout the city was in 5o far as it Leld down to a minimum the number of accident a attribytable to the use o fireworks, the crusade of the police eck’ the uso of explosives for celebrating the Fourth was a success. MAN SHOT TO DEATH. Wife Claims Fatal Bullet Was Fired in Celebration. PITTSBURGH, July 5—Two dead, with gcores injured. was the fire- {cracker toll of Independence day | celebrations in the Pittsburgh dis. |trict, while four others met death | Wutomobile accidents incident to the day's observarnce, accordifng to res ports at the coroner's office today. Alice Stoker,” aged six, match to a fizecracker, 1 which ex- dier from burhs. Anton Veltes, a glass worker, was shot:'and _kiiled by his wife, Mrs. Franves Veites, the police charge, who placed her under arrest. The woman claimed, according to the police, that the shot was fired in celelration {of the fourth and that her hus. {pand - was killed " accidentally. - In pa s P rg! o#pitals wi |scdre or m of :‘n‘lrrd Pt ome of them malmed for life. One child’s mouth was badly burned whep a firecracker, thrown into the air, lodged inside her mouth and ex- ploded. A boy had an arm blown off by a cannon cracker. Another lost. an eve, and several others lost finger: BALTIMORE BOY KILLED. Two Others Injured When Load- ing Gun With Chemical. BALTIMORE, Md., July 5.—Herbert Plate, twelve, was killed and two other persons Injured, one seriously. yesterday, when a gun, overloaded with a noisy chemical mixture, ex. ploded. The accident occurred whil the weapon was being loaded. Plate's shoulders and left hand were torn away by flying pieces of the barrel. Albert Wheeler, twenty-four, who was holding the gun, was injured internal- ly. by a chemistry-versed friend, during whose momentary absence the acci- dent occurred. About half a dozen other minor ac- cidents oécurred during the day. BOYS FATALLY HURT. Drop Match in Bag of Powder; Three Expected to Die. WESTVILLE, N. Y., July 5.—Three fourteen-year-old boys were horribly burned as a result of a powder ex- plosion. Physicians at the hospital lto which they were taken, said they |had but slight chance qf recovery. | The explasion broke many windows |in the town. | The boys had found a quantity of | powder, “assumibly, at an old_ war- time bag-loading -plant -near ~ their homes. They carried it to the shore of a lake, and dropped a match in it. TR S {DECREE FOR MRS. DOREY. Chiet Justice McCoy today signed a final decree of absolute divorce in favor of Mrs. May Dorey from Arthur G. Dorey. The husband Is required to pay alimony of $70 per month and the wife is permitted to resume her maiden name, May Sherwood. She was represented by Attorney Michael C. O'Brien. e i The largest life insurance ever is- sued to a woman was one for $2,000,~ 000 recently taken out by Mrs. Evelyn | Marshall Field, wife of Marshall ! Field, 34, of Chicago. a bootblack, aceidently killed by a | struck al! ploded, setting fire-to her dress. She The mixture used was prepared | | GEN. FOURAUD, FRENCH | HERO, WEEPS FOR UNKNOWN SOLDIER (Continued from First Page.) | | | attention before all else. En route {out of the cemetery, the officer no- |ticed a number of tombstones bear- ing the names of men who had served |under nim during the Champagne attle as_members of the 42d, or Rainbow Division. He insisted upon stopping, while the Fhench ambassa- dor awaited his coming, and saluted the graves. Visits Walter Reed. | At Walter Reed Hospital the gen- | eral laughed like a schoolboy when | half & dozen veterans of his Ameri- |can division raised pale faces from their piliows and shouted recognition | to their one-time leader. “Ah, oul, oul,” called back Gouraud, and run- | ping to each bed he whook the right hand of each disabled veteran with +his left, his own tight arm having |been sacrificed when the allies took {'the Dardaelles. {= Gen. Gouraud was met at Walter {Reed by Col. James D. Glennan, his entire staff and Miss Margaret Lower, fleld director of the American Red Cross here, and Mrs. A. Garrison Mc- Clintock, 4 visiting member of the Red Cross who happened to be at the hospital. He was escorted through i the administration building and a number of wards, in each one being | careful to inquire especiaily for “my | boys of the 42d." He did not fail to isnu(e each one warmly by the hana. ¥isits Jusserand, e dax aid Hist respects to the {dead and“wounded veterans of Amer- lica, Gen. Gouraud then gave his | thoughts to the waiting French am- | bassador, whom he visited next. Later in the day he was to be reeived by | Secretary “of State Hughes and high officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. A reception by Col. Dumont, military attache of the French em- bassy, for the members of all vet- ierans’ organizations in Washington, and a military dinner by the same officer in honor of Gen. Gouraud at the Hamilton will complete the dis- tinguished visitor's first day in the National Capital, Gen. Gouraud 1s here en route to the national convention of the Rain- bow Division Veterans. in Indianapo- s He came to America at the invi- | tation_of that organization, accom- panied by his personal aide, Lieut. de Vibraye, and arrived in Washin, ton last night. During his stay his personal escort includes, besides his aide and Col. Dumont, Brig. Gen. Harry J. Reilly, Maj. W. W. Bodine, Maj. “Arthur Budd, Col. Martin A. Prather, Ma). Davis G. Arnold and Privates Elmer F. Neagle, president of the local chapter of the Rainbow Division Veterans; M. Manning Mar- cus, Irving Silverberg, Morris E. Dow and Raymond J. Doyie, all of whom served with Gen Gouraud before Champagne. 5 To Vistt Quantico. At 9 o'clock tomorrow morning the general will be escurted aboard the President's yacht, Mayflower, and taken to Quantioo for an inspection of the marine battalion there. The following day he will visit the citi- zens’ military training camp at Camp Meade and pay a visit to Balttmore, and on Bunday evening he will say adieu and start for Indianapolis. _FILES ANSWER TO SUIT. Charles Schwartz & Son Show No Misrepresentation in Sale. By answer filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Charles Schwartz & Son, shows the court that no Misrepresentation was practiced In the sale of the ring as charged by the plaintiff and says that the price charged for the ring was the true value of the diamond in question. 44 STORES TO CLOSE. Forty-four stores have notified the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- clation that they will not open on Saturd: from July 7 to September 1. During the same period nine stores will close at 1 o'clock and six at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. t | FIVE D. C. PERSONS INJURED IN THIS WRECK RUSSIANS SHOCKED | Y HONOR IN ARMY T o v oate Duel. By the Associated Pres: 3 MOSCOW, July 5. — Communistic Russia has been shocked into the realization that some of its army officers are adopting the old customs and code of hopor of the czarist re- gime, along with their new brilliant uniforms and decorations, when the trial began before the supreme mili- tary court of the victor in the first fatal duel between two communistic army officers in the history of the soviet government. A Cossack cavalry officer named Tertoff, who on an early morning about a month ago in a public park killed his former friend, Dynakoff, is one defendant, charged with mu der, and_a preity young dramatic student, Nina Tochavelli, over whom the duel was fought and who wit- nessed it, is another defendant, charged as an accomplice. Both officers, who were members of the staff of the College of the Mili- tary Academy, it was testified at the opening, kissed each other gravely, in old-time Russian dueling style and then waved the girl away while they proceeded with the duel. Mile. Toch- avelli stood nearby, and after the firing ran to Dynakoff and held the dying man’s head while the victor called an ambulance, In the charge against Tertoft the court sald that he discredited his calling of & red warrior by practising an obsolete coneception of honor held by the old feudal caste and the czarist army, which was inimical to the spirit of a saclety of proletariats. The courtroom was thronged with officers. WOMAN LEAPS TEN STORIES TO DEATH Jumps From Wanamaker Depart- ment Store in Philadelphia. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 5—In of hundreds of persons, Miss Theresa Lazzari of Camde leaped from the tenth floor o anamaker department store, at the 18th and Market street corner here today, and was instantly killed. She was employed in the clothing repair department, and made the leap after telling her foreman she was going on an errand. Employes in a hotel opposite saw her sitting on a window ledge, telephoned the store. Before”any one could reach the window she slipped off. A quar- rel with a brother-in-law before she lcft home today is assigned by the police for her act. DECLARES CORSETS HOPE FOR FAT MEN By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July G.—Men really should wear corsets because they lift heavy loads, Dr. F. F. Millard of To- ronto told the American Osteopathic Assoctation at its annual convention. Other reasons headed were that men were more susceptible to rupture and to abdominal sagging than women. IThe only hope for the fat man, whilgs the ofteopathic physician , is s ah iR SoRcurk nig GAEAE chr vature,” hfs diet and toning up his cfrculation and nerves,.is the corset,” hé asderted. . o *School desks that force children to sit in-strained or uncomfortable po- s{tions damage the bone structure, Dr. Anita Bohnsack of Cape rardeau, Mo. declared. Accidental falls in cBlidhood, carrying heavy burdens, sitting for long periods with knees crossed and jumping from high places on darés, she added, often caused systematic disorders. Dr. §. L. Scothorn of Dallas, Tex. declared that nearly half the people women. He blamed extreme fash- jons in footwear and asserted artifi- clal correctives eventually were worse than useless. Well fitting shoes and scientific treatment of the injured bones, muscles and ligaments were the only possible cures, he said. - PRESIDENT LEAVES FOR ALASKA TODAY; TO REST EN ROUTE (Continued from First Page.) \ invited inhabitants, without demand- ing citizenship. We bestowed, the privileges and advantages of citizen- tion of its duties and its obliggations. We enlarged numerically, but neg- lected the declaration of American faith. The world_war brought the great awakening. WIith our varlety of na- tivity, and no racial entity, it re- quired the threat of a national peril and the endangering.of civilization itself to bring us to a gealization. War Gave Opportunity. “But when 5,000,000 of our manshood were equipped for war and 10,000,- 000 were enrolled in readiness, and 90,000,000 were answering every call of duty and ready for every sacri- fice we found the American soul and we discovered those who knew it not. Then hyphehism disappeared. In a nation-wide reconsecration we firmly resolved that every man embracing American opportunity must pledge American loyalty. Every man wear- ing the hablliments of an American citizen must be &n American in his heart and soul. ‘We are having our problems in handling immigration right now. Congress has placed a restriction on the number of foreigners to be admit- ted, and there is assault everywhere to break down the barriers. Doubt- less there is need fgr larger man- power in renewed industrial activities and our more fortunate conditions in America are attracting the longing ‘aze of millions \n the old world. But fprefer waiting jobs to idle men, and I choose quality rather than quan- tity' in future immigratios z “This land of ours has little to fear from those who attack from out- side our borders, but we must guard very szealously against those who work within our borders to destroy the very Iinstitutions which have given them hospitality. A republic worth living in is worth living for, for a republic worth defending is worth _our patriotic vigilance, so that it_shall not be undermined by those who ‘preach the gospel of envy and hate or destroyed in experiments against which forty centuries of hu- man experience ery out in protest. “One hundred and forty-seven years ago today the inspired fathers proclaimed the American freedom on which our people have buflded, to the wonder and astonishment of the world. Let us duly resolve today that In our grateful appreciation it shail be sacredly preserv. $175,000 RESORT FIRE. WILDWOOD, N. J. July 5.—The Sweet Block on the boardwalk here was destroyed vesterday by & $175,000 fire which threatened the entire business district before it wa brought under control. summoned from surrounding town ‘The block included a ‘number of bathing pavilions, stores and amuse- The- fire started In a irf America suffersd from foot trouble | and that most of the sufferers were : ship without demanding the assump- | U.S. TROOP GUARD AT TUSKEGEE ASKED (Continued from First Page.) Institute, and negro surgeons at the veterans’ hospital resulted, it is sup- posed here, because-of a parade of 700 members of the Ku Klux Kian Tuesday - evening. The klansmen marched by Tuskegee Institute be- fore making their way to downtown streets. Spokesmen for the paraders said tho demongtration symbolized the protest of 50,000 klansmen of Alabama against placing of negro personnel to man the veterans’ hos- | pital. At Tuskegee Institute today it was | stated that “mo direct threats’ against the institute had.come to the knowl- edge of the officials, but it was said that “many reports” had reached the institute, Dr. Moton was out of the state at this time, it was said, and no one in authority at the institue would speak for him personally. Director Frank Hitnes of the War Vetcrans' Bureau arrived here this morning to make a personal investi- gation _of the situation relative to control of the disabled ‘negro vet- rans’ hospital here, a subject which aroused a controversy that has been marked by niuch discussion. Director’ Hines will meet in con- ference with the. citizens' committec this afternoon at 2 o'clogk. to. discuss the situation. GAS DEATH PROBE REVEALS ROBBERY Husband and Boarder Questioned in Mysterious Case, Which Cost Three Lives. By the Associated Press NEWARK, N. J., July 5.—Investiga- tion today of the death of Mrs. John Ritiosky, her son Walter, four, and her ‘daughter Helen, two, from illuminating E2s poisoning in their home revealed that $150 was missing. The money had been received by Mrs, Ritiosky from the sale of a small grocery store. The police said the woman's husband and John Globas, who boarded at the Ritiosky home until a few days ago, were being questioned. All signs point- ed to suicide, the police said, but they were not ready to accept the theory until further investigation had been made. Beside the body, according to the po- lice, was found one of Globas' business cards with a message, written in>Hun- garian on the reverse, which read: “My favor is to die.” The message was ad- dressed to Globas and was unsigned. BELIEVE ROBBERS FIRED STORE TO HIDE SLAYING By the Associated Press. BEAUFORT, S. C. July 5.—The theory that W. D. Brown, postmas- ter at Hilton Head, and his wife, were killed by robbers and their store and home burned to hide the crime today was advanced by officers working on_the case. The couple | operated a general store, which did a large business, and are belleved to | have had a considerable sum of money in the place, The remains of a body believed to be that of Mrs. Brown today were found in the smouldering ruins of the building, which was burned Tuesday night. No trace of Mr. Brown's body has been found. Near the fragments of the body found today was @ roll of money partly burned. FIND PLAYWRIGHT DEAD. LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 5.—Rob- | ert Crozler Scott, plavwright and scenario writer, was found dead in | T NLERPTOGROND Two Entries in National Race Forced Qut—D. C. Man Passes Over Ohio. By the Assoclated Prews. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July 5.—Roy F. Donaldson and P. A. Erlach, both of Springfield, 111, pilot and aide, re- spectively, in the City of Springfield, an entry in the national balloon race which started from here yesterday, were injured slightly this morning when they were forced to jump from their craft elght miles northeast of Bryan, Ohio. The balloon escaped. Mr. Donaldson telegraphed the A sociated Press that he could not rip the panel out of the balloon to make a safe landing, and both he and his aide determined to jump as the basket touched the ground. He added that the gigantic gas bag got away from them, along with their entire ments and food. The landing was outfit, . containing clothing, imple- made at 6:12 o'clock this morning, Donaldson said. First Reported Landing. The “City of Springfield” was the first of the thirteen balloons partici- pating in the contest to report having landed. Six were seen early today drifting over Marion, Ohf while a bag identified as that of Lieut. Rob- ert S. Olmstead of Washingten, an Army entry, over Custar, Ohio, at 5:10 " today. A balloon piloted by Warren Raser, sixty-four#year-old Brookville, Ohio, man, which came to earth early yes- terday evening at Arcadia, Ind., twenty-five miles from here, was not in the race. Rasor officially withdrew from the contest because of a leaky bag, but decided to make a brief flight anyway. Torn fabric at the top of the bag necessitated W. T. Van Orman, Akren, Ohio, and his aide H. V. Thadon, De- troit, making a forced landing in the dark at 10 o'clock last night, five miles _north of Hartford City, Ind. Van Orman’'s balloon was the City of Akron. He reported the landing was made as the last resource, all available equipment having been thrown away prior to that time. Van Orman’s ship was the second to start in_the race. The three pilots covering the most miles on the uncharted journey will be permitted to enter the interna- tional balloon race to be started from Brussels, Belgium in September. ONE PASSES DETROIT. Slowly Moving Balloon Not Identi- fled, Though Flying Low. DETROIT, July 5—A balloon, fly- ing low and drifting slowly in a northeasterly direction, was observed passing over Detroit at 10 o'clock last night. Those who reported seeing the balloon were unable to identify it. FIVE SEEN IN OHIO. Gas Bags Dally Along Over Marion in Sluggish Wind. MARION, Ohio, July 5.—Five of the balloons which vesterday leased at Indianapolis in the national balloon race passed over Marion this morning. visible at day- light, and so slowly did they travel that all of them were distinguishable at 7 o'clock. Three of them wera gofng north- his room yesterday. his throat having been cut. The police pronounced it a| case of suicide and sald they found | papers showing that Scott's wife had* filed a suit for easterly, one was headed due east and the fifth was going northwest. There was scarcely no wind. The gas bags were traveling high. No messages ere dropped, o far as kno Internationally famous reporter a | a member of the staff of The Sta { il wire, beginning Monday, July 9. F: he will go wherever big and unusual things may happen to write for The Star’s readers the most interesting phases of the most interesting story of the day. Mr. Small not only is one of the most brilliant writers among American newspaper men, but he is also one of the best grounded. During the fourteen years he was star re- porter on the Associated Press, Melville Stone said he was among the four or five graphic writers of his géneration. He has that rare combination of mature judgment and keen ap- preciation of news values which gives confidence and authority to what he has to say, well a gripping interest which holds the reader at all tim’el. While he knows New York, Mr. Smell also knows the en- tire country and most of the world as well. 'His work -has taken him - everywhere and the I the world news. 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All these men are writers carefully selected to give The Star’s readers stories out of the ordinary end the background and uncovered-angles of big news nd graphic news writer, formerly r, returns as a regular contributor. rom his headquarters in New York “BOB” SMALL. ist of his assignments during the the intimate of Presidents, from s been on just as friendly. terms ut every conceivable sort of story of the scoops and besutifully written stories that won his world-wide fame. The two Thaw tri battleship fleet from Hampton roads, when Theodore Roosevelt sent cup races, national conventions of with President Taft, political tours rehing when the latter first set foot mme, the battle of Arras and the of Messines Ridge. While corre- lio Ledger he made the first an- at last one supreme command on addition to du/ news feature stories