Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1923, Page 18

HERO OF CANTIGNY —RESCUED BY LEGION Misshapen Wreck Wandering in |- Park Started for Home in Chif:ago. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. FOND: DU LAC, Wis,: July 28.— Sergt. Jean Randolph Dijon, who car- ries an artificial chin, and is nearly 1as a result of the battle of Can- has been started back to his ,fome in Chicago by the American Lexion post of this city. He was found Mandering alinlessly ‘about a local park here, a misshapen, physical wreck - Dijon covered himself with glory in tho first battle in which American troops took part. In the face of ter- riblec machine gun fire he leaped from a front-line trench and captured an *Hine gun nest. But so far ‘nited States government is crned it didnt count, for at the yment he was braving the enemy fire Dijon was “A. W. O. L. sa ince his e government the ground eceived while without leave, that they were incurred while King an attack without orders and under risks that could have been avoided. A veteran's bureau in the east sent him to an Army hospital at Pres- but it said he was re- ortation by the adjutant tice. clared that when he reach zona hospital the authori- :d to receive him, so he and made his way re old and but lives in Chicago. sted in Army under the na How- Herry Johns difficuity people in pronouncing his real name. PRESIDENT’S SPEECH TO ‘LOSE’ DAY BY RADIO Address July 31 in Frisco,. Reach- ing Gotham in Fraction of Sec- ond, to Be Heard August 1, Byt wiated Pross. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July Although the words of President Harding, when he speaks in the civic fum here July 31 will be heard away as New York and Wash- within one-fiftcenth of a se poken, according gineers, it will be the v and_month when they :w York. to begin speaking which is rk (daylight sa uently he will be n completed speech *. and Round Hill s d to be the first time six stations ever have been line to operate circult necessary sting stations Audience in Worse Case. Balloons Defeated in War | The gypsy moth, most rapaclous and stubborn foe of man the insect world has produced in the United States, 13 In command of the field in New England and the United States Army air service, enlisted to annihi- llate the pest, is defeatcd for the time | being. The small, non-rigld, twin engined airship, loaded with deadly arsenate] of lead, which was sent out to battle jover the infested woodlands near |Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hamp- | {shire, has been withdrawn after two | lexperimental flights during avhich | the pilo were In great danger of losing their lives | Defects in Ships. | Defects in the ship, constructed cs- |peciully for bug warfare after the| airplane had been found useless, caused the withdrawal of Ma Harold A. Strauss, in command of the {party, and it is unlikely the attempt | !will"be renewed this year. Both the jair_service and the Department of Agriculture, however, are anxious| to make another trial because death | jdealt from the air seems the only possible way to make much showing |against the bugs, which have cost New England towns millions of dol- | lars during the past few years. | The airship built atier the air- plane had failed. The speed of the '26 YACHT PASSENGERS | DUMPED INTO N.Y. HARBOR| ! Excursion Steamer Wrecks Craft | With Women and Children | Aboard—All Are Saved. XEW YORK, July 23.—Twenty- six passengers returning from Rock- jaway on the yacht .Stray, many of ithem women and children, were | thrown into the w rs Nr-\n' ‘\'urk harbor last night when th { |craft was struck by the excursion | | steamer Albertina, plying from Red Bank, N. J. to New York. All the | passengers were picked up in Alber- |tina life boats and landed at Brook- Iyn Ambulances that rushed to the |landing epot were too late, for when |they arrived, all the victims of the mon Pl Against New England Moths| BY FUMIBATING GAS é | | | H jand B. Levitt. airplane was a hindrance and it was | not possible to carry enough powder in the hopper to dust even a small area without relm‘dln?. Moreover, the work was extremely dangerouw because it was necessary to fly low over woodland with no safe landing ! flelds available. The balloon, it was thought,s could drift leisurely ov the tre in the early morning when the leaves were wet with dew, scat- tering the powder by an_ automatic device so that it would be distrib. uted far and wide over the trees b, currents of alr stirred up by whirling propellers of the twin e H gines. The dew would, it was thought, cause the polson to stick to! the leaves, forming a bait for the catapillars | ase Establivhed. H at Henni- | ker, N. H. w the insects could not be determined | because of the small area covered. The use of balloons, however, 18| one of the chief hopes of the bureau | of entomology in th future. The insects, especially the Japanese bee- tle, which s now raving in New Jer- sey and Pennsylvanfu, are so wide- | pread that any system of hand- | spraying from the ground does al- most no good. The forests are still full of the bugs, supplylng & hun- dred for every one killed by the poi- son along the roadside and fin or- chards. JUDGE DECLINES DELAY IN TRIAL OF WHITFIELD| Selection of Jury of 13 to Try Al- leged Slayer of Policeman Begins in Cleveland. By the Assoclated Pross. CLEVELAND, Ohlo, July 23.—Com- s Judge Frank C. Phillips th morning overruled a defense | ing for a postponement ! trial of John L. Wh id, rged with the slaying of Patrol- | man Dennis Griffin, while a missing witness is sought and ordered that ! the selection of the jury be started at once. More than 500 persons, in- cluding many women, were In the courtroom when the trial opened. Whitfleld will be tried under the new thirteen juror law. The thir- teenth juror will sit apart from the other tielve, will hear all testimony in the case and be prepared to ot Jewell Milling Company. 3 DEATHS CAUSED Workmen Found Lifeless After| Flour Mill Had Undergone Purification Process. A NEW YORK, July 23.—Bodies of three workmen killed, police said, by fumigating ga: a flour mill of the The mill was fumigated, it was sald, after orders had been issued for all employes to leave the plant. It was belleved the three had started out, as one body was found near the to cause unconsciousness. One of the victims was identified believed to have Firemen wearing gas searched the flour mill, which covers sible victims. Police reserves were summoned to hold buck a mob of 10,000 persons which formed around the police to get in and Lelp the search- ers. people who bellevh in you 24 Pa. Ave, Open 8:30 Defies All Efforts to Curb were found tods wn|First Brought to U. S. in Japanese Cherry Trees Peach, plum and apple orchards in door and fhe other two were not far | Washington and the nearby country inside. One inhalation of the gas|@re suffering this summer the worst used, it was sald, would be enough|Insect devastations they ever have known from the one fruit parasite as Tonn Uste. e other twe Werg | for Which sclence has been unable to been A. Nearizme | provide an antidote. This s the oriental peach moth, first discovered in this city by Dr. A. L |Several city blocks, for other pos-|Quaintance of the Department of Agriculture, farmer in nearby Maryland, in 1916. plant. | It was brought here, the sclentists Many women, srelutives of men who | belleve, in flowerlng cherry trees | ROrth of Washington. worked in the plant, fought with the | grom the orlent. D. C, MONDAY, JULY 23 1923 Oriental Peach Moth Menaces country District. No Antidote Found. * But it also has followed the line of state orchards outside the Great Fruit Orchards of East the Baltimore and Ohfo railroad, skip- Activities and Spreads but From Here. Scientists Believe. and himself a fruit Inscet Spreads Out. of ‘the best Ever since a hard battle has been The people who Influence you are|fought to keep the insect in the en- virons of Washington, but it has been unavaiiing. To the west it extends beyond Lees- | until the burg and has wrought havoc in some | ceases in the fall. The larvae prefer in_Loudoun | tender, actively growing shoots. county. To the south the battle line iy stretched just below Alexandria.|another. North, it has cut a swath as far as|was found in nearby Virginia. The Rockville through some of the finelorchard trees practically had ceased \ing largely trom Rockville to the [aryland line but breaking cut with renewea vigor in Penusylvania and New York state. Long Island or- chardists are facing a slim summer on account of the insect. and it has Jjust been reported in southern Con- nectfeut. First, it punctures the growing shoots of peach trees. Then the larvae turns its attentlon to the fruit itself as soon as it becomes set. The d Department of Agriculture, cannot be overestimated and there is nothing the farmer or gardener can do which will reduce the inroads. Prefer Young Twigs. Dr. Quaintance has received hun- dreds of Inquiries from Washington people, who have noted the pecullar little bugs In their gardens. The moth still concentrates largely on the little fruit patches inside the District limits. It got u good start here, four or flve years at least, before it was discovered, and probably two or three specimens’ from the orlent are the ancestors of the countless millions which now flood the city. One of the hardest battles has been fought to prevent it injuring seriously the Japanese cherry trees along the Speedway, but this has not been For the first time this|entirely successful. summer {t has become & problem af- fecting the entire eastern The attack on the twigs starts in seacoast | the spring, when they are from eix to elght inches long, and continues ve growth of the trees The catapillars pass from one to A striking instance of this amage, it s stated at the | V! growth and although a large per- centage of the twigs showed injury a careful seach of these resulted in finding no larvae. In an adjoining block of seeding nursery trees stfll growing vigorously larvae in all stages were found very abundant. Traced to Japan. The fruit may be attacked while green, the infestation increasing as it approaches maturity. The catapil lars eat through the skih at some point near the stem. Brown rot soo: follows the trafl of the insect. Moths start laying their eggs in the epring. There are two and per haps three broods of larvae each . In the winter the larvae crawl into crevices in the bark of peach trees. The criminal bug has been trac from Japan to Washington large through a process of elimination. It was first compared with the com- moner forms of moths Infesting peaches in other sectic b United States. Then specimens we: sent to European biologists who were unable to identlfy it with any o their pests. Finaily, its resembianc: to some Japanese Lugs frult shipments on the Pa conclusive. ACCUSED SLAYER CAUGHT. COBALT, Ontario, July 23.—Pas quale Stallonni, charged with the murder of three men in Pennsylvan last November, passed through her. last night in’ the custody of tw members of the Pennsylvania stats constabulary, who came from Scrar ton to get him. He was arrested r cently ‘in Porcupl. A continent wide search was made for Stallonni —_— Ampere was scientist and great matk the age of 13. nowledged natician at 1005-7 Pa. Ave. ' In the Heart of Summer Instead o Of at the End of Summer— 2500 Summaer Suifs In A Gigantic Clearance That Involves 1. Our Own Entire Stocks 2. A Manafacturer’s Clearance From the Boston Transeript {wreck had disappeared. No one was| il case of the death or incapacity ! Miss Small (who took part in ama- |believed to have been injured | of one of the regular twelve. ir show)—Oh, I'm so tired; I had to| Harbor craft of all deserip i S e ! stand all the evening. ihurried to the scene of the crash| 1 od_thin k | Miss Sharp—>My dear, you aidn’t!und crulsed about the waters (0| binalans Faith Swithons who om: | have to stand nearly S0 much as we make sure none of the s s 1 E 3 of the passengers s just about as much as| had been overlooked hope w hou{ hustle. - Finest of Hot-weather Clothes reduced right when you want them—with most of summer weather still in the future. It happens this way: One of our best makers of light-weight suits closed out his surplus to us at our own price. 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