Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1923, Page 2

2 HOPE ENTERTAINED IN CREEK SITUATION Washington Holds War Is Not Inevitable Over Ital- ian Action. MORE ITALIAN SHIPS RUSHED TO GREECE: CORFU TERMS GIVEN (Continued from First Page.) EMERGENCY COAL MEASURES DELAYED Commission Still Has Hopes Anthracite Strike Can Be Avoided. TALKS and TALES With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS I's that POSSE OF 1,000 MEN MOBS KUKLUXKLAN Raid Breaks Up Initiation Ceremonies, Many Hurt. Two Severely Wounded. of the sadors, to smile when hard 1t is generaliy takes true sport to display ng countenance when the breaks go against him, then Henry T. Oliver of New York, president of the O American Trading Company of the founders the { Chamber of Commerce in Mexico is 100 per cent gan Seated in the Hotel Shoreham as t newsboys told 1 tates and Mes matic relations, American busir last year has b in the for more interallied council of ambas- Communication Cut. communications be- | tween Afhens and Corfu was cut off at 7:15 o'clock last night. 1t is reported here that the Ttalians bombarded the Corfu forts. which in dccordance with the Florence con- vention had been nuded of their | zuns, despite the fact that Italy had been informed that the fortifications were inha d by fuge orphans. and| (The ¢ referred to and | iaid_t the care of Greeco bore a grave today. [ the Near Iast Relief were in serious there was noticeable in official Wa '!\-‘nl‘lr;vl er from the \"! tire.) SRea hépetal ballef that the difm. | 'The @overnor or Cor ington a hopeful belief that th “,”I Ate beini |detained be sclved pea ~,|"v)‘l,\ n w hip, while the garrison of vas MEQCRUDHON “r.' orfu 150 men has retired to the interior of g roted oM A8 the island :,:‘;;fi‘{"”‘,; By ““ Fime o mey for i “premier Gonatas in a statement de- gtan Ve e and shilh nwait| Mr. Wadleigh' said it has been the Sieen fon: with which we shall com- | custom of the miners for many years admitted reply will be given to the | to stop work from Friday until Tues-} o Iralianmete in the period including Labor! A A prgreny ithough at the sume time he-did | extreme {against the bombardment of unpro- | s e ih o th e oRsIN eipltated {tected forts, against the killing of D I In the midst e D efals extent the walkout, and in the | for a peaceful settlement. . possiiis witinie nesotiati Harrisburg i s will continue in prosr sSun cons i i er By the Associated Press. « Although events fng situation between Emergency measures providing for distribution of anthracite coal and! its substitutes will not be put into effect until_after the middle of next and may not be utilized until early fall, Federal Fuel Distributor Wadlelgh said ,today. The govern- ment is disposed not to tuke suspen- sion of work in the anthracite mines to strike until next By the Asso WILMI A mob of an up an initiation of the on a farm near New Castle, last night s a result and a enteen-yeag-old youth in hospit here {oda possibly fatally More than a dozen | others less seriously hurt A group of 230 candidates had been inftiated into the organization and at the of the ceremony a “flery eross” was lighted. This was appar- ently a stgnzl to the in an joining ficld, from which a scattering volley of shots was fired. The klans- men attempted to disperse their sailants, but were rushed off the field. he cross was destroyed. 1 Pross develop- velop Del the Ita aspect September 000 men broke Ku Klux Klan Del., 1 ot a lobt week te Ital aml man arc 1 persona nox public to our sout tnjured. = were el e DB oL than eleven months vast sums of mon tied u courts of Nev K, due brought by him against the government, merel forek “Anything to say chair “Nothing hack with bud Italian ultimatum € clcse that rovo At th i vi S0 1914 is regarded . but it is (tion was the ulti- < not so which pre- war. because, it estion of Nover- Allcnged to any such the same wed by that of s world d. the ot ¢ mol and smiled at this t ras 1 to the powers l 3 writ niore r through of K rnment first bhecame of the occupation of Corfu 4 wireless message receive of Berlin, followed later by im from the K governor of Cortu containing the Italian admi der to surrender the island News Sensation. caused it Felt. nited d o tuation today, other the hope that contin gotiations might not mean break-up of the confer i ribution organizations wbly beginning preliminary it their distribution Mr. Wadleigh at present request the of a fuel distribution ageney in the District of Columbia, he added Lough the Public Utili- ion acted as the agency thr - erisls Jast win- missioners, S3ary to put n here smen Give Battle. The klansmen rallled and again gave battlo to their attuckers. Police and firemen were called, but too few ilable to quell the disorders. several hours of free-for-all through reference of the points ue to the leazue of natic s some speculation in diplo cles as to the sible crisis upon other Europ, The arrival of an Italian warship Tangier is interproted in some quar ters as signityin n intention of the Mussolini government to take an interest in the Moroccan question, which has concerned Great Dritain, France and Spain for years, wh recent reports of ltalian pr bout Fiume have not gone unnotic here, Official the sit Gre . contain information given in press dis ates Coul mment on than to es- ince of the called « puoplo of I appre business men {tion of frien will me States right a W action i ate 1 a sensation > ind has made st dif- pr what . mrave The news throughout th the governm ficult. The longed sessions measures to take erisis The general feeling expressed both in officlal and private quarters is that Italy would not have dared to assun such a high-handed attitude unless reece was impotent to move against her. The sympathetic tone of th ritish, Fre and American prs comment received he marked upon with gratitude s reinfore or guard ge across the telegram from Janina ireck courier with papers of Loundary delimintation commission has been prevented from crossing the to meet st serfously injured, William ma- said Hushbeck, sev sustained gur k and in the in not organization a4 Will Limit Action to Complete Co-Operation With Gov. Pinchot. reports received today on and | ind to to that ‘.\r icles 33 hang which means that whil sidered a perf T | when dining in spectivel WHITE-ROBED MEN BEAT UP. The District Ca ted, may find it ion machinery in Seant Supplies Here. e iy very little anthracite coal | Washington, | Dove, Jr., pre I soard of or body not at present stat o the policy rotai Washingtc IMe Dove added will b mecting of the committes witich | the question probubly price will vointed ou similar ches t he | FEAR GREAT TRAGEDY AS QUAKE ROCKS JAPAN; YOKOHAMA ALL ABLAZE (Continued 80l of Mexi think I will r seve Mob of 5,000, Defying Police, Klan Gathering. PERTH AMEOY, N. 1., September 1 —A lone figure slipping quictly from polic headquarters last night was the last reminder of the protracted riots when @ mob of more than 5,000 persons, def & the pol a meeting of the Ku Klux up white-robed figures eared rove th Rush ever Confidence of in the ultimate success of negotia- tions at Harrisburg has not been shaken by refusal of either side in the anthracite to accept outright the initial proposal of Gov. Pinchot for a compgomise. The ¥ cy of the government, was dec 1 yesterday at the Whits House, continues to embody complete support President Coolidie Trading ( al ceeding ico which of Presid in according ent of Trade a Bove followed % 3 controversy alers in There policy from First Page.) e resulted of in box of P! and discussed. that pro- cite coal has been last five months during any year Retail dealers’ he usion iterally 4 have P'robably hracite coal il January augmented by last through the GREEK SHIPS MOVE. ROME, September received by wuay o the Greek ships at been moved to Salamis. n island lyving a few miles west | Piracus, the ort of Athens.) Admiral olari, commanding Italian troops at Corfu, has addr a proclamation to the people island outli w2 th causes and ture of the oecupation which he is of & temporary and peaceful o an ns- stree: man had spent the day at head- ters awalting an opportunity to . and quiet had been re- ‘flently to permit -his d He was$ the last of the 600 who had been the targets s and blows from the mob ed with the Klan meet- city and number is has excel s, well »nt har Taid out imposing ntainin public bu Yokohama slik industry rium for wares, metals and fish The city was select port in 185 Owing to an ¢ ipal lim prises mnot « of Upper—The old fortress (Fortezza Vee Lower—\View of Corfu from the Fortezza Vecchin, the ¢ for- and ion with co-opera ceutive, w to the fed; to assure adequate public should production nihracite fieid 3 of development risburg, it was stated offich Wwould be no move to put in the claborate machinery for distr tion of hard coal substitutes £ AMonday, ith X probal that action along this line would br in charge of th 1 their . in_view of the known surplus bitumine enough to suppl the for at least s weeks | from the da « which oppase hard coal output became an ae- wplisted fact With agencies in readiness for m ing these supplies to affected they said, the government wo ¢ to exhaust ev between miner and operator ithout w angertng to the slightest the industrial situation in Nev iglund, or the comfort of individual sumers during the apy hin winter. partment of Commeree, where it was held that even a complete tie-up of anthracite production “while disturb- | ing, could have no very great cifect| on industry generally.” Outside of a| relatively small area’ an official of the cpartment said, soft coal was the main reliance of the national in- dustrial machine and the absence of a normal supply called at the White House late day, presumably for a conference h the President on the anthracite ation wius foreseen that the norm: flow transportation might be affected of the necessity of moving d volume of bituminous cc long distances to eastern cen- d plans have been made to so this traffic and its requirements of cars as to prevent e of roli- 1 stock for movement of fall crops. center o also un and a bamboo t Phaleron (Sul immed ithe goverr | vast « fobta L - war period are below nor 4 him to the con on ent supply of above ground will last 1. he declared, and substitutes, should as a treaty the the Re |k H i »Permanent Site Is Selected For Bronze Satute of Dante|: ion of its munic- Yokohama e« e rn Yo- kohama proper, but the n older | town of Kanagiwa. It was the scene of the recention of Commaodore Pel the American naval ¥ to the island brought it into touch civilization Since steadily The > of the riot reported. To- d that the situa- was well in hand. Five men, ar- this morning on charges of to riot, were nder and will appear for nwhile 1901, no the ked however, and tha se troublis: acter. It will 1sserts, people spectal the remain the statement unless the attitude of the the commander to tak for the protect Jops Cmpire with Arrangements r lable, the authorities decided to_move it to the parking at 16th and Mount Pleasant streets, oppositc the Har- vard street entrance sological Park, where it w ninent feature t ac- tion was ta provisions A joir ngress ap- d February 14, 1 authoriz- K the chief of engineers of the Army to permit the erection the statue on the public grounds of t United States in the city of Wash {ington, I. C., other than the grounds of the Capitol, the Library of Con- gress, Potomac Park and the White House, provided the site and desizn the statue were approved by the Commission of Fine Arts. the re- quirements the law In this case have been met, it is stated The new site has been « work is ubout to start on struction of the concrete four nd granite pedestal on completed bronze status have been muade f hor of th D m Italian t Similar to Mussolini. is sta abroad. In this declaring that the 1 replied to Ttaly’ terma that had no in- et of war 5t guard manifest her obtain the w ) a temporar. s being made BRETT 15 ELECTED VETS' COMMANDER Gen. Stephan Senior Vice Commander—Norfolk En- campment Closes Today. am bat there cipitate existene stocks fuel marke n emergency opini asures acit though ten in retail were much yards fare swer than i it has grown on August 1, than on July durin the Summer of preced lurgely because of the rapi which' coal has been taken by | sur * according to a state by the Commerce Departme rior Departm Four hu: twenty-four dea from wh have heen received as to forty-se per cent e hand than on August 1, 192 from its : tempoary lian Hill Par k to a perman t the the inter t Pleasant umk Tk it Doint 4 depar bre for Jupancse commeree; fror these hills remarkable views oh- tainable, the utlines of F the voleanic' mountain known u- sands from its depic Japanese art, being easily visible n a day though it stands sevent miles away The harbe as been Improved wre protective works are waters, aggregating length, separated by an feet in width Its are over 1,200 Very dry docks and pping works oc positions on th ater front Shocks Lasted Long. The forelgn trade of the 1919 amounted to yen 6su, imports und yen 1.018.3 i ports. A yen is the equivalent of American half a Sakura, Japa suffered a voles eruption and earthquake Jun 1914. rty-three lives 20,000 persons were ma and very ar to to proclamation olini's 2 ¥ s in small tri- principal rice slution of C. treets just | This st arrotti of New nted to the city ian citi It was a d last fall was placed on temporary wooden pedestal wer section of Meridian H 2 ar the h street side President Harding assisted in the ceremonies of a m an_ uddre rit virtues location POLIGENAN SHOT IN'FIGHT FOR GUN Despondent Man Alleged to Have Gone on Rampage in Southeast Home. ir jisa t government just demands of ally equival cction. asserted fon of Corfu, Ita t o : is th York a < w have wvenue of medi- v t an and w her prestige an shakable detern; reparat custom vecupatiol measure s much exposed, 1v. The m two bre 12,000 feet \trance is sligh inside 730 and inter . he said, . was held at the De-| <i upy lini's dceision that : { CHRISTIAN LEAVES PN avcion thar WHITE HOUSE POST Sbpor R LS S Honored by Employes Upon Retire- ways lusi ample indemnity i ment—To Enter Private Busi- ness After Vacation. e w 1 of tue | suit- | | was considered will PRESIDENT INSISTS | ON VETERAN AID Teils Gen. Hines to Accord All Possible Relief to Disabled Men. on or nany when a Frenc itish st was killed in G SEIZURE OF CORFU IS HELD ACT OF WAR; BRITISH DELAY ACTION tinued from First Page.) , By the Associated Press NORFOLK, Va Brig. Liloyd M. Brett was elec commander-in-chief of the Veterans Foreign Wars at the closing b ness session of the encamp- | vesterda was selected as the Septe hard econl would lost, cretary Hoover tute de de desti houses about the jr. secretary to who retires to presented to clock and ex- appreciation of his while secretary to President The presentation speech was made by Nelson Webster, rsing officer of the White House. In thanking the force for its trib- ute, Mr. commended them upon their loyalty and efficiency and that it was with deep regret that he would leave them. To the news- paper n who cover the White House regular and who have been in daily conta with Mr. Christian during the more than two yeal he has bien secretary, he said he would | never forget their many kindnesses | Land courtesies in their treatment of him and the late President Harding. | execnutive a thousand soid otl national Christian, dent, day. desk George D me ere Kansas the lats privat wn Uni- weather 1y toda of severe i ahou Sei Georg versity bure mographs at and at the Chicago Wst night and an carthquake tensity waves began o'clock (cugtern time) last night { continued until about The dis- tance was placed at about 6,000 miles although the direction was not shown SHOCK LASTED 6 MINUTES. new i next Kan national headquarters voted to hold their in Atlantic City Only meeting commanders and council administration remai {program today. A grand 1, in which the majority ¢ who had not already departed of [their homes at the conclusion of the e ifinal business se participated, w held last night. Gen. Stephan Elected. Gen. Brett, retiring preside hicenth Division Vetera Pres life erans campn and n i handsome g treaty of act of war | P provocation and without | MANY i ted by one m- - ot st 5 their of the on the slow ok w cattle industr mar G a session the late COAL PEACE EXPECTED AT EARLY DATE; PARLEY ON WAGES ADJOURNS| (Continued from First Page.) T to 1 the but the . reunion the et condit last spriug and that is not difficult aroused amo this action wre confident that the whole world will vindicate their 1 determine the responsibility ir government Zither th of natfons will fulfill its duty would be impossible to sup it will not or we rn to the m es and | troy all notion of progress, Up to the present no noti been issucd to the nationals of fcombatant countries living in £ land to hold the s in readin for a call to th: )rs an far -an be ascertained there IS at present no reason to suppose such a call will be issued (A London dispatch filed after above statement was issu; Ttalian reservists In London had be notified to be in readiness fc to the colors in t vent the sity arosc) ACRAY ASKS TIME agine ek na- Greek the tion by people civilize By the Associated Press, OSAKA, Japan, earthquake shock minutes was felt h 1t was accompanied down movement.” Telephonic an munication with terrupted. it feared shock has had a serious Toklo and that great « been done there, in Yokoha kusuka. According Osaka, the seismic tremor centered in the Zu peninsula The selsmograph record-d tremors jasting nearly an hour and a half, Slight vibrations were felt again at 2:25 today. The shock &topped here The Tokaido railway line hgs been seriously damaged in ral y Christlan Despondent of the loss of his job at the ard, Milard F. Smith, thirty-seven vears old, 308 Sth street southeast, yesterday aft noon is alleged to have gone on the rampage with a loaded revolver, shooting one of several fifth precinct policemen who hurried to the home in response to a call Policeman J. G. Russell, heedless of Smith's warning that he would shoot the first person who entercd his home, made a rush for Smith. He managed to grab him by the arm and both men went to the steps, Smith pulling the trigger until ry chamber of his weapon had been emptied. One bullet lodged in the policeman’s right leg. The other policemen closed in upon the belligerent man and placed him under arrest. Russell was taken to Providence Hospital, while Smith was taken to Gallinger Hos- | pital Police were told that one shot fired by Smith was believed to have been intended for his wife, Mrs. Lena Smith. Smith was able to leave the { maintenance workers w pital this morning. A charge of | the {1y directed to remain at their posts|assault with a deadly weapon was ederation is to ! by John 1. Lewis, international pres- | preferred against him and he was in Bru ident of Work n to Police Court today. President carrying out the policies of the la President Harding in extending possible government aid to the d abled veterans of the world war. Gen. Hines, director of the Veteran | Bureau, who was In conference today | ciation, was elected on the with the President. s IGCin my countions that he has been instructed by the ’,f",’l,_‘f",‘u’} A Chief Executive to see to it that every | Gen. R. Allyn |possible relief is accorded the {__Gen. Anton Stephan of Washington, |yj, |abled men. In this connection Gen. | T - was elected to the nost of senior | co commande out opposition. ! ru |Hines will shortly prepare for the {}un 1. Shertle of Los a6t (ina |President’s approval un estimate of |feated four candidates | what 1s known to be needed in pro- | junior vice commander. viding care and relief next year, AREH{Ry Ofcors. juttie mor which estimates will be aside from | ars. Kate Hutcheson of Californialyoining tak the neral appropriation for wias re-clected national president of |Treland fs During today's conference the gen- | NS AUXHIAry of clorans ot wors:|rapld strides [eral hospitalization” program of"the | Mot > e seing of Chicase, sentor | aed in talk about blood, rac | Veterans’ Bureau was discussea be- |3 Effle KIng o8 ary Cidridge of {oopression 18 now being devoted tween the President and Gen I‘n“‘ - {vice |>roi~l‘ah' \‘ ,\|r.\'m!\l‘|\r\ ul;l;xu;,e’u_x.x al k; est work, and it will ne he latter sald afterward tha 5. { Rhode Island, Junfor vice presiden: 15 hefore the old cou will continue to erve as head of the |Lurs: Pa. and Mrs. Margaret Arm-| Federal Board for Hospitalization. steume of PG D Noe ioenie Coolidge is desirous —An s s six and eptember 1 ssic lasting over t noon tod by an “up of leagu and it I th will re thus_de a 4 cents per 1 i speaking of troubled count S most refreshing to leart the ¥ lin, Ireland, who Hotel Ralcigh tion _in running land of the t | 1o i e of the f;, 4! aphic com- ss0- | has been in- that the fFect in teleg Jkio L first bal 8 n 10 of starvation as a result of the lack of fuel for warmth and cooking. it is said, would the Pennsylvania courts He sald he would leave Washington | gtand for the use of the emergency or| next week for Bar Harbor, Me, ohere | pyplic policy provisions of the con- he Wil Test for one month befove en- | Public | tering business. He not say = | what his future connection in busi- ness would | Former Representative Slemp of Virginia, whom President Coolidge has appointed to succeed Mr. Christian, is expected to arrive in Washington late today and will | sume his new duties on Tuesday. —_—_— has the 13- s T now be sure, athlc tory at dis probably to the observ: i now oung TIrishy £0lf 1 and is g pace. Old than a garden, n very seriou rd at work. and muk All the tim (Copyright, 1923.) ALL MINERS IDLE. B & ahe Ireland o rful €. & Bascom the Assoclated Press. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., September 1. —Not wheel In the anthracite in- | dustry In_this district turned after | midnight to nroduce coal for winter's | need, andy with the lone exception of | | the maintenance men. no mine work- {ers reported to work today. Th all the clocks - California Sacramento the fonal conference of Interallied Veterans' Fi ate fair will today and coming week The ann be opened at continued through FEAR FOR AMERICANS. n s ey i Reports of u severe earthquake and fire in Yokohama, Japan. caused un usual anxiety here today because of Wearing the broadest of . and swinging his lithe {from side to Secretary and treasurer. respectively : the large number of Americans who make their homes in that city It s estimated that more than a thousand citizens of the United States who have business connections in Tokio live in the section reported affected by the conflagration. More than half of all Americans part of Japan are said to have chosen Yokohuma as their place of residence. 1t is only & half hour's ride from the capital. Aside from the record made by the earth shock on the powerful scismo- in that raph at Georgetown University, the rst news of the disaster reached Washington in pre; dispatches. Neither the Japanese embassy nor tha State Department had heard of it through their official dispatches, nor had the American Aslatic fleet made any report to the Navy Department The seismograph record at George- town showed that the earthquake w af an extremely severe character, Iasting five hou Father Tondorf, n charge of the Instrument, esti- ated, after a first reading, that the isturbance centered 6,500 miles away om Washington, but after a more otailed computation he placed the distance at 6,300 mile: The American Navy hospital at Yokohama, but at the maintains a present time there are believed to be one or two patients there. pital personnel consists of one doc- The hos- for, one pharmacist, two nurses and seven enlisted men of the Medical Corps. . Conoern_over the fato of the Amer- fcans in Yokohama i the more in- tense because in previous earth shocks there the section occupled by the foreign colonies has been most severely shaken. This section is on higher ground than most of the re- mainder of the city. It is believed here that the Amer- scan Naval Hospital, if it escaped de- struotion, principal centers of relief, work. = Ad- will become one of the smiral Anderson, in command of the Aslatio fleet, is expected by the Navy rtment to send destroyers to | Dej if the emergency war- ‘Yokohama, rants, to help In relief efforts. There are eighteen American destroyers in far eastern waters, but it would take 1wo and & half days for most of them 30 Feaoch Xokohaay ! | aaministration until 0 MEET CREDITORS Committee Studies Gover- nor’s Request on Assurance He Will Pay in Full. i By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS. September 1.—The plan of Gov. McCray, under which he would turn over all his property for his debts are paid, will be investigated by a com- mittee of five Indlana bankers, who will make a report to a full meeting of creditors next Friday, regarding | the feasibility of adopting such a| course of action. { Action of appointing the investi- gating committee was taken at a meeting of the creditors yesterday with the governor, after the latter had personally submitted the pro- posal. Listing his liabilities at $2,- 652,000, and_placing a value of $3,- 223/000° on his assets, the governor suggested the appointment of a cred- jtors committee to take over his assets, with payment of his notes to be deferred, S0 as to permit normal disposition of his property. Sees All Creditors Paid. By this plan, his holdings could be aisposed of at their fair value and all creditors pald, the governor said, and added: "My consuming desire is to pay every one I owe the last penny whether I have anything left or not.” A motion was made to adopt the governor's plan of settlement, but a number of creditors objected, stating that they had mot had time te study the proposal. A committee was then appointed to investigate the plan and report after one week. Persons in touch with the situation predict the creditors will accept the EOVernor's-proposal SCENE OF GREAT FIRE FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN Will Follow Harding. | President Coolidge, although hav ing temporarily put aside the matter of an Alaskan policy to take up more pressing problem: was declared b ‘White House officials yesterday to be inclined toward adoption of tha plans for development of that territory out- ined by President Harding i Seattle addrees & i he President fecls that Pre, Harding and the cabinet memuens who accompanied him on his Alas. kan trip were given unexcelled oppor- {tunity to study the problems of the territory and that he hardly could do better than to accept their judgment .and benefit by their experlence. In any event Mr. Coolidge, it was smid, intends to do all within his pow er fo encourage enterprise and the ! investment of additional capital and o provide such conditions as will af- ford the territory a larger population. Sees Colored Men. An interesting accouht of the strides .nade by colored men in the south in _agricultural pursuits wa en to President Coolidge, today by J. ‘Whitfield, director of agricul- ture at Tuskegee University, and T. M. Campbell, representing the Depart- {ment of Agriculture among colored residents in seven Southern state Both are colored, and were brought {to the White House by Secretary. of Agrlculture Wallace. BRITISH MAKE CLEAN SWEEP IN YACHT RACES ‘Win All Places in Second Series of Six-Meter Events Off Scotland. By the Assoclated Press DUNDOON, Scotland, September 1. —The British six-meter yachts made a clean _sweep of the second of the series of races for the Evelyn Parker cup which was raced today in St Hunter's bay. All the four British entries finished ahead of the quartet of American boats. Yesterday the - Arst race Was & draws 2 Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon of Turt Creek, Pa., was re-elected chaplain; Mrs. Nellie D. Towne of Lynn, Mass. onductress, and Mrs. Lydia Reigal of Florida, adjutant. M lizabet Sater of Pittsburgh was named na- tional guard KIDDIES’ CIRCUS IS HIT AT PLAYGROUND FETE; Clowns, acrobatic stunts and fancy dancing featured a kiddies' cireu {the Virginia Avenue playgrounds ves. terday afternoon. Dressed in all kinds of fanciful costumes, scores of chil- dren from the vicinity of the play- grounds participated in the program. Marching into a roped-off area in the southwest section of the grounds the children emulated regular cir- cuses by parading around the inclos- ure. Lined along the outside of the ropes were approximately 400 rela- tives and friends of the juvenile per- formers. Following the parade, with Miss Thelma Smith at the piano, all joined in the singing of a “booster” song about the playgrounds. Other attractions of the afterncon tncluded an Indian duel, “a tire act,” Which consisted of rolling little Patsy Long rapidly over the grounds in an automobile tire. Patsy exhibited ac- Tobatlc skill in staying curled up in the tire. no matter how they turned it Donald Henshaw added to this performance by nimbly jumping for- Nard and backward over the tire while he was giving little Patsy his de. T'hen there were ' dances, ladder walking, strong men and most of the other things which go-to make up the Tepertoire of the modern-day circus. Among_the star performers were: Francis_Dye Julia Connelly, Maud Elliott, ars. | ‘Walter Mullen and many oth lhlgh scl side, Br. d it Elifott New Mexicc brees. the Hotel rroundi Three Rivers, into town, registered at Washington, gave the s nelghborhood a hurried up-and- nd then breezed right out i Lrant, who is ever on the lo big land deals down in tivers country, owns a fur inia also and 1t was to | hat he made the trip north Asked how things were yu ew Mexico, the tall athlete “Couldn’t be better. We've Iots of rain, and that's all in_that section—just rain Thinking how casily satisficd T Rivers folks must be, T shook the « stretched hand, and wished him m f 1 e t we wan ad hardly left the N my eves fell Ko r, local broker, lead brown-eyed lad up was never so pleased find it was Midshipmar Burroughs of the United St Academy, on of four sons Sherman’ Burroughs, represe from the first district of New shire and for a number of 3 retary to the much beloved Jacob M. Gallinger. Young Burroughs, a counterpart of his distinguished father, had just turned from a three-month cr foreign waters and was S(ODDing in Washington for a few days, prior to his departure for his home in Ma chester. Bronzed from his trip abroad, which took him to Copenhagen. Denmark Gothenberg, Sweden; Greenock, Scot- Cadiz, Spain; Glbraltar, and to Hampton Roads, where a target practice was held, the New Hampshire “middy” was enthus- iastic over his first cruise, and said he was counting the days until tho 4 academy re-opened ert, the oldest congrensman, 13 o graduate of Dart- mouth Collége, his father's alma - mater, John the second boy, spent two years at Dartmouth, two’at Le- Jand Stanford University and is now at the Yale Law School, while Henry, the baby of the family, is attending hool at home. XHE MIXEEq v Mex son of the late’