Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Occasional showers th and tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and somewhat warmer. ‘Temperature for twent: ended at 2 p.m. today: at 4 p.m. yesterday; lo 6 am. today. Full report is afternoon y-four hours Highest, : west, 46, at on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION tered as sec oftice Washington, No. 59027 & 20,231, n o Star. ¢ every city as fast as The Star’s “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers block and the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 95,234 Sunday’s Circulation, 102,715 orM-class matter D. WAS HINGTO D. C, 5 . LOST FLYERS, SAFE, Maj. Martin Tells Own Story Of Crash and Wanderifngrin Fog MONDAY, MAY 12, 1924 — THIRTY-TWOQO PAGES. POINGARE BEATEN, TWO CENTS. D.C. SURPLUS BILL -~ T0 LEAVE ALASKA AT ONCE FOR HOME World Flight Leader and Ser- geant Waiting at Fishing Vil- lage on Aleutian Coast. WANDERED OVER WEEK IN MOUNTAINOUS WASTE | Both Escaped Injury When Plane Crashed Into Side of Peak in Dense Fog. By the Associuted Press FALSE PASS, Alaska, Maj. Frederick L. flight commander, smashed against a n Alaska peninsula, Apri leave Port Moller, A for the United States. Word came here from Port Moller that Maj. Martin and Staff Sergt. Alva l.. Harvey, his mechanic, would be aboard the cannery tender Catherine D. of the Pacific American fisheries of Bellingham, Wash. The Catherine was to leave a cannery at Port Moller tomorrow for Puget Sound. May Martin, world whose plane was untain on the 1 30, intends to ka, tomorrow Safe at Port Moller. Associated Press. CORDOVA, Alaska, May 12.—Maj. Frederick L. Martin of the Army sbe encircling air squadron and his mechanie, Staff Sergt. Alva L. Harvey alive and well after having under- gone severe hardship during the ten days they were missing, today were | Moller, 100 -miles Alaska, on the instructions that will waiting at Port west of Chignik, Alaskan Peninsula for from Washington, D. C. determine their next step. The aviators were reseting in the quarters of the Pacific-American Fisheries Company at Port Moller and receiving the best of care. Meanwhile the coast guard cutter Alzonquin was speeding to their as- stance from Unalaska. Unless con- trary orders are received the Algon quin will take the two aviators back to Dutch Harbor. o additional i formation has been received here from Port Moller nee the message giving news of the arrival was broad- cast early vesterday morning. This m age stated that both escaped in- jury when their plane Seattle crash- ed into a mountain peak and was wrecked s 12:30 o'clock the after- noon of April 30, an hour and a half After they left Chignik bound for Dutc arbor to rejoin the air squadron. Wait for Next Jump. M ter: ing their way over frozen wa- with the greatest difficulty, sub- sisting on the condenscd ratioas they carried, the two fiyers finally reached, on May 7, a trapper's cabin at the most southerly point of Port Moller Bay. Exhaus their long tramp, they remained at this cabin three days, recovering their strength, and then walked along the beach to Port Moller, where they flashed to rid the news that they were No word had been from Attu Is- jand. where the rest of the air squad- ron is awaiting favorable weather for a hop-off across Bering Sea to Varamashiru Jsland, in _the Kurile the north end of the Japanese em- pire. In that jump the aviators will cover a distance of S78 miles, the longest in the 27-000-mile circuit of the earth on the fiyers’ schedule. received early Ends Long Search. The discovery of Maj. Martin's loca- | tion has ended an intensive search by every agency at the command of the government. Two United States coast guard cutters, the Algonquin and Haida, plowed through turbulent, #ale-lashed waters of the North Pa- vific day and night in search of the two aviators Every bay and inlet was carefully combed. small boats being dispatched from the cutters in hodies of shallow water where it was thought the men | might be concealed behind small jet- ties of land. AL night the search- lights of the vessels swept the shore Jine. The United States bureau of tisheries vessel Eider also aided in the hunt, together with numerous cannery boats located within the 100-mile stretch between Chignik and Dutch Harbor. On receiving information from a trapper on Lake Chignik, twenty-five miles north of Chignik, that he was Imost certain” he saw Maj. Martin, ng 400 feet above the frozen wa- a half an hour after leaving the «ct_scheduled point on the Alaska peninsula in the direction of the Bering Sea, the cutter Algonquin rushed to Dutch Harbor to refuel and started patrolling the Bering sea- coast line until she was stopped by ce floes, many miles southwest of the Bristol Bay district. Many Dog Teams Used. Numerous dog teams were sent over the frozen ice and snow in an effort 1o locate the men on the Alaska pen- ula. All of them returned with- st an encouraging word. Some of the yelay sleghs reported they had met other searching parties sent from boats on the north Pacific coast. None of the searchers, however, had any definite clue of the whereabouts of Maj. Martin. Meanwhile preparations were be- ing rushed at Seattle to send an air- pane aboard the United States coast lzuard cutter Bear to Chignik, which Vs to be made the base of an aerial expedition. An airplane of the ss JN-6 type was dismantled at Sand Point aviation field, northeast of Seattle, and crated for shipment. j.ieut. Earl H. Tonkin, assistant air officer of the 9th Army area, who was 70 pilot the plane in Alaska, and Tech- \eal Sergt lIvan C. Cooper made a J'ecord-breaking one-day flight yester- Jay from San Francisco to Seattle. }inal plans and maps were given to {he men by Lieut. T. J. Koenig, com- mandant at Sand Point. Hootloo Attended Tri) From the time the air cruiser Seattle was christened at Sand Point, to- cether with the other planes, the Chi- go, New Orleans and Boston, and presented with a floral horseshoe as a (ribute of appreciation, a hoodoo ap- parently attached itself to Maj. Mar- tin’s plane. On_Fridav. April -4, the date set s the scheduled hop-off from Seattle Prince Rupert, British _Columbia, Flyers Unhurt, But Plane Ruined by Striking Side of Mountain. Men Grope About Blind- ‘ ly, Cold, Hungry. W eal: ! and Lost. BY F. U. RUDOLPH AMUNDSEN. Special Dispatch to The North American Newspa PORT MOLLER, May 12 By wireless via Cordova Bremer- | ton, Wash.).—Maj. Frederick L. Martin |and Sergt. Alva 1. Harvey arrived at 6 o'clock last night at Port Moller, one of the Pacific American fisheries | stations. Both were in good physical ‘r\mdi ion despite their hazardous | Star_und the Alliance trip, which Maj. Martin himself de- seribed to me as follow “We left Chignik at | the morning of Aprit intending { to make the portage back of Chignik. We had been flying only a little over an hour when encountered a | heavy fog. At 12:30 p.m. ashed | full against the side of a mountain. “The ship was a total wreck, but | neither Harvey ror myself was hurt. | | “The fog covered everything and | it was impossible to We at-| | tempted to reach the Pacific shore |line by guiding ourselves with a | compass, but the snow and fog were | s0 blinding it was impossible to keep | our direction | We would walk a few feet and | 11 o'clock on we we o 'MARTIN TO REIOIN FLIGHT ON LAST LEG| | Will Be Accorded Honor of Leading ! Comrades on Homeward | | Journey. | ORDERED TO0 WASHINGTON | Major to Be Sent From Here to Meet Others. | | Maj Frederick L. Martin, com- ander of the Arm pilots now | fiving around the world, and his me- chanic, Staff Sergt. Alva L. Harvey, | who were located vesterday at Port | Moller, Aleutian Islands, have been { ordered back to Washington and will | be sent from here to meet the other | three planes at the fartherest con- | venient point in the cast, and will lead the expedition back to the | United States. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief/ of the Army air service, today sent | Maj. Martin this word in a telegram. | |He stated that it was too late for |him to overtake the other fliers, but | that the honor of commanding’ tife group on the homeward jotirney would not be denied him. Maj. Martin and his mfechanic will use the Douglas worfd cruiser now at Langley Field, ¥a, which was the practice ship of the pilots when they | were in training there the first of | the year. | _In the meantime, the New Orleans, ! Boston and Chicago are preparing to | continue the flight under the com- | mand of Lieut. -Lowell H. senior officer, who will be | throughout the expedition as | commander. | Message From Patrick. | With the approval of Secretary | Weeks, Gen. Patrick today sent to| Maj. Martin a telegram outlining to him the plan and ordering him to| |return to Washington to make ready | for it. | “We rejoice,’ said the telegram, | |“and thank God you are both safe | and well. Confidence in you unaba ed. You have proved yourself. Still want you to command the flight. Can- not arrange for you to overtake others by going on west. You and Sergt. Harvey will report to me hero without delay. Plan to send you east to rejoin flight at the furthest con- venient point rrom which you can complete the journey with the rest of your command.” Martin on Way Here, His hopes and faith in circling the globe at the head of three other United States Army airplanes buried in the wreckage of the Seattle on a mountain side somewhere between Chignik and Port Moller, Maj. Martin informed the office of the chief of the | air service today that he was sailing | for Bremerton, Wash. tomorrow, from where he will proceed to this city. The personnel of the chief's office today were in a relaxed state, for the officers administering the flight from this end had been working night and day since April 30 to obtain in- formation as to the whereabouts of the airplane and its cargo. They now are taking a renewed interest in the flight which is being carried on by the three remaining ships, now at Attu, the westernmost point of the Aleutian group. This trio is sched- uled to hop across the Pacific to Japan at_the first favorable weather. ‘Maj. Gen. Patrick, who selected Maj. Martin to command the expedi- tion, was informed of the pilot's lo- cation about 8:30 o'clock yesterday morning. promptly thanked God. he said, “and was happy all the day.’ This was the message he received: “Port Moller, Alaska, May 10. Chiet of Army air service, Wash- ington. “Crashe 30th, 12:30. Smith, known | acting d against mountain in fog. Neither hurt, ship total wreck. “Existence to condensed food and nerve, Arrived trapper cabin, south- ermost point, Port Moller Bay, morn- ng th, Food found, rested three days. Walked beach. Awaiting in- structions here. (signed) MARTIN. Hour From Chignik. Maj. MArtin had flown about an | hour after leaving Chignik for Dutch Harbor, about 400 miles distance, and was skirting the shore of the island when he encountered a severe storm, in the opinion of air service officers hers familiar with that territory. They believe he headed for a bay and, cnveloped in a fos and flying low, the . mountain loomed up before he could avoid it. | “"An ordinary service plane crashing against a hillside, they emphasized, would have burst into flames, as the | tion | hotel early MAJ. FREDERICK L. MARTIN, e s SERGT. ALVA L. HARVEY, back with the compass only to dis- cover we had in that distance moved in the wrong direction. “Finally we retraced our steps in the snow to the ship and made our- selves as comfortable the (Continurd on Page 4, Column 6.) COUNT SALM LABELS MARITAL B Declares He Will Rejoin Former Millicent Rogers in U. S. After Davis Cup Tennis. short as FRIENDS STILL SKEPTICAL See Significance in Tearful Eyes of Bride on Ship. By the Assoriated Press PARIS, May 12 —Friends the dashing Count Salm von Hoogstrae ten are speculating as to the truth of the story that he and his new the former Millicent ers of New York, arc estranged. The countess and her father, Col. H. H. are homeward bound aboard steamship France, while the count is in Vienna, where. A& went after seeing his wife off at the sta- Talking with & correspondent after |nis arrivglrin Vienna, the count de- clared-the rumor of an estrangement had gone to Vienna to play in the tennis competition for the Davis cup. His young wife's tearful e how - ever, did not escape the observation of those who saw her as she boarded the liner at Havre, and friends of both sides declare that Col. Rogers desired his daughter 1o separate from her husband. Intimate fr count and countess declare she is in a condition which makes tson harder for her bear First Reports Incorrect. It was at first reported that the | count was accompanying his wife to the United States, standing ar| this misunder- ing when he left his in the morning to see the countess and her father off on the train for Havre. The hotel management was under the impres sion he had gone and was surprised when he returned just in time to t his bagwage and calch the te express for Vienna. The young wife, up to the time of leaving in the company of her father, insisted that her relations with her husband were of the friendliest na- ture. The count’s explanation of why he was not going to America with his wite, as expressed to an acquaintance who saw him off at the station, was that he was scheduled to play on the Austrian Davis _cup Switzerland on May 16, and he in- tended to participate later in the Olympic tennis bere. after which he intended to join his wife at the Rogers home in America. He ex- plained as the reason for her mot staying abroad throughout the sum- mer that her physical condition made it inadvisable for her to take trying trips during the tennis season. Father-in-Law Now “Charmed.” Count Salm admitted that the atti- or been rather distant and cold at first, but that recently his relations with his parents-in-law were most cordial, adding that his father-in-law now seemed “charmed.” Count Salm is described by those who know him well as anxious to resume in the tennis world the po- sition he occupied previous to the war, when he was one of the best players in Europe and a prominent figure in the Riviera tournaments and the Davis cup matches. He was in Pittsburgh in_the Davis cup semi finals in July, 1914, when the war was declared. The tearful as she boarded eyes of the countess the transatlantic cape the observation of those who saw her depart, and friends of both sides today averred that Col. Rogers was desirous that his daughter should separate from her husband. His hope was, it was further stated, that the countess’ absence in America while the count was in Austria would faver his suggestion that an arrangement could be reached whereby his daugh- ter could have her American citizen- ship restored, either through a per- manent separation or by other means. But up to the present no such agree- ment has been reached. g JANITOR GETS FORTUNE. Sixteen-Dollar-a-Week Man Inher- its $50,000 From Brother. NEW YORK, May 12.—Ralph Evans, sixty years old, who has been sweep- ing hallways in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the last five years at $16 a week, quit his job today when a lawyer told him that a brother, who recently died in England, had left him_ $50.000. Evans said he would enjoy several weeks In a suite of rooms in the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) hotel in which he has collected dust for so many years, zero | REAK BUNK| Rog- | te"be “buncombe,” and added that he | nds of the | the sepra- | team against | tude of Col. Rogers toward him had | liner at Havre yesterday did not es- | * RADICALS REGAIN POWER IN FRANCE Premier- and President to Retire After Violent Elec- tion Swing to Left. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY CHANGE VOTED ‘Rcsult of Vote Seen as Decree for | New Deal—War Heroes Defeated. By the Assoclated Press PARIS, May turns compiled today show that France in yesterday's | | elections decided on a considerable | change in domestic policies, and on at | important modifications in the | method of handling her foreign affairs. Premier Poincare's majority in Chamber of Deputies s swept away in a violent swing of the political pendu- lum toward the left, and the bloc na- | tional, which formed the nucleus of that | majority, was reduced to second rank | in the Darty gToups. | Official figures, with sixteen districts | sing, show the Chamber divided u[ Nearly complete At official headquarters re- least Opposition, 341 : Poincare parties, opposition majority, 114. The government claims that forty | nine cut of the 156 radicals elected sident and will vote with th gove ent in matters of foreign policy. | Even If this is correct, however, the government will still remain in the minority. Radical The Radical party of former Pre- mier Cafllaux and Edouard Herriot, | which was defeated by the Bloc Na- | tional four vears ago. again becomes the ctrongest group in the chamber, | with 1% votes, while the Socialists | whose greatest'strength in preceding years was 101, in 1914, will number 111 in the new chamber. The Communists will have at least | twenty-four seats, making the com- | plete strength of the extreme left of the chamber 135. Again in Power. Millerand Involved. Persons close to the premier say thers is no doubt that his fastidious | loyalty to traditional constitutiopal procedure will lead him to retire. Odinarily the president of the fe- public would ask thp premier 1o re-| main in power ustfl thermew cham- | ber showed -what < desi were, | but President” Millerand 1s involved in_themfisaster to the National bloc. | “The president, it is predicted, will | Make good his threat to resign if the | National bloc were defeated. He | cannot do so, however, until the |chamber is organized and the new government installed. | 5oL T expected the pr -edure will { be the appearance of M. Poincare at| the head of his government before the chamber with the announcement of his retirement in order to permit | the newly elected house to supply the country with a new government. President Millerand then, after con- | sulting the new president-elect of the hamber und the president of the| Senate, would call on some leader | '14TH ST. EXTENSION BILL BEFORE HOUSE Strong Opposition to Proposal De- velops in Two Hours Al- lotted to Debate. The bill, which has already passed | the Senate, providing for extension | of 14th street north through the Wal- ter Reed Hospital grounds is under cousideration in the House this aft- ernoon, with two hours given over to general debate. Strong opposition, led by Acting | Chairman McKenzie of the military affairs committee and Representative | | Hull of Towa, has developed. 2epresentative Fred N. Zihlman of Maryland, in charge of the bill, told the House that it carries the support of the War Department, of the Dis- trict Commissioners, of the bureau of public works and was unanimously reported from the House District committee. He emphasized the need for a new entrance to the National Capital from the north to relieve traffic congestion on 16th and 14th streets, and to open up very desirable suburban territory for housing. Representative Frederick W. Dal- linger, Republican, Massachusetts, oke 'in opposition to the bill, advo- ating that the street cars should circle around the hospital property. Representative Hull of Jowa said that this bill never ought to have come before Congress at this time and that he hoped it would be so de- cisively defeated that it never would come up again. Representative Hull said he couldn’t understand what in- fluence had persuaded the Secretary of War to change his mind and in- dorse this ~legislation. During a lengthy and vigorous speech Repre- :ntative Hull said that if this meas- ure goes through the real estate men will ask that Walter Reed Hospital be moved to a better site and will plit_up the present property for building_sites. They will then, he said, sell the government a new lo- cation for the hospital. Representative Johnson. of South Dakota interjected with the remark that this bill is “preposterous.” Sees Capital Traction Al Representative Garrett, Democrat of Texas said that the only purpose of the bill is to save the Capital Traction Company $60,000 that it would have to spend in running its tracks around the Walter Reed Hos- pital property. y Representative McKenzie of Illi- nois declared that Gen. Ireland, “our splendid surgeon general, may have had his tongue silenced, but I know that in his heart he does not favor this intrusion of street car noise and traffic danger upon the hospital grounds, which should be kept quiet and safe.” Representative John Philip Hill, Re- publican, of Maryland, spoke in favor of the bill. Representative Summers of Washington opposed the bill. Representative _ Linthicum, Demo- crat, of Maryland, spoke strongly in favor of the proposed extension and put. into the record correspondence showing that it is_‘“absolutely in- dorsed by the War Department.” He also impressed upon the House that this_extension is needed to wrelieve trafic on the north main arteries. | and is preparing to resist | we SCORES FLEE HOMES IN RETURN OF FLOOD Maryland, West Virginia Shenandeah Valley Areas Suffer Damage. .// Automobiles Tied Upwby High Water on uirgxqm Roads. Special Bispateh 6 The Star - CUMBERLAND, Md, May Cumbefland is again flooded, the re- SHlt of heavy rains, which have been almost incessant since Saturday aft- ernoon Mechanic street is again «u torrent due to the overflowing of Wills Creek which passes through the heart the city. and empties into the Potomac here. The water is still rising and merchants on this thoroughfare, Bal- timore, Liberty and Pershing streets are moving their stocks from the first floors. Many had their stocks ruined by the sudden flood of March 20. After last midnight many in the sections visited by the last flood began to move. The water is rushing down Mechanic street in front of the Ky ning Times office at a depth of about | eighteen inches. Much debris is being the streets. It ached six feet or more on Mechanic street on March 29. The wa rising in the street cannot be foretold. The Fort Cumber- land Hotel, which lost about as the result of the last flood. being rapidl surrounded come is again Ly water if possible, its previous experience. Homes Being Vacated. People in the low sections city abutting on the Potomac River and in Ridgely, W. Va.. opposite the ity, which was hard hit in March, are again moving out, although the flood has not reached the menacing proportions of the last. Piedmont, W. Va., and Western Port and Luke, Md., the latter being the seat of the great Luke plant, which was hard hit in March, are again flooded. The temporary bridge erected between I'iedmont tern Port, to take the place of the interstate iron structure over the Potomac carried out by the arch flood, was swept away about 3 o'clock this morning. It cost about $10,000. Several streets in Keyser, W. Va,, are flooded. The Salvation Army in Cumberland has thrown open its citadel on North Mechanic Street, where all who ap- ply may have food and heat and the of the | free use of beds and blankets. At many points east of here the national _highway is covered with water. Motorists coming in from the east this morning had to rum through watar east of Hancock and west of Sideling Hill. The water was touching the bottoms of a number of bridges At Hancock the water was reaching the homes of a number of residents in the west end due to the backing up of Tonoloway Creek by the Potomac River. The flood has again cut the natural gas supply in the Piedmont and Westernport districts. The Baltimore and Ohio and Western Maryland railroads are experiencing much trouble in the ‘flooded Potomac Valley between Cumberland and Key- ser, W. Va., twenty-two miles west of here. Railroad traffic is still open to points east of here. Body Found in River. The body of an unidentified white man, found in the Potomac River at Sir John’'s Run, about fifty miles east of here, yesterday, is believed to be that of a victim of the last flood. Charles Smith, cighteen years old, Windom, W. Va, on the Western Maryland railway, was an indirect victim of the flood. He was on duty with his uncle watching for land slides and washouts due to the heavy rain when he was killed by a train. The track parellels the Potomac at that point. 7 The Baltimore and Ohio reports a 100-ton landslide over two eastbound tracks at Sir John's Run and a land- slide at Strickers, on the seventeen- mile grade, west of Piedmont. There is also a landslide over the eastbound tracks, one mile west of. Piedmont and a small landslide at Cedar CIiff. Patterson's Creek is twenty feet above normal, but it is eight feet below the last flood. Announcement was made here to- day at the Red Cross that the local Red Cross at Cumberland was well supplied with funds and other neces- sities to take care of any who might suffer from the flood. It was ex- plained that funds had been left over from the previous flood. DAMAGE IN WEST VIRGINIA. Bridges, Autos and Farm Machin- ery Amid Flood Wreckage. Special Dispatch to The Sta MARTINSBURG, W. Va, May 12— Bridges over small streams at Ger- rardstown, Johnsontown and mnear Inwood have been swept away by the {Continued on Page 9, Column 2. and | | MiLLING {John Br; [SMALL BRIDGES GO DOWNiwnin | The | worker, $30,000 | paper | and | BALKY PERFORMERS. lFIVE IN FAMILY DIE, | TWO ESCAPE FLAMES | Mother and Four Children Burp,#6 1 Death—Father and Sons Badly Hurt.” B (e Associated Poest - ST, Me., May 12 —Mrs n and four of her six chil- dreni” were burned to death in a fire destroyed their home today. father, John Bragan, a mill- and two sons jumped from upper windows. They were taken to a hospital, where it was said two of them probably would die. The family lived in a four-room house and the walls of the rooms were sheathed with Wrapping paper. The survivors were in too serious a condition to be questioned, but so far puld be learned Bragan used ie to start the kitchen fire and a flash of flame ignited the paper on the wall. In a moment the entire house was ablaze. Ihe youngest of three vears old 'ORATORICAL FINALS | WILL END TOMORROW Be the victims was Grand Prize Winner Will Named by Judges Officiating in Star's Contest. | | TWO0 JUDGINGS HELD TODAY | Victor Will Represent District in National Competition. Three high school orators, appear- ing before the judges tomorrow after- noon, will bring the finals in The Star's oratorical contest to a close, after which the grand prize winner will be selected | Today and tomorrow are packed with action, as two orators are heard this afternoon, after which the last three will appear tomorrow, three having been heard last week The local grand winner will repre- sent the District of Columbia in the national oratorical contest to be held June 6 at Memorial Continental Hall, with President Coolidge presiding. The subject of local and national con- tests is the Constitution. At Eastern High Scheol. uth Greenwood will be heard to- morrow afternoon at 3:45 o'clock at the Eastern High School, the judges being taken from the courthouse in an automobile of The Star. The board of judges consists of the Justices Siddons, McCoy and Robb. Ruth Craven will deliver her ora- tion at 4:15 o'clock tomorrow at the Holy Cross Academy, to which the judges will proceed immediately after the hearing at the Iastern High School. | Leaving the Holy Cross Academy, the judges will go to the Western liigh School, there to hear, ut 4:45 |o'clock tomorrow afternoon, that |school's chosen orator, Dorothy B. ‘.'nmh | Ruth Greenwood a Junier. Ruth Greenwood, a junior at the | Eastern High School, is the daughter |of Representative and Mrs. Arthur H. Greenwood of Washington, Ind. Their home, while in Washington, the National Capital, is at 601 l4th street northeast. Miss Greenwood was born in Davies County, In2., December 15, 1907. She has had a rather wide experiénce in public speaking for one of her age. One year ago she won the gold medal in dramatic reading in the South Cen- tral Association of High Schools in southern Indiana. Since coming to Washington she has taken part in plays and dramatic efforts at Eastern. The title of her oration is “The Con- stitution,” and the address deals with the structure, adjustment of sover- eignty and eficiency of the parts of the national charter. To Miss Greenwood, as to each of the other eight local contestants, has gone The Star's check for $100, as winner in her district of the local zone. Senior at Holy Cross. Ruth Mary Craven is a senior at the Holy Cross Academy. She was born May 8, 1905, and is the daughter of John F. and Dela Niland Craven, 811 18th street northwest. She received her early education at St. Patrick's Academy. Miss Craven is treasurer of Washington Catholic _Students’ sion Crusade, by whom she wa ed last summer to at (Continued on Pag: a1 GUARDS “DUMMY,” ~PRISONER ESCAPE Wounded Burglary Suspect Flees Hospital While Policeman Watches Blankets. NURSE DISCOVERS TRICK Another Patient, Under Observa- tion, Also Gets Away. While a nodding policeman sat guarding a dummy prisoner that had been artfully arranged to deceive him, David Massey, colored, wanted the law for housebreaking, made £00d his escape from Gallinger Me- morial Hospital early today, and took with him another inmate, who had been under observation Massey was admitted to the hospi- April 21, suffering from & gun- shot wound, the police say he receiv- ed while attempting to burglarize a house on Buchanan street the night before. He had been under close guard since entering the hospital, and would have been turned over to the authorities in a few day. The prisoner had been placed in a general ward with a number of other Patients, among whom was Prentiss Owens, sent to Gallinger Memorial Hos- pital from the city jail to be kept under observation. Owens and Massey became close friends, and had secretly deter- mined to make their escape Fixed Dummy fn Bed. For Owens the task was simplified Massey, however, had his vigilant blue- coat guard to outwit. The opportunity came last night. Watching his oppor- tunity, he quietly lifted the blankets from half a dozen other beds, rolled them up in his own cot and quickiy arranged the covers to make it appear that he was sleeping. Taking his own position beneath another bed, the negro waited until the policeman stepped to the opposite end of the ward and then slipped down to Owens’ bed. Quickly the two | crawled to the nearest window. It was only a few feet from the ground and they silently dropped to freedom, garbed onl; their pajamus and blanket apiece. Nurse Discove: When the policeman glanced again 4t the bed he saw what he thought Massey. It was about 5 o'clock in the morning that Miss Nance, the night nurse, reached Massey's bed on her final rounds before going off dut and found the roll of blankets quiet- Iy occupying the place where the prisoner should have lain It was pointed out by the Lospitul authorities today that they are in nowise to blame for either escape. Their duty, it was stated, is to cure the patients. The task of guarding them is up to the police department A general alarm has been sent out for the men and it is thought that one or both will be captured before night. Massey's home Is at 1010 _6th street northwest and strict watch is being kept for him there. Owens had been committed to jail in default of bond awaiting trial on a charge of grand larceny. was o MAGAZINE PUBLISHER DIES. CHICAGO, May 12.—Henry Haven ‘Windsor, for more than twenty years editor and_ publisher of Popular Mechanics, died suddenly at his home in Evanston yesterday. He was born in Iowa in 1859. !! AT LAST! | Real Story of How Czar's Family Died. Much has been written of the last tragic hours of the family of the czar of all the Russias, brutally slain by bol- shevik soldiers. Much of this has been half fact. Now F. A. MacKenzie, cor- respondent of The Star and Chicago Daily News in Russia, after extensive investigation, has given the world the real story. It starts in THE EVE- NING STAR tomorrow after- noon APPROVAL IN HOUSE - COMMITTEE LIKELY Approval of Phipps Measure Giving District $4,500,000 Believed Assured. AFTER HOT DISCUSSION Accused by Kunz of Declaring He Would Oppose Report Before Hearing Testimony. ong indica nittee of n the that the specia House DI committee which is investigating the | auestion of the approximately ‘ton | and one-half million dollars surplus belonging to the District of Columuia in the federal Treafur Wie Phi making ailable for the District L€ommittee will promptl thie bill favorably to the H evident e hearings ay before committee ot Danie! J. Donova the investigation ions between the Distric will favorably on provides for the su Auditor s followed period covered d Representative Colorado, a mem- 2 < the enti by the Phipps bill Hard epublican, be he joint committee wh investigated the question of surplus and on whose rep he Phipps bill is based, mad positively de. exists and pality tepresentative Democrat, Texas, the District commi investigation by a subcommitt authorized, and who is a_member o the subcommittee, left the hearing in u huff, declaring that he would minority report. Hits Blanton Stand. | Representative Stanley Democrat, of Illinois, e Representative Blantor ing the investigation, had gone o |record as intending to make a minor |ity report before he had heard any te: | timony or had any idea whether th committee would report in favor against the m ure und considers | tion. Representative Bl " hearing by an att: the United State mentioned by to put in the rec brepa B ment covering the real estate hold |ings and taxes paid by that mar an indication that such property ings influenced his legislative actior the matter under consider: Strenuous objec: the other three members of mittee who were present, Represe tive Beers, Republican, of Penn vania, pre g: Represcntative Kur Democrat, Illinois. and Representat Lampert, Republican Wiscons | Representative Stalker, the oth | member of the subcommittee, was | present | _These other members argued tF Representative Blanton's statemen was irrelevant and questioned integrity of a legislator Bianton Presents Argument. No man is fit to be a United Stat: < senator or member of Congress cannot come here and do his sworn | quty without being biased by his | own property ownings,” Representi tive Beers declared, and he asked | Representative Bianton he mean | to_imply that he himself would © influenced by his own property ow ings in matters of legislation. { . Representative Blanton started 1o | the committee, declaring tha had much evidence he wished 1 | give. but would cover it in a minorit report Representatives Beers and Kunz, who had made the point o order against Representative Blan | ton’s attack. which had heen sus tained by Mr. Beers, presiding. bot} assured Mr. Blanton that they want ed all the evidenc that theyv could get. Representative Blanton resumed his seat on being allowed to pu part of his statement into the record without mentioning by name th property owner to whom he referred Representative Blanton then at length from the Congres: Record to show the broad scope the investigation ordered by gress on the fiscal relations and su { Plus and on which the joint spe committee of the House and the Ser ate reported. He also quoted from the minority report of Representative | R. II. Evans of Nebraska, contending that while the committee was direct to cover the fiscal relations sinc: | July 1, 1874, it had in reality on! covered them since from 1911 to 19 member | Lampert Opposes Blanton. | Representative Lampert interrup ed with comment that he did think it was fair for Representative Blanton to take up all the time | the committee. Whereupon, Repre | sentative Blanton gathered up hi- books and papers and withdrew from the meeting. Maj. Donovan was then testify. He made it plain that the existence of approximately four and a half million dollar surplus has been established by the report of the spe cial joint committee, headed by Sena Phipps, on which a favorable repor was made, signed by five out of the six members; by the approval of the controller general; by the books of the Treasury Department and by the books of the auditor's department of the District of Columblia. He made it clear that he spoke fo the municipal officers of the District of Columbia in assuring the com- mittee that this was a real debt owed to the District after the District had paid up all obligations to the United States government that could he found oustanding Surplus Started in 1916, no © invited 1o Donovan emphasized that 1 special joint committee, as required by law, had employed expert ac- countants not residents of the Dis- trict, so provided that there would be no question of the status of the find ings, that there is an accumulated fund belonging to the District of $4,438,154.92. This surplus revenus began to accumulate in the year 1916. Maj. Donovan made plain how this surplus was piled up not from uny appropriation made by Congress. some members of Congress have m understood, but from taxes paid from prooer ige o, Column Ma)