Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1924, Page 26

MAY EXHUME BODY OF SLAIN OFFICER Klan Funera]l in Hyattsville Yes- terday to Be Followed by Inquest Tonight. Special Dispateh to The Sta HYATTSVILLE, Md, June 2—An inquest into the killing of Allen M. Chase, special prohibition officer, In a: liquor raid near Tuxedo, May 22, will’ be held tonight, with the possibility that the body, buried yesterday under Ku Klux Klan auspices, will be ex- humed. Question has been raised as to the size of the bullet which killed Chase. 1f it was of .38-caliber the blame may be placed on Charles H. Berkley, missing alleged moonshiner. 1f a .45- caliber bullet Constable Andrew Gasch may be required to explain. Gasch and Berkley were shooting at each other at the still where the offi- cers had paid a surprise call, and Chese was in an intermediate 'posi- tiox- George Meyers, who was arrested on a roof following the fight, is held for questioning. Jury Is Empaneled. Tt was decided Friday that an inquest Wwenld be held, and Justice Hugh O'Neal, acting coroner, summoned a jury, but the jurors failed to make their identity kuown and were refused permission to | view the body, on instruction of State's | Attorney Alan Bowie. Later the state's aticrney and acting coroner conferred ard decided to hear witnesses in the Blaslensburg town hall tonight. It will be fben determined whether to exhume the body. Ahout 200 white-robed Ku Klux Klan rs attended the funeral of Chase, ring about his grave at Fort Lin- nmetery and holding the rites of der. Chase, who was twenty-six s said to have been a member an. Constable Gasch and Spe- Officers Charles W. Wilson and Headley Gasch were among the pall- bearers. Rev. Charles H. Cannon, pastor of the Hyattsville M. E. Church, con- ducted the religious services at Gasch's undertaking parlors. . ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 2 (Spe- cial).—Twenty-four school teaefvers for mext year will be elected at a 8chool board meeting Tuesday night. All of the eighty-seven teachers who made re-application, it is understood, have been elected. Many of the teachers who have served this year have either taken positions in other states or for some reason have declined to fill their posi- tions here another term. City licenses and automobile li- censes to the city are payable at the office of the city manager today, with the beginning of the new fiscal year. Mr. Hw has called upon all pay their city licenses. ty' Bintshed the past year in good shape financially. Much work toward the improvement of streets and public works generally has been done. The council at a meeting Thursday afternoon will decide def- initely if a grand jury is to be called in an effort to raise the assessment on tangible personal property. The revenue which would be obtained by an equitable and fair assessment val- uation, Mr. Rich declares, would re- lieve the financial situation greatly. School Examinations On. Final examinations were started this morning in all schools of the city. Final examination for the high school graduating class will end next Monday. It is believed that more than seventy will graduate from the high school. ‘The baccalaureate ser- mon will be preached in the First Baptist Church next Sunday evening by the pastor, Rev. P. L. Vernon. Class night exercises will be held Wednesday night of next week, and diplomas will be awarded at gradua- tion exercises in the auditorium of the Methodist Episcopal _ Church South, Friday night, June 13, Funeral services will be held at Marshall, Va., tomorrow, for John P. ‘Walker, seventy-eight vears old, who died late Saturday night at his home, 119 North Columbus street, survived by a widow and several children, Mrs. Virginia A. Yeatman, seventy- years old, died )'esterday at her home, 905 Prince street. Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. Rav. P. L. Vernon, pastor of the First Bap- tist Church, of which Mrs. Yeatman was a member for more than forty years, will conduct the services. Burial will be at The Plains, Va. Carroll Kent last night delivered an address at the Methodist Episco- pal Church South. Mr. Kent, local secretary of the Y. M. C. A, was on duty in Poland during the war and \is talk was based on personal ex- periences and observations. Knights Attend Services. Members of Old _Dominion Com- mandery, No. 11, Knights Templar, last night attended St. Paul's Epis- RECOGNITION BY CHINA BRINGS JOY TO MOSCOW | Red Newspapers Whack United States for Warning to Peking Government. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, June 2.—China's recog- nition of soviet Russia Is hailed with delight in the government organs. The United States comes in for a good whacking at the hands of the edi- torial writers for its “Insolent note of intervention,” this referring to the cautionary advice given to China against endangering the rights of the creditors and stock and bond holders of the Chinese Eastern rail- way. Tivestia says the American inter- vention was responsible for the awakening of the Chinese people, who now realize that Russia is the only power to which they can look for support of their national rights, Foreign Minister Tchitcherin, in a signed article in Pravda, takes the United States to task for its ‘“un- ceremonious and cynically harsh diplomacy, which attempted by means of coerclon and open pressure to pre- vent China signing the agreement.” IRONWORKERS ASK RAISE. Employers Willing to Accede to Some of Demands. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 2.— Representatives of the Western Sheet and Tinplate Manufacturers' Associa- tion and the Amalgamated Iron Workers' Union are in conference here on the question of wages. Employes in Pittsburgh and points west of Pittsburgh are seeking a new wage agreement providing for in- creases ranging from 10 to 30 per cent. About 30,000 men are affected. It is stated that the employers are willing to accede to some of the pro- posals. They heard a sermon on “Victory” by Rev. Percy Foster Hall, rector. Thomas Clancey, colored, was fined $100 by Acting Police Justice Aylett B. Nicol for wounding Joe Dudley with a knife. John L. Dodson <as held for ac- tion of the grand jur: *his morning, charged with violating *he prohibi- tion law. 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C., MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1924 ABYSSINIAN LAMENTS LOT AS “KING OF KINGS” Prince Regent Says Bealm Is Par- titioned Among Various Subordinates. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 2.—Ras Taffari, King of Kii of Abyssinia, or rather prince regent for his aunt since he himself is.heir to the throne, re- cently explained some of his govern- You will want two or three of tl'lese hats mental problems to a French states- man. “Although I am styled king of kings,” he said, “my position is some- what like that of the kings France until Henry IV dlmlnhhod the power of the great princes. My kingdom is various subordinate kings.” his was the reason why the prince, in order to enjoy his present visit to France with greater tran- quillity of mind, attached to his Suite several of his most turbulent kinglets so that he might have them under his eyes and prevent them from remaining at home where they might conspire or make trouble. partitioned among the’| The Abyssinian's bearing is really 7“ He carries himself like one of great Roman emperors. During Li running of the match race be- n Epinard and Sir Gallahad at St Cloud, which the Taffari party attended, some one in the prince’s entourage pointed out to him a stout, dark little gentleman who never misses a day’s racing in Paris. “There goes the Shah of Perela,” the alde said. ‘affari never even turned his head to look at the Persian ruler. s Of the people of Canada 2,500,000 are directly dependent on salaries and wages earned in factories. GIRL BANDIT ON TRIAL. | Stella Mackowska Calm in Face of Fight for Life. BUFFALO, N. Y., June 2.—The trial of Stella Mackowska, nineteen years old, of Painesville, Ohlo, for first de- gree murder, was opened today. The charge grows out of the death of Rufus Eller, a jewelry store clerk, shot in a hold-up in which the Bll’l took part on May 10. Frank Minnick, alleged to have fired the shot, has been convicted and is await- ing execution. George W. Bittle, alleged to have acted as look-out and against whom the girl was used as a state witness, is in all awalting trial. The jury in case disagreed last week. Th bobbad hnll‘a'\ girl bandit |howed little emotion when selection of the jury was started. - Pershing to Present Flag. Commencement exercises of the Na- tional Cathedral School for Girls will be held in Bethlehem Chapel tomor- H. |row morning at 10:30 o'clock. Flag day exercises at 00l will be heid this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Gen. 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