Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1924, Page 13

PRESIDENT \COOLIDGE PRESENTS DIPLOMAS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY. Gov. William S. Flyon of Rhode Island receiving his honorary degree of doctor of laws, the only honorary degree conferred b; The President’s address urged loyalty upon the university classes. BARN FILLED WITH TOBAC! of Owings, Md., after Sunday at $3,000. WITH THE COOLIDGE FORCES AT REPUBLICAN ATIONAL CO NVENTION. 0 1S DESTROYED BY STORM. The remains of the barn of Harry P. Owings storm. The barn was filled with drying tobacco, and the damage is estimated Many other buildings in the same neighborhood were destroyed. Washington Star Photo. y Georgetown University at the 125th commencement exercises yesterday. ionsl Photo. West Point’s honor man of the 1924 graduating class, Cadet Wallace Ha tings of San Francisco. Phe gradua- tion exercises take place Thursday afternoon. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Dr. and Mrs, Marion Leroy Burton and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stearns of Boston arriving in Cleveland. Dr. Burton, president of the University of Michigan, will make the speech nominating President Coolidge. Mr. Stearns was one of the original “Coolidge men,” and he often is a guest, with Mrs. Stearns, at the White House. ‘HIGH COURT DEFINES ‘ILLLEGAL PICKETING’ Declares Intimidation Used to Pre- vent Production Not Restraint of Interstate Commerce. * | TMegal picketing and intimidation ;@sed in a strike of employes against manufacturers to prevent production does not constitute restraint of in- ©f the United States hela + | The opinion was delivered by Justice Taft, answering an appeal | brought by the United Leather Work- ers’ International Union, Local Union | No. 66, and others to have set aside | an adverse decision by the federal | district court at St. Louis in | brought by the Herkert & Meisel| Truck Company. Referring to the | position it had taken in the Coronado ! coal case, in which it held t a strike aimed to prevent shipment of | per cent of the output of mines | which would have entered interstate | commerce had it been mined did not | constitute a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, Chief Justice Taft sa the lower federal courts had followed the wrong line of decisions in reach- ing conclusions Cases relied upon b the lower ourts, he said, cannot “properly be said to suppert the argument that | mere intentional outting down of manufacture or production is a di- rect restraint of commerce in the product intended to be shipped when ready. The fact stated is that the act. complained of were an indirect bur. den, and indirect restraint did not | uffice, the court said, to mdke them | a restraint of interstate commerce. | ‘The mere diminution of interstate commerce by the illegal-or tortuous prevention of manufacture, ief Justice Taft stated, “is an indirect or remote obstruction to that com- merce. It is only when the intent or Ythe necessary effect upon Such com- merce in the article is to enable those who intentionally diminish its , product to monopolize its supply or control its price of discriminate as between its would-be purchasers that such unlawful distribution of its manufacture can be said directly to burden interstate commerce.” Justices McKenna, Van Devanter and. Butler dissented. POOR WHEAT CROP SEEN. 93,000,000 Bushéls Under Last Year Forecast From Jume 1. Ninety-three million bushels less wheat than last year is forecast from June 1 conditions by the Department | of Agriculture. Winter wheat pros- | pects dropped off 44,000,000 bushels ince May 1, due to cold Wweather, in- ects and disease. Smaller crops than last year of oats, barley and rye were forecast. A humper peach crop is expected, re- ports being good from the south and east, as well as California, Colorado and 'Utah. . The crop s in poor con- dit the north cemtral states. a case | o'clock. + BAND CONCERTS. At Walter Reed General Hos- pital, at 6.30 p.m., by the United States Marine Band, William H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Bran- son, second leader. Program: March, “The Messenger,” Overture, “Poet and Peasant,” (a) “Meditation" (b) “Orientale’ . Scenes from “Elleen’ Descriptive fantasi: Jubilec in the Alp: Waltz, “Jolly Fellows".Vollstedt “Evolution of Dixie”.. ....Lake “The Star Spangled Banner.” At reservation 313-A. South Dakota avenue. 26th and Irving streets northeast. 7:30 p.m.. by the United Statés Navy Band Charles Benter, director. Pro- gram: Brazilian march, “A Cansao di Soldodo.” Overture, Morceau, Zampa®. ... “Panamericana Herbert Mé Back to Old ievene.....Blagd Grand from the opera, 'n Ballo In Mascher: Suite, * (a) (c) “Venetian Love Song, (d) “Good Night.” “Humoreske Excerpts comedy, Herold ....Dvorak the musical The Fortune Teller." Herbert Vilse, “Mile. Modiste”. .. Herbert Popular, selected. Finale, “Star Spangled Banner.” MRS. MARY E. PEAK DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER | Resident of Washington for Sixty- Five Years—Was Active in Catholic Church. nine years old, widow of John A. Peak and a resident of this city for the last sixty-fiye years, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. James F. Harvey, 1011 Q street, Sunday. k_for many years was prominently ideptified with the Ca- tholic Church. She was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. Be- sides her daughter, Mrs. Harvey, she is survived by two sons, John R. Peak angnhouis R Peak. neral services will be conducted at the Church of the Immaculate Con- ception - tomorrow morning at 9 Interment will be in Mount Olivet cemetery. oI sy PLAN CLASS EXERCISES. Tech Program to Be Held Saturday at Central. Class night exercises of the gradu- ating class of the McKinley Manual Training_School will be held in the jCentral High School auditorium Sat- urday night at 8 o'clock. Alumni and friends of the school have been invited to attend. McKinley’s commencement exercises will be held in the Central anditorium Tuesdxy might at 8 o'clock. Diplomas will be presented to 168 graguates. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Peak, eighty- | U. S. NOW TO ENFORCE 12-MILE LIMIT PACT Recently Ratified Liquor Treaty ‘With Great Britain Is De- clared in Operation. The United States now stands ready to enforce provisions of the recently ratified liguor treaty with Great Brit- ain, extending search and seizure of illegal liquors to about twelve miles, and allowing entrance into American Ports of sealed liquors aboard British ships. Under regulations promulgated yes- terday by the Treasury, British ves- sele are required to afford proper pro- tection for any liquor stocks—me- dicinal, sea stores or cargo—they may carry and hold the master of the ves- sel responsible for observarce of the provision: Federal agents are instructed to seize liquor stores if there is evidence that the ships’ officers have failed to store and seal the liquor properly. American customs and - prohibition officers are ordered to see that none of the liquor stocks brought into “are unladen, sold, disposed of or used | while such vessel is within such wa- ters” except in cases where medici- | mal liguor permits have been granted |U.'S. FIRMS FAVORED { IN LEVIATHAN SUPPLIES fitting Ships, All But $171,000 Spent in America. Preference has been given to Amer- ican firms in purchase of supplies for outfitting the Leviathan in every case, | with the single exception of a sub- jcontract for linens, which was let by Gimbel Brothers of New York, the contractors, to a firm in Ireland, the Shipping Board declared yesterday. Out of a total of $8,000,000 spent on reconditioning and 'refitting the giant liner, but $171,000 was spent outside of 'the United States, this amount going to the Irish firm which manufactured the linen under con- tract from Gimbel Brothers. A state- ment by the board yesterday made these figures public in reply to pub- lished statenfents that many of the supplies for the Leviathan were bought in foreign countries. i —_— Convict Thought on Way Here. Local police have been asked to ar- rest R. W. Weaver, twenty-one, {thought to be on his way here from Raleigh, N. C., where he .is-taported to have escaped from a penal institu- tion. A reward of $250 has been of- fered for his capture. The police were told that he probably is accom- panied by Myrtle Weaver, his wife, & gmall brunstte They are driving & high-powered car, the North Carolina authorities reported, American waters under treaty rights | Ont of $8,000,000 Spent in Out- Copyright by P. & A. Photos. TRAFFIC COURT EXACTS FINES TOTALING $905 Convicts Ten of Driving While In- toxicated—Three on Reckless Driving Counts. During the week ending yesterday ten defendants charged with operat- ing their automobiles while drunk were convicted in the Traffic Court. Three defendants charged with reck- less driving also were convicted in that court. Those paying fines for driving while drunk were: William A. Tomlinson, $75: Samuel Laws, $90; Har terly. $8 Coogan. Everett Je , H $100; William J. Charles Diggs, $50. The reckless |driving cases were: Welford McGee, 50; William F. Dement, $50, and Al- ;;garm Snidad, $40. These fines total {DANISH PRINCE TO TAKE AMERICAN BRIDE TODAY Bishop Manmning to Officiate at -Ceremony Between Margaret Green and Noble. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 10.—This is the |wedding day of Miss. Margaret | Bleanor Green, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. James O. Green, to H. R. H. Prince Viggo Christian Adolph Georg of Denmark. By the marriage Miss Green will become her highness Princess Viggo of Denmark, Countess of Rosenborg. | The prince renounces his right to suc- cession to the Danish throme, inas- much as his bride is not of roval blood, thus conforming with the cus tom of the Danish court. The ceremony will be performed by Bishop William T. Manning, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Theodore Sedgwick. The historic dark green and yellow coach, built thirty-three years ago by the iate Abram S. Hewitt, omce mayor of New York, will béar the couple to and from the church. A re- iception will be held in the home of |the bride's aunts, the Misses Hewitt. Seated in one of the front pews of the church will be a group of old re- tainers of the fle“'!lt household. PLANS INDIAN HOSPITALS Indian wards of the government in Minnesota and Oklahoma are to be given new facilities for treatment of their sick. A tuberculosis sanatorium located at Onigum, Minn., and a gen- eral hospital at Shawnee, Okla., are to be opened up mext month. In both | cases the bureau of Indian affgirs has arranged to use the site and build- ings for former Indian boarding school?, remodeling them for hospital torium in Minnesota will make five Indian service hospitals in the state. Indians of the Shawnee jurisdiction, for whom the Oklahoma hospital is under construction, have never had adequate medical services, but under the plans for the structure, will have & 180-bed Bospital ready next month. # TRhRY PHMORMT, P PHER T CHESAPEAKE BEACH PIER MISSING AFTER THE STORM OF SUNDAY. Photograph taken yesterday, showing part of the resort’s pier gone. The missing section connected the Boardwalk with the “crab pav the water were damaged by the high wind. Princess David Kawananakoa of Ha- waii arriving at Cleveland. She a delegate from her island to the Re- publican national’ convention. By United News Pletures. The new premier of Japan, Visconnt Kato. He succeeded Premier Ki- youra, resigned. The announcement of the new premier’s selection came through news dispatches yesterday. By United News Pictures. MELLON INVITED TO DAUGHERTY HEARING Officials of Department of Justice Also Summoned Before Com- mittee Monday. Secretary Mellon. and officials of the Department of Justice have been invited to appear before the Senate Daugherty committee next Monday. The committee sent out notices yes- terday to those officials following decision that 1t had sufficient author. 5 Co Proceed with Its InvestEations during the summer recess of Con- gress, notwithstanding the failure to get through the Senate before ad- journment a resolution specifically authorizing such procedure. ‘The committee, however, took some steps to wind up its work." Henry Stern, legal assistant to Senator | Wheeler. the committee prosecutor, was released from service, and ali witnesses held under subpoena were notified to disregard their summons. If their attendance is desired in the future, it was said, they will be re- called. | MD. SONS OF VETERANS ELECT OFFICERS’ STAFF, Herbert Rutledge Chosen President | of Organization—Mrs. Waltz | | Heads Auxiliary. | Herbert W. Rutledge of Cushing Camp, this city, is the new president of the Maryland Division, Sons or Veterans, U. S. A. Other officers of the nmew administration chosen last week are: Semtor vice commander, John W. Reynolds, Lincoln Camp, Washington; junior vice commander, W. N. Rohrer, Mansfield Camp, Hag- erstown, Md. The division council is- composed composed of D, Ardin Car- rick, Garfield Camp, Baltimore; Frank P. Gentien, Appomattox Camp, Wil- mington, Del.; O. A. C. Oehmler, Lin- coln Camp, Washington, and secre- tary-treasurer, Frances E. Cross, Cushing_Camp, Washington, Other officers will be appointed later by the new commander. = The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the divi- sion chose Mrs. Sadie P. Waltz of Cushing Auxiliary, Washington, as president. Other officers are: Vice presidenf, Mrs. Anna 'L. Garlock, Hagerstown, -Md.; council, Miss C Pearl Bowman, . Hagerstown; Mrs. Josephine - Hammacher of Harding, Miss Helen Downing of Cushing, and treasurer, Mrs. Lo Watson of Harding auxiliaries, all of Washing- |ton; chaplain, Mrs. Martha Rohrer, Hagerstown, Md.; patriotic instructor, Mrs. Mary Wingate of Harding Aux- iliary, Washington, D. C.: inspector, Mrs. Jessie G. Estlow, Wilmington, .; ‘instructor and installatien of- ficer, Mrs. Rema Niemeyer, Hagers- town, Md.; press correspondent, Mrs. Mabel Gates and secretary, Mrs. Rosa- lie McK. Shelton, both of Cushing Auxiliary, this_city; chief of staff, Mrs. Georgie Davison, Hagerstown, Md., and councillor, Charles S. Davis, Cushing Camp, this city. The ' fo officers were in- stalled by Past E. Albert Long of Cushing Camp. - n,” which was familiar to all visitors at Chesapeake Beach. Many cottages near ‘Washington Star Photo. REMOVING THE RECORDS OF A SESSION OF CONGRESS. Pages of the Senate taking papers to the Senate office building after the close of Congress. This was the last work of the lads, and the long summer vacation is at hand. JAPANESE WAR MINISTER HONORS UNITED STATES AVIATORS. National Photo. Lieat. Gen. Ugaki presenting round-the-world flyers with gifts in honor of their being the first to make the flight across the Pacific ocean. The presentation was made at the Imperial Hotel, in Tokio. {“Our Days Are Born on Date Line In Mid-Pacific,” Authorities Say| For Instance, When It Is Sunday a Few Feet East of the 180th Meridian, It Is Tuesday Morning Sev- eral Feet West of Imaginary Marker. “Where is Monday—or Wednesday or Saturday—born?” There is a practical side to this question, a National Geographic So- ciety bulletin points out, in the cruise of American Army fivers around the world. “The traveler for only part of the way across the United States en- counters our ‘hour lines’ the places where he must turn his watch back- ward or forward one hour,” the bul- letin continue “For many years ships have sailed westward on the Pacific across a similar ‘day line, officially the inter- national date line, and so have jumped twenty-four hours into the future. They must scratch a day off their calendar instead of their watches an hour ahead Tuesday’s News on Monday. “When the Army flyers hurdled the date line millions who are obliviou: to the sailings of ships were await- ing news of the aviators. Many folk had their first concrete intimation that two days can exist in the world at the same time—that one may read in an afternoon Washington newspa- per accounts of what has already oc. curred on the edge of Asia the next, or Tuesday, morning! “A moment’s consideration will show why your calendar and your watch never are accurate from the standpoint of our basic time compu- tation<—that is, they don't conform exactly to the earth's amnual trip around the sun or the earth's daily spin on her own axis. “Paradoxically, if every one kept time in exact accord with the seasons and with the sunrise, such time would not be of much use. Your time would be accurate enough, but nobody else, unless he was precisely in the same longitude, would agree with you. Wateh Is Always Wrom “If you then took a twenty-hour train from New York to Chicago you would have to indulge in considerable mathematical calculation to tell your Chicago friend what time by his watch to meet you. Even in much shorter distances, where accurate tim- ing was necessary, say in a cro country marathon run, the time dif- ference between the 'watch of the starter and that of the finish timer would have to be calculated before the runners’ records could be deter- mined. “The troubles of the traveler in alternating between daylight saving time and standard time in the sum- mer, which only requires an adjust- ment of an hour, would be simple compared to the chaos if everybody kept accurate solar time. “If everybody stayed home and had only news of his own locality the hour lines would not be necessary; if everybody concerned himself only with his own continent the date line would not be needed. “However, many peopie actually are traveling around the worid, man more are sending messages a half turning | or more the way around it and all of us are vicariously circumnavigat- ing it in the date lines of our daily newspaper. When Shall Day Begin? | ‘Consider how this makes necessary jan arbitrary day line, just as going {from New York to Chicago necessary an arbitrary hour line, | It is midnight on the opposite side of the globe when it is noon where you are. Suppose you are in Wash- ington at the one minute of midda on Thursday. At _your antipodes, roughly Rangoon, Burma, it is one minute of midnight, Thursday. As your watch passes the noon hour in Washington it becomes one minute past midnight in Rangoon—that is, the first minute of a new day for that place. Now Imagine vourself at Washing- ton and consider that, by some magic means, you traveled instantaneously |east to the antipodes point, at Ran. | goon, changing your watch one hour for every fifteen degrees. because |every fifteen degrees marks an hour line. Should you thus travel east- ward you would move the hands for- ward, hour by hour, until you ap- proached Rangoon ai one minute of midnight—the last minute of the d: ou started. Now take the imaginary | journey westward, moving your watch | hands “backward—that is. to 11, 10, {9 o'clock, and so on—and you would approach Rangoon at one minute after midnight—the first minute of the same day you started! You would find Ramgoon in the anomalous situ- ation of being equally entitled to two times, from the Washington point of view, twenty-four hours apart! On Greenwich Meridia “It so happens that our time ac- tually is based on the Greenwich me- ridian, and the antipodes meridian of the Greenwich longitudinal line is in the middle of the Pacific. That then | becomes the logical adjustment line, |and so has been designated the inter- national date line. Incidentally, jump- ing a day in midocean confuses only the few people who cross this line in steam- ers. And they have plenty of time to figure out how they lost, or gained, a 9% New diys are born, then, along the line in space exactly on the opposite side of the earth from the sun when the date line passes. The first second of Monday is ticked off between the Samoan and Fiji Islands as the master ck at Greenwich ticks the first second past noon on Sunday. This is when the first second after 7 o'clock Sunday morning is registered in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, the first second after & o’clock a.m. in St. Louis and Chicago, and the first second after 4 o'clock a.m. in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Sunday in St. Louls. “When it is noon Sunday in St. Louis it is Monday over a quarter of the world and Sunday over three- uarters. WAL T o'clock Sunday ovening, when ‘Washingtonians are eating their eve- ning meal, or at 4 eoclock pm., malkes | | utive | will | to Wide World Fboto COMMUNITY NEEDS LISTED BY CITIZENS Takoma Park People Request Es- timates for Varied Local Improvements. In the preparation of estimates for the District for the next fiscal vear the District Commissioners will be requested by the Takoma Park Citi- zens' Association to inciude a number of improvements desired in that v cinity. After a thorough investiga: { the needs of the community Committee | of recommend the provevments: Surfacing of street from Carrol street to Vin. street. of- Butternut street from Georgia avenue to 5th street. of 411 treet between Butternut and Cedar streets, of Laurel street from Eastern avenue to Walnut street, of 2d street from Laurel street to Van Buren street, of 5th street from Aspen street to Whittier street, of Whitticr Street between 5th and 6th streets of 6th street from Aspen street to Whittier street and of Van Buren reet from Blair road to 1st street Construction of gutters and_curbs on Aspen street frem Piney Branch road to Blair road. of cement sic walks along north side of Fern stre h street, of sidewalk betwe Dahlia and Fern s on east s of Tth street, of cement sidewalk side of Piney Branch road from Rlai road to Butternut street. of tem porary sidewalk east . side Piney Branch road from Butternut street to Georgia avenue. Widening of 4th street from Cedar street to Blair road. Installation of modern lights on all improved streets in Takoma Park—Piney Branch road Blair road, Cedar and Carroll streets to be given preference A request will also be made for u junior high school in the territory the electric | between Kennedy street and Takom: Park, Brightwood and the Distric line. The location of a new police precinct in the vicinity of Bright- wood and new fire engine com pany north of Brightwood is advo- cated by the association. Efforts will be made to secure the passage at the next session of Con- gress of the bill passed by the ate, but which failed in the House for the construction of a subway be neath the Baltimore and Ohi road tracl van Buren stre a when San Franciscans are strolling in the parks, the world is evenly di- vided between Sunday and Mond At 7 o'clock Monday morning Washington when the first hammers of the week are beginning to pound, Sunday is giving its last gasp in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. An in stant later, a few feet to_the west, the infant Tuesday is born.” Child Injured in Fall. Two-year-old Charles E. Parham, colored, while playing on the fire es- cape at the second floor of his home. 2322 Champlain street, yesterday afternoon fell to the ground and was severely hurt. He was taken to Emergency Hospital and treated for a broken jawbone and minor injurtes.