Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1924, Page 2

FUND TANGLE LEFT BY CONGRESS UNTIED Government Finds Ways Out of Predicament Caused by Defi- ciency Biil Failure. MONEY FOUND AVAILABLE Coast Guard, Tax Refund and Pay Raises Can Be Met. The administration has now cleared ©p one of the worst of the predica- ments in which Congress left several of the executive departments by fail- ure to emact the second deficiency bill and the field service reclassifica- tion bill. ‘At the White House yesterday President Coolidge, in conference with Chairman Madden of the House appropriations committee and Direc- tor Lord of the bureau of the budget, went over the several matters con- cérned. following which it was learned that agreement had been reached on satisfactory procedure to cfear up fiscal obstructions relating to reclassification of the field service, fax refunds, the coast guard anti- rum smuggling campaign and the world war bonus. Salary Less Averted. H The threatened: loss of reclassified | salaries by polioe, firemen and teach- | carlier in the week been aberted by decision of Controller General McCarl, who told the Dis- trict Commissioners the basic authorized payment of the increased ofs had salaries, although the second de- ficiency bill had faxiled After the conference it was an- nounced by Chairman Madden that the increase in the coast guard would be carried out as contemplated. He explained that in lkeu of §; ,000 in the deficiency appropriation bill which failed of enactment, the money would be made available from $10.- 000.000 apgropriated to cover the cost of the increased personnel of the service for a year. This money, he added, could be appropriated over a six-month period to meet present expenses. Tax Refund Payments. The estimated tax refund of $16,- 140,000, he said, would be made avail- able by apportioning over a six- month period the $105,000,000 appro- priated to cover the gemeral refund echedules for the next fiscal year, Under the field service day order department heads were instructed to apportion their appropriations so as to cover the adjustment of the com- pensation of the civilian employes in the field service to correspond to the rates established for positions in the departmental service in the District. Field service employes whose salaries are specially fixed by law will not re- ceive the increase, but Director Lord said these cases are only 1 per cent of the total number. Director Hines of the Veterans' Bu- reau yesterday informed the Presi- dent “we are going full speed ahead with the bonus.” AUTHORITY FOR CHURCH i CONFERENCE IS DENIED Bichmond Methodist Bishop Says Unification Session Call Is Illegal. B the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 14— Whether the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South acted within their authority, under the discipline of the church, in calling a special session of the general conference to be held at Chattanooga, July 2, to consider unification with the Method- ist Episcopal Church, is a matter to be determined when the session con- venes, it is indicated in a statement made public here tonight by- Bishop Collins Denny of Richmond, Va., one of the five aissenting bishops. Bishop Denny maintains that par. sraphs 37 and 38 of the chapter of the discipline entitled “Of the General Conference,” which have been in the discipline for fifty-eight vears and which authorize the bishops to call a epecial conference, are illegal. These paragraphs, he sald, “were not referred to the annual confer- ences, nor did they, according to the record, receive in the general confer- ence the requisite two-thirds vote." ‘Nor does any lapse of years” Bishop Denny continued, “make that constitutional whioch was not consti- tutionaily adopted.” Bishop Denny quoted the bishops a8 having stated in 1914 that while there had been “some variations in practice, inadevertent as we must be- lieve, made without challenge and without debate,” no part of the chap- ier empowering the bishops to call a spectal session of the conference should be legally open to alteration, amendment or change. e then stated: “It has been said substantially that the bishops are better qualified to construe the law of the church than all the lawyers in _the country.” Quotations ~ which produced tonded general conference inal body, self-existent and inde- pendent. 'That it is the oreation of 3pother body, larger and stronger than an joes not S9e! - inal life or power. i L ATTACKS WOMAN, , THEN KILLS HIMSELF (Continued from First Page.) Bishop to show that the is not “an orig- Denby shock, she will recover soon, the phy- sicians said. Miss Dwyer, the coroner said, declared she had not heard the fatal shot and did not know of the killing until friends came to the house, summoned by her outery. Miss Dwyer told the coroner that she and Roberts were friends of long standing, but that she had never re- tarned his professed love for her. Both Roberts and Miss Dwyer were held in high esteem throughout the community, where they were well ¥nown. Roberts was an ardent church-goer, deeply religious and de- vout, it was said. During the world war Roberts fought with Company M, 38th Infan- try, which was actively engaged in many of the important battles. In one of the engagements he was wounded severely in the right arm with shrapnel. From this wound he was confined to the field hospitals for many memths. In his pocket the cor- oner found a well worn New Testa- ment, which had been evidently his constant companion since Christmas, 3817, the date with which it was marked. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Besides his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Roberts, he is survived by several brothers and sisters, e m— law | | | You need no longer set your cloek. Radio now can do it By the same principle. a new invention announced vesterday by the bureau of stand- ards, the ether wave can awake you in the morning by ringing your alarm, or it can tell you when to quit werk, or light your lights, or regulate the cooking on an electric stove while the housewife does her shopping. Yesterday at noon a blast of elsc- trons was shot forth from the Arling- ton broadcasting station, a long dash indicating 12 o'clock. The waves shot into a clock at the bureau of stand- ards, moving the hands from two minutes before noon to exactly noon. And a new miracle of radiology had been performed. An electric wave had moved the hands of time. H Culminates Long Work. Dr. J. H. Dellinger, in charge of the bureau of standards radio labora tory; F. W. Dunmore, his assistant. and H. J. Walls, engineer, smiled with | relief when the experiment which | represented months of work and | technical figuring proved a success. | There's a complicated mechanism connected to the clock to regulate it by radio. First of itself is an_ electric | chronometer. To it is atta ies of three rela; | much like the machines used as re- the recelving set into the special re- ROAD ENGINEERS GIVEN { BIG CHICAGO WELCOME Representatives of Twenty Latin- American Countries Greeted by Mayor at Luncheon. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 14 aThe. ““vn' American Transportation ~Commis- sion representing twenty Latin- American countries was entertained today by city officials, the Association of Commerce and business men. The commission of thirty-eight prominent engineers and educators motored here from Aurora, Iil, and was welcomed at a luncheon by Mayor Willlam E Dever “It is to the interest of every on: to cement permanent. friendly rel. tions between all countries of t hemispheres.” Mayor Dever said, “and 1 can think of no method so effective as the development of highway trans. portation to work out this end.” The unity brought between every state and every community is the most important single factor in the development of highways in the United States, Hector Vigil of Chile, |2 pioneer in South American highway | development responded. The addresses at the luncheon were broadcast by radio to South American points. The commission left tonight for St. Paul. FIGHT IN MOVING WAGON. Huckster and Policeman Struggle. Collide With Auto. A fight on a huckster wagon from 1st and B streets southeast to Dela- ware avenue and K streets south- west, preceded the arrest yesterday of Daniel Thomas Kendrick, twenty- | five, of 1205 New Jersey avenue south- | east, the huckster, by Trafic Police- | man William O’Connor, the other par- | ticipant in the battle. | Crowds gathered on the street to watch the progress of the huckster wagon, with the driver fighting and driving at the same time. Nearing the conclusion of the journey, Motor | Cycle Policeman O. R. Saunders came | to the rescue, just before the horse jand wagon crashed inte an automo- bile owned by Geore Dorn of 923 2d street southwest. Kendrick was charged with reck- less driving, assault and colliding. According to the police, he failed to observe 2 traffic signal by O'Connor from bis post at lst and B_streets southeast and, after the policeman reached the wagon, he resisted ar- rest. { HORSEMAN INJURED. Animal Pursuing Runaway Crashes Into Automobile. Riding horseback after a runaway horse on Pennsylvania avenue near 6th street northwest, William John- son, colored, eighteen years old, was badly hurt when the horse he was riding ran into an automobile owned by Robert Penderton, 1123 6th street southwest. Johnson, suffering from cuts, was taken to Bmergency Hospital and later removed to Gallinger Hospital. The horse also was injured and taken to Dr. Robinson’s veterinary hospital, where F. M. Johns, the owner, for whom Johnson was riding it to Belts- ville, Md., claimed it last night. Po- lice later located the runaway. I;n; Tail Feathers. Japan has produced nothing more novel and_ interesting probably than her breed of long-tailed fowls, says Nature Magazine. The tail feathers of one specimen measure twelve feet. Two years is the time necessary to produce a full growth of tail. LAYS TURRET BLAST TO LOW AIR PRESSURE (Continued from First Page.) tion was directly in fromt:of the breech of the gun. Condition Serious. Rynes was delirious today and is in a serious conditions, surgeons of the Relief sald. They expect him to puil through, although it will be some time before he is able to testify. Preparations are going forward for the funeral of the forty-eight victims of the disaster, which will take place here Tuesday next with full naval honors. The caskets contalning the bodies will be grouped in the center of Trona Field, where in other days the Navy athletes, some of them new among the forty-eight, carried the colors of their different ships in victory in tests of skill and endurance. In = hollow square about the feld the escort, composed of detachments from all the battleships in port, will be drawn up, with a firing squad of marines at the head of the pyramid of dead, to fire the last three volleys over the bodies of their comrades. The funeral addresses will be de- livered by Admirals Wiley and Pratt. 13 ceivers by telegraph operators. To these rel: in turn is attached a clock relay, also somewhat like the telegrapher's instrument, powerful | enough to swing a magnet inside the clock. Then there is a special radio relay, 1o swing the radio waves from {Clock Hands Set Accurately | BEST MA 9 by Radio | May Ring Alarm or Regulate Cooking U. S. Experts Successfully Manipulate Timepiece at Standards Bureau From Arlington Broadcasting Station After Long Experimentation. dots start coming through, They con- sist of short trains of eleotrons trav- eling at radlo express-train speed through the ether. They are picked up by the antenna, shot into the re- celving set, thence to the special re- lay, tence {o the series of relays and here the dots dle. For the third chine in the relay series is 80 woun that a dot goes by too quickly to move the end. It's called a retarda- tion relay. Takes Fraction of Second. But when the dash came there were enough electrons in the train to pull over the relay instruments and Snally the clock relay magnet. The clock magnet raleases a spring in the clock itself and pulls the hands up to noom—or to 10 o'clock, or to what- ever time signal it may be adjusted for. All this takes three-millionth of a second. The clock can casily be #a- justed to make up for this delay. Ah—but suppose the clock is fast? How is it soing to be pulled back? ‘That's where the little puzzle entered. The physicists and engineers put their heads together and solved this intri- cate situation in a simple way. They fixed the clock so that it would stop t the time when the time signal would be given, in case it was fast, | 50 that the hands moving around the dial encounter an obstacle at noon, at it were. And this obstacle is re- leased by the long dash indicating noon time. Then the hands do their stuff and set exactly at the right time. Dr. Dellinger supervised the work. Mr. Moncure, the physicist, connected up the various things. It was to Mr. Walls that the problem of eliminat- ing dots fell. He solved this by the speclal series of retardation relays. The experiment, however, still is nt T S Cintenma, (0 PV s infant stages and experts at ere’s what ha < when Arling- |the bureau of standards announce o alling. AL five|that they were loath to give more n”|\'\lll before 1 lock @ bunch of | detail to it than is outlined abov: | Policeman, Sick, Asks Bystanders For Aid; Is Beaten Taken sick while escorting a prisoner to the patrol box near Chesapeake Junction last night, Policeman Frank Hawkins called for help to a group of men follow- ing him. Ready to help any one in distress, but mixing signals, the gang of men came to the rescue of the wrong person and the mext thing Hawkins knew he was in Casualty Hospital with a sprained wrist, cuts, bruises and other injuries, in addition to his original illness During the melee, he lost not only his prisoner, who came near being charged with intoxication, but his revolver also. The latter was recovered, however. Eleventh precinet comrades received a sec- ond call for help from Hawkins and smoothed matters out. Two ai- leged assailants were arrested. Hawkins believes that the res- cuers were personal friends of the prisoner he had taken, and that there wasn’t any misunderstand- ing about the call for help. SHERWOOD, 89, TO RUN FOR HOUSE SEAT AGAIN By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, June 14.—Representa- tive Isaac R. Sherwood. eighty-nine years old, who filed petitions here to- day for re-election to Congress, said that he intends to stage an aggressive campaign, which will not terminate until the votes are counted in Novem- ber. He has served nine terms in Congress, and is the oldest member of | that body. “I will shake off some of my ninety years old modesty and give the people of this district some up-to-date poli- tics this time,” said Gen. Sherwood. “And if any man says I am not 100 per cent American I shall challenge him on the spot.” Sherwood, who was elected to Con- gress in 1922, after having been de- feated by W. W. Chalmers in the 1920 Republican landslide, said he has been more active and done more in the last Congress than ever before. He ex- pects to be.re-elected. e N DROPS DEAD AT MARRIAGE SERVICE Collapses in Presence of Four Sis- ters and Wife Whom He Had Wed Secretly. Special Dispatch to The Star. ORANGE, N. J., June 14.—While act- ing as best man at his friend's wed- ding, in the presence of his four sis- ters and his secret bride, Thomas J. Nicol, bank accountant of Kearny, N. J, fell dead today in the midst of the marriage service. Mr. Nicol was assisting at the mar- riage of David Bamford of Irvington to Miss Carolyn of Orange in the Orange Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. T. Porter Drumm was officiating. The service was half over when Mi Nicol suddenly collapsed. Ushers car- ried him to the vestry room, where efforts were made to revive him. Meanwhile Dr. Drumm continued the service to its conclusion. At the end of the service it be- came known that Mr. Nicol was dead. His wife, whom he had married se- cretly, in_the excitement of the mo- ment, told of her marriage. SIX INJURED IN BLAST CAUSED BY FIRE ENGINE Spark Drops Through Opening in Street, Into Tunnel, Igniting Gas. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, June 15 (Sunday).—Six persons were injured, two automobiles were wrecked, and the bed of Ist ave- nue mear 5th street, Canton, was torn up early today by an explosion when gas fumes in a tunnel under the street were ignited by a spark from a passing fire engine. The street bed is made of heavy iron plates which form the upper wall of the tunnel, which runs from the stor- apparatus was responding to the third alarm for a blaze at the plant of the Baltimore Copper, Smelting and Rolling Company. The fire was confined tc & large build- ing of the copper works. The destroyed building, a Jarge and wide one.story structure, was used for the extractien of gold, siiver and Franited at the Dlant and 16 is said 1o smo) o t it is 0 Bave been ome of ihe most vaiuabie adjuncts to the plant. MEXICO EXPLAINS ENVOY’S, EXPULSION Declares British Charge D'Affaires Long Has Been Persona Non Grata With Obregon. DENIES HE IS NOW OFFICIAL Diplomatic Corps Takes Sides With Accused Official By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 14.—The for- eign office this afternoon issued a strongly worded statement giving the reasons for the expulsion from Mexi- co of Herbert C. Cummins, British charge d'affaires here. Its substance is that Mr. Cummins for years has been personsz non ‘grata with the Mexican government, which accuses him openly of lack of respect and courtesy, and even with willfully in- correct statements to his government in reporting local incidents. According to the statement. the Mexican government twice asked Great Britain to recall Cummins, the British government on each occasion backing their man, until, finally, Mexico decided he must be expelled, claiming he is not a diplomat, but a vrivate person. The statement concludes by saying that Mexico is eager to renew friend- Iy relations with Great Britain, but must have _acceptable representa- tives here who will observe diplo- matic customs. v DIPLOMATS BACK CUMMINS. Dean of Corps Pleads Case Before Foreign Office. By Cable to The Star and New York World Copyright. 1924. MEXICO CITY, June 14 —With H. A, Cunard Cummins, British agent in Mexico, locked in the British legation to prevent expulsion from the coun- try, the diplomatic corps here is anx- fously tdvqing to find some compro- mise with the government's determi- nation to eject Cummins as an unde- sirable alien. The case will be finally settled. The government wants to deport him and insists that, as diplomatic relations betwoen England and Mexico do not exist, Cummins can have no diplo- matic status. The local diplomats, however, declare he is one of them, and his' own government has been addressing him as charge d'affaire The Chilean minister, dean of the diplomatic corps, is tonight making a final effort to arrange a method by which Cummins can leave with some show of decorum. It is agreed he must go, but he himself is not in- clined to do so, and has the backing of his government For forty-eight hours he would ad- mit no one to the legation and was thus cut off from communication with London. Today he admitted secret service operatives and got in touch with his government The trouble arose over his tion on behalf of Mrs Evans, whose properties in were confiscated under the agrarian law. The Mexican government con- sidered his communication to the forelgn office most unreasonable and :h:ully ordered him to quit the coun- Y Rosalie - No Rash. From *ie Passing Show, London. Weary traveler—I want to catch the last train to Tipperary—how far it to the station?" = Native rustic—"About a mile and @ half, sorr. Shure ye've plenty of toime and no need to hurry at all if ye run loike holy biazes" inter- | Puebla | | the auditorium DEMANDS FOR PRESS |Father! Here’s Your Day; Let’s Hope The Rest of the Family Observes It Nobody Knows Who Started it or Where It’s Going SPACE UNEQUALED Democrat Parley Ranks With Ver- sailles and Arms Conferences in This Respect. HUNDREDS TO BE CARED FOR New York Newspaper Men to En- tertain Visitors. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 14—Only' two events in history, the Versallles peace conference and the Washing- ton disarmament conference, have attracted so many representatives of the press as have applied for accom- modation at the Demoeratic national convention in this city in June. Not only has there been an un- precedented demand for facilities for working newspaper men, but, ac- cording to those responsible for equipping Madison Square Garden for thix important phase of the party conclave, the expected number of re- quests from publishers and editors for seats in the visitors’ galleries has been oxceeded by hundreds. James D. Preston, veteran superin- tendent of the United States Senate press gallery at Washington and for many years advisor to both the Re- publican and Democratic parties in drafting national convention press accommodations plans, has under- taken to meet the demand as fully as possible. Facilities Unparalleled. A great part of the $50,000 being spent in reconstructing the Garden to meet convention requirements is Boing into facilities for transmitting the news of the sessions throughout the world without delay. When com- pleted the accommodations, in point of size and completeness, will exceed anything heretofore installed under one roof for a single event. There will be desks for 850 work- Ing reporters in the main auditorium, on_ platforms encircling and only three feet below the speakers’ plat- | form, which in itself will seat 300 persons. Fach desk will command a Bood view of the speakers' platform and of the entire auditorium as well. Each will be readily accessible to telegraph, telephone and wireless stations in the Garden basement, and to the battalions of messengers who will shuttle between the news writ- ers and the news senders. Animal Platform for Writers. Two wide runways, which the ani- mals are wont to tread from the un- derground menageries to the street level arena when the circus is in town, will lead from the rear of the press section to the senders’ stations. Down there, replacing the animal quarters, the Garden swimming tank, the property rooms, and the portable cloakroom, ‘will be the heart of the news broadcasting system. There will be facilities for editors and telegraph Elght hundred telephones will be installed for the special use of newspaper men. Thirty-six work- rooms will be set up for news as- sociations, domestic and foreign, and for individual representatives of the out-of-town press. Cable and wircless companies will maintain substations, and radio ap- paratus will be centered there for suck convention high to be broadcast. 1,000 operators In remote places, away from the din of the instru- ments of communication, will be several loud speakers leading from overhead. A taxi- stand for newspaper men will be maintained at the nearest entrance; a restaurant will serve them light refreshments without charge. (Good lights, & specially installed ventilat- ing system costing $8.000. and com- fortable furniture will innova-~ Boy Scouts to Maintain Radio Sets Given to “Shut-Ins” in Good Repair Con!plele Records of All Apparatus Donated to Star Fund Assured. $62.50 Comes in Four Hours; Subscriptions Total $409.25. A complete record of everv radio set donated to The Star's “shut-in fund” is being kept by Thomas A. King, deputy scout commissioner, who is.supervising the activities of the Boy Scouts detailed to the special squad installing the apparatus in the homes of Washington's poor and needy invalids. After the set is received at The Star, it is taken to the “radio fund” headquarters of the scouts in room 536, The Star bullding, and labeled. The label contains a number and the name of the donor. Corresponding data is kept in a file index system maintained by Mr. King, which also contains the name of the “shut-in” who received it. With such a system Mr. King will be able to furnish every person who donates a set the name of the invalid into whose lonely life it has brought a ray of sunshine and happiness. Keep Sets in Trim. As each set is installed, the Scouts make special note of the condition of the “shut-in” and this informa- tion is recorded in the flle index. Periodically the Scouts will return to the homes of the invalids to keep the sets in perfect operating condition and to ascertain what changes radio has made in the lives of those un- fortunates who before had nothing to entertaln them. The observations of the Soouts will be added to the record, and as a result the history of every case of the “shut-ing” who received sets donated to The Star's fund will be on file. A number of f:hve{:mall( employes, in sympathy wi e The Star to place a crystal set at the bedside of every deserving invalid in the District, took advantage of the first Saturday half-holiday and pay- day combined ,and came to The Star building yesterday afternoon to con- tribute to the cash fund which will be used to antenna _wire, insulators and other apparatus neces- sary for installation. In less than four hours, $62.50—one of the largvst day’s receipts since the beginming of {he campaign—was added to the fund, swelling it to $409.25. Club Gives $34. -tour dollars of yesterday m’z"rnoou:"- Teceipts were contributed by the Monday 500 Club of Takoma Park, D. C. The mysterious person who has been soliciting money for the fund also came in with $14.50. It was his third visit, and, according to the list of contributors he turned in, he apparently covered most of the northwest section to appeal for sub- scriptions from his friends. The pe- tition which he used to raise the ed to the list of money was sttach o, s Idea” : “The idea of providing a radio crys- tal ‘set for oash 'shut-in’ blind and e e h Doy, Mark and wl e doreed by Roxey' of the Capitol New York city. It was Theater of Mew Yo AR B radio sets of those who have pur- chased better sets be donated to thi worthy cause, and the Boy Scouts offered to imstall them 5. Phy- requested to send in “Results were amasing in that there 1 | worthy cause. Radio Fund Receipts Cash contributions to The Star's “radio shut-in fund” received yester- day afternoon follow: Previously acknowledged WP R Rufus Putnam..... Miss Alice Wilbeck. Monday 500 Club of Takoma Park (through Mrs. William Stuart, 212 Carroll 8t.)...... Group:— A friend, “W. C.%........ . B. F. Young, 1835 T4th st. nw. No_name, “N. = Capital Electric Co., 1829 14th st n.w.. T. N. Mudd, 1806 14th st. n.w. N. D. Hawkins, jr., 1522 14th E. D. Mobley, 418 3rd'st. n.w. Ralph Peperno, 418 3rd st. Lee Davis, Ebbitt House. Bert Hollohan, 1537 14th st nw. . A friend, “H. D. C. Barnhart, 1800 14th st $346.75 1.00 1.00 10.00 nw. .... 1.00 G. 1. Bowser, n.w. % ... 100 Nicolo Anastasi, 1537 Wis_ ave. 1.00 J. Arthur Harris, 178 Uhland terrace mn.e. Miss M. C.. Miss L. K. . Miss A. J. Boynton, 201 2d st. n.e. . o5 J. W. B, Congress Hall, Wash- D. C ington, O. P. Anonymous, tel,” Atlantic City.. Total $409.25 Crystal Sets and Equipment. Crystal sets and equipment received yesterday afternoon follow: Previously ackno ne hun- dred and twenty sets, twenty-eight pairs of headphones, sixty aerial posts, antenna and lead-in wire, crys- tals and other equipment for installa- tion. Billy Heintz, 1435 B st. n.e, crystal t. “*Ruth Heintz, set headphones. E. L. Cecil, 1406 Monroe st., erystal ®Htrs. Smith, crystal set, phones, ex- tal. t | " RD, PHiO, BZ AHB, JOG, complete tennas, lead-in wires. A Milier-Dudley Company, 1716 14th st. n.w., crystal set complete. Frank G. Stewart, 1720 14th st. n.w., erystal set. Total—One hundred and twenty-six seis, (hirty pairs of headphones, sixty aerial posts, antenna and lead-in wire, crystals and other equipment for installation. were approximately 400 Individuals needing these sets and but a small percentage of donations. The Star has taken the matter in hand in order to call to the public’s attention this To date, June 10, 1924, there remain about 350 un- fortunates to be provided for, by a donation of a crystal set, phones, an- tenna or lead-in wire, insulators or radio poles. If you have none to of- fer, your cash contribution will be weicome. S “Imagine yourse! ppled beyond cure, or, worse yet, hopelessly surrounded by four walls, m‘% see the beauties of nature, ever changing scenery, feeling only the severe heat of summer and cold of winter, with no comforts, and, at the most, only the bare necessities of life, having few relatives and oftentimes no friends in this busy world, and re- alizing your helplessness and desti- tute financial condition burdens those dearest to you: waiting and awaiting with pleasure the call of death. To these people, with your help, will go the blessings of radi” [ lights as are | to End, But “Be Kind to Dad®” Idea Has Quite a Bit of Novelty. Notice, ye women folk. Today is Father's day. It is the only day in the year that dad can do anything he wants to without fear of getting bawled out for it. (Let him try it!) Today he is entitled to drop his cigar ashes on the living room car- pet and rub them in with his shoe. He may with Imorunity pull his armchair up to the library table and rest his feet on the varnished top. If he needs a dust cloth to shine the car, father today may walk boldly up to the laundry bag in the closet and confiscate anything that suits his purpose. Without danger of making grounds for divorce he may give free vent to his feelings in a burst of oratory when he finds, on trying to shave, that wifey has used his last blade on the back of her neck without any lather. (Of course, many wives boast of bobs.) If one of the youngsters yells, father can wield the slipper to his heart's content and not get a nasty oh-you-brute look from mother. Preach Your Own Sermon. He can play golf all day, ski church, come in late for dinner with an unannounced guest an ‘”}!’h 3 B &t d get away e can dry his hands oHY ds on the guest If friend wife has company for din- ner and he does not like ‘em, he can come down stairs in his Shirt sleeves and speak as follows: “Hello, everybody. Sorry but I'm eating down town tonight. Have a good time,” then put on his hat, square his shoulders, swageer a bit and o ou He can cover all available chairs with his working clothes, leave his slippers wherever he steps out of them and even spill gravy on the Sunday table cloth without fear of feminine scowls. Oh, Leave the Dishes, Dad. Father is permitted to scatter Sun- day papers all over the floor until he has digested them completely. And, while reading he safely may ignare S. O. S. calls for family chores. And father, faithful old provider will not have to turn over his pay envelope this day. (Father doesn't get paid on Sunday.) tions at which veteran convention news handlers will be entitled to rub their eves. Plans for Gumests. The New York Newspaper Club has undertaken to establish a fellowship with visiting members of the profes- sion, through Charles G. Hambridge, its former president and one of its founders addition to the club’s established head- quarters for Dining room facilities and accommo- dations for the preparation of news will be greatly enlarged, and lounges, libraries and amusement rooms will be extended. club will have a program of | ention entertainments all its | own, which will include indoor as well as outdoor diversions. The fea- ture of the latter promises to be a | midnight frolic at Coney Island, in which it is expected upward of 2,000 of the journalistic craft, local and out of twon, will participate. POLICE TAKE FIVE MEN AND WOMAN IN RAIDS Report Liquor Seized—Prisoners Give $6.500 Bond at Police Stations. | Raids yosterday afternoon and last night netted six prisoners in the sixth and seventh precincts. Martha Washington Fox of 318 In- diana avenue arrested by Police- men Jackson and Dowd and Revenue Agents Rose and Livingstone on charges of selling liquor and was released on_$1.000 bond. John Lee Cochran, sixty years old, of 453 1 street northwest, was ar- rested on oharges of wle and il- legal possession by the same officers, wio say they seized three gallons and three pints of corn liquor at his house. He was released on $1,500 bond. Clifton Williams was arrested on charges of sale and possession at his home, 216 G street, where twelve gallons of liquor were swid to have been seized. He was released on $1,500 bond. oseph Rosinsky, a shoemaker, was arrested at his place, 623 E street, on charges of sale and re- leased on $1,000 bond. In the seventh precinct, Sergt. Burke and Precinct Detective Robin- son arrested Charles Lloyd Gates at 3611 Prospect avenue on charges of sale and illegal possession, he being released on 31,600 bond. A pint of liquor, according to the police, was found in a pitcher on a dresser and Robinson beat Gates to it in the rush. Frank Hayden of 3203 Cherry Hill was arrested by the same officers, with Lieut. J. W. Plerson, on charges of sale and illegal possession. —_— SHORT BANDIT GETS $50. Much-Sought Hold-Up Man Makes Midnight Raid. The “Short” Bandit, so called be- cause of his diminutive size, who has been sought by Washington police for the past several weeks, added another robbery last night to his string of lawless acts. Walking_into the grocery store of George Nicholas, 1823 G street, shortly before midnight, the bandit flashed a pistol and got away with $50 in cash. According to descriptions given the police this hold-up man tallies with the one who robbed a man on 1ith street, another on Columbia road and later. held up a taxi driver. SHOT IN FEUD FLARE-UP. MIDDLESBORO, Ky. June 14— Probably fatal wounding of George Colson by Floyd Ball in a pistol duel in a drug store here late today marked a flare-up in the Ball-Colson feud. The principals both had figured in previous engagements between the o ing factions. v&:‘i—l :u arrested and placed in jail. Reports from a hospital where he was taken were that Colson was “barely alive” as a resalt of four or five pistol bullet wounds. Probably the most notable en- counter between members of the Ball and Colson families was a fight in the court house in Pineville in May, 1922. In that engagement Ripley Ball was killed and_Clay Colson, Frank Ball and John Hurst were wounded. — COUNT SALM TO ACT. Husband of Millicent Bogers Said Two floors have been taken over in | the convention period. | And, if pater becomes talkative, forsaking forced monosyliabio utter- ance, he will, rather, may, be per- mitted to finish a cogent thought without Interruption or wifely guid- ance. And, gathered about him may be friends of bachelor days regaling themselves with stories of the long ago all pungent with romance, gayety and care-freeness. ) ‘When mother puts baby in the bath tub and tells father to plaster on the lather while she curls her hair, he can ignore such an order entirely, go downstairs and relax in his easy chalir without fear of the usual Sabbath harangue about the undomesticity of the male of the species. POr it it is father's wish, he may forego the customary Sunday aftes noon motor trip into the country and “play with that fool thing”—ihe radio set. Mother will spend the afternoon quietly at home, darning | socks, sewing buttons on fathers| trousérs or other little unimportant duties which she discovered were neglected until “dad” dressed. Can Revive Beaver Game. Furthermore, he needn't shave, re- gardiess of the amount of under- brash on his face, unless he pleases. For all thess prerogatives, and many others are father’s on June 15. Who started Fathers day appears to be a mystery. Perhaps it was just a concerted move on the part of the nation’s downtrodden better halves, and then again mother may have felt sorry that she had a day and dad didn’t, and 0 got the women behind it. While the family is supposed to contribute cigars or something el that he likes to father today, there has been no suggestion made that the tobacco industry had anything to do with starting the movement. No more than the florists had any- thing to do with getting you to wear carnations on Mothers day. It's just sentiment, you know, and every one joins in. You may Ko as strong as you care to in giving dad presents today— bathrobe, striped necktie, silk hand- was getting for there is only one thing that father can’t do on Father's day: Kick about your charging bhis gifts to his ao- | count. Oh, yes. it's going to be a great day for father. Maybe. JOHNS HOPKINS ADDS EUROPEAN DOCTORS English and Czechoslovakian Spe- cialists Among Thirty-Five | New Instructors. { Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, June 14.—Two scien- | tists from European universities are among the thirty-five new professors, instructors and assistants, whose ap- Pointment to the faculty of the med- ical school of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity was announced yesterday by Dr. Lewis H. Weed, the dean. From England Dr. J. W. McNee, ie coming. Dr. McNee is associate pr fessor of medicine at University Col- lege. London. He will become as- sociate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. His publications on clinical medicine have givwen him interna- tional reputation, and be became par- ticularly noted for his work in mil- itary medicine with the soldiers of the British army, and in the handling of cases or jaundice and anemia. New Anatomy Imstructor. The other European scientist com- | ing 1o the Johns Hopkins faculty Dr. Bela Halpert of Czechoslovakia, now first_assistant to Prof. Otto Grosser at the University of Prague. He is com- ing to the medical school here as i structor in anatomy. He is known in Europe and America for his researches on the anatomy of the gall bladder. Besides the thirty-five new appoint- ments to the facuity, Dean Weed an- nounced twelve promotions, seven of which are from instructorships to as- sociate professorships. They are men who have won distinction in fields of medical and surgical research in re- cent years. Dr. Henry M. Thomas, jr., is pro- moted from instructor to associate professor in clinical medicine. has done research work in clinical problems in medicine, with particular reference to pneumonia, diabetes and vegetative diseases of the heart. Dr. Bernkelm Promoted. Dr. Bertram M. Bernheim, instru tor in clinical surgery has been pro- moted to the associate professorship in that department. Dr. Bernheim's researches have been in the field of surgery of the blood vessels. Dr. Richard S. Lyman has been promoted from an instructorship to the associate professorship in phy- chiatry. He has become well known through his research in the meta~ bolic aspects of psychiatric disease, with espacial reference to the gaseous exchange of respiration. Dr. De Witt Casler has become as- Sociate professor in clinical gyneolo- £y, having been previously in that department. He is the author of sev- eral publications on rare forms of gyneological diseases. Made Associate Professor. Dr. F. H. Swett has been promoted to be associate professor in anatomy. His research in experimental embry- ology and his publications on the sub- Ject of regeneration and reduplication of limbs have made him well known in these fields. Dr. W. A. Perizweig, promoted to associate professorship in medicin has conducted valuable research, with especial reference to the chemisiry of bacteriology, and Dr. P. G. Shipley, promoted to the associate professor- ship in pediatrics, is credited with many accomplishments in the matter of research on the lesions of rickets and their dietary deficiencies of bone. SECESSION MOVEMENT FEARED IN SOUTH AFRICA Gen. Smuts, Backed by British, Faces Defeat by Boers and Labor. By Cadle to The Star ung Kew York World. LONDON, June 14.—The secession of South Africz from the British empire, with possibilities of serious trouble, will become an immediate political issue if events turn out as now indi- cated by reports concerning the gen- eral elections to be held in South Africa Tuesday. It now seems likely that Gen. Smauts, who is supported by the whole English press, will be beaten by a coalition of Dutch Nationalists and Laborites. The hope of the Loyalists is that if Smuts loses the victorious Boers and labor Jeaders will at once quarrel, befars Che to Have Accepted Stage Offer. |Dutch secession movement gets under Tho Star Yorx Werld. | WaY- By Cadle to and New PARIS, June 14.—Count Salm von Child, Not Rats, Eats Poison. Hoosstrasten, whose heiress bride | gooial Dispatéh o Tie Star. left for America recently with her ANSONTA, Conn., June 14.—Endeav- father, Col. H. H. Rogers, i o0ing |oring to exterminate rats in her home on the stage, according to TEPOrts|in Spring street today, Mrs. Stephen from Berlin. He is said to have ac- cepted an offer to play in a spectacu- jar American production, Max Refhardt's Grosses spicthans, fm Berlin, mext fall, “An _Alle,” | ficor. Mozzo, a cripple, placed chocolate candy covered with poison on the Her four-year-old son found - |some of the candy, ate it, and was dead when the doctor arrived. kerchiefs or use your own judgment— | | years® service, without mare than thre OUSTING OF ACADEMY TEACHERS ASSAILED Admiral Wilson Breaks Law and Personal Pledge by Action, Says Dr. Lovejoy. LONG SERVICE SEEN IGNORED Secretary of Navy May Be Asked to Review Dismissals. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., June 14— Dis missal of certain civilian teachers at the Naval Academy by Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, superintendent, i= @ plain violation of the naval ap propriation bill as passed by Con &ress, it was charged today by Dr Arthur 0. Lovejoy, professor of phi 0sophy at Johns Hopkins University Dr. Lovejoy in a letter to the Balti- more Sun aiso asserted that the d missals violated a written pled &iven by Admiral Wilson to a con gTressional con ittee ¥ y 3 that he would dismiss o Cbey 1o structor without si nths’ notice ST X months’ notice 'ive of the more than a | the civilian staff siuted for diwmix have been notified their services will not be needed after June 30. Admiral Wilson refused to comment on the allegations. Dr. Lovejoy is a former president of the American Association of Un versity Professors and now is 4 men: ber of the executive committee, P, A. O. Leuschner of the 1 re California, nt of the org; Dr. May Appenl to Wilbur. Dr. Lovejoy said the assoc a body may request Secretary vy Wilbur to review Adm ®on's action. The asso may take the matter up with gressional committee on fairs or the committee on appro tiond, he declared. Dr. Lovejoy's letter follows To the information already given in the Sun conce rning the holesa dismissal of civilian teack S at Naval Academy it is perhaps sirable that certain further facts e con- naval be added, in order that the public mav ‘undpru.fl:d the significance of th incident i “The dropping of five professors three of them of more than twenis weeks' notice, is a plain violation an act of Congress. The naval appro- Priations bill as passed contains t following provision: ‘Until June 1925, if for any cause the number civilian professors or instructors e ployed in the United Sta Nava Academy on January 1, 1924, shali be reduced s » o in reducing th number of civilian professors no ex isting contract shall be violated. No clvilian professor, associate or assist ant professor or instructor shall be dismissed except for sufficient cause Without six months' notice to him tha his services will no longer be needed Written Pledge Alleged. “These dismissals also conflict with 4 personal written pledge given b the superintendent of the Nava Academy 1o a congressional commit tee on February Wilson wrote to B. L. man of the House comm Propriations RS is my intention to so 1924 drr 1, chai on 1t has been my practice ‘ontinue -~ to Sever the conn civilian instructor f: Academy except for Eiving him six month his services will b, e which t tood e tern to have ir commonly unde such a context has been stated none appears to ex = present terr these five prof. pire on June obviously not the intent of Congres to provide merely that professo 8hould not be dismissed before th ehpiration of their contracts without SiX months’ notice, for the same paragraph provides that rrcipt“r:— | fause none shall be dismissed at al {before the expir: of t betore piration of their com t, wa Action Deeclared Illegal “The manifest purpose of the act, and this especially clear to any ome who will read the hearings and de- ‘bates preceding enactment, was to its forbid precisely what has beren done in this case. \ en aside from s illega t action is indefensible. No ‘rrn\pr«flr ble civilian institution of ' learmioe could conceivably have dealt in such 2 manner with men who. given it 2 ma who had given Years of faithful service ertain of the professors dism apparently four of them, have re ed, jccived six months’ notice, but hnid appointments for five years, endine June 30, 1925 An opinion « th Judge advocate general of the No- held these documents to be ‘Dyi cuted and binding unilateral tracts.’ Furthermore, as above no Cong: ha expressly forbid that sting contract b vio Not Believed Necesnary. “No such reduction in the number of civilian teachers as has occurred is made necessary by of the congressional appropriations for salaries. It is true, as alread mentioned in the Sun, that the ap propriation for this vear is $30,000 less than that for last vear: but the total of 000 is only $11,000 les~ than the actual expenditure last year as reported by Admiral Wilson to the subcommitte¢ of the House commit tee om appropriations. the limitations “This ~small difference would largely be covered by the normal number of instructors. In any case no dismissals in violation of contract or of statute were unavoidable Here, ag the considered purpose of the committee on naval appr priations embodied in the act as pas: ed has been disregarded. “The superintendent of the academy has recommended that the appropriation for salaries be reduced by $9%,000, involving the elimination of some twenty-eight civilian teach- ers. This the committee, after hea: ings, refused to approve, actual adding $48,000 to the budget express! in order to prevent the proposed dras- tic reduction of the staff of trained teachers of non-naval _subjects. Nevertheless, approximately the re- duction which Congress deliberately refused to sanction has occurred. Efficiency Seen Imperiled. “The incident thus involved ques tions of practice to individuals, respect for contracts and of suprem acy of the civil power in the conduct of the Naval Academy. It also effects vitally the academy’s educational efficiency. _The on _given there in ordinary academic subjects can be efficient only in so far as it is given, not by a constantly changing succession of naval officers tempora- rily detached from sea duty, without teaching experience and without spe- clal (sometimes virtually without any) knowledge of the subjects taught, but by a permanent body of competent professional teachers thoroughly trained in their subjects while also keenly interested in adopt- ing their instruction to the special purposes of the academy. No such body can in the future be recon- structed or detained under such con- ditions of service and tenure as now appear to obtain. “The recent action at Annapolis therefore imperatively ealls either for reconsideration by the authorities there or for review by the Secretary of the Navy. g No Backing- Qut Now. From tue J1-k-0'Tantern She—If wishes came {rue, would be your first? He—1 would wish——Ah, if only | dared tell you. She—Go on. go on. What do you think 1 brought up wishing for? - what