Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 17

“MILLION-DOLLAR MAIL ROBBERY” OF TRAIN IN ILLINOIS. peradoes, armed with rifles, tear bombs and pistols, held up the C. 11l and are reported to have obtained loot to the extent of a million dollars. M. THE._EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., A band of more than twenty de & St. P. mail train near Rondout, Upper photo shows postal inspector beside smashed window through which tear bombs were thrown. Lower photo shows members of the mail crew who held conference with postal inspectors. A FEW WORDS ON THE SUBJECT “HOW IT WAS DONE IN CLEVELAND.” President Coolidge at the White House yesterday, and this photograph was snapped when he stopped to talk with newspaper Republican national convention. REPUBLICAN CLUBS © TO PLAN CAMPAIGN League Also Will Choose Officers at Meeting in Willard Thars- day Night. SEVERAL TALKS ARE LISTED Townsend to Tell of Coolidge- Dawes Club. The annual meeting of the League of Republican State Clubs of the Dis- triet of Columbia will be held Thars- day night, in the Willard HoteL Be- sides the election of officers for the year and the expression of views as to the league's activities in the com- ing national campaign, there will be addresses by prominent speakers. This organization has a campaign record which extends more than twenty-two years, and, of which its membership is justly proud. Its part in campaigns has been confined prin- cipally to getting out the state voters residing In the District. It also has been active in assisting in getting laws through the various state legis- latures permitting absentee voters to cast their ballot by mail. Snyder te Speak. Edgar C. Snyder, president of the Jeague, who has been one of its lead- ing members more than twenty years, will preside at this meeting. After a brief welcoming speech, and outlining of the objects of the gath- ering, he will give an account of the Republican national convention, which he attended. Among others who will speak on their observa- tions at the Cleveland conclave will be Judge Gus A. Schuldt and Thomas P. Littiepage, vice president of the league. T. Lincoln Townsend, treasurer of the league and who has been elected president of the Coolidge-Dawes Club, which was organized a few moments after the national ticket had been completed by the Cleveland convention, will tell the meeting What is being done to complete the or- ganization of the club. Arrested on Handbook Charge. william Patterson McConnell, 925 E street, was arrested yesterday atternoon by Detectives Messer and Kane of the first precinct and oharged with making a handbook on the races. He was released on bond for his appearance in Police Court. ' YOUR BONUS Questions That Bother You Will Be Answered in This Column. Address: Room 722, News De- partment, The Evening Star, Washington, D. C. Q. Can I borrow money on my in- surance policy which is now in force in the same manner as provided for in the adjusted compensation act?— J. R. K. A. For the insurance now in force ¥qu can borrow 90 per cent of the cash surrender value only by apply. ing to the director of the Veterans' Bureauw Loans on your adjusted service certificate will be made by banks and trust companies two years from the date of certificate. Q My daughter served in the Army Nurse Corpse during the war. Is she entitléd to adjusted compensa- tion?—Mrs. E. H. A. Yes, your daughter will be en- titled to the benefits of"the act. She should make application to the War Department. Q. I am divorced from my hus- band. As I understand it he will re- celve the bonus. We have a child How can I secure the benefits of the bonus for him?—Mrs, T. P. T. A. Your husband when he makes application for the bonus will be asked to name a beneficiary to re- ceive the benefits in case of his death before the twenty-year period for which his certificate will run. Ask him to name your child as bene- ficlary. Or he might leave the amount ,of his certificate in trust with a reputable trust company to be paid to your child upon its maturity or upon his death. Q. When will application_blanks tor the bonus be available’—R. D. O. A. The blanks are being printed and will probably be generally. dis- tributed in about ten days. Q. During the war I served some time in the Student Army Nurse Corps, can I count that time toward computing the amount of my bonus? —E. L B A. Members of the Student Army Nurse Corps have been held by the War Department to have been civi- lian employes, so the time spent in this corps will not be applied toward adjusted service credit. Q. Part of my service was as a major, but 1 did not draw the pay of a major. Please tell me through your columns if 1 am entitled to a bonus_for the time I served as a major?—Lieut. W. W. S. A. If you did not draw the pay of 2 major you can count the time spent acting as such toward your adjusted service credit, Photos Ly United News Pictures VETERANS WILL GET TOURS AT LOW RATES U. 8. Lines Arranges Special Trip Across Atlantic and Through France. | COSTS FROM $275 TO $300 | | Members of Family Also May Be3 Taken. | Inexpensive transatlantic trips on crack ships of the United States Lines, including a fifteen-day stop- over in France and return to the United States, are now within the | reach of veterans of the military and naval services of this country, the United States Lines announced to- day Exclusive third cabin reservations. beginning with the sailing of the America from New York on July 12, | will be made for war veterans who, | at a cost of $275, can make the cross- ing to Cherbourg, spend fifteen days visiting familiar scenes in_France, and return to this country. This sum includes all railway and motor bus fares, hotel and food costs while in France, as well as the ocean voyage both ways. Veterans who go on the first tour, starting July 12, will be able to make the return trip home from Cherbourg August 5 on the Le- viathan. The second tour, which will start from New York on August 2, will be made to France on the George Wash- ington, with the return trip aboard either one of two steamers. Longer Tour Conts $300. The third tour, which will permit the veterans to be away from New York a total af thirty-six days with a twenty-four-day period in France, L will include passage on the Levia- than both ways. This tour will start August 16, and will cost about $300 because of the longer period. For those veterans who wish to take their wives, mothers or sisters with them special arrangements will be made’ at & cost but little ‘'more than that to the veterans themselves. To expedite the work of preparing the actual tours In France, and for the comfortable housing of the vet- erans abroad, the United States Lines has opened a special bureau in iParis. Three or four-day motor-bus trips to the battlefields will be features of the trips, and there will be opportunity affored to see Paris as well as to make side trips. Officials of various veterans' or- ganizations have declared them- selves in favor of these tours, realiz- ing that the cost involved is small and that the veterans, while on board steamer and in France, will get the best of treatment and every consid- eration. SETTING THE CLOCK BY RADIO. F. W. Dunmore, physicist of the bureau of standards, who has adapted a clock to radio control, one of the newest inventions in the radio field. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, Republican vice presidential candidate, when he was a student at Marietta College. The photograph was taken in June, 1884, forty years ago this month. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts called on men about the National Photo. Copyright by Harris & Ewing WITH / employes of the bureau. CARNIVAL BEING GIV TUESDAY, JUNE 17, OFFICE WHICH RESEMBLED A FLOWER SHOW. engraving and printing yesterday under authority of a special act of N FOR THEIR SPECIAL BENEFIT. a being held to aid the institution. The festivities started last night. and will continue tonight and tomorrow night. 1924, PATRIOTIC PAGEANT BY PUPILS OF GAGE HOOL. The youngsters from the kindergarten to the sixth grade took part in the pageant, many nations being represented by the costume groups. This was the Japanese group. M Aladdin’s Door-Opening Magic Beaten |gyppLy GCORPS GETS By W.R. & E. Car’s Self-Operating Exit| Passenger Just Stands in Front of Rear Portal, Gives Hard Look, and Presto! the Way Is Open to Descend to Street. “Open Sesame.” said the mythical character in “Arabian Nights and the heavy door of the cave swung open The author of that fairy tale no | doubt felt proud of the product of his fertile imagination, and many a schoolboy has marveled at the magic of those words. But now comes the mechanical genius of today with a street car the doors of which will open without even a word of magic. The pas- senger merely stands in front of it, gives it one hard look, and, presto! it opens. Nor is that all. After the car rider has stepped to the street this oblig- | ing exit swings shut as promptly as it opened—this time without even so much as a look from the passenger. This new car was given its first try-out yesterday afternoon by the Washington Railway and Eiectric Company, and will now be placed in regular service on the Brookland- 11th street line. It is a one-man car, and if it proves feasible in operation the company will put the same SEES WOMEN RIGHTED BY OPERATION OF LAW Equal Compensation Provision of Classification Act Discussed by Mrs. H H. Gardener. Congratulations to the 27,000 wom- an-workers on the federal pay roll in the District on account of the pro- vision in the classification act, ef- fective here July 1, “equal compensation for equal work, irrespective of sex,” were offered to- day by Mrs. Helen H. Gardener of the Cliyil Service Commission. “It is a far cry from the position of women in the goyernment service at the time of the civil war to the present day,” said Commissioner Gar- derfer. J “It was as much of a shock to the average man,” continued Mrs. Gar- dener, “when Gen. Spinner, then treasurer of the United States, an- nounced that he proposed to employ some women in clerical positions as it would be today if the Democratic and Republican national commit- tees were to announce that they pro- posed to nominate women for Presi- dent and Vice President.” Mrs. Gardener said that as late as 1870 it was considered necessary to providing for | equipment on all of its one-man cars, at_a cost of $300 per car. President William F. Ham decided to give this new device a test in the hope of removing what is regarded |as the main objection to the one- |man car, namely. the inability of a | passenger in the rear end to leav: without walking all the way to the front door. The self-operating exit is at the rear end and is so connected with the | motorman’s apparatus that it can- not open until the car is at a stand- still. Neither can the car be started until the rear door has closed again. There is an iron treadle in the floor of the rear platform directly in front of the door. The passenger moves to the door after ringing the bell and as soon as the car stops the door opens. If there are leaving, the door remains open while there is any one on the step or the treadle. i if another passenger stargs to get out as the door is closing it will re- verse itself and swing open again. Melvin C. Sharpe, an official of the company, invited committees from the North Washington Citizens’ as- un;llnuons to make the trial trip yes- terda; place a law on the statute books even to permit the employment of women in clerkships in the government of- fices. Today more than 27,000 of the 65,000 government employes in Wash- ington are women. The proportion of women employed in the branches outside the District of Columblia is much smaller because of the many large services which are made up almost entirely of occupa- tions for which women are not fitted. These are the railway postal service, the city delivery service, the rural delivery service, the mechanical shops of the navy yards and arsenals and me others. % ‘examinations for the federal civil service are mow open to both men and women. Appointing officers, however, have the legal right to specify the.sex desired when request- ing a certification of eligibles. The classification act provides that “in determining the rate of compen- eation which an_ employe shall re- Cceive, the principle of equal compen- sation for equal work, irrespective of sex, shall be followed. —_———— — Legion Post Plans Trip. The Bureau ‘of Engraving and Printing Post of the American Legion will take its fifth annual excursion to Marshall Hall, Saturday, on the steamer Charles Macalester, leaving the 7th street wharf 10 am., 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. several | The mechanism is such that | the North Capitol and Eckington and | Quartermasters Should Lock Arms and Go Forward Together, i‘ Seys Gen, Marshall. ONLY MINOR FRICTION SEEN Annual Banquet of Association Is Held at City Club. Appeals for more harmony within that there existed any important fric- tion there developed at the annual banquet of the Quartermaster Corps last night at the City Club. Brig. Gen. R. C. Marshall, president of the Quartermaster Association, spoke for conciliation of minor dif- ferences which, he said, had arisen some instances. and asked that egular Army, National Guard and reserve officers should lock arms and go formard on a broad b: tual understanding.” Dentes Friction Exists. "Brig. Gen. John B. Bellinger, toast- master, said he felt there was no fric- tion in the Quartermaster Corps, which consists of Regular Army, Na- tional Guard and reserve officers. All of these officers, Gen. Bellinger declared, should look to the quar- termaster general, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Sen- ate. as the head of the corps, “for their guidance in their work and ex- ecution of policies of the corps as laid down by the War Department. Assistant Secretary of War Dwight L. Davis declared that if there was another war mobilization of the coun- try's resources would be “increasing- ly important.” The Quartermaster Corps, he said, “is one of the greatest business organizations in the coun- try, and it should lead the country in business efficiency.” Acting Staff Chief Speaks. Other speakers included Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, acting chief of staff; Brig. Gen. D. E. Nolan and Brig. Gen: Alpert C. Dalton. Maj. _Geh. John L. Clem, retired, sang *“The Old Gray Mare." Music was furnished by an orchestra from the United States Army Band, direct- ed by Master Sergt. Theodore Bingert. There also was group singing of Army songs led by Capt. George F. Unmacht. Plays Enacted by Juniors. Two plays were presented by the ‘Washington Junior Players, an or- ganization of ichildren, at the Wilson Normal School last night under the direction of Angela F. Small, A Wallace W. Kirby returned t PLEA FOR HARMONY | the Quartermaster Corps and denial | s of mu- | ngres Condueted by Maxson Foxhall Judell George S. Chappell Passes By. Wild Willies. i Little Willie, feeling bored, Started up his papa’s Ford. Though he got it back somehow They both have rear-end trouble now In the Land ofimwflng Things. Said an ardent Squash to a young String-bean, “You're the sweetest ever seen; Come off your pole; free “Get along,” said the Bean, stringing me. thing I have be young, be “you're Why Is It— You never notify the Income Tax collector that you earn as much as you boast you do? OUR OWN Horoscope DEPARTMENT. John Strom: If you were born on June 17, your life is governed by the constellation Ononius, which means Onion, the sacred flower. Accordingly, you have' a strong, powerful nature, which breathes its influence everywhere. You have a dominant will-power, too, and an even stronger won't power. When you say “No!" you mean it, by gosh For this reason, you have many enemies, but they are never in a po: tion to put anything over on you. In fact, the only thing you've ever had put over on you was—an awning! Ononius men usually marry their stenographers, so they can go right on dictating to them after the cere- mony. In most cases, however, their wives elope with the piano tuner, without even leaving a note on the pink pin-cushion. A ka’l.;lonr. “I understand your cook has left.” “Yes,” answered the housewife, who was taking account of the broken china, “but not much.” MRS. RUTH SCOTT. Jingle-Jangles. Hipity. hopity, hipity-hop, Grandlraother‘s gone to the bobber shop! SOPHIE E. REDFORD. After day the night is calling; Wish that infant would stop bawling! . e . N. M. L. Some girls wear silk hose, wear cotton, The silk looks slick, but the cotton looks rotten. F. M. INGRAM. others ‘Washington Star Photo 0 his post as director of the bureau Flowers and congratulations are showered upon him by 4.9 National Ph A group of orphans at ‘St. Vincent's, Edgewood, D. C., where a carnival Photo by Harris & Ewing | CITIZENS PROTEST HIGHWAY PROPOSAL Piney Branch Association Objects to Extending Colorado Avenue Into Blagden Avenue. The Piney Branch Citizens ciation disapproves plans to Colorado avenue, west of 16th street extended into Blagden avenue point near where the latter thorous fare runs into Rock Meeting in the the lowa Avenue M. E Church last night, members of the association were unanimous in th opinion that to form a junction of the two avenues as proposed would create “a most dangerous traffic sit- uation,” on account of the steep grades at the point at which it proposed to have the two roads in- tersect. A resolution was adopted to have a special committee to see Engince Commissioner Bell and request h to have Colorado stende into Rock Creek Park north of Blagdra avenue, or over the route of roadway now leading into the park instead of having it to run into Bla den avenue. The committee appoint ed to see Maj. Bell consists of S 1 Cameron, W. O. Tufts and Percy C Adama. Edgar B. Henderson, president of the association, in speaking of the proposed intersection of the two ave- nues, stated that the making of the connection as proposed would mean running a curved street into another street at a point where the grade would be from 12 to 14 per cent “This, with the heavy automobile trafic into Rock Creek Park, would make it most dangerous,” he said Another resolution was adopted re- questing the District Commissioners to have the west side of lowa avenue between Varnum and Allison paved, 50 as to give better 3 the McFarland Junior High S The association voted to authorize the appointment of a special com- mittee to co-operate with the Takoma Park Citizens' Association in getting better fire and police protection and better school facilities in the north section of Washington. The meeting was the final one of the association this season hav at a Creek Park avenue e | Hold Two in Attack on Officer. Alleged to have been imvlicated in | the attack of Policeman Edward Gore of the first precinet at 12th and E streets Sunday night, when the | policeman was knocked unconscious and a prisoner in his custody re- leased, Solomon Nathan Chesevoir 219 L' street, and George Michael King, Lincoln Hotel, surrendered to the police yesterday. They were charged with assault and released en i bond for their appearance.