Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1924, Page 17

V- ROXIE OF RADIO FAME AND HIS NEW WASHINGTON “GANG.” ing parts in “The Summer Follies,” being produced this week to aid the Roxie fund. The profits of the show go toward provi L ocal girls, many of them debutantes during the past season, are taking lead- ing radio sets for war veterans confined in the many government hospitals. Roxie came (rom New York to atténd the opening of the show last night. ON THE WAY TO CONVENTION. of New York, and their son en route to Madison Square Garden yes- terday morning to attend the Democratic national convention. HATIAN' PROTES * NU.S.DEFENTED League Societies Adopt Res- olution Expressing Sympa- | thy for Nation’s Aspirations. HAD CHARGED CRUELTIES Declares America Had No -Moral Right to Maintain Marinnes on Island. | By the Associated Press. LYON, France, July 1.—A resolu- lion presented by M. Bellegarde, the Haitian minister to France, to the solitical commission of the Federa- ion of League of Nations Societies | esterday, demanding the withdrawal | tf American marines from Haiti, was efeated. A substitute resolution, of- fered by Dr. C. A. Duniway, repre- senting »n American association, was |adopted, and the proceedings put the federation on record as sympathizing th the Haitian people and as’ ex- sing thes wish that thé republic jof aHiti should be given at the ear- liest possible moment all her rights as {an independent state. M. Bellegarde announced that he §f<y \nded to carry the fight to the floar the plenary session of the fedéra- én, which will begin today.. Desire to Withdraw. The American resolution ' decisred that, after noting the represents: tions made by the delegate of the Haiti Society on the nati¢nal aspir: ions of the Haitian people, it viewed vith satistaction. the deplaration - of he desire of the government .of the inited_States to effect with@rawal from Hait! as soon as this can be done consistently with the obliga- | assumed. | elogates of several countries vot- | od against the American resolution, and Japan and China ubstained from voting. 3 t °fl"un= speech M. Bellegarde declared | | tHat the United States could justify | | the occupation by no_international {law. Haiti owed the United States| | no debt and had ill treated no Ameri- | cans, yet for nine years had been | foreed to endure military bccupation, | with martial law and a dictatorship, n contravention of the rights of man and nations. He asserted that with | ihe aid of martial law the United States had imposed prejudicial meas- ures upon the Haitian people under. the | pretext of. the existence of -nternal troubles, yet troubles existed in other countries “and ‘the United States did not intervene. X Dietater _of - Tressury. He accused the Americans of bring-. 5 about the dissolution of th amber of Deputies because they ‘inted to administer the treasury mselves and of ‘establishing &. . sury -digtator, wWho receives his or- s from Washingt g fle further declatsd that when the jsants had refused to contribute jor to road building American ma- ?Eu killed women and children. by | | | | | | | i pping bombs on' the villages. . "A. Duniway fs director of the Atish’ divigion of the American Uni- frsity Union in_Europe. He -hails 1 fom Colorado ‘Springs, Lol = He ! 4e had -been & Shalemasi; ot “hy; the: Unl Assoclat gue of Nations, i but explained #Spotsylvania County, thirty-two years i near Belmont, using a shotgun. Mrs. Smith, wife of the Governor Copyright by P. & A. Photos. $20,000 1Is Awarded To Former Dancer From Rich Banker By the Associated Press. & NEW YORK, July 1.—Madrienne Dever, former dancer, won a judg- ment for $20,000 today in her $100,000 breach of promise suit against Philip M, Shaw, wealthy banker. The case was tried by a jury in the supreme court, before Justice Giegerich. + Justice Giegrich denied & mo- tion of Herbert C. Smizhe, counsel for Shaw, that the verdict be set aside as contrary to the weight of evidence. The usual thirty-day stay to protect an appeal was granted. 3 B In his summation yesterday Mr. Smithe declared that his client was ‘tentitled to the presidency of the fools' club, beciuse, although he 1s fifty-one years old, he yet does not know what it is to withstand the blandishments and wishes of a youns: woman.” _Shaw admitted during the trial that he agreed to marry Miss Dever, but on.the con- dition of his ‘obtaining a divorce from his wife. WITNESS IS SUICIDE - IN VA. MURDER CASE Ax;thur Raines Kills Himself a3’ Trial of Charles Kendall,at ‘¢ Fredericksburg, Nears, \Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 1.—| Arthur Milton Raines, farmer of old, under $1,000 bond as a ‘material witness in a murder case against Charles Kendall, committed suicide Saturday evening at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Raines, Death was instantaneous. 'Raines had been_brooding over the coming trial of Kendall, who was his:em- ployer. Kendall killed Dr. Robert L. Powell on May 17. The case was set for trial in Spotsylvania cireuit court July 7, Raines was with Kendall be- fore and after the tragedy and when Kendall ‘was arrested. Raines hsd told friends he feared he would get a prison sentence. He leaves his wife and six young children, his parents and eight brothers and sister: that he had received no instructions as to how to act on any subject which might come before the federation. Debate on Press. The Haitian question was. debated feverishly, but some of the delegates £aid more time was devoted to a dis- cussion as to whether the press should be admitted than to the merits of the Question. In the meantime the Japanese before another commission were gaining what for them constitutes a great moral victory on the problem of racial equal- ity. The resolution they succeeded in having approved calls upan all states to gdve! ‘mutuslly and reciprocally umi-- form' regulations : for the admittance and de; ure of foreigners without distinction of nationality, religion or oceupation. ‘The Japanese delegation .set forth fts explicit desire that the subjéct should be discussed without involving frymigration, and this reservation fig- ures "inthe proctocol-of the resolu- | bers. HONORS ENGLAND'S riving in England a few days ago, London. RAPS NPERIALISY N SEHOOL SYSTEM | Teacher Calls End of “Gay Rule” Greatest Gain for Education in'Five Years. chief rather than to the welfare of the community, its tradition that all information about the schools should and that any expression of views or the exercise of initiative by a school ‘tendent is a species of.insubordina’: tion is the most important single element of gain-to education during the last five years.” This was the declaration of ‘Ide G Sargeant, principal of School No. 10, Paterson, N. J., chairman of the com- mittee on educational progress, in an address before the department of ele- mentary school principals of the Na- tional Education Association_ at. the Raleigh Hotel today. The meeting’| also was addressed by Rose A. Pesta, president of the Chicago Prinéipals' Glub of Chicage, Ill, who outlined the duties of the National Elementary Principals'. Association to increase the professional growth of its mem- Sees Sycophaats Created. Principal Sargeant said the ‘“im- perialistic idea of organization for American schools, ‘as for American business, was an importation from the old world and has been a heavy handicap to American progress. It has made ible the wrongs suf- fered by tea®hers,’ their bitterness, and has create, the - despicable double-face sycopbant in some of the principalships pointed out by Upton Sinclair. In many systems it endan- gered one's position and future for one to express an original idea un- less credit was given to the ‘chief. “The deflation of this imperialistic notion is giving us a superintendent of larger caliber; one really a leader by right of merit; one who resem- bles the expert chairman of a board of directors in a big business enter- prise. Principals are getting away from the ‘cog ‘automaton’ type and developing into real educational lead- ers. Teachers are-sitting in council with principals. and -superintendents, writing courses of study, rules for the government of schoois and be- coming ‘members of . school boards. -{The democratic idea has brought a single salary schedule with equal at| tainment in many systems. “The biggeat task ahead is the proper organisation ‘of the school forces and creating an esprit du corps. Thousands of classes are with- out teachers or properly trained teachers, children growing up'in ig- norance of the verities.. This sum- mer at the military camps our gov- ernment will spend thousands in [ training-young men for war. Is our danger of invasion by a foreign foe as great as our danger from the Loebs, the Leoopolis, the Cooneys, the bandifs, the condition disclosed by the ofl investigations and the booze hounds? Why not establish great sym- mer campe for teachers, similar to the militery camps, = Where large numbers of our best young men and women can be brought together to give them training, arouse. their en- tion. . ever, the “delegates of th v:rflowggp'nfl;:u appeared t:‘ oon-lde: ‘the “res as ‘a direct bid for in- for ! sistence on .equality of treatment for | sulated fro all nations {n {mmigration matters, thusiasm and aid recruiting for teachers?” rods should mnot be in- m the buildings which they are designed to protect. Lightning WAR DEAD. its. feudal notion of; loyalty to the | worker below the rank of superin- | Gen. Jobn J. Pershing, upon ar- placed a wreath on the cenotaph in Copyright by P. & A, I’hnlna.‘ | | | “Collapse of the idea that there should be a close analogy between the school system and the military system, with its graduations of ranks. come from the head of the system | MAJ. WILLIAM E. R. COVELL. $220,000 DAMAGES ASKEfi FOR COLLISION INJURIES John B. Harrell and his wife, Laura M. Harrell, who were injured in-an automobile collision near Connecticut | avenue and Calvert street May 4 last, have filed sults in the District Supreme Court totaling $220,000 as a result of their injuries. Mrs. Harrell sued Edwin R. Kennedy, owner of the automobile which is said to have col- lided with the Harrell car, for $50,000, and brought a separate suit for the like amount against Charles T. Hear- in, who was driving the Kennedy car. Harrell also sued both the driver and the owmer, placing his .damage against each at §$60,000. Attorneys Julius I. Peyser and Simon, Koenigs- berger & Young appear for the plain- tifta Miss Isabell C. Payne has filed suit for $10,000 damages against Samuel Fingerhut and his father, Edward Fingerhut, for'-injuries aileged to have been sustained when she was struck by a car of the defendants at 9th and R streets. - Attorneys James F Splain- and T. L. Jeffords appear for the plajntiff. ; Asks for Injunction. Max Levy, who has an orange drink establishment at 1374 U street north- west, Is named as defendant in a suit for injunction filed. in_the District Su- preme Court by C. H. Dikeman, pro- prietor of the Dikeman orange bev- erage stands. The plaintiff claims that the decorations on the store of the defendant are almost axact coples of those which he has used in adver- tising his beverage. ~ Attorney Web- ster Ballinger appears for the plain- tife. Y 3 Charges False Imprisonment. Suit to recover $5,000 damages has been filed in the District Supreme Court by Catherine Andreano against her former employer, Mrs. Mary B. Campbell, alleging false imprison- ment. The plaintiff charges that she ‘was detained at the-dressmaking es. tablishment of the: defendant -until ske procured the molzbhi a debt whichi she cliamed was' not_yet due. Attorney M. F. Bischoff -appears for the plaintiRt, 4 AL W.E.R. COVELL | of Engineers, {liminary to Maj. Covell's subsequent THE WRECKED TOWN OF LORAIN, OHIO, AFTER TORNADO. Two photographs of streets of the town, taken while rescne work was going on. The upper pictare shows workers carrying bodies from the demolished State Theater. The lower picture the rails by wind. Huge trees were nprooted and carried for blocks by the wind. When he landed at San Francisco. Lieut. Russell L. Maughan, who trav- eled across the continent by plane in twentytwo hours, photographed as he landed after record-breaking trips Wide World Photo. GIVEN POSTIND.C. Will Act as Instructor to En- gineer National Guard Com- nanies of District. Maj/ William E. R. Covell, now on duty in the personnel division of the office of <hief ‘of engineers, War Department, today was detailed as an instructor| ©of the National Guard of the District | of Columbia, with station in this city. | He was ordered to report to the commanding general of the 3d Corps | Area for instructions, and to report | also to the commanding general, Dis- trict of Columbia National Guard and | :to. the. chief of the militia bureau of the War Department. i His assignment to duty with troops in this city ‘z understood to be pre- Corps detail as an assistant to the Engi- | neer Commissioner of the District of Columbia to fill the vacancy occa- sioned by the transier of Capt. John E. Wood, Corps of Engineers, to duty at the engineer station at Fort Hum- phreys, Va. Capt. Wood's four-year detail with the District government expired today, but he has been grant- ed leave of absence, part of which he used in a visit to Spain. Owing to the necessity of his com- pleting certain work on which he as been emploved in the office of the chief of engineers, the detail of Maj. Covell as an assistant to Engineer Commissioner Bell at the Municipal building will be delayed for a few weeks, but probably will become ef- fective August 1-or shortly there- after. Native of Capital. Maj. Covell was born in this:city November 29, 1892, and received his early education in ‘the public schools, Pprior to his appointment to the:West Point Military Academy, June, 1911. Being graduated four years later, at the héad of his class, he was- ap- pointed a second lieutenant in. the Corps of Engineers, and reached the gradé of major in July, 1920. In No- vember, 1918, he was appointed lieu- tenant colonel in the national Army and seryed creditably in that tem- porary_grade. throughout the world war. " Since the armistice he has had charge of engineering projects in Buffalo, N. Y., and elsewhere. Sev- eral months ago he was called to this city for duty in the personnel division of ‘the office of the chief of engineers at the War Department, where he is at present. He is a brother of Rev. David R._Covell, former rector of Trinity Episcopal Church. 35 The assignment of Maj. Covell will give the District government, for the first time in its history the bemefit of the' service. of four United States en gineers of the grade of major in the same _administration. The quartet consists of Maj. J. F. Bell, the En- ginéer Commissioner, and his three assistants, Maj. R. A. Wheeler, Maj. W. H. Holcombe and Maj. W. E. R. Covell.. Heretofore, the assistants to the Engineer Commissioner,..or at least a majority of them, have been of the grade of captain or lieutedant. Alexandria-D. C. Bus Line Opens. A new bus line between Alexandria and Washington was -opened -today, known as the Alexandria, Barcroff and Washington rapid transit. /The moritny e cloct and tne geet morning leavex - Washington at s 2:The last. leaves here at 12:30: at- pight, according to the ‘dchedule. Washington terminal s - 13th “apd| Pennsylvania avenue. .expeditions, shows a street car thrown from Wide World Photos CAME LONG DISTANCE TO ATTEND THE CONVENTION. Delegates from far-off Hawaii who are now in Washington 1o attend the convention of the National Educatien Association. afternoon. - UL 5. EXPLORATION WORK IS OUTLINED R. A. Graves, Geographic Society, Tells Teachers of Continent’s Wonders. The story of how our own continent is revealing to explorers a civilization more than twice as old and fully as {complex as that of Tut-ankh-Amen's period and how American explorers have unlocked the secrets of glaciers, volcanoes, earthquakes and curious peoples was described to delegates of the National Education Association, at a geographic conference held this aft- ernoon at the New Masonic Temple. The National Geographic Society was in charze of the program, and will be for a_second one Thursday after- noon, at.2 o'clock, when Robert Cush- man Murphy will speak on “Adventures of a South Sea Expedition. At this afternoon's session Ralph A. Graves, the speaker, told the teachers the reason geography is neglected, is prosaic in ‘the schoolroom too goften and soon -forgotten frequently, is that it was approached in the past—not to- day happily—as an_ abstract, lifeless, academic sort of subject. Pictures Are Shown. Teachers were given the first show- ing of some of the remarkable pic- tures Joseph F. Rock took while leading & National Geographic Socie- ty expedition through the untravers- ed and bandit-infested natural won- derland between Tibet and China. First showing also was given of slides made from_ photographs taken by Frederick R. Wulsin, leader of a National Geographic Society expedi- tion in China’s extremely wild north- west. The National Geographic Society's which have sailed the Seas, climbed mountain peaks, pene- trated the frozen north and braved tropic jungles, were reviewed. Ome Expedition Built Rallway. One geographic expedition now is delving further into the ruins of Chaco Canyon, where it built a min- lature rafiroad to remove tons of rubbish. Therein it finds an occasion- al memento to piece together the fas- cinating story of thisapartment com- munity which thrived before Colum- bus came. x It is the soclety's expedition to Cuicuilco, south of Mexico City, which is’ uncovering the Pompeil of the western world—a giant mound | centuries before Pompeii’s | which, time, 'was incased in time.defying lava and today is disclosing to the | explorer's relics of a people who lived there probably 7,000 years ago, The speaker began with slides of the National Geographic Society’s first expedition—that -to Mount St. Elias, Alaska, which first named the Pied- mont glaciers and gave an account of Alaskan mirages. Plente Peak Slays Thousands. He told the story of the society’s study of Martinique, where a favorite peak for. picnics exploded and anni. hilated a city. of -80,000 people, and destroyed .seventeen ships anchored in the St. Plerre harbor. One mem- ber of that expedition was Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, now a world famous vol- canologist, who ‘then aroused skeptj- cism by prophesying that it would be possible to predict eruptions in time to avoid such casualties. This proph- ecy was vindicated when the explo- sion of Sakurajima, Japan’s greatest | Porth volcanic eruption, was definitely pre- dicted and its ravages minimized. The _ soclety’s volcanic studies reached- their climax; the - speaker said,: when a: series. of--expeditions ere ment to Mount Katmal, Alaska, nd, during the-studies of that great- est active volcano in all the world, the famous Valley of Thousand | | ! | beside beautiful fountain Smokes was tures were Coney Island Another expedition to Alaska solved problems relating to the ice age and discovered traces of a Jamaica flora, showing that Alaska once had tropical climate. Other expeditions described and pictured included the Wellman polar expedition. that of = Peary which | planted the Stars and Stripes and the Geographic flags at the north pole, that which studied the effects of the Messina earthquake and gave an impetus to seismological science, | and that which uncovered the mar- | vels of Machu Picchu, Peru. Here Ince city farmers culfivated hizhly specialized vegetable crops, gossiped fashioned | intricate trinkets for the gods and | iheir women, and gave to the world | two major crops, Indian corn and the | potato. “And all this was happening on our continent,’ h speaker said, “while Zuropean ancestors lived by the chase and dressed in skins. Another geographic expedition now is at Carlsbad, New Mexico, where the society sent geologists to tra- verse the greatest of North America's caverns. The startling magnificence of its subterranean wonders was de- picted. covered. hown Motion ple- of~ this “scenic ' 7 THE WEATHER District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia—Overcast, with light show- ers this afternoon and probably to- night: tomorrow partly cloudy; little changes in temperature; gentle to mod- erate northeast winds. West Virginia—Generally fair night and tomorrow; not change in temperature. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 77; § p.n., 73; 12 midnight, 68; 4 am., 66; 8 a.m. 68; noon, 78. Barometer—4 ‘pm., 30.01; § pm., 30.00; 12 midnight, 30.02; 4 a.m., 29.98 : 8 a.m., 30.02; noon, 30.02. Highest temperature, 78, 4:40 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 6 a.m. today. Temperature same date Highest, 80; lowest, 54. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls—Tempera- turé, 70; condition, very muddy. Weather ta Various Cities. to- much occurred at oceurred at last year— Station bilene, Tex. 90.22 30.02 it 3002 38. ... Cloudy 0.02 Cloudy. 0.1¢ Raining Cloudy Clear Atlantic Ci Baitimore . seEuny 3RBRIFIARNIBIL -, R TESTFHTERTIY gEESEEmGRRE LNy Omaba ... Philadelphia. Phoenix .. 3328282853338 BaaE | ginia, Pennsylvania’ and the Dis | ‘non-coms" 33BupRNEEsEy Suss 2 : figsfiesssniaszsufiis Photograph taken yesterday Copyright by Harris & Ewing. 0. BOYS ARRVE AT CANP NEADE 200 From Capital Among 4,000 Taking Course at Training Center. By & Staff Correspondent. CAMP MEADE, Md.. July 1.—F thousand youths, some still bearing the unmistakable marks of a pre- vious summer's experience and some the rawest rookies that ever quaked at the sight of a shoulder strap, de- trained today for a month's intensive instruction in the citizens' militars training camp that opened here. They came from Maryland v Ti another enroll ion of Columbia. At least thousand ‘had to be refused ment for this year because provis and authority had been provided for a maximum of 4,000 members of the citizens' military training camp and about 400 members of the reserve offi- | cers' training camp, both of which are being conducted here jointly. D. C. Boys Arrive Early. The Washington boys, numbering about 200, arrived at 7:30 o'clock. having come on a special train over the lines cf the Washington, Balti- more and Annapolis Railway. They ‘were met at the station by regular Army officers, divided into detach- ments of fifteen men each, and signed to their barracks. Non-com- missioned officers from the regular service made them acquainted with their temporary homes Scarcely had the citizen soldiers dropped their packs on their cots when the bugle sounded assembly, They were bundled out to face their initial inspection and immediately afterward were supplied with uni- forms and full equipment—rifies, cart- ridge belts, mess kit, blankets and the regulation eighty odd pounds a good soldier must learn to pack around. It was a novel experience for many of the District lads. To their imaginative young hearts, the silvery notes of the bugle, calling them to their first “chow” promptly at noon. was a_thrill they will long remem- ber. It was the beginning of the strict but wholesome routine that is expected to send them back home at the end of the month better mentally and .physically for the experience. Training Starts Tomorrow. All of today will be occupied by getting. the 4,000 recruits properly equiped and billeted. Tomorrow they ‘will get down to business Every man will be assigned to his company. Their officers will be members of the reserve.officers’ training camp, the latter supervised, however, by officers detailed to duty here from the regular service. In addition, a bat- talion of regular enlisted men and z will assist in their in- struction. The recruits may elect the branch of the service. they wish to learn— | intantry, artillery, cavalry or engi- neers—and their instruction will be devoted. to {hat arm.’ ' A complete course at the citizens’ military train- {ng camp. comprises four months of training, taken at the rate of a month each summer. Recruits who prove efficient will then be eligible _| for enlistment in the reserve officers’ camp, graduation from which en- titles them to a commission as sec- ond licutenants in. the Reserve Corps.