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BLAST IN HOSPITAL INJURES PHYSICIAN Anesthetic Explodes ~While Being Used on Patient at Garfield. AFFAIR IS MINIMIZED Dr. F. M. Dillard Struck in Eye by Fragment of Container—Se- riousness Is Doubted. An explosion of anesthetic in an operating room at Garfield Hospital late yesterday created some excite- ment for a few minutes, but did no damage other than to singe slightly the hair of a patient who was under- Roing an operation with an electric needle and slightly injuring an at- tending surgeon. The patient, William Desmond, sixty-eight years old, of Alexandria, Va. has a serious throat infection. one of the most advanced treatments for which is a cauterizing process Wwith an electric needle. Dr. Edwin A. Merritt of Chevy Chase, one of the best known X-ray specialists in the country, was performing the oper- ation with the assistance of Dr. Frank M. Dillard of Alexandria and Dr. Joseph B. Bogan of Falkstone Courts, The anesthetic one of the least anesthesias. It is sometimes neces- sary to use ether, too, and a small quantity of that was attached to the same apparatus. When the gas was let into a small rubber mixing bag— too frail to permit of sufficient con- densation to have made a serious ex- plosion possible—a minute quantity of the cther is believed to have ac- cidentally seeped in also. Blast Very Slight. These two ingredients when mixed, however, are highly explosive, and as the surgeon removed the electric | needle from his patient's throat it | came in contact with the gasses, re- sulting in their ignitton. The explo- sion, however, was not even suffi- cient to harm a number of glass in- strument cases a few fect away, and none of the operating room appara tus was damaged in the slightest. Mr. Desmond's hair, ncar where the bag rested, was singed, but he did not know until hours afterward | that he had been in an explosion. Dr. | Merrit, Dr. Bogan and an attending nurse éscaped aitogether, and Dr. Dil- lard was struck in‘the eye by a frag- ment of the bursted bag, slightly in- juring the cornea. It is not believed, however, the injury will prove seri- ous. Explosions of anesthesias, _doctors declared, are not rare, although such | a flash as occurred in Garfield Hos- | pital vesterday, they said, would not be likely to happen once in a mil- lion times, the premature mixture of the ether ‘with fhe nitric oxide hav- ing probably been due to an unnot able leak in one of the rubber tubes | leading to the mixture bag All of those who figured in the explosion had recovered by today e cept Dr. Dillard, whose cye still is under observation to make sure that Do dangerous complications arise. THE WEATHER District of Columbia and Maryland | —Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow fatr, not much change in temperature; mentle variable winds. Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight, probably showers in southwest por- tion; tomorrow partly cloudy, not much change in temperature. Gentle, variable winds, mostly north. West Virginia—Generally night and tomorrow; not change in temperature Records for Twenty-] Thermometer—4{ p.m.. 7 68; 12 midnight, 63; 4 am, 66; noon, 7 Barometer—4 pm.. 30.06; 12 midnight, 30.08: 4 a'm., 30.06 8 am., 30.12; noon, 30.0. | Highest temperature, 75, occurred at noon today. Lowest temperature, at 4 am. today. Temperature same Highest, 78: lowest, 61. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at § am.—Great Falls: Tem- perature, 70; condition, very muddy. Weather in Various Cities. was nitric dangerou oxide, of all fair to- much 8 p.m, 61; 8 am 61, occurred e last year— ZTemperature. = 1womo] Stations, Weather. < asm Cloudy Clear| Clear Raining Clondy Clear, Clear, Oloudy Clear! Pt.clouds Clear Ciear Pt.clouds Clear Clear Cloudy Clear’ Rirmingliz: Rismarek Bostcn Ruffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Deaver . Detroit Bl Paso alveston elena Huron, ; Indianapolis. Jaeksonville. Kansas Cit Tos Angel Louisville Miami, F1 New Orle: New York.. Okla. City Omaha . Philadelphia. Phoenix ... Pittsburgh . Portland. Me. Cloudy cl Clondy Cloudy Clear Clondy Clear Cloudy Clear Clear Clondy . Ptcloudy (8 a.m., Greenwich time. todsy.) Stations: Temperuture. Weather. londen, Fmogland. . 68 Part clondy Paris, England. 60 t cloudy Vienna, Austri clovdy t clondy t clondy Part cloudy Rain Cloudy Clonds Cloudy Hamilton, *Bermuda San_Juan, Porto Rico Bavana, Cubs..... Ovlaa, Canal Zone. Argentine Weather Data. For the week ending June 30, 1924, Dept. temp's- from pre. from ture. a'mal cip. o'mal. Corn and northern whest area. .o ,« o 0 —o Southern wheat area. 16 o 0 —o. ——— Izzy Makes Big Haul YONKERS, N. Y, July 2—Whisky valued at $50,000 was seized today by Issy Einstein and Moe Smith, prohi- bition agents, in a building near the water front, which contained thirty- ome vaults especially fashioned as liquor compartments. Firemen worked with mggane torches two hours in opening the largest vault, Radio Fund Receipts Cash contributions to The Star's “radio shut-in fund” re- ceived during the last twenty- four hours follow: Previously acknowl- edged i St, Paul's English Lu- theran Church.... cee...$698.75 The crystal set and equip- ment fund totals 183 sets, 40 pairs of headphones, 60 aerial post: crystals, pipe for 30 ground connections, antenna and lead-in wire and other equipment for installation. .$688.75 Total...... CITIZENS ASSAIL BOXING IN COUNTY Permits Recommended De- spite Protest by Delegation at Marlboro. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., July 2.— The law passed by the last session of the legislature providing that be- fore the state boxing commission shall issue permits for boxing bouts in Prince Georges or Montgomery counties the applications must be recommended by the county commis- sioners became effective yesterday and a delegation of men and women from a number of sections of the county appeared before hte commis- sioners to protest against granting permission for bouts Thursday at Berwyn and Monday at Kenilworth. Judge J. H. Shepherd, Dr. Albert F. Woods, president of the University of Maryland; Rev. B. Andrew Matzen, pastor of the Berwyn Presbyterian Church; the Rev. Fred C. Klein of Berwyn Heights: Alexander Gude, representing the county grange, H. A. arsden, secretary of the county community council; Mrs. G. P. Bick- ford of Berwyn and others were in the delegation. They said the bouts depreciated property In the county, attract an undesirable element, and constitute a nuisance. Roads in the wyn neighborhood are damaged the heavy traflic incident to the bouts and the county is deriving no revenue from them, it was said. Judge J. H. Shepherd declared that Prince Georges County was being made a “dumping ground,” since the District of Columbia. Montgomery County and nearby Virginia had re- fused to permit boxing. The com- missioners voted three to one to recommend the granting of the per- mits. They said future permits would not be favored, if it was proved that the affairs constituted a nuisance BOLT BY TEACHERS TO 3D PARTY URGED IF PLATFORM SUITS _(Continued from First Page.) i film in any y without a license, nor may any persons or concerns ‘deal with another without ascertaining that the latter is licensed. Could Trace Film Origin. “Inasmuch as the real sources are and must be comparatively limited in | extent,” said the report, “it will be seen how supervision of the traffic and detection and prevention of vio- lation are facilitated by these regula- tions. From the books of a very few concerns ome could readily run down the location of practically all the inflammable film ia the country at a given time. “Opposition may be expected from a small group of fire fighters who in- sist that the only remedy is the com- plete abandonment of nitro-cellulose and the substitution of acetate as a film base. Some theatrical exhibitors have a hostile or a suspicious at- titude toward anything that may promote the non-theatrical use of film. There is no_little opposition from unionized motion picture opera- tors, doubtless because of a fear of some loss of employment.™ Simpler Arithmetic Urged. Omission from the arithmetic work of the grade schools of twenty-one processes, which it regards as use- less, w recommended in a prelimi- nary report of the committee on reor- ganization of arithmetic and pre- sented by Dr. Guy M. Wilson of the Boston University School of Eudca- tion. They are: Apothecaries’ weight, partial payments, proportion, Troy weight, greatest common divisor and least common multiple bevond .the power of inspection; long, confusing problems in common fractions, com- plex and compound fractions, reduc- tions in denominate numbers, table of folding paper, surveyors' tables, tables of foreign money, compound number, addition, sub!m(‘lll\p. multi- plication and division, longtitude and time, cases two and three in per- centage, compound interest, annual interest, exchange, both domestic and foreign; true _discount, partnership with time, ratio beyond the ability of fractions to satisfy, most of mensuration (thetrapezoid, trapezium, polyRons, frustum, sphere), cube root d the metric system. A here is considerable evidence that arithmetic, notwithstanding many scientific studies and recommenda- tions to the contrary, is still giving time to useless and traditional sub- jects,” said the report, “and by tak- ing excessive time in the schools is preventing the accomplishment of the larger and more vitaY citizenship aims of education which are now being urged. The committee, in its prelimi- nary report, however, does not at- tempt to reach conclusions. It re- jects the old_formal discipline doc- irine, which has been used so often to support the teaching of useless processes in the sehools, and definite- s accepts the standard of social util- ity. On this basis it raises ten cru- cial problems and asks the co-opera- tion of the teaching profession in their solution.” English Report Submitted. J. W. Searson, professor of Eng- lish at the University of Nebraska, chairman of the committee on prob- lems of English teaching, submitted a tentative report to the general as- sembly outlining activities of the committee during the past year. The principal work of the committee, he said, was to collect a vast amount of material from every feld of English teaching, which has been classified in the form which will be of especial help to all teachers. The committee on the classification of educational material in_a report submitted by Thomas H. Briggs of the Teachers’ College of Columbia University, chairman, recommended that the N. E. A. undertake on fits own initiative the monthly publica- tion of index cards of current educa- tional materials in books, magazines and reports similar to the cards that the Library of Congress has for gen- eral literature. Dictionary of Term: The committee on educational nomenclature, through its chairman, John W. Withers, dean of the. School of Education of New York University, reported that it has spent the pest year in defining its policy and plan of work. The responsibility of mak ing a complete dictionary of educe- tional terms, the report pointed out, would not be assumed by the com- mittee because of the lack of time and means. Other reports were submitted to the general assembly for the committee on thrift problems by Arthur H. Chamberlain, secretary of the Cali- fornia State Teachers’ Association, and for the committee on social studies by Lida Lee Pall, principal of the Maryland State Normal School of Towson, Md. Delegates to the comwention, mpent. ulose w T The first guests of the C outheas MORE DEAD FEARED INRUINS OF LORAIN No Effort Yet Made to Search for Bodies in Many of Wrecked Buildings. By the Associated Press. LORAIN, Ohio, July 2—While this city continued today to dig itself out of the ruins wrought by Saturday's tornado, Gov. Vie Donahey and a com- mittee appointed by him to aid in bringing order out of chaos was to survey the ruined district, compris- ing about 125 blocks, and to devise means to rebuild the city. Order and systematic relief having becn established, considerable prog- ress is being made in cleaning up the wreckage., The two principal thor- oughfares, RBroadway and Erie streets, have been cleared and practi- cally all streets have been opened to traffic. Repair Work Temporary. Only in residences fit for habitation has there been any attempt to put things in order or to make repairs. Most repair work has been only of tamporary nature. Hundreds of de- molished residences have not yet been explored for dead Work of clearing th State Theater, where < lieve there may still be a few bodie continues with the aid of steam- shovels. The list of dead remained at sixty-five early today Military Control Strict. Stricter military control w in effect on Broadway last night. where a num- ber of wrecked banks are located. Even high ranking officers not directly con- nected with units doing guard duty there were not permitted to pass through the lines. Fire apparatus, accompanied by offi- cers and responding to alarms, also was required to halt and present identifica- tion before being permitted to pass, ac- cording to reports to Brig. Gen. John R McQuigg, commanding officer. Sentry lines on other streets were not as tight as previously, however. So great is the amount of personal | property recovercd from the ruins that established “effects the affected area. to be taken and ner upon proper the military today " throughout where all property delivered to the identification. National officers of the Red Cross ar- riving vesterday made a survey and completed organization for relief work. were to meet today with Gov. nahey and the general state relief committee. Local telegraph offices reported a heavy receipt of cablegrams from Eu- ropean countries inquiring about reia- tives. depot o LIQUOR THEFT TRIAL POSTPONED SIX DAYS Policeman Rone and Grossman Re- leased Under $5,000 Bail Each. The police court hearing of house- breaking charges against Policeman Guy Rone, detailed to the sixth pre- cinct, and Harry Grossman, who were arrested early yesterday morning in the wine cellar of Gustave W. Fors- berg, vachtsman and proprietor of the Forsberg Iron Works, was post- poned today until July 8, as the court was informed the government was not ready with the case. . Rone and Grossman were released from No. 10 police precinct yesterday afternoon under bond of $5,000 each. They had been in a cell at the police station since their capture, about 3:30 o'clock yesterday morning, by De- tective C. J. P. Weber and Peiceman E. F. Lewis of the tenth precinct and Prohibition Enforcement Officer W. S. Brown, who had lain in wait at the Forsberg home, 4907 14th street, for the expected return of liquor bur- glars who had entered the house the two previous nights. The Forsberg house had been va- cant during the robberies, Mr. Fors- berg living aboard his yacht in the Potomac and Mrs. Forsberg and chil- dren being away on vacation. Ap- proximately $1,000 worth of valuable whiskies, wines, brandies and gin were taken. Part of the loot was re- covered in a clump of bushes several blocks away. Rone, regardless of police court action, will be tried before the police trial board, it is sald. He is under suspension from the force. e et NAMED AS SLAYER. Colored Man Surrenders on Charge of Shooting Girl, John Howard, colored, 782 Kenyon street, was named by a coroner’s jury, at an’ inquest at the morgue yester- day afternoon, as the slayer of Grace Coates, colored, at 1805 5th street late Saturday night. Last night the ao- cused surrendered to the police at the Tenleytown police station and was turned over to police of the eighth precinct. A charge of murd ‘was placed against him. The prisener explained to the po- lice that he had been in the woods in the vicinity of Chevy Chase since the shooting, and last night his rela- tives advised him to surrender. this afternoon attending the. open house of twenty-one national organi- zations, which have hudu‘:x‘nrur. in Washington. There will no_ses- sion of the convention this evening because of the numerous dinners. re- ceptions and social events scheduled on the eatertalnment N"T p of the semmon, photographed as they were about to leave for th REPORT ON GERMANY SOUGHT BY COOLIDGE Conference Arranged With Ambas- sador Houghton, Now Home From Berlin. First-hand information on condi- tions in Germany, particularly as bearing on the situation with respeet to the Dawes report, was understood to have been sought by President Coolidge in arranging a conference today ~with Alanson B. Houghton, American ambassador at Berlin. On arriving in New York yesterday Am- bassador Houghton was quoted® as saying he considered Germany had done_everything asked of her under the Dawes plan and that he hoped she would accept it. Mr. Houghton is said to have post- poned a previously planned date of departure for the United States for several weeks in order that he might continue his observation of develop- ments in Germany during that time. Interest of the administration in Ge man conditions has been made clear by its repegted expressions of hope that the Dawes plan would be ac- cepted as a starting point for a solu- tion of the reparations problem MILL BURNED, OWNER FALLS IN WELL; DEAD John R. Woodyard, Seventy-Six Years Old, Victim of Series of Misfortunes in Virginia. Special Dispateh to The Star. HOADLEY, Va., July 2 Woodyard died this morning in Alexandria Hospital as a result of injuries received Monday night when burning timbers fell upon him as he clung to a pipe in a well at h saw mill here. He had fallen into the well while drawing water with which to extinguish the fire Woodward was 6 years old. While working at the mill his engine broke down and he went to his home near- by for tools with which to make re- pairs. Upon returning he discovered that the mill was afire. He attempted to draw the water when he tripped and fell into the well, a distance of seven feet. He clung to a pipe until assistance arrived, despite the se- rious injury caused by the timber falling upon him. His rescue was efferted by meighbors attracted by the fire. The mill, valued at $1,000, was practically destroyed. B DAWES PLAN PRAISED —John R. BY ENVOY TO BERLIN| Will Restore Germany to Normalcy Rapidly, U. 8. Ambassador Holds. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 2.—Alanson B. Houghton, ambassador to Germany, Who arrived yesterday on the steam- ship Leviathan for a brief visit, said he thought conditions in Germany were improving and that application Jawes plan would cause the rapidly to return to normal. has done everything that has been asked of her under the Dawes plan,” Mr. Houghton said. “Germans have changed the laws of their country to meet the clauses of the plan, and I sincerely hope they will accept it. 1 am convinced that Germany thinks the plan is an effort to_settle the economic problem.” The Leviathan arrived a day late because of heavy fog. DANISH RULE SHAKEN. Failing Exchange May Necessitate New Loans. to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1924. COPENHAGEN, July 2.—The new So- cialist premier, Stauning, who was elect- ed as “savior of the Danish crown,” re- celved a heavy blow today hen Danish money underwent another big drop in value in_relation to dollars and the pound. Forelgn exchange is becoming very scarce here, business men getting only about 10 or 15 per cent of their normal supplies. The remainder is turned over to the newly established ex- change central, which rations the ex- change. Even tourists may find it diffi- cult to obtain the necessary foreign notes in the near future. There is talk of floating a second for- eign loan in the United States in addi- tion to the first one for $5,000,000, which already has been obtained. It is hoped that such a loan would stabilize the crown permanently. Premier Stauning is so alarmed about the situation that he is considering the necessity of summoning parliament dur- ing the summer vacation for the purpose of passing laws to protect Danish ex- change. sermany By Radio —_— WILL GO ON EXCURSION. Hecht Bmployes to Take Boat Trip Tonight. The annyal moonlight excursion of the Hecht Company Employes’ Mu- tual Benefit Association is to be held tonight on the steamer St Johns, leaving the 7th street wharf at 7:15 o'clock. Samuel G. Crown, chairman of the excursion committee, announces the following _ special features: Bab Groome and his string orchestra; Miss Emily Bruff, Egyptian dancer; Miss Mary Mullen, popular songs, and Bert J. Rosenberg, whistling. The commfitee in charge includes Samuel _G.. Crown,.-chairman; Miss Nina Fickling, Miss Lillian Cullen, Mrs. Kebgh, 'Mra Collins' and Mrs. McCaw. $20,000 Asked for Injuries. Charles H. Darmstadt, Inc., was sued today in the Distriet Supreme Court for §20,000 damages by Ty Brashears for alleged personal in- juries, Brashears says he was em- ployed by the corporation on the ‘Walker Hotel, and the wrench fur- nished for him to work with was de. fective and bent, causing him to fall from a scaffolding and sustain serious injury. Attorneys Harry H. Hol- auu- and Mark Stesrman appear for the plaintir, |t D. C., WEDNESDAY, ARGENTINE STATU 1S EN ROUTE HERE San Martin Figure Is Gift of Latins to People of United States. BY CLAUDE O. PIKE. By Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1924. BUENOS AIRES, July 3—The equestrian statue of Gen. San Martin, liberator of Argentina, was aboard the Pan-American liner American Legion today, en route #h Washing- ton, the gift of the people of Argen- tina. The American diplomatic corps joined the Argentine officfals in cere- monies incident to loading the statue on the ship. With the statue the Argentines are sending to the United States the neccssary material for erecting it, including sand from the battieficld of San Lorenzo, site of the first engagement in which San Martin fought. The base work of the statue depicts San Martin's troops crossing the Andes and proclaiming the inde- pendence of Peru Statue In Reciproeal Girt. The presentation of the statue of Gen. Jose de San Martin, the libera- tor of Argentina, is a reciprocal ex- pression of the good will evidenced when America sent a statue of George Washington down to that country about twelve years ago. About two years ago, a national movement to reciprocate for the gift of the Washington statue swept the republic of Argentina, and by popu- lar subscription, arrangements were made for the scluptor Dumont to copy the great statue of the liberator, which graces the Plaza de San Mar- tin at Buenos Aires and present it to this country. A joint resolution recently passed by the Senate and House of iepre- tatives authorized the chief of en- | to allow erection of the! on a site to he selected by the | = Arts Commission, on some pub- | lic grounds here, exclusive of the White House, the Capitol, the Con- gressional Library and a few other sites The selection of the site has not yet been announced. Within a few | months, however, one of the big parks | of Washington ‘will be the location for a statue for the George Wash- ington of Argentina, just as a big Buenos Aires park today is the loca- tion of a statue of the San Martin of the United States. Elaborate ceremonies are planned under the auspices of the Pan-American Union for the unveiling of the statue. De- tails will Le announced later. —————— AVIATOR’'S MOTHER DIES. Mrs. Nancy J. Martin Succumbs in Indiana Hospital. SRSVILLE, Ind., July 2—Mra J. Martin, mother of Maj. Fred- erick L. Martin, former commander of the United States around the world flving squadron. is dead at.a local hospital. Maj. Martin was at her bedside. Notified that her condition was critical, Maj. Martin came to Connersville in an aeroplane from Chanute Field, Rantoul, Tll. Sl Four Commissioned in 0. R. C. Commissions in the Officers’ Reserve Corps have been issued by the War Department to Osear 1. Levy, 4521 9th street, this city, as a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service; Earl B. Wadsworth, 4410 Fessenden street, this city, a5 a first lleutenant in the Quartermaster Corps: Robert H. Shank, Hagerstown, Md., as a second lieutenant of infantry, and Thomas Garfield, Fort Myer, Va. as a second lieutenant in the adjutant general's department. CON Miss Olive M. Jones, president of the National ucation Association, is a strict disciplinarian. The busi- nesslike manner in which she con- ducted the session of the general as- sembly yesterday in the Central High School Auditorium amused as well as surprised some of the male delegates. After several futile attempts to re- store order in a gentle, womanlike manner, Miss Jones shouted to the delegates: “If 1 lose every friend I have in this hall, I will have silence.” She then appointed temporary sergeants-at-arms_and ordered them to close the doors and permit none of the delegates to leave or enter the hall during the remainder of the session. ‘There was no further interruption of the business session. A new custom has been inaugurat- ed by the general assembly. It is a “gtretching period.” Periodically dur- ing the sessions a recess was taken for several minutes to allow the dele- gates to rise and supple their joints, which have become cramped’ from sitting. Plans are being made to install the public speech systém’ of amplification in_the auditorium of. Central High School to enable the delegations in the rear of the hall and thdse in the gallery to hear the speakers, Com- plaint’ was made at yesterday's se sion of the general assembly that the delegations in certain sections of the hall were unable to hear some speakers. Amplifiers already have been in- stalled in the Central Stadium for “open air’ meetings of the conven- tion, and have worked successfully. Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, presi- dent general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, announced that she has secured Mme. Bernice de JULY 2, 1924 vacations from the French School, 7th and G streets FEDERAL WORKERS SOON TO ORGANIZE Will Form District Federation to Aid Service and Selves, Dr. J. F. Meyer Says. Organization of the District Fed- eration of Federal Employes is to take place soon, according to Dr. J. Franklin Meyer, temporary chalrman, under whose direction the work is being carried on. The organization is formed, ac- cording to a tentative draft of the constitution, “for the co-ordination of action on matters of mutual in- terest to all federal employes of the District of Columbia and with a view to betterment of the federal service in general.” Delegates and alternates to the Dis- trict federation are being named by the ten local unions of federal em- ployes, members of the National Fed- eration of Federal Employes. It is realized that there are some problems peculiarly local and that these come rightly under the consid- eration of the local federal workers. s D. C. CHIEFS ASK OVER §35,000,000 Estimates for 1926 to Be Taken Up by Commissioners Next Week. The District Commissioners will be- §in Monday the task of going over the estimates of their department heads for the fiscal year 1925-1926. Their first object will be to arrive at an approximate total and submit that figure to the budget bureau. All department estimates are not yet be- fore the Commissioners, and, con- scquently, no one can say what they will aggregate. Indications are, how ever, that the figure will be between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000. The original estimates of depart- ment chiefs will be higher than last year because of the substantial salary increases that have been granted since last year's estimates were prepared. Will Renew 6040 Figh Before advising Gen. Lord of the approximate total the city heads will g0 over the details of what their subordinates have asked for to make sure that only essential projects are included. Although Congress abolished the 60-40 plan of appropriating for the the National Capital for the coming twelve months and substituted a lump sum of $9.000,000 as the federal government's share, it is understood the Commissioners intend to ask Con- gress next fall to restore the 60-40 system. The estimates will be prepared on the basis of what the city actually will need next year, without mention of the fiscal relations. That is a leg- islative question on which the Com- missioners will state their views when they are called to the Capitol in December to defend the sum of money they have asked for. SLooEiogmes o N. E. A. Woman Visitor Injured. Mrs. Edna Davis, thirty, 2090 East Pickwick street, Philadelphia, attend- ing to National Education Assoclation convention, was injured in an auto- mobile accident in Arlington cemetery yesterday afternoon. She was with her husband and child in an auto- mobile that turned turtle, husband and child escaping injury. Mrs. Davis sustained a fracture of her left arm and minor injuries. She was given first aid at Fort Myer before being taken to Emergency Hospital. in Washington this week. to enter- tain the delegates to the N. . A. con- Jintion at the patriotic pilgrimage to lemorial ontinental afternoon. RalpE Ay A demonstration of the vis - cation instruction given in !h‘:!.lnuegl‘llc Mhof:l! of Washington was given in the Savoy Theater this morning for visiting “teachers. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of the Distriet public schools, presided. The demon- stration was conducted by Miss Eliza- beth Dyer, with a representative group of Washington school children. A garden party and tea in honor of the visiting delegates will be given by the Washington Distriet Council of Catholic Women from 4 to 6 o’olock this afternoon at the National Catholic Service School, 2400 19th ire vistel e visiting delegates friends will e received “py ‘Mo George P. Scriven, president of the local organization, assisted by Miss Mary Merriok, Miss Rebeoea Shanley an me. een, vice presi the Distriet Council, facteiof embers of the faculty and the rtudent body of the National Cath- olic Service School will escort the visitors through the school and ex- plain the organization, purposes and accomplishments of the school in the training of young women for social ang welfare work. ‘ea_will be served in the spacious gardens adjoining the school build- ings. Mme. Ignacio Calderon and Mrs. Charles P. Neill will preside at the tea tables, assisted by Mre, Elmer Murphy and Mrs. Harold P, Norton. . One of the most interested dele- gaten at the convention is Amadel I Francis, principal of the Fred- ericksted School of St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Mr. Francis: was in Wash- ington for the vesper services which opened the convention program Sun- day afternoon, and has attended all Qolu‘% t’i‘t Metro- sessions of the general assembly, MERGER OF TRADE ROUTES APPROVED Ship Board Agrees to Con- solidate U. S. Lines to Old World—Saving Seen. The Shipping Board today approved the recommendations of the Fleet Corporation for consolidating the government’s trade routes operating from the north Atiantic and gulf to the orient and Dutch East Indies, and South Atlantic to the United Kingdom and continental European ports. The merger of the first named serv- ice will be effected through a com- bination of the Barber steamship lines of New York and the Tampa Inter-Ocean Steamship Company of New Orleans and the elimination of the Kerr Steamship Company of New York. Four ships will be takén off the berths and twenty-four retained, eight to be operated from the North Atlantic via the Panama Canal to the Orient, eight from the north Atlantic via south Atlantic ports and Hono- luly, direct to the Philippines, and eight from the gulf to the Orientt. Large Saving Expected. Approximately $335,000 a year will be saved under the consolidation, President Palmer estimated, with fur- ther economies possible by improved routing and increase flexibility of service. The Carolina Company, the Tampa Inter-ocean Steamship and Trosdal Plant and La Fonta, the three opera- tors of government tonnage out of Savannah, Charleston and Jackson- ville, will be merged into one company to operate seven vessels to the United Kingdom and continental European ports. Nine ships have been running in the trade and the consolidation Was approved on the assumption that the three companies would form a volun- tary combination. Mr. Palmer in his recommendations said he believed a satisfactory service could be given with seven vessels and a savings of $250,400 a year effected. Other Mergers Considered. The Carolina company operates from Charleston to Bremen and Ham- burg, the Tampa Inter-Ocean Steam- ship Company from Jacksonville to London, Rotterdam and Antwerp and Trosdal, Plant and LaFonta from Savannah to Liverpool and Man- chester. Other cargo route mergers, as pro- posed by the Fleet Corporation’s con- solidation committee, were under con- sideration today by the Shipping Board, including the twenty-eight- vessel service from north Atlantic ports to French ports north of Bor- deaux, Antwerp and Rotterdam. oper- ated by the Cosmopolitan Steamship Company and the Black Diamond Steamship Company, both of New York, and the north Atlantic to Med- iterranean port routes, conducted by the Mallory transport lines. Bull & Co. and the Export § Corporation, all of New York. TOLLEY WINS FRENCH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP | Walter Hagen Is Runner Up to British Amateur, 3 Strokes Be- hind, With 293. By the Associated Press. LA BOULIE, France, July 2.—Cyril Tolley, star British amateur golfer, won the ¥rench open championship, decided here today, with a total of 230 for the 72 holes of medal play. | Walter Hagen, the American profes- | sional holder of the British open championship, finished second with & total of 293. i a——— DECISION ON LUMBER | FRAUD SUIT DUE MONDAY | Justice Bailey Takes Final Argu- ments Under Advisement—E. C. Morse Exonerated. Justice Bailey in Criminal Division 2 will render his decision next Mon- day on the motions to acquit, filed by the remaining five defendants in the alleged lumber conspiracy case, which has been on trial for two montha The court yesterday ex- onerated Ernest C. Morse, former di- rector of sales of the War Depart- ment, and on Monday. when the jury returns, will direct his acquittal. Judge Kenefick of Buffalo, N. Y., today concluded his argument in response to the government's claim that his client. Frank T. Sullivan. should not be discharged. Attorney Conrad H. Syme, for Charles Philips, jr.. ended the discussion. The court took the matter under advisement. —_— 5,000 SEEK U. S. HOMES. Applications for Passage Received at Buenos Aires. By Cable to The Star and tbe Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1924. BUENOS AIRES, July ' 2—Five thousand applications for passage from Buenos Aires to the United States have been received at the of- fices of the Munson Line. which operates Shipping Board vessels. The rumor was current that the admis- sion of emigrants under the new quota depended first on visas from the American consulate. As a result the offices of the consulate were stormed on Tuesday. Until definite instructions are re- ceived from the State Department vises will be withheld. Abe Martin Says: Mrs. Tipton Bud dropped dead in a barber’s chair t'day. If ther’s anything in a name we wonder what Miss Weenie Lap o’ Belle Center, Ohio, has got comin’ t” her. (Qeprright, Joka ¥. De Cad CONTINENT AL PILOTS NEAR GOALS Flyers Leave Chicago and Cheyenne on Eastern and Western Routes. SCHEDULED TIME KEPT Post Office Officials Believe [Experi- ment Already Has Been Proved Successful. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 2.—The eastbound transcontinental air majl, whish left San Francisco on the initial trip to New York at a.m., Pacifie time, esterday, was brought to Chicago at 7:10 central standard time, today Pilot William C. Hopson. Hopson brought in twenty-twe mail pouches, weighing 400 pounds, di charging six pouches, weighimg 75 pounds, for Chicago. Williamsi took on five pouches, weighing 45 pounds, departing with an eastbound aargo of twenty-one pouches, weighing: 370 pounds. . Air Lane Perfeet. “The lane was perfect and I always had three beacons in sigha, or a visibility of miles,” Hopson said. “It cold up there, but I feel fin. easy sailing all of the way, wind slowed me up some.,” “It is only reasonable that the first day transec flight is a success.” Col 1 Hender- son, second assistant postunater Ben- eral, said. Already the Post Office De- partment has received man of congratulations. Practically all of the country's railroad heads con- gratulated the department. They r gard the air mail as 1 interesting transportation development whicn will benefit the railways by supple- menting existing service with ment of greater speed “The most helpful inte shown by Carl Gray, pre Union Pacific railroad Gray bas placed at the disposal of the ir mail service the facilities of his line.” Col. Henderson s that included in the mail going to San Francisco i§ a_package of news pictures tzken in New York before the plane left there yesterday. They w ¢ veloped ard shown in San theaters Jess than two days were taken, he said, 1 amounted to §$106.32 STARTS FROM CHEYENNE. air about seventy-five was a bit Tt was only the to beliove ntal messages <t has been dent of the Fr after th posta Mail Pilot Leaves Mountain Sta- tion at Dawn. CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 2 —Heading into a fog that made visibility poor and mountain’ flying perilous, Pilot H. A. Chandler of the air mail_service to off for Rock Springs, Wro., at mountain time this morning. in a ship Carrying mail that left New York at 11 am. yesterday and which came through the night to Cheyennc Forty-one minutes later a second ehip piloted by James Murray took off for the west. SAN FRANCISCO. July 2 Huking, air mail pilot, hopped off for the east at 5:45 am. today with the sec- ond consignment of mail of the new das- and-night aerial route. He carried nine pouches of mail —Harry W PLANES BEATING TIME. Leave Ahead of Schedule on Both Air Routes. By the Associated ress CHICAGO, July 2—On the final stretches of the maiden flizht of the day-and-night coast-to-coast air mail service speeding airplanes early to- day were roaring toward the Golden Gate and Long Isiand, with all con- ditions favoring their arrival even before the scheduled time Over the 385-mile long lane of bea- con lights between Chicago and Cheyenne, Wyo., two roaring couriers at dawn were winging west across Wyoming bearing 590 pounds of mail, comprising 23,600 letters, from New York for San Francisco, and toward the rising sun, over Illinois, another ship sped with 376 pounds of postal cargo_from the Pacific coast city for New York. Paxs Over Between Omaha and Neb., high in the Nebraska, North Platte, air above the illumi nated route, the ships passed each other early ‘today. Prevailing winds favored the eastbound traveler, who is due to comp: the transconti- nental trip in 32 hours and 5 minutes at 5:05 p.m. eastern standard time, while 34 hours and 45 minutes of fiying is expected to put the west- nd planes in San Francisco at 5:45 p.m., Pacific time, today. In the mail chamber of the east- bound plane is a package of flowers from M. H. De Young of the San Francisco Chronicle addressed to President Coolidge. The tribute is expected to reach the Chief Execu- tive in_slightly more than forty hours after it left the Pacific coast. Gives America Lead. The accomplishment of flying mail in the darkness is considered by aeronautic experts and postal officials here directing the air mail service as putting America far ahead of other nations, few of which, they say, have even attempted the ‘tran ortation of mail by airplanes in day- t. 4 IEDiter than scheduled time was made by the planes during the night. The westbound planes came into Chi- cago twenty-four minutes and _five minutes ahead, respective Th, were greeted by a number of promi- nent Chicagoans and Col. Paul R. Henderson, assistant postmaster gen- eral in charge of the air mail service. A fleet of commercial airplanes met them outside Chicago and formed a roaring escort to the landing field The lighting arrangement, with a total candlepower of 5,279.000,000. which made a great white way of the night route, functioned satis- factorily, representatives of the com- pany furnishing the lights said. At the main stations of the night serv- ice, Chicago, lowa City, Omaha, North Platte and Cheyenne, powerful elec- tric beacons flooded landing fields and between the main terminals acetylene flashes every three miles guided the course of the air navigators. Officials asserted all indications pointed to the success planned and declared the service would be en- larged if the demand required. IMMIGRANT LAW ISSUE. Two Persons Held Likely to Be- come Public Charges. Mre. Annie Boomer Belmont, twenty- nine, and James Martin Black, thirtr- two, were arrested this morning by Leo B. Russell, agent of the bureau of im- migration, and turned over to Detectives Keck and Mansfleld to be held for in- vestigation of an allegation that they were likely to become public charges at the time of entry into the United States from Canada. Both are British subjects, it is etated, the woman having been born in Ireland and Black in Canada. The couple had been residing at 526 9th street, home of Mrs. Beimonis mother, according to the federal authori- ties. Ex-Representative Dunn Dies. RO ESTER, N. Y., July Thomas B. Dunn, former representa- tive, died today, after a long i He was seventy-one years old. ’