Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1924, Page 13

AT OPENING OF CAMP GOOD WILL YESTERDAY. on the camp grounds. i THE TES CHEER THE SENATOR FROM WlSCONSll.VA ‘Washingon had a little political convention all its own yesterday, when delegates to the National Education Association meeting pledged their support to Senator La Follette in the event of his becoming a presidential candidate. Of course, there are certain platform restrictions. The entire body of delegates did not vote under the unit rule and the cheering was not broadcast. During the remainder of the summer the camp will be one of the busiest places around Washington. The photograph shows the first boxing match of the season Washington Star Photo. Copyright by Miller Service. The first woman ever to receive a vote for President of the United S She is Mrs. Carroll Miller of ylvania, who received one-half a vote during the Tuesday voting. psright by Underwood & Undernood. Vention yesterday WINNERS OF PLAY! CHAIRMAN WALSH AND GUESTS. Princess Bibesco of Washington, wife of the Rumanian minister to the United States, and Mrs. M. Kellogg Fairbanks of Chicago, guests of the senator from Montana, at the con- 'OUND CONTEST. The Virginia Avenue Play- ground staged a bathing beauty-contest yesterday afternoon, in charge of Director Thelma Smith, and here are the prize winners. Left to right: Gertrude Bowden, first prize for costume; Marie Naylor and Lillian Mow, second and third costume prizes; Dolly Scheuring, first beauty Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. LIEUT. MAUGHA! two-hour flight across the continent. OLDEST DELEGATES AT CON two years old, of St. Lo on Square from Califor: GETS MEDAL. Mayor Rolph of San Francisco pre- senting the aviator with the city’s award, a gold medal, for the twenty- MRS. McADOO AND WILL ROGERS. at Ma rden_vesterday. Ziegfeld Follies, sat in the box of Mrs. McAdoo, wife of the Copyright by Kadel & Herbert NTION. Nicholas M. Bell, eighty- e s; C. B. Wilson, sixty-seven years old, of Idaho. and George L. Carson, eighty years old, of Georgin, the three oldest dele- gates attending the Democratic national convention. Copsright by Underwood & Underwood Picture snapped in the gallery Will Rogers, comedian of the Coy ht by P. & MOTORITS URGED TO NAKE ATH SAFE Record Number of Automo- bile Trips Expected During Week End Holiday. RULES OF ROAD LISTED Start Early Enough to Drive Slow- ly and Avoid Main Highways, A. A A Chief Advises. Anticipating a record-breaking amount of traffic and travel by motor car over Independence day by rea- son of the holiday coming in com- bination with the week end, the American Automobile Association has issued a special bulletin urging all motorists to keep in mind the need for special precaution at this time. July Fourth, usually marked by a number of casualties, will this year offer many motorists an opportunity for their first long trip of the sea- son, it is pointed out by American Automobile Assoclation officials, and it is their hope that the American people will take their time in tour- ing and interpret the holiday as an opportunity to manifest independence from accidents and fatalities. “With business shut down from to- night until Monday morning,” says the bulletin, “the motorist is offered an excellent opportunity to put the motor car to its greatest use as a means of recreation, but the advan- tages should not be marred by need- less mishaps.” * Motorists Given Road Rules. President Thomas P. Henry of the American - Automobile Association urges that all motorists will in so far as possible observe the following rules and courtesies of the road: “Remember that thousands of driv- ers are on their first tour, and ac- cordingly make allowances for their shortcomings. “If you must arrive at your &sstina- tion at a certain hour, don't start late and drive fast, but start early. “‘Horn at the top of all hills and at all turns in the road, even if you seldom meet cars at these psints in ordinary driving. There may be from five to ten times as many cars on the road during the holid sys. “Turn into a side road wyen chang- ing tires or making roadsije repairs, and do not stop on the riain high- way for picnic lunches. “Familiarize yourself with the traf- fic regulations in the cities and towns you plan to pass through. Yowr lo- cal automobile club can supply you with the necessary information. Attention to Brakes Urged. “There will be more childrep than usual playing in the streets of cities and towns. Drive slowly and see that your brakes are in order. > “Do not let minors and inéxperi- enced members of your family take the wheel over the holidays. Let: them learn next week when more cars are in the garage. “Endeavor to use secondary foutes rather than main-traveled highways. They are more enjoyable and safer over holidays. “Know your way so that you do not make adrupt stops en route, en- dangering those who fail to antici- pate your sudden changes in speed and_direction, “It's always train time at any grade croccing, but remember that -over 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. I do not believe in a bonus. I never did, and do not want a bonus. Do I have to take it>—F. F. L. A. If you do not want a bonus or have no person you want to benefit by naming a beneficiary, do not make out an application and you will never receive any of the benefits. A serv- ice man to receive the benefits must make application. If no application is filed the government will not issue a certificate. Q. Please tell me whether my step- mother is entitled to the bonus? She married my father right after dis- charge from the Army. He is now dead. Who receives his bonus, his second wife or the child of the first marriage?—Miss L. A. Your stepmother, if unmarried, is_ entitled to the adjusted service credit of your father, upon applica- tion as a dependent. This credit will be payable to her in ten quarterly cash installments, beginning March 1, 1925. Q. Please give me through the columns of your paper brief direc- tions of imprinting my_finger prints on my application?—J. L. K. A. The departments desire _the finger prints of the right hand. Find some finger-print expert or go to a printing plant and try several times on plain paper to make clear, distinct impressions of your four fingers of the right hand, made simultaneously. Be sure to make the impressions of all four fingers at one time. Before putting the imprint upon your appli- cation blank be sure that the whirls and ridges of your finger prints are plainly visible.” Almost all identifica- tion will be made by your finger- print record, so it is important, to avoid future difficulties, that you take extreme care in making it. Q. I have three children, ranging in "age from three to seventeen. I have decided to name the youngest of my children as my beneficiary of the bonus. The two older children are beneficiaries of $3,000 worth of war risk insurance. I want to know if I can change my beneficiary if this youngest child should live to_reach the age of eighteen? Could I then name a trust company or bank to care for a family burial plot?>—Dr. W. e A. You can name any person as your beneficlary and change the beneficiary at will with the consent | of the director of the Veterans' Bu- reau. Your youngest daughter could continue to be your beneficiary until she becomes of age if you should not die in the meantime. If you live twenty years, of course, the amount of the policy will be payable to your- self. When your youngest child be- comes of age and if vou are still alive and the policy is not yet due have your bank or trust company under a trust agreement provide you with a burial plot, and it can also be author- ized to expend the interest the fund earns upon its perpetual care. e Hurt by Bursting Tire. John M. Zier of. Riverdale was knocked unconscious and injured about the face and leg when an auto- mobile tire birst in front of 934 H street northeast. He was treated at Casualty Hospital. holidays many roads are on an in- creased schedule with trains running more frequently than usual. “Be accurate with your hand sig- naling. You may be a clever driver, but your safety depends on helping to compensate for the shortcomings of many inexperienced drivers who find holidays their one opportunity ' Barber, 1502 Decatur street, as second for trip taking.” CODLIDGES GREET WOAN LAWYERS Seventy-Five Members of Phi Delta Delta, Legal Frater- nity, Pay Respects. The President and Mrs. Coolidge this afternoon received at the White House the members of the Phi Deita Delta, woman's legal fraternity, attending the third national convention of the or- ganization, being held at the clubhou |of the General Federation of Women's iubs, 4 N street northwest. Seventy-five delegates, headed by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, as- sistant attorney general and president of Phi Delta Delta, were greeted by President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge. Delegates Welcomed to City. Harlan F. Stone, Attorney General of [the United States, greeted the dele- gates, including the members of the two local chapters at the George Wash- ington University and the Washington College of Law, at the opening session of_the convention this morning. Mrs. Willebrandt made an address of welcome, following an invocation deliv- ered by Bertha Pabst, charter member of the Zeta Chapter of the fraternity. Reports of officers were heard from Mrs. ‘Willebrandt and Hazel M. Curnane, vice president; Mrs. Anita Veale Robbins, secretary; Phyliis Obee, treasurer; Olive M. Dailey, recorder, and Lois Gates Gorman, editor. This' evening the delegates will take a boat trip down the Potomac. A business session is to be held to- morrow morning at 9 o'clock, the fea- ture of which is to be an address on “The Founding of Phi Delta Delta,” by Mrs. Georgla P. Bullock, ome of the founders of the order. A short patriotic service will be held. Afternoon and Evening Sessions. A session will be held in the after- noon, and at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow there will be a reception and dance at the clubhouse for delegates and visitors. A business session at 9 o'chock, a model initiation of honorary members at 4:30 o'clock and a banquet at 8 o'clock will conclude the convention tomorrow. The banquet is to be at the Wardman Park Hotel. The convention committee is com- posed of Elizabeth M. Bailey, chair- man; Corinne Quarles, Louise Foster, Jessie Ganoe, Terese Haley, Mrs. Willebrandt and Lois Gates Gorman. Subcommittee members include Mary G. Connor, Corrine Quarles, Lois Gates Gorman, Grace B. Knoeller, Terese Haley, Ruth Audas, Nell Ray Clarke, Louise Foster and Jessie Ganoe. DENIES HE IS VAGRANT. Colored Man Claims He Works One Day Each Week. Lawrence E. White, colored, twen- ty-four years old, charged with vagrancy, when tried before Judge John P. McMahon in the District of Columbia branch of Police Court, put up the defense that he. worked one day each weék at picking rags and made enough from the one day’s work to keep him the balance of the week. The court took his case under ad- visement, and will make a decision next week. e . Get Reserve Commissions. Residents of fhis city commissioned in the Officers’ serve.Corps of the Army include Clarence L. Nelson of the geological survey, as a lieutenant colonel of coast artillery; Ralph E. Ogle, 1830 California street, as first lieutenant of infantry, and Donald C. lieutenant of infantry. Y |RAINIER CITIZENS - FOR SCHOOL CHANGE [ Delegation to Ask County to Admit | Younger Pupils to New Building. Members of the Mount Rainier Cit- izens’ Association will hold a special meeting in the town hall at Mount Rainier tonight at 8 o'clock to_ar- range for a delegation to go to Up- per Marlboro July $ and ask county officials to open the new Mount Rai- nier School to children of the first, ond and third grades. The committec of the according to Secretary H. W. Blandy, jwill "p plea’ before the county sioners and Nicholas Orem, county superintendent of schools. Under the present system the Mount Rainler School has been used for junior high school purposes, Mr. Blandy declares that this plan, however meritorious, works to the disadvantage of younger children, who must 'go some distance to the Brentwood School in order to attand the first three grades. In going th distance they must cross two .r ociation, omm arteries, 34th street and Baker street, he points safety. The Mount Rainier delegation will petition the Marlboro authorities to add several rooms to the present school building, so that these lower grade pupils may attend schoo' close to their homes. \ J. H. POWELL PROMOTED. War Department Official Goes to out, endangering their $2,400 Grade. Jesse H. Powell, chief of the in- formation bureau of the adjutant general's office, War Department, been promoted from the $2,000 grade to the $2,400 grade in that office, in recognition of long and faithful service. His promotion was made possible by the recent resignation of J. Claude Keiper, chief of division. Mr. Powell is from North Carolina, and entered the service of the War Department in 1887. He is recog- nized as the principal source of information concerning the military establishment. During _the world war and for months thereafter he probably was one of the busidst men in the War Department, as he was callled on at all hours of the day and night to answer telephone and telegraph in- quiries as to the whereabouts and safety of thousands of officers and enlisted men operating on the battle- fields of Europe. He is kept almost as-busy at the present time answer- ing questions of all kinds relating to the war bonus. el EXPLAINED BY BRITISH. Cummins’ Passage Canceled When He Misses Ship. NEW YORK, July 3.—The British consulate today said there was no significance in the cancellation of the steamship passage yesterday of H. A. C. Cummins, until recently British charge des archives in Mexico. The consulate here, at the request of Mr. Cummins, while at the Mexican bor- der engaged provisional passage on both the steamers Mauretania and Olympic. . As Mr. Cummins did not arrive yes- terday, his passage on the Maure- tania was canceled. The consulate expects that Mr. Cummins will arrive some time Friday and go aboard the Olympic, which is scheduled to sail Saturday, —_— A coll of human hair, from the head of & woman of the Roman era, and held in place by jet hairpins, 1s pre- served in an English museum. {AUTO RECIPROCITY hat| LESSENS TAG FUN Superintendent of Licenses Reports Year's Revenue $33,760.76 Be- low 1923 Collection. Reverue taken in by Supt. of Licenses Wade H. Coombs during the fiscal year just ended fell $33,760.76 short of the preceding twelve months, principally because automobile reci- procity with Maryland was in effect for six months. In his annual report submitted to Commissioner Rudolph taday Mr. Coombs states, the total amount col- lected by his office last vear was $579.091.59, as compared with $612 8 for the year ended Jure 30, 1923, The number of automobile tags is- sued in the past twelve months was 3,400, against 100,015 the previous year. While this is a decrease of nearly 7,000 in the total number of tags, it represents an actual increase in the number sold to Washingtonians, because no tags for the calendar year 1924 are being sold to Marylanders. The number of tags sold is not an accurate index to the number of au- tomobiles on the streets of the city, for the reason that every time the same car changes hands it must have a new set of tags. Mr. Coombs is con- fident, however, that there is a sub- stantial increase in the number of ma- chines in use this year over last year. Miscellaneous business licenses is- sued during the past fiscal year netted $168,558.59in revenue. EARTH TODAY GETS FARTHEST FROM SUN About 3,200,000 Miles Distant From Point of Nearest Ap- proach in January. In its revolution through space, the earth today reaches its greatest distance from the sun, revolving 3,200,000 miles farther away than it did at its nearest approach, about the 1st of January. The question of the sun’s distance, which involves the principle of the solar parallax in finding the ap- parent position of a heavenly body, has been one of the most interesting of all astronomical problems. In comparatively recent years, observation of the sun through a | telescope has revealed on its circular outline, regardless of the brilliancy of its disk, small dark objects called spots, which have been made to render a great deal of information with respect to the sun, and con- stitute today one of tihe leading questions attracting the attention of astronomers as to the meteorological conditions that surround the earth. These_spots vary both as to size and as to number; in fact, the sun Seems sometimes almost devoid of them. Yet, the sun spot theory and its effects on the earth is perhaps the most interesting of all astronomi- cal questions. e Shots Fired at Trainmen. Special Dispateh to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., July 3.—B. L. La- foon of Roanoke and A. W. Strohkolb and E. C. Browder of Victoria, Va., charged with firing at a train crew, were indicted at Lawrenceville. La- foon fs state chairman and Sironh- kolb is the local chairman of the Brotherhood of -Firemen and Engine- men, one of the big four organiza- tions. . ’ o HEAVY RUN OF MAIL DISPATEAED BY AR Postal Officials Convinced of Need of Service on Third Day of Flight. By the Associated Press. Y CHICAGO, July 3.—Transcontinental mail planes were rushing through the air with businesslike regularity today, the third day of the new coast-to-coast day-and-night air mail. The heavy run of air mail con- tinued, satisfying Col. Paul Hender- son, assistant Postmaster General, that business generally had found the new service helpful. “The percentage of curiosity letters is exceedingly small,” he added. | To date the traffic between New | York and San Francisco is, of course, I the heaviest, Col. Henderson said, and that between Chicago and New York is second, with the mail carried be- tween Chicago and San Francisco third. As to the actual amount of mail dispatched from cities, New York and Sap Francisco are virtually equal. Mall in about equal quantities is be- ing carried east and west. The mail planes today were Keep- ing close to schedules, although the eastbound mail was delayed thirty- five minutes at Iowa City when Pilot R. C. Page found a loose control and returned there and changed ships. He reached Chicago at 7:34 am. central time, fourteen minutes be- hind schedule, and Pilot 8. J. Schort left for the east at 7:39, four min- utes behind. U. S. REMAINS NEUTRAL ON RUSSIAN RELATIONS State Department Making No Ef- forts to Prevent Soviet Recognition Abroad. State Department officials declared yesterday that the United States is making no effort to influence the at- titude of any other country toward Russia. Having made its own posi- tion unmistakably clear, it was said, the American government will main- tain a role of interested onlooker toward negotiations by other nations with a view to recognition of the Soviet. It was added there had been no conversations between the French embassy and the Department upon the subject, the communications from this government having been re- stricted to a formal acknowledg- ment of the French memorandum in- forming Secretary Hughes of France's position. —_— FIVE HELD ON BOND. . Carried Klan Regalia and Pistols, Sheriff Charges. ALBANY, Ga. July 3. Five men, who told officers they were on their way to “warn a woman against the life she had been living,” were ar- rested here last night and are at blanket charges of misdemeanors, pending an investigation. Complete regalia of the Klan for five men and two pistols were found in the automobile in which the men were riding, according to Sheriff Tarvern. The men gave their names as T. A. West, rallroad engineer: A. J. Pitts, meat’ market \operator; C. V. Jones, railroad car repairer; A. M. Raffield, railroad baggage master, and C. E. Landrum, | liberty under $500 bond each, under, Flowers, 2 Days | Old, Reach Here From California California flowers but two davs old were delivered early today to Mrs. Coolidge, wife of the Presi- dent, and Mrs. Harding, wife of the late President Harding, by carriers of the Washington city post office The bouquets, placed in mail sacks at 5 am. July 1 by Post- master Power of San Francisco, were brought across the continent on the first eastward flight of the air mail, and sent down from New York City last night by mail train, arriving here at 3 am. The first air mail received\ here included letters from Postmaster Power to Acting Postmaster Gen- eral John H. Bartlett and Post- master William M. Mooney of the Washington city post office. FEDERAL CONTROL OF POWER FOUGHT Hcover, Speaking at London Con- ference, Declares Problem Solu- tion Lies Elsewhere. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 3.—Demands for federal control of power development come from a lack of understanding of the problem, Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce of the United States, declared today before the world power conference. “Federal regulation is not the road to the solution of the problem of in- terstate movement of power,” Mr. Hoover said. “The best solution | should be found in co-ordinating reg- ulations between groups and states with, perhaps, s from the federal government in se; curing this co-ordination.” Super-power, he continued, did not represent a gigantic and grinding trust, but co-operation between utili- ti Abuses had arisen and would arise in the creation and operation of great agencies of production, but the test of our economic and social systemr was its capacity to cure its own abuses. Government could best contribute to the betterment of our operation with voluntary forces. The delegates who discussed legal and government policies with regard to power development were Arthur T. Hadley, former president of Yale University; Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, former president of the British board of trade; George Otis Smith, director of the United States geological sur- vey; Guy E. Tripp, chairman of the board of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and E. A. Cleveland of British Columbia. became more progressive the dangers of government than direct operation had been suc- cessful as a solution. —_—— CASE GOES TO JURY. Defense Ends Fight Against Al- leged Train Robber. GAINESVILLE, Fla, July 3.—The jury tryings the case of John McDon- ald of Tampa, charged Wwith robbery, larceny and conspiracy in connection with the Atlantic Coast Line pay roll robbery on May 15, in which $16,665 was obtained by a lone bandit, was locked up for the night at 11:30 o'clock, following an hour's consi eration of the case. The_state rested early yesterday and the defense completed its case late in the afternoon. Arguments were made at a night session. The trial began Tuesday. voluntary assistance | lives through stimulation of and co- | Mr. Hadley said that as an industry ownership became | very great and that regulation rather | CARVINGS ON NEW ' SHAFT PROTESTED {Honors Inscribed on 1st Divi- sion Memorial Called Erroneous. [MANY COMPLAINTS FILED Officers and Men of Unit Urge Col. Adolphe Huguet to Make Monument Accurate. Protests, it is undefstood, are be- |ing sent to Col. Adolphe H. Huguet, who has charge of completing the ist Division monument now in course of construction south of the | State, War and Navy building, in | which the charge is made that some | of the carvings on (he east and west | sides of the base indicating the bat- |tle honors of the division, are not |accurate. This monument, which is the first one to be erected in Wash- ington to the dead of the world war, was designed by Cass Gilbert, while the gold-covered bronze figure of Victory at the top is by Daniei Chester French In general orders No. 24, War De- partment, 1922, is published the bat- tle honmors of the 1st Division, which includes the Sommerviller, Ansauville, Cantigny erais and again the Ansauville sectors, and the Montdidier-Noyon, Aisne-Marne, St Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne opera- tions. Through some error in the han- dling of this list, however, the name of the first sector is misspelled, be- ting carved “'Sommervilliers” inStead of “Sommerviller,” and the Aisne- Marne operation is coupled with the name Soissons, although it is held there is nothing official to warrant this coupling; and there is an added operation, which does not, and mever has existed, it is explained. This is given as the “Mouzon-Sedan opera- tion” and gives to an attack that lasted through one day and to a march on the objective of an adjoin- ing corps that occurred the following day an honor that is not given to the fighting in the first phase of the Meuse-Argonne operation, nor to some of the other fighting that the division had, and in which the losses were much heavier. Many Destre Corrections. A large number of both officers and men who served throughout the cam- paign want their mohument to be ac- curate in every particular, aad, hav- ing been present at the time of the fighting and also having the backing of the War. Department in their as- sertions, desire that the changes be made. THEFT AT POLICE DQOR. Auto Stolen from Point in Front of Court Building. The daring of automobile thieves in Washington was emphasized yes terday afternoon when an automobile owned by M. E. Buckley, one of the professional bondsmen doing busiress in the courts, was stolen from in front of the Police Court building at 6th and D streets. = At the time the car was taken the courts were in session, with police- men and others comirg and going in and out of the building and others . standing in front of the courthouse.