Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1924, Page 2

0.C. HEADS PREPARE -T0 FIGURE BUDGET Will Start Tomorrow on Con- sideration of Requests Ex- ceeding $35,C00.C00. NEW PROJECTS URGED Street, School, Light and Police Departments Present Vital Requirements. Preparation of the muni-ipal budget for the fiscal year 1925-1927 will be started by the District Commission- ers tomorrow. Having before them the recommen- dations of their department heads, which, it is believed, aggregate more than $35,000,000, the city fathers will peruse every detail before advising the bureau of the budget of the total sum they will ask for. The study to be given the figures this week will be preliminary to the more thorough consideration they will receive after the budget officials have indicated what total limitation, if an will be placed on District es- timates next year L te Increases Asked. The engineer department will ask for liberal allowa s Lo continue the tusk of catchirg up to the needs of rapidly growing new communities for street ving, sewer and water mains. There is also a strong probability that request will be made for several hundred thousand dollars to begin the five-year program to modernize the street lighting system. This plan calls for the grudual elimination of gas lamps and the installation of Brighter units on main highwayvs. The police estimates will include a request for a new precinct station in the vicinity of Brightwood. The health department is understood to have recommended an appropriation to add a new stcture to the Gallin- wer Hospital group for the care of contagious disease patients who must pow be sent to private hospitals and pald for by the city It is expected that a large percent- age of the total budget again will be allotted_to school buildins construc- tion. The Commissioncrs will be kept busy all this week working out a total fizure to be placed before the | budget burcau. | FORD HAS FLYING FIELD. Establishes Airplane Landing Tract | at Dearborn. DETROIT. July tablishment of a commercial landing field for air- craft on a field approximately three- quarters of a_mile square adjoining the new administration building of the Ford Motor Company in Dear- born, was announced today by Henry | and Edsel Ford. The announcement says that the field is being furnished “as a civic development and a na- tional patriotic move, there being no intention on the part of the Ford Motor Company to enter the airplane business other than to watch its de- velopment.” —_— NEWSBOYS TRAPPED IN STEAMSHIP FIRE (Continued from First Page.) brought by a pas- house. He and his first officer, went around with axes smashing windows and getting people out on deck. as it was impossible to pass through the saloons. One of the unlaunched lifeboats began to burn and access was impos- sible because of the billows of fire near it. Then it was that Capt. Hall commanded the people to go to the lower deck, which was nearly free trom fire. Here he sct a man to work ripping off slats which held life preservers. There were probably forty or fifty persons in this group. Others had gone off in two boats, or already had secured life preservers and jumped into the water. A few hung back, hesitating for a minute, but a glance at the roaring furnace above and behind them decid- ed them. All jumped and then swam or paddled to get some distance from the burning vessel. There were some vells from the water, but most of the fugitives struggled silently but not for long. Six miles away the steamer Middlesex had sighted the fire and rushed to the rescue. Other steamers had seen the flames and also were hurrying to the scene, but the Middlesex got there first and began dropping her boats. Within half an heur from the time the fire broke out the work of rescue was quickly and eftectively completed. HAD FEARED DISASTER. alarm of fire was senger to the pilot Captain Has Premonition Before Starting Trip. @peeial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md.,, July 5—That Capt. Spencer D. Hall, master of the 4l1-fated steamer Three Rivers, who is well known to river men of Wash- ing and many Washingtonians, hav- ing been on the Baltimore route for many years, had a premonition of disaster before he left him home here was the declaration today of his wife, Mrs. Mary Hall. Mrs. Hall said: “Before the captain said goodbye to me Thursday he told me he dreaded this trip any other of his life. He has had other close calls and just missed be- ing on the steamer Tivoli, which burned nearly ten years ago. The two children of Capt. Dick Hewart, a boy and a girl, were drowned then and 1 have never rested easy since. 5 Always Dreaded Fourt] “Last Tuesday was my fifty-first birthday, but it was not a happy one. I knew the Fourth of July was near @nd I have always dreaded that day. . “Yesterday 1 went to the park to hear the music, but 1 could not en- Joy the concert. I could not help thinking of the captain’s words that he dreaded this trip so." i Capt. Hall is fifty-four years old &nd has been in the employ of the Baltimore, Cresapeake and Atlantic for nearly thirty years. He started Bs quartermaster and has been cap- tain of the Three Rivers for three years. | He more than'|. HONORS Lyt e, i NSRS A AR Secretary of the Nav on the xtatue of John Paul Jonex 177th anniversavy of the birth of the “FATHER Wilbur shown nx he pluced a wreath yexterday in Potomae Park commem firmt President, Worried by Illness Of Son, Keeps Emotion Hidden | Liquor Seized. Chief Executive Hides Heavy Heart, Like‘ His New England Forbears, While Adhering to Schedule. Although there is little in his ex- pression or general bearing to indi- | cate it, President Coolidge has been | greatly worried and alarmed during the three days that his son has been eritically ill. The President is one of those in- dividuals who do not casily or read- ily show their feelings. The Presi- dent, to all outward appearunces, ex- cept to those who know him or are in his presence frequently, has appeared cool and calm and unworricd. He has been at his desk cach day and has gone about his duties in the same quiet, unruffled and methodical way. gave no intimation nfr outward evidence that his heart was heavy and his mind was troubled—that the knowledge of his boy's condition was ever before him. Parents Arixious. It was nearly a week ago when young Calvin, during several games of tennis with his elder brother John, wore the blister on’ his right foot that resulted so seriously. Only scant at- tention was paid to it at the time. Only simple remedies were applied. By Thursday serious complications were noted and the boy began to show evidence of an alarming illness. The two White House physicians un- hesitatingly acquainted the parents with the true situation. Specialists were summoned, and, from then ou, the Chief Executive and the First Lady have been merely two anxious parents — o father and mother. hoping. Although Mr. Coolidge received only a few hours' sicep that night, he was at his desk at the White House the following morning at the customary Rour, and he went through with his engagement schedule, which for- tunately was not an extensive one, and gave hig attention to the routine of his office, in a manner not in the Jeast suggestive of the true state of his mind. He took na one into his con- fidence. He looked serious, but he usually does. That indjcated noth- ing. He talked seldom, but that is a habit, and he walked to and from the White House and about the grounds with his head bowed, which also is a characteristic. Birthday Brings Bad News. Then followed another night of anxious waiting on the part of the two troubled and distressed parents. This was followed by a morning that brought nothing to comfort them. On the contrary, it was then, Friday morning, the Independence day, the President’s birthday anniversary, that the five physicians in attendance diagnosed the boy's illness as being due to septic poisoning. Worse still, the medical men found that the poi- son was generally throughout the body and ° therefore could not be fought by local treatment. The lad's fever had reached a point where he frequently became delirious. His suf. fering was intepse. Following their consultation Friday morning these men. learned and experienced in medical science, told the President and his wife the truth., Their son was. very seriously ill. The only hope they could hold out was that afforded by the patient's vouth. He might pull through, .they said. This probably was the President’s saddest birthday. He and Mrs. Coolidge had been in ‘the sickroom most of the night. But beyond the portals of the White House the President, even when this gloom was the great- est, gave no outward sign of his feel- ings or of the dread that was in his heart. Speech In Emphatic, It was with this burden and in this frame of mind that President Coolidge left the sickroom Friday morning to keep an engagement to address sev- eral thousand delegates aftending the National Education Association as- sembled in the large stadium of Cen- tral High School. His address was a long one, and he delivered it with feeling. Never once did he appear to give way to his inner feelings. His face was grave and he spoke with much seriousness, but this meant nothing to those who knew him. The little group of newspaper cor- respondents who “cover” ‘the Presi- dent daily, and who should know him and his manners better than the casual caller at the White House, { Mrs. Hall was awakened shortly Rfter 4 o'clock this morning by a telephone call from the steamship fompany. The communication was brief, merely stating that the steam- $r had been burned, but the captain Wwas belleved safe. 1 With street cars not running Mrs. all did not wait for a taxi, but with ther members of the household ran 2welve blocks to the pler, where they walted until the Middlesex, with the v nciuding the cuptain and row, ” z never for an instant detected the truth. They commented upon the fact that the President was using more gestures while speaking, and that he seemed to put more feeling and “punch” in the striking parts of his speech. They had not been informed about the ill boy on the second floor of the White House. They little dreamed how grim must have been the thoughts of the Executive as he stood upon that little platform in the eenter of :h; flaalum ‘nileld and went rou wit! s speech. O wod 'and smiled acknowleds- ment to the- upon his arrival and on his departure. As the big touring car was hurrying him back to the White House, a Eroup of youmgsters, all keyed to the Independence day spirit, shouted and waved to him as he whirled past them. Mr. Coolidge gave them a friendly wave of his arm, and his face, for the moment, broke into a grin. It probably was the first he had had in many hours. 1t was upon returning to the White House and learning that Calvin was no better that President Coolidge directed Edward Clark, his secretary, to announce publicly the boy's condition. This was the first that the world knew of the gloom that had been cast over the White House for more than two days. Week End Plans Upnet. Plans had been madé earlier in the week for the family to go aboard the Mayflower Friday afternoon and cruise about the lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay over the week end. This would be an enjoyable way to spend the Fourth and incidentally to observe the President's birthday. Besides, the air and change would be bheneficial to all concerned. This was abandoned. The President of the nation, who had been so suddenly changed from the cares of his high office to the cares of a parent—just an ordinary father of a boy fighting for his life, instead spent the greater part_of the afternoon and the night in the sickroom. Several times. his restlessness and_his anxiety drove him from the White House to the cool and quiet of the rear grounds, where he walked slowly about the flowered bordered paths alone and with his head bowed low. ; ‘Again yesterday he was at his desk at the usual early hour. He appeared to those who greeted him as he en- tered the office building to be paler and to walk slower apd with a heavier tread. His voice was calm and his face unmoved as he returned the “Good mornin President Coolidge on both sides comes from a line of forebears who have been undemonstrative. . At least, those who know the family say of them: “The Cooliges Keep their feelings to themselves. —But, they feel deeply just the same.” ———————— OPERATION ON COOLIDGE BOY DECLARED SUCCESS (Continued from First Page.) draining of the wounds. The exact course of the poison in its spread has not been disclosed, nor has the point where it has been centralized been learned. It was said, however, that it is not near the heart, where an operation would be most hazard- ous. No pretense at minimizing the ee- riousness of the illness was made at the White House, and an atmosphere of tenseness pervaded the Executive offices yesterday. Before the poison began to local- ize, it was considered a case of life or death, with the boy's vitality as the determining factor. The disease earries with it intense pain, and a high fever, which places the patient almost in delirium. Com- plicating the issue in Calvin, § APPEALS FOR HELP T0 REBUILD LORAIN Red Cross Director Says Country Cannot Give Too Much to Stricken Theater. WAS RECORD DISASTER Aid for Homeless and Work on Damaged Buildings to Start at Once. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 5.—"In more than 100 disaster-stricken com- munities in which I have worked throughout the United States 1 have never seen a more complete devasta- tion made by a tornado than here in Lorain” Henry M. Baker, Red Cross national director of disaster re- lef, sald tonight. “It will be Impossible to send in too much money for the relief of this stricken city,” he continued. Red Cross officials will start ‘to make reimbursements to Lorain's homeless ~ Monday. ~ Approximately $315,000 s in hand for that purpose and purchase of material and employ- ment of labor to repalr damaged buildings will begin at once Appeal Being Anuwered, Replies to a nation-wide appeal sent to 1,400 cities by Mayor George Hoffman ‘are being received, practi- cally all of which promise co-opera- tion in the mayor's appeal for assist- ance. State Director of Education Vernon M. Riegel will visit Lorain next week to make a survey of the school system. Food and other supplies from near- by cities are being sent to lnraig in large quantities Thirteen hundred troops are still on duty, State health officials report the water supply is safe and sewage dis- posal satisfactory. - FIVE ARRESTED IN RAID | ON ROMA RESTAURANT | Downtown Dining Room Visited | by Dry Squad and Much A spectacular raid was conducted by picked men of the narcotic and liquor division of the prohibition unit and the first precinct last night on the Roma restaurant, 707 12th street. The raiders, Joseph Murphy of the narcotic division; “Lone Wolf” Asher, H. L. Luckett, chief of the local pro- hibition district: Lieut. Beckett of the first precinct, and Harold Bence, walked in the restaurant and found | it full with seventy-five diners, and | discovered approximately ten gallons | of intoxicants. consisting of cham- other liquors. Five were held, pending the setting of bond, at the first precinct. They were Frank R. Abbo, thirty-three, the owner, living at 707 12th str Louis A. Zembelli, thirty-three, the man- ager, also living at the restaurant; Victor . Marini, forty-five, a waiter, living over the restaurant; John Wal ter Dramer of 807 7th street north- west, and Rino Morese, eighteen, of 1119 T street. Kach of the five was charged with conspiracy, selling and illegal possession of liquor. The men were released on bond. —— TREE-CLIMBING FISHES SOUGHT BY EXPEDITION Party Craft of Ex-Mayor Thompson to Photograph Rare South Sea Inhabitants. By the Assoc ed Press. CHICAGO July 5—The “Big Bill," sixty-eight foot gasoline burning ketch, owned by former Mayor William Hale Thompson, today started on its way to the south seas in photographic pur- suit of tree-climbing fish. “Pell them down there that they may have climbing fish, but we have a climbing people,” said Secretary of Labor James W. Davis as he stepped on board to shake hands with the owner, who said he planned to ac- company the little craft as far as New Orleans and possibly to Panama. The ketch will go to New Orleans via the Drainage Canal, the Illinois River and the Mississippi. Thence it will go “somewheres .east of Suesz,’ visiting the Malay Archipelago, round- ing the Cape of Good Hope and the Horn, and returning by way of New York and the great lakes after cir- cumnavigating the globe, according to plans. WORLD FLIGHT DELAYED. Stop of Three Days to Permit Changing Plane Motors. A delay of three days in the Army round-the-world flight has been necessitated - as a result of motor trouble, it was said in a dispatch received today by Gen. Patrick, chief of the alr service. The message, dated July 4, said_the squadron left Muitan' on_ the 3d and completed the leg in 7 hours and 10 minutes. “Nelson's motor went bad seventy miles out over the desert,” the mes- sage said. “Landed safely. Chang- ing motors on all planes. Plan de- parture 7th. on Citizens Warned To File Personal pagne, vermouth, wines, cocktails and | Tax Returns Now case is the running start of the in- fection, which first began last Mon- day afternoon, and which he consid. ered of no importance. Members of the Coolidge family kept close to the sickroom durtng yesterday, although the President appeared at his offices yesterday morning at intervals, and at noon shook hands with vistors as is his daily routine. Mrs. Coolidge we- mained.almost constantly at the bed- side. Throughout the day many mes- sages of sympathy were rectived at the White House. DAWES’ AID SAILS. Young Refuses to Discuss Return to Europe. NEW YORK, July 5.—Owen D. Young of New York, who served with Gen. Charles G. Dawes as a reparations ex- pert, was a passenger on the Leviathan, ‘which sailed today. He declined to eay ‘what his mission abroad was. .- Edward N. Hurley, merber of the world war foreign debt commiasion, alse was & passenger. He sald he. With the city temporarily re- lieved from the temptation to lis- ten In on the battle of ballots in New York, Assessor William P. Richards took advantage of the lull to issue a reminder that'this is the month for the filing of per- gonal tax returns in the District. Believing that the average citi- zen is ready to profit by past mis- takes. the assessor pointed out that last July 23,000 persons sub- ject to personal tax forgot to make returns and their forgetful- ness cost them penalties aggre- gating $43,271, It may be somewhat encourag- ing to state that the tax itself is not due until November. But your statement of personal property subject to the tax must be filed on or before August 1 if you are to avoid penalty. All returns fled after August 1 will have 20 per cent added to the assessment for arriving late. All persons owning automobiles on July 1_must file a personal tax return. The tax also applies to household furnishings in exce $1,000 value, all jewelry Dt watches, live stock and’ vehicles of every description. The intangible personal. tax covers securities.' .- Full information is printed on BEITEE ST S The famous Paul Revere bell dedication, which took place last rd strects, recalls memoriex of the old All Souls’ 16th and Ha Church corner of 6th and D treets and in whick tower the bell hung. ‘This historie bullding adjolned the home of Daniel Webster, an 1905, when the prexent structure wns erected. Is’ Church has vanished. of the old church on 16th treet. wax used ax the Dixtrict Police Court historic meighbor, the Dani: when it wan used an the Police Court. PEARL BUTTONS MADE - OUT OF SHELLFISH Cut With Circular Saw and Shaken for Hours in Rocking Barrel to Polish. From ‘the Detroit News The raw material used in the manu- facture of pearl buttons is invariably the shell of a variety of sheilfish. In manufacturing, the shells arc first placed under a steel circular saw which cuts the shell in the shape of buttons of various They then pass to the next process which is the smoothing of surfaces and edges by means of a polishing stone. Wollowing the completion of t ond prooess, which is still of a preliminary nature, the buttons are grooved at the center and drilled. When this process is finished they are placed in a rocking barrel for cleansing purposes and there they are shaken continuously for about ten hours and this constant frietion pol- ishes the buttons to a wonderful de- grce of brightness. Finally they are oiled in a solution of chemicals. They are usually boiled for about an hour and are then waxed. When all these processes are com- pleted they are sewed to u cardboard ready for the market e The Holy GrnilA— From the Vanconver Sun. Archeologists believe that the inner cup in the recently discovered ‘chalice of Antioch” is the true holy grail. the vessel from which Jesus drank at the last supper, and which is belicved to have the power of curing bodily disease. 4 I7 this ix so, a search that has lasted for nearly 2,000 years will be ended. Every generation has had its own expedition in search of this miraculous cup. The quest is as old as_Christianity itself. But there is another quest older still—a quest that has been com- mon to all races of mankind as long as mankind has been on earth. And that is the universal quest for a grail that will cure, not diseases of the body. but diseases of the soul. AJl the progress of humanity throughout the ages has been im- pelled by this instinctive craving for higher and better things. Iivery man who ever lived on earth has been a pilgrim in search of the holy grail. And although the physi- cal grail may be discovered, humanity will continue to better itself so long as the spiritual grail hovers just within the reach of man's imagina- tion, but just beyond the reach of his hands a T e, A Champion Liar. From the Argonant No man_living has caught bigger fish than F. A. Mitchell Hedges, the sea angler, whose fame is world wide. He is fain to admit, however, that even the biggest he has landed—and once he caught a sawfish weighing ,700 pounds—are quite small fry in comparison with some fish that other anglers say have got away from them. For instance, a man_ told a story in his hearing of how he once tackled a fish so big that no ordinary line vas any use. “At last,” this champion liar went on. 1 tried three- inch rope, and hooked him. He was too strong for me to land, so I tied the rope around a huge oak tree in a field while T went for help. When I _got back the fish had Eon > “pulled up the tree, 1 suppose?” put in another man sarcastically. * than that” went on the other. “The roots nf the oak were S0 wide and deep that it took the whole field as well. 1t's a quarry now.| Getting Even. From the London Telegraph. Young Softleigh—Mr. Smith, your daughter has promised to marry me. Old Smith—Great Scot! She said she’'d get even with me when I re- fused to buy her a puppy the other da; Webnter residence, the in the more modern succe: er unt All Seo unday at the new All Souls’ Unitarian Church, which stoed for many years at the werving as a church for a long period, Like itx ancient and The famous Revere bell, ted States District attorney, who werved in the structure Herrick Hunts Plane, But Police Hear It’s Seized In the absence of an official aviation squad, headquarters de- tectives were wondering last night how in the world they were ever going to track Manuel Her- rick's air plane through the un- charted byways of the heavens. Herrick, former member of Con- gress from Oklahoma, dropped in and: reported that the plane—the only one of a fleet of three he had bought from the government that would turn a propeller—had been stolen from Arlington Field. Her- rick declared he had Intended using it in his campaign to win baci his seat in the House next a Just then the telephone rang and a4 voice at the other end of the wire informed Capt Emerson, chief of the night force, that what was left of the plane had been seized for debt, Herrick departed, disclaimng any knowledge of the ebt. TREASURES OF HUMBLE PLANTS FOUND BY NEGRO With magic touch Dr. George W. Carver, negro scientist who for the last thirty years has been a member of the facuity of the Tuskegee Nor- mal and Industrial Institute, has opened a treasure trove of nature, hidden for centuries, says an As- sociated Press dispatch from Tuske- gee, Ala. Concealed under the guise of a sweet potato, & peanut and a pecan, nature had hidden a myriad of useful products, and these have been dis- closed by Dr. Carver, who was born in_a slave home on a Missouri farm. The record of this scientist today stands: More than 100 commercial products from the sweet potato, 200 | from the peanut and more than 60 from the pecan. Not stopping with that, Dr. Carver has transformed a lump of southern clay into beautiful colors, one of which is the Egyptian blue, the secret of which was belleved to have died and been lost to the world with the ancients of the Nile- valley. This worker with the soil aiso h; heen given a fellowship in the Roval Society of Great Britain, and in 1923 was awarded the Spingarn medal which each vear is given to the man or woman of African descent and American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement in any field of human endeavor. Beautifying Highways. From the Boston Transcript. The American Tree Association pre- dicts that tree planting, especially that along roadsides, will set a new record this year. The enrollment in the association now has reached 72.000, the association announces, and every member is active either in planting new growths or in preserv- ing old ones. The European scheme of roadside beautification might well be followed in this country, where tourists and sightseers travel in far greater numbers than in the old world. The walnut, for instance, is a vanishing specimen which once was almost as common as the oak. it is a tree with a high commerecial value and has few peers for beauty. i Belfast Makes Claim. The Irish city of Belfast claims to possess the five biggest things of their kind in the world. These are the biggest shipyard, the biggest linen factory, the largest tobacco factory, the longest ropewalk and the whisky store with the most storage room. Ay e e p——— Another Low Record During the fiscal ye: ar ending June 30, 1924, out of 9,109 bables born -in the District of Columbia only 108 died from intestinal troubles. 1 ent of Every 85 Born. In the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1900, out of 4.641 bables born, 357 died from intestinal troubles, or 1 eut of Every 13 Born. Had the same mortality rate from intestinal troubles prevailed in the fiscal year just ended, 701 babies would have died from this cause. A Saving of 582 Babies last year over the year which ended June 30, 1900. The mortality among babies up to one year old frem all causes during the fiscal year just ended was 80 Dabies Per 1,000 Borm, of which there died 64 Bables Per us o« - ‘Following 20 ye: newspaper bulletins, pamphlet, 1,000 Whites (a very low rate) % Colored ars of educational work by means of we began 3 years ago to mail our The Bottle-Fed Baby to all new mothers in Washington. ‘We receive their names and addresses from the Health Office, under special direction by the District Commissioners. We believe that the thorough education in baby feeding ‘which- mothers -recelve through this pamphlet, written as it is in simple and explicit terms, pepra, a for the present rapid di; among the bables © shouid be. P the Ni is very largely responsible nce of serious feeding troubles ional Capital. This is as The Commissioners deserve the praise and the gratitude of the community for having had the broad vision to aid these endeavors for the reduction of sufferings and of infant -+ mortality. Y 4 This Bulletin is BUREAU. OF "HEALTH . EDUCATION Zawet. Mot poid for by the : ‘B Bestinse, Sesim, GAMP GOD WILL Second Contingent of Moth- ers and Children Is Leav- ing This Week. More mothers and children will go to Camp Good Will this week, follow- ing the first detachment which left last week to enjoy an outing there. Camp Pleasant is filled. Already those in camp are begin- ning to ask if they may stay longer than the allotted fortnight. The sum- mer outing committee always regards such requests as the best evidenc that mothers and children are having a good time. That this is a fact is further corroborated by Miss Mary L. Radford, visitor from the southeast- ern district of the Associated Chari- s, who invited many of those who are now in camp and who spent the Fourth of July with thesfamilies and went with them in a picnic in the woods. Navy Yard Workers Hel the navy yard employes, who for many years have taken a deep inter- est in these summer outings, have already sent to the camp the prizes to be given throughout the season on Saturdays to those who excel in the | athletic” and other contests provided | for both mothers and children. With | the prizes were included enough for everyone in camp for the Fourth. After breakfast each morning, fol- lowing an inspection of tent: the ten on the mothers' and gi side and the tent on the boys' side found to be the best kept is each awarded a flag prize for the day. These are proudly displayed over the entrances | to the tents. All Souls’ Unitarian Church, its social service committee, propriated $200 for the expense of the baby pavilion, including the salary of the trained nurse in charge. Additional tents have been designated as follows: Louise Heme Market, | Harry Blake, In Memory of Mother— Olive Duggan. The. summer outings committee, through its chairman, John Joy Ed- son, is about to issue a second appea! for funds to carry the work through the season. The committee finds that many persons wha had long been friends of this work postpone giving until the camps are in actual opera- tion. The commitee estimates that it cost $1 a day to care for each camper, or $7 a week. ~Contributions sent to the treasurer, Harry G. Meem, 1022 1ith street, will be acknowledged in- dividually. ——————— MACLAREN HOPS NORTH. British Round-World Flyer Off to Kushimoto, Japan. By the Axsoeiated Press. KAGOSHIMA, Japan, July 6.—A. Stuart MacLaren, the British avia- tor, who is on .a_flight around the world, left here at 7 o'clock this morn- ing for Kushimoto. MacLaren arrived here yesterday from Shanghai. A Cheerful Invitation. From the Boston Tramscript. ‘Walter was going to have a birth- day party and his mother insisted on his inviting, among others, a neigh- bor's boy with whom he had quar- reled. He finally promised he would do so, but on the day of the party the neighbor's boy failed to show up. ‘Walter's mother became suspicious. “Did you invite Charlie?” she asked. “Of course I did, mother.” 'And did he say he would come?” “No,” explained Walter. "I invited him to come, but I dared him to.” e s “What's a Name?” From the North China Herald. Mrs. Smithson had just engaged a new gardener. One morning she went out into the rden and found him hard at work. “How's my . this morning?” “Nicely, thanks, ma'am,” he an- swered. “But how did you know my name was Wl|llnm:’" Hypocrite Defined. From Quotable Anecdotes by D. B. Knox. - Teacher—Johnny can you tell me what a hypocrite is? Johnny—Yes, ma'am. It's a boy what comes to school with a smile on his face. through has ap- sweet-willlam Hard Luck. From the Lafayette Lyre. Bill (to Jack, who had just come out of telephone booth)—Well, did you get me a date? Jack—No, she-knew you. . Another Term for Hug. Frem thé Louisville Courier-Journal. Maybell says her beau is teaching her to drive the car. “I know. When I saw. them he was demonstrating the clutch. Uncertain Footing. From the Bastoo Transcript, . 3 P e Py e A e S d GETS NEW GUESTS The Camp Good Will committee of | CROKER'S WIDOW WINS WILL CASE Florida Court Sustains Dogu- ment and Codicil Which Brought Fight. 23 OBJECTIONS FAIL Probate to Be Permitted Soon Unless Appeal Is Taken, Attorneys Say. By the Associated Press. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 5 —The general demurrer filed by Beula E. Croker, to the am. ed ob- jecting petition of Richard Croker, Ethel Croker White and Howard Croker against the probate of th will of Richard Croker by a jury = Dublin, Ireland, on June 15, 19724 i3 sustained in an order issued here to- day by Palm Beach County Judge R. P. Robbius. In concurring with the action of the Duklin court by admitting the will of the former Tammany chieftain to probate Judge Robbins held 1hat the allegations of the petition are ir- sufficient under £ each of the twenty-three objections cited in the amended petition In the amended objecting petiti filed by Attorney Crawford the main contention was that the will was not exccuted in manner and form con plying with the law of the state Florida as a device of real estate It was alleged that the witnesses did not sign in the presence of Mr Croker and that witnesses were not requested to rign a last wil and tes- tament. False Representation Charged. It was alleged also, that the docu- ment had been procured by M Croker as the sole beneficiary by false and fraudulent representations, claim- ing that the children had been dis- loyal and had abused the confidence in their father so as to forfeit their natural claims to his bounty _Included in the twenty-three objec- tions was thc allegation that the paper offered was not the true last will and testament, and that the signer was not of testamentary ca pacity at the time he signed tl pLpe offered as the last will 1 testament It was alleged that the writing of- fered as a codicil did not purport to be more than a request In the event the amended petition is not filed or an appeal taken within a reasonable time Mrs. Croker wil! be entitled to probate t il codicil, according to a statemen made tonight by one of the widow's attorneys. — 35,000 SEE OPENING OF OLYMPIC GAMES (Continued from First Page.) law o stadium track to the strains of mar- tial music. They made a striking spectacle in their multi-colored uni- forms and with their national flags The crowded stands maintaine continuous applause, with nccasional greater outbursts of cheering favorites marched by. The native | costumes _of the Indian representa- tives and the kilts of the Scotch highlanders contrasted sharply with the brilliant military uniforms of the Italians and the plain outfit of biue coats and white trousers which pre dominated in the American line-up. 320 Americans Entered. The generously distri the South African the procession through portals until the the entry of the line. 1t seemed greatest, however, when lusty cheers were given to the delegations from the United State Belgium, Finland, France and Great Britain, because these groups most prominent and also because of the presence of a large number of their supporters. The Americans were seventeenth in the long parade, following honia and preceding Finland. There were 320 American athletes in the line, which covered practically half of the stadium track and numbered nearly as many repre- sentatives as all of the athletes in the sixteen nations which preceded the United State A tremendous ovation broke out from the stands as burly Pat Mac- Donald dipped the Stars and Stripe while his companion, Matt MecGrath, another veteran Olympic hero, turned the standard bearing the words “Etats Unis.” There was special cheer for Col. Robert M. Thompson, chairman of the American Olympic committee, who had risen from his sickbed to take his place in the pro- cessiol After it was all over, Col. Thompson, wearied by his exertions, but still showing his characteristic enthusiasm, declared, I never had a greater thrill than that cheering gave me as we went by the stands.” spectators’ welcome was uted from the time athletes headed the stadium closed with last gates Jugoslavs, in were a Have Large Delegations. Great Britain, with 150 representa- tives, and France, with 180 marchers, were the only divisions rivaling the United States in size, while three were rivals for the distinction of hav- ing the smallest delegation, Lith- uania, China and the Philippines, each with two athletes. The American flag passed in front of the reviewing stand for a second time, when the Philippines dipped their standard on which the and Stripes topped their national colors. The Latin-American nations also made an impressive appearance, Ar- gentina having seventy-two march- ers attired in neat blue and white uniforms closely resembling those worn by the North Americans. A notable assemblage witnessed the ceremonies, which included brief addresses by Baron Pierre de Couber- tin, president of the international Olympic committee, and Count Clary president of the French Olympic committee, In the American section there was a notable gathering in- cluding Gen. Pershing and a number of high French officials, while the royal guests of honor included the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry of England and Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. 1t was estimated that about 70 per cent of the spectators were foreigners. Nothing Left. From the American Legion Weekly. Alice—1 hear Jack has broken off his engagement with Gladys. How did she take t? * Virginla—On #agd .ber. ; 2 it dompletaly unman