Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1924, Page 2

DAVIS NOTIFIGATION INOLD HOME TOWN Ceremony * at Clarksburg, W. Va,, to Be Held Within Next Two Weeks. EAGER TO BEGIN CONTEST Hopes of Carrying Certain Western States Raised by Walsh and Carl Vrooman. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 14.—The cere- mony of officially notifying John W. Davis of his- nomination the presidency by ‘the Democratic party will take place at Clarksburg, W. Va. it was confirmed today. Formal announcement of the arrangements for the .event, which probably will take place within two weeks, is ex- pected in the next few day Mr. Davis wili deliver the address of acceptance, which will signalize the opening of the Democratic cam- paign, at the house where he lived 4s a boy and in the town that has been the residence of his family for a century The house {8 now occu- pied by a sister of the nominee. Anxious to Get Started. The nominée said he was anxious to get the preliminaries out of the way as soon as possible, as prolong- ation of the convention already had somewhat delayed the Democratic appeal to the country for control of the government. ‘After two days of comparative rest at his country home in Locust Val- ley, Long Island, Mr. Davis drove to New York this morning considerably refreshed and ready to plunge into the last of the preliminary work that muet be done to set up the party organization. Thishe hopes to finish by Friday and if he succeeds he will then go to Isleboro, Me., for'a few days before returning to Clarksburg for noti- fication DRIVE IN WESTERN U. S. for Davis Encouraged by Senator Wealsh and Carl Vrooman. B the Associated Press. LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y., July 14.— John W. Davis' hopes of carrying wéstern agricultural states have gone up as a result of week-end confer- cnces with Senator Walsh of Mon- tana and Carl Vrooman of Bloominj ton, TiL. here Mr. Vrooman, who was an assist- ant secretary of agriculture under Wil- son, saw the Democratic nominee at Matapan, his extensive estate there. It is understood that Mr. Vrooman, who farms large tracts in eastern Tilinofs, urged Mr. Davis to address himself with vigor to agrarian prob- lems and presented practical pro- posals for land refeems. Both the western leAders recom- mended that the candidate devote a large part of his time to a speak- ing tour of theit ‘sections, and Mr. Davis aescrted hé intended to do so. Sees Party Leaders Today. Refreshed as a result of his restful week end, Mr. Davie motored to New York City today. He saw several party leaders during the day at the home of Frank L. Polk. Resldnts of Locust Valley expect that he will make Matapan his princinal head- quarters during the campaign, going to ClarksBurg, W. Va, for the notf- fication and for other brief stays. Neighbors of Mr. Davis and trades- paople and villagers in Locust Valley, mindful of the fame that came to Oyster Bay during Theodore Roose- velt's campaigns from Sagamare Hill, hope that he will keep to his home here until next November. Sagamors Hill {5 less than a dozen miles from Matapan. ‘ Mr. Davis passed a quiet Sunday. attending church and going for a horseback ride in the morning_and receiving sogial callers and taking a dip in the sound®in the afterncon. He played go golf. The nominee planned to meet Cor- dell Hull, Demos s ran, omkint T Durins. the ang e 4L ceived calls from Clem Shaver of West Virginia, Isador Dockwefler of California, Edmund D. Moore of Ohlo, M. Constantine, secrefary of the Marine Workers' ‘and.Stewards' Unlon; Titus Alexander of Los Angeieh chairman “of the National Negro Democratic Association, and Bishop G. A. McGuire of the Afeican Ortho- dox Church. —_— 33 FOREST FIRES BREAK OUT IN WEST (Continued from First Page.) bindlestiffs, or carry-youf-own-blank- et farm hands, who wander back and forth the length and breadth of Cali- fornia in small arles during~ the harvest season. The order dlso in- cluded all other unworking persons who might be found. Bindlestiffs and idlers were put to fighting fire just as quiekly as rich and poor mountain vacationists. Most of the work being done by these quickly recruited fire fighters is in hewing out breaks—cleared strips of land fifty to one hundred feet wide and frequently miles long— which the fire may be unable to jump. There is ne such thing as rest 8o long as the fire shows dan- serous menace. Not infrequently the fire fighters work thirty-six hours at @ stretch, without sleep and with only such food as they can eat along the line of battle. Forest rangers, how- ever, work right alongside of them and frequently undergo even ‘greater physical hardships, for theirs is the responsibility of checking the fire. IDAHO CONDITIONS BETTER. of Q!lm Aids in Fight on ‘Flages. By the Associated Pregs. MISSOULA, Mont., July 14—The foyest fire situation in Northern Idaho was improved today, according to information recelved at the district headquarters. It was said ‘that the absence of wind for two days had helped check the fires, and that the “organizatipn was handling the matter. well. If the weather will permit the fire will be h\roulh! under + control in a few daya Two Days | the previous two months, the Labor MARRIED TOGETHER 50 YEARS AGO and Mrs. James Howat of Frosthurg, (Photo by SEEK 0 ABSORB IDLELABOR HERE Employment for Two Weeks | Remains Stable, With Some | Demand for Men. Employment conditions in Wash- ington during the last two weeks re- mained about as they were during Department announced today, al- though there has been a small de- mand for skilled and unskilled labor. There is still & large surplus of cler- ical workers in the city who are find- Ing it hard to secure employment A fair sized building program is under w; which includes an eight story apartment house and smaller projects, mostly homes. | Building tradesmen are very well | employed, the department said | The employment service of the Labor Department today broadeast and appeal to road bullding contrac- tors, quarrymen and others to make Known their labor needs in order that the exce: of emplovment in the bituminous mining industry may be taken care of. Bituminous mining has slacked off considerably in the last month and as a result many thousands of miners are out of em. ployment. some of whom have found other jobs. The majority of those laid off, however, are out of em- ployment Industrial activity in Maryland was slightly curtailed " during the past month, but there Is very little unem- ployment apparent. Building pro- grams of considerable size are under way in many sections and road con- struction work is now in full swing, affording employment to much skilled and cmmon labor. In Baltimore there is some unemployment appar- ent, due to part-time schedules in the majority of industrial plants. Fair-sized building programs, state road work and farming activities are affording employment to the rajority of skilled and unskilled labor in Vir. Einia Industrial operations through- out the state continue om a fairly satisfactory basis, very few plants being entirely closed and those plants which are working on part time schedules have not been forced to re- lease many workers. The unem.- ploved in West Virginia consist chiefly of coal miners, many of whom are securing work on outside con- struction activities. A large road- buflding program is under way and a great amount of building construc- tion work is being carried on. many | RENT BOARD REVERSED IN TWO DECISIONS Case Involving Findings of Value on 27 U and V Street Houses Sent Back by Court. Chief Justice McCoy and Justices Stafford and Siddons, sitting in gen- eral term in review of determin: tions by the District Rent Commis- sion, today reversed the findings of the commission in two cases relating to properties of the Capital Construc- tion Company, comprising 27 houses on U and V streets northwest and on Portner piace. The appellate tribunal finds that the evidence fails to support the findings of value reached by the commission. The cases are sent back to the commis- sion for further proceedings. In view of the conclusion reached the court thought it not necessary to consider a motion for a rehearing, in which Attorneys Conrad H. Syme and Blaine Mallan, for the construc- tion company, bad claimed that the rent act is unconstitutional because refusing an appeal on questions of fact and allowing appeals only on questjons of law. This is said to be the first appeal from the Rent Commission which has been reversed by the District Supreme Court under its speclal appeal power under the Ball act. st A A L FACES CHECK CHARGE. D. C. Man Arraigned in Baltimore Automobile Deal. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, July 14.—George L. Craddock, forty-nine years old, 2318 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Wash- ington, was arraigned in_central ice "court this morning with ob- taining an automobile by false pre- tenses from Louis C. Block of this city. > Craddock is alleged to have given a check on a Washington bank for $616.50, which was returned marked “not sufficient funds.” He was ar- Tested in Washington yesterday. When arraigned he stated that he bad given the check in good faith. The magistrate held the case open until Saturdsy on his promise to make the check good. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the followin ’ Charles T. Douglas and Frances J. Lee. James Willlams and Mary Hawkios. Edward A. Cafrits and Mildred Baturin. Almer Davis ofé”flmfln. 0., 4 Ay Fried: A Philip L. Abel and Lelia M. Davis, L J4mes', Yowall of Boston, Va..'and Anse rover G, Lhght of thle cach ot Siarrisonbarg. V. a. ity and Irene N. first time a colored woman o senn d to the national Left to right, Mr. and Mrx. James Rankin of Lonaconing, Md., and Mr. d. McElfsh.) FETE RECALLS ROMANCE OF FIFTY YEARS AGO Maryland Couples, Celebrating Golden Weddings, Were Prin- ciples in Double Marriage. Special Dispatch to The Star. LONACONING, Md. Vuly 14.—Mr. and Mrs. mes Rankin of Lonacon- ing and Mr. and Mrs. James Howat of Frostburg, all natives of Ayrshire, Scotlind, whio were the principals in a double’ wedding fifty years ago, re- cently had a double golden wedding tion. Each one is past three- and ten and each is enjoying t of health. ¥ years ago, the young couples were margied on what fs known as “The Island,” in Lonaconing, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John BScott. Mr. Scott, who is a judge of the Alle- ¥ county orphans’ court, Is a brother of Mrs. James Rankin. Judge Scott recalls the couriship of James Howat and Miss Marion Ran- kin back in the early seventies. He relates, how after Annie Scott had been married to James Rankin some one in_the company shouted: “Is there any one else who wishes to be married? Upon hearing the general | inquiry, James Howat arose and said he thought it was about time he was settling down and Marion Rankin, nowing that she was the girl of his hoice. stepped to his side, and the econd wedding of the evening took place. Seldom are two couples related by ties of kinship married on the same evening and it is most unusual that all four principals of such a Jjoint wedding should live fifty vears to celebrate jointly their golden wed- ding. Mr. and Mrs. Rankin and Mr. and Mrs. Howat are among the most prominent residents of Allegagy county. ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH CARNIVAL IS OPENED Affair for Benefit of Parochial Schools to Continue During This Week. St Martin's Church will hold a car- nival all this week at Mount St Martin, 116 T street northeast, for the benefit of the new parochial school now under con- struction on the church property. An excellent dance floor has been built in the open air on the hill, and more than 20 committees have been appointed to take control of the games, amusements, refreshments and other booths. Rev. #. X: Cavanagh is director of the carnival and Frank P. Gunning is general manager. The other com- mittees are as follows: Grounds, Patrick Walsh; illumination, C. E. Mooney; dancing, Joseph McCann and John Daily; hope chest, Mrs. A. Leis- mann; ice cream, Mrs. F. P. Gunning, Mrs. R. Lawton, Miss Lou Warfield, Mrs. M. J. Shea, Miss Bertha Ford, Mrs. Reilly, Mrs. B, J. McGuirl, Mrs. L. McCaleb, Mrs. Thomas ghan, Mrs. John F. McCarron, Mrs. Charles F. Goodchild, Mrs. Frank Clark, Mrs. Robert Bavne, Mrs. William Cush, Mrs. Strudley, Mrsfi M. O'Connell, Mrs. Patrick Walsh, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Thomas_Cullen, Mrs. Roeder, Miss Annie Jenkins, Lucy Clark, Mary Walsh, Mary Foley, Estelle Dean, Miss Sicker, Mrs. E. Gue, Mrs. G. Maurer, Miss A. Harvey and Willlam Clague. Fancy table, Mrs. A. Deismann; novelty table, Miss Agnes Sullivan. Miss Mary Gallagher, Miss Jane Gal- lagher; supper table, Mrs. A. King, Mrs. Fred McGivern, Mrs. J. H. Bor- ger, Mrs. G. Yocum, Mrs. Eimer Es- pey, Mrs. Thomas Holliday, Mrs. E. Hugueley, Mrs. Joseph McCann, Mrs. Joseph Broderick: soft drinks, Mrs S. Trapp; cat game, Messrs. McIntire and Madigan; aluminum prize stand, Charles Vernon and Emmett ATT; ring toss game, G. Maurer; bingo board, Catherine Furey; cigarette prize stand, Matthew Eagan; clown game, G. Yocum; fish pond, Miss M. Borger; cane game, Louise Krause: straw rides, John Daly; token stand, John Foley and James Trotter; prize packages, Mrs. J. Stanton. : Grab_bags, St. Martin's Junior Girls' Club; candy stand, the follow- ing committee from St Martin's Senior Girls' Club: Miss Bielka Kear- ney, Mrs. Marguerite Pettit, Misses Gertrude Gauges, Emma Bauer, Ella O'Brien, Bmma Curran, Anna Mee- han, Vivian Sweeney, Dorothy Lauten, Reina Sheridan, Rose Callaghan, Katherine Dorsch, Teresa Hipkins, Marie O’Connor and Margaret Gauges, The clown band of the Knights of Columbus will entertain on the car- nival grounds Wednesday evening. St. Martin’s Boy Scout Band will fur- nish music durlmg the rest of the week e 2 KILLED, 20 HURT. Truck Carrying Picknickers Over- turns on Rock Pile. CHICAGO, "July 14—Two persons were killed and twenty injured, some seriously, when a truck containing twenty-five picnickers overturned on a pile of crushed rock last night Mrs. Josephine Marzec and a man belleved to be “John Janorski were killed. ~ The driver declared there were no warning lanterns on the rock pile. PRINCE WELCOMES ADMEN TO LONDON British Heir Given Mighty Cheer by Americans. Opens Convention. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 14.—A royal wal- come today was given to the 4,500 delegates of the international adver- tising convention Dby the Prince of Wales when he opened the official sessions of the convention at Wem- bley. In anticipation of the prince's ar- rival, America’s 2,000 delegates ‘were present long before the meeting was scheduled to begin. When the British heir appeared, wearing a lounge suit, a convention butten on the lapel of his comt, the American delegates broke into enthusiastic cheering, stampeded- the platform and kept up their ovation for ten minutes. Then the prince delivered a short addre: the convention open. The large conference hall at Wem- bley was filled to capacity and more than capacity early in the morning and it was necessary to pack several hundred delegates into adjoining halls where the speakers later visited them and delivered their addresses over n. e Fathusiasm Surprises. The delegates, particularly those who spent weeks traveling from their homes to Wembley, loosened up their pent-up enthusiasm, cheering for sov- eral minutes on the appearance of each speaker and otherwise surpris- ing their English hosts with this in- troduction of enthusiasm into a con- vention, meeting. * The Prince of Wales had a hard time starting his address, so loud and Insistent were the cheers which greeted him. Eventually he.dlscard- ed his prepared paper to tell the delegates that he had always be- lieved in-advertising, and, in fact, that he had dome much of it him- self. Then he said: “I tRink it is the very name of the convention which suggests interna- tional Interest in the subject. When I see =0 many people in this hall from every part of the earth T am convinced this aim has been realized. “You came together from all over, to give and receive information and advice from each other regarding commerciallsm, which is the great- est problem we have to face today. “I lopk forward to a new life, new understanding and new commercial- ism between the United States, the Dominions and other countries to arise from this convention. I think this is the only way we can obtain that peace which is so much needed.” Hellogs Also Speaks. The prince was followed by Frank B. Kellogg, American ambassador, who also was given an enthusiastic round of applause followed by the singing of the American national anthem. The ambassador then refer- red to his graclous welcome at the hands of the English people and sug- gested that an interchange of con- vention meetings between the two countries was the best way to bring about an international accord since it allowed people to understand each other. Mr. Kellogg referred to the forth- coming London conference, saying he was confident the result of the con- ference would astonish the world and would create a new economic life. He felt the convention in London was timely and that it would serve to usher in this new economic life. Viscount Burnham, owner of the London Daily Telegraph, acting as chairman of the opening session, de- livered an address in which he re- ferred to the need of advertising to wake up the world from post-war conditions. He was followed by Lou Holland, prgsident of the Assoclated Advertising Clubs of the World, who said his organization desired advery tising clubs to lend themselves to building up world commerce. Reads Coolidge Lettor, Their aim towards which they in- tended to act unselfishly, he continued, was the peace and prosperity of the world and not of a single country. He read a letter from President Cool- idge extending best ‘wishes for the success of the convention and ex- Dressing the hope that the truth of advertising would lead to a new un- derstanding between the nations. Harry Tipper, New York, chairman of the program committee, A. C. Pear- son, commissioner of chambers of commerce of the United States, and C. Harold, president of the Thirty Club of London, also spoke. BRANDED PASTOR KEPT DRUGGED, DOCTOR SAYS Rev. Van Loon Given Little Food During Eleven Days’ Captivity. Shows Improvement. By the Assoclated Press. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., July 14. Rev. Oren Van Loon, pastor of the Community Church at Berkley, Detroit suburb, was a prisoner under the influence of drugs most of the eleven days between his disappearance from his home and last Friday, when he collapsed on the street here, in the opinion of Dr. A. Fi Kingsley, his physician. During the perlod, Dr. Kingsley believes, Rev. Van Loon re- ‘| ceived little food or water. D. C. Workers’ Pay Envelopes Heavier Tomorrow Broad smiles will adorn the faces of policemen, firemen and practially "all other District em- ployes when they march into the office of Disbursing Officer James Lusby tomorrow morning to re- ceive their first pay envelope since their salaries were increased. A considerable number of civil- ian employes have recently been granted higher ratings by the per- sonnel classification board, but. to- morrow they will be paid on the basis of the rating given them last Septembe Auditor Donovan is waiting for an opinion from the Treasury De- | partment as to whether it wil be ible to begin immediately 3 % higher salaries to those el . wehose. o wenwwt The pastor’s condition was some- what Improved ay, although he had no recollection of what had hap- pened while he was missing nor how the “K. K. K.” found seared on his back in two-inch. letters was placed there, The letters, apparently branded between. the pastor’s shoulder blades with a one-plece die or stamp, will leave permanent scars, Dr. xfiuley Palice were able to. question Rev. vEOlCe h yesterday about 4. latter found in a black bag he carried. The letter was ressed to a Mr. Davis and disc live stock deal. It said that the writer was going to Chicago and_asked Davis to meet him there. Rev. Van Loon sald that the letter was a forgery. |The pastor said the last he remem- {| bered between the time he left home, bound on an overnight speaking trip, until he was found hers, is of going to a Royal Oak Bank, cashing his Churen _sal check "and getting ejther a drink of water or of ice cream soda. * Rev. Van from the hoi his home in B said Joon was df tal today and left for kley with friends. Dr. his patient had recov- 1@ to make the trip, and. tion with familiar R S home scenes - udy in declc ring |, 4 WOMAN AND PARTY: ARRESTED IN RAID Cathedral Mansions Apart- ment Owner Gives Name of Representative’s Ex-Wife. Three men stood curiously out- side the door of apartment 337 of the fashionable Cathedral Mansions North about 1 o'clock this morning lis- tening to sounds of merriment with.n. Sulldenly one of them stooped be- side the door, struck an attitude of a decidedly feline charre. ith head thrown back and sp: ned and gave vent to a loud and nrm “Me-ow-ow!" The sounds within died instantly and there camo forth from inside the apartment the familiar household byword : “Scat!” At the same time the door of apart- ment 337 swung open and the climax of the weird nocturnal performance wis cnacted In true movie style. Walk In on Party. The “cat” and his companions Wwalked in, flashed badges and an- nounced to the dozen or so well- dressed men and women, their faces drawn in consternation, that the place was “pinched.” . Such 18 the story of the paid early today at 3100 Connecticut ivenue, as related by Sergt. McQuade of 'the vice squad, who, led by Lieut. Davis and accompanied by Policeman Holmes, staged the feline trap that led to the arrest on a disorderly- house charge of an attractive woman who gave her name as MFs. Josephine Favrot, and who, the police say, is the ®ivorced wife of Representative Favrot of Louisiana. A search of the apartment, the vice squad asserts, resulted in the seizure of a half gallon of liquor, which the police declare was intend- ed to enliven the “party” which they say was in progress in the apart- ment. Taken to Prectact Station. Mrs. Favrot was taken in a police car to No.\2 precinct statiqn, accom- panied by a long train of expensive automobiles into which the “guests’ had piled. At the police statio™ sne was charged with keeping a disorder- 1y house and with tlegal possession of liqguor and a collatpral of $25 was demanded in each cas s Mrs. Favrot did not have that amount with her, and a hurried can vass among her well dressed friends resulted in the raising of all but $12 of the necessary $50, it is stated. The police then allowed one of the young men in the party to leave the station and collect the remaining $12 from ‘“‘a friend.” In Police Court today Mrs. Favrot forfeited the-entire $50 by failing to respond to her name when the case against her was called. POLICEMEN DEMAND TRIAL BEFORE JURY Officers Charged With Assault Plead Not Guilty and Are Released on Bonds. Policemen Rovert T. Joiner and Wil- Ham E. Winfield of the ninth precinct, charged with assaulting Charles H. Ambrose in front of his home, 1016 3d street northeast, during a melee that followed a dispute over the firing of cap pistols by children of the vi- cinity July 4 last, pleaded not guilty in Police Court today and demanded trials by jury. Judge John P. McMahon, who last week dismissed a charge of assault which the policemen -had lodged against Ambrose as an outgrowth of the same affray, released the de- fendants on their personal bonds pending'trial of the case. The police- | men were represented by Attorney Bert Emerson. Winfield and Joiner figured in the arrest of Mrs. Gertrude Winfield, a sister-in-law of Winfield, at the 3d street premises, when the officer is sald to have searched for a toy cap pistol _belonging to the daughter of Mrs. Winfield. Mrs. Winfield protest- ed and finally was charged with dis- orderly conduct. The case was later nolle prossed by Assistanf Corpora- tion Counsel Madigan. 2 GIRLS AND MAN TAKEN AFTER ALL-NIGHT BATTLE Fourth of Party Still Besieged. Policeman, Champion Athlete, May Die of Wounds. By the Associated Press. HALIFAX, N. 8, July 14.—Two girls ‘| and one man of a party of four who held the police force of this city at bay in the nearby woods for several hours last night, during which one policeman was shot from ambush, were captured today. The remaining man who took part in the pitched battle is still besieged., The fray started when a cottager dis- covered the men and women making off with a camper’s outfit. When the police arrived they were fired upon from the forest, and Patrolman Stephen Kennedy probably was fatally injured. Kennedy holds the Canadian hammer-throwing championship. The two girls captured, both about 15 years old, were said to be eisters of the man who is still besieged. His name was glven as Bevis by the police. The man Captured with the two girls was' de- scribed as Robert Slaughanwhite. LEAPS FROM KEY BRIDGE; - MAN IS SERIOUSLY HURT Unidentified Victim Rushed to Emergency Hospital—Skull Believed Fractured. An unidentified white man about 35 years of age jumped-from the Key Bridge this afternoon. The man was rushed to Emergency Hospital, where physicians as yet have been unable to determine his_condition. A sedrch of the man's clothing in an effort to prove his identity wae fruitless, and the man is in such a condition that any explanation or identification has not been obtainable from him. A number of witnesses at the vari- ous boathouses declare they saw .him leap from the bridge. Poctors fear there might be a tracture of the skull, but they declare that the man is €0 prostrated from the shock that they are unable to determine the extent of his injuries. ——————— A MAN AND 2 GIRLS DROWN. Former Dives in Lake to Save Sister and Cousin. LUDINGTON, Mich,, July 14.—Ken- neth Harbin, twenty-four, cashier of the Pere Marquette Line steamers; Jennie Videan, seventeen, his sister- in-law, and Nina Marks, seventeen, her cousin, drowned in St. Maws Lake Sunday while bathing. All lived here. ‘water where the drownings oc- The water : |icurred is eighteen feet deep. Videsn, first to enter the water; called for help & moment later. Miss Marks went.to her aid. Although both girls could swim, they sank as Harbin plunged in aftér them. bip, & good swimmer, never came to The bodles were recovered. | always under new conditions. STORM VICTIMS VISIT CAPITAL - HUNTING NEW START IN LIFE Motor Parties From Lorain, Ohio, Present Pathetic Proof of Devastation—Aid Given to Desti- tute Family by Local Residents. A ‘pathetic aftermath to remind Washington® of the ‘horrors of the Lorain ternado has come in the last few days in the arrival Here by auto- mobile of a number stricken families from the Ohio city. Stripped of virtually everything ex- cept the clothes on their backs, a few dollars in their pockets and the family motor car, numbers of these unfortunates have left lifelong ties behind them and are seeking, K new fortunes, new homes and new friends in other parts of the country. An instance of this exodus present- ed itself Saturday to residents of the vicinmity of the Natlonal Cathedral, when, a destitute family was forced to seck relief beneath a grove of trees near the gasoline statfon at Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues because of the breaking down of the car. ‘Wife Sobs Over Sttua: For about six hours the héad of the family struggled with the mechanism of his car while his tired und sob- bing wife and pretty seventeen-year- old daughter sat dejeotedly nearby. The scene was so moving that even an foe wagon driver, learning that the family was entirely without mon- ey, had nearly ten gallons of gaso- line put into the tank of the car, while Mrs. W. M. Monroe, in charge of the filling station during her hus- band’s absence, contributed half a gal- lon of oil and some cold drinks to go with three sandwiches which had been given to them by a resident down the road. The story of hardship which the storm victims unfolded was related piecemeal to Mrs. Monroe. She gath- ered that they had lost their home and all vestige of personal belong- ings except the car and the clothing they wore. The father, who was about forty years old, was dressed in a badly torn pair of khaki trous- and a blue shirt; the mother, ap- U. S. WORLD FLYERS REACH PARIS AFTER HOP FROM VIENNA (Continued from First Page.) of disaster-| proximately the same age, wore only & “wrapper” and old shoes, and the daughter, described as “pretty as a picture,” had on a voile dress that was much the worse for wear. Unable to Get Work. The head of the family told in- quirers he hid hoped to obtain work of any kind en route, but the priva. tions which they had gone through during the tornado and the subse- quent trip east had forced his courage to the lowest ebb. “It's no use,” he remarked to a by- stander. “I am willing to do any- | thing to support my family, but no one seems willing to give me a chance. I'm going back home.” But he had forgotten that “home” did not exist for him any more. and | his wife, crying bitterly, reminded him of that fact. The daughter beg- ged the gasoline keeper's wife to al- low her to stay with her until she cotld find a job, but the parents ob- Jected to any such separation, and after they had succesded in rectify- ing the engine trouble, the trio, a khaki tent strapped to the running board of thelr car, turned about and headed toward Rockville and “home.” Names Not Learned. No one asked them their names and they did not confide them to their benefactors. They seemed reticent to bother others with their troubles, and it was only by questioning that the tragedy was unfolded. This was the second family from the scene of Lorain's devastation to stop in the same grove of trees within a_week. The first family was coraposed. of & father, mother, daugh- ter and son. They, too, had Jost their home and virtually all worldly pos- sessions, and they were seeking a ney location Fortunately, this family was better off financialiy than the trio which arrived Saturday. Probably several other Lorain families- ~ have passed through Washingtorl recently, At the tourists’ camp in_ Potomac Park none has rexistered so far from Lorain, it was said today. 3,000 DEAD IN FIGHT IN SAO PAULO, SAYS REFUGEES’ REPORT (Continued from First Page.) the flight was postponed, few Aus trians were at the field, they made up for their small number by the en- thusiastic reception they gave the fiyers. Since the four days' halt at Cal- cutta, the planes have been making good time with two flights dally. In Constantinople, the Turks carefully inspected the planes and admired thelr construction. In Bucharest, Queen Marie invited the flyers to the castle and the Rumanian officers wanted to give them a banquet. The fliers are visibly weary from the terrific strain, which the fllers say Is due not so much to eight hours dafly in the air, as the lack of sleep. After each flight it {s necessary to examine the planes and take on fuel, The fliers usually get to thelr hotel about eight. They bathe and eat and usual- 1y fall asleep without seeing any more of the stopping place than glimpses caught from the automobile, which brings them from the fiying fleld Are Pictares of Health. The fiiers are bronzed and lean and the picture of health, but they are certainly tired. In Bucharest one filer fell asleep in his bath and it took half the hotel force to mop up the flood. Last night Lieut. Smith seem- ed to fall aslesp in a car, but he dentes it. He was certainly nodding over plans which the route along the Danube over Austria and Germany to Paris, as they were being explained to him. Another flier fell into bed right after dinner, a few meant to see Vienna, sleep or no sléep. They spent an hour in the city park listen- ing to the concert. They must all be up at three and in the air at five SET TERRIFIC PACE. Pilots Cover 18,085 Miles in 239 ‘Hours’ Actual Flying. With their arrival in Paris, the American world fiyers have traveled 18,035 miles in 118 da with 239 hours® fiying time. all departments, including- anti-air- | craft guns, airplanes and whippet tanks. CITY HELD BY REBELS. Federals Entrench on Hills Be- tween Santos and Sao Paulo. By the Amsociated Press - BUENOS AIRES, July 13—The revolutionary troops in the state of Sao Pauwlo, Brazil, appear from ad- vices reaching here to be success- | fully holding the government forces on the west and at the same time to be pushing southward through the hille toward the Port of Santos. The main force of the federals in this locality have entrenched, accord- ing to the latest reports, on the high- est hills between Santos and Sao Paulo, in a position which commands the railway and the automobile road. The indicated plan of the federal high command was to awalt the arrival of overwhelming bodies of reinforcements, both by Jand and by sea, and then to compdl the rebels to® surrender through a siege and thereby avoid bloodshed and damage to property. FEDERALS QUIT SAO PAULO. State Department Informed of Ac- tion in Official Reports. Reporfed evacuation of the city of Sao Paulo the Brazillan federal authorities ‘was confirmed in official dispatches received today by the State Department. One digpatch, undated, from Sao Paulo described the withdrawal of the federals to Santos, where, it was sald, preparations were well ad- vanced for a renewed attack upon the state capital. Troops were al- ready in motion with this object in view when the massage was sent. This dispatch and another from Santos, aiso undated, emphasized the belief of the department's informants that American lives and property would be adequately safeguarded by both factions. All means of com- munication, with stores of arms and smmunifion were commandeered by the federals, the department was in- MACLAREN AT KUSHIRO. Will Leave U. S. Flyers Route Un- til Reaching Atki. By the Associated Press. KUSHIRO, Island - of Hokkaido, Japan, July 14.—A. Stuart MacLaren and his two companions, on their way around the world by air, arrived here today from Minato on Honshu, the main island of Japan, The next stop of the British flyers is, at Hitokappu anchorage on Yetorofu Island, one of the Kurile group. The American round-the-world fiyers stopped at Hitokappu, but in- stead of retracing their route east- ward the MacLaren party will make a @etour from Hitokappu to Attu Island, the westernmost of the Aleutians, where they again will pick up the American’s trail. This detour will lead the British- ers to a small laks near the southern end of Paramushir Island, the most northerly but one, of the Kuriles, instéad of to the anchorage at the northern end of the island used by the Americans as a landing- place. Thenoce they will fly to Petropaylovsk, on the ;western coast of the Kamohatka. peninsula, to Bering Island, Copper Island and Attu. Ex- cept Attu, all these stops are in Rus sian territory. Their use will shorten the oversea jump considerably, as compared with the hop of 856 miles made by the Americans from Attu to Paramushir. Landings at them are possible for the British flyers, though the Americans could not come down on Russian territory because Amer- ica has. mot recognized the Soviet Russian government. Will Skirt Maine Coast. PORTLAND, Me., July 14.—The United States Army round-the-world fiyers will skirt the Maine coast in thelr flight Southward from Nova Scotia. Old Orchard will be an amergency stop for the planes, it be- came known today. A requeat for accommodations there has been re- celved from Washington. s —_— The way to flatter the aver- u:# suggests one, is L D At he dcenmt ook e * . formed, and the government was be- ing pressed to declare a moratorium in the affected area for at least one month. REBELS’ SUPPLIES SHORT. Hold Sao Paulo, But Likely to Lose City, Report Says. to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1924. SANTOS, Brazil, July 13.—(Via Buenos Aires, July 14.) Sao Paulo is in complete control of the rebels. The federals have 'been attacking them, but with little success to date. Santos is quiet following a two- day revolutionary flurry. It is un- known here what the sftuation is in Rio de Janeiro. The people of Santos feel that the federal prediction that it would be easy to capture Sao Paulo was highly optimistic in view of the strength of the rebel forces. The federal government thus far has sent 24,000 troops to suppress the rebellion against the rebels, who number 34,000, according to estimates here. 9 The Rio government, in its deter- mination to put down the Sao Paulo rebellion, is transferring its best troops there and probably will suc- ceed unless the spirit of the troops fails. The rebels are reported to be short of funds. It is said that the Rio government, anticipating the in- surrection, caused the transfer of By Cabie CYCLECARWREDK FATAL T0 GRL 17 Policeman Serjously Injured in Collision on Highway Near Fort Humphreys. May Foreman, sevanteen-year-oldy schoolgirl, of F street northeast, was killed, and Forrest P. Waddell, traffic officer of the first precinot station, was seriously injured, when a motor cycle and side car they were riding struck an automobile mnear Fort Humphreys, Va.. yesterday. The couple were with a party of friends at the time of the accident According to State Officer B. G, Dur- rer, who was near 4t the time of the accident, it occurred when the motor cycle tried to pass the automobile The side car was thrown, hurling the girl upon the concrete roadbed with great force, the machine at th time oerturning, pinning Wad neath it. Ald at Fort Hu: The injured couple were carried to the base hospital at Fort Humphrey: where they received first aid and then were rushed to Alexandria Hospital. The girl died shortly after being admitted. Her skull was crushed. £ Miss Foreman left home yesterday afternoon to visit her friend, Helen Gans at 214 F street northwest. While there she was Introduced to several young men and women, friends f s Gans. Waddell was among those met Invited to Take Ride. Miss Foreman was invited to take a motoreycle ride with the party. She had previously- expressed her fears of such vehicles to her mother, but according to witnesses decided to take the ride with V‘«’lddes. The girl formerly resided in Phila- delphia and came to Washington with her parents ten years ago. She at- tended the Carbery School where she is in the eighth grade. She is sur- vived by her parents, two brothers a“ldf two sisters, all younger than her- self. A coroner’s jury at Alexandria will investigate the accident tonight she PARIS BALKS AT U. S. REPARATIONS VOTE (Continued from First Page.) city today. The delegation is headed by Prof. Alberto de Stefani, minis- ter of finance The newspapers commenting toda on the conference continue to press doubts as to its practical re- sults | The Messagero thinks the re- establishment of cordiality between France and Great Britain is apparent, since, it says, the two cou tries disagree the fundame program of the conference, nan on the application of the Dawes plar and especially on the participation of Germany in the conference whether' it will be necessary or to draw up a new protocel ceptable to Germany. The Italian delegation, it serted, goes to London, with tions to act as & concilfatory elemen bétween the two divergent v points. The foreign policy of two, &r countries is, therefore. in Germany's opinton, dictated by an active grou of French jingoes and war makers who are mot even a majority in their own country. But it must be admitted that the Germans are none too act themselves in hurrying necessary 1 islation. ‘Their fgeble internal poi cies, unwillingness of the cabinet take a stand for or against the 1 tionalists, or-the unwillingness of th Nationalists to approve or disapprove flatly the Dawes report and the general tendency to use the foreign situatior for small domestic issues, have half paralyzed German initiative and ren- dered the German credit situation even worse than it would be naturally, and have created a generally bad impres- sion. ‘Whether German statesmen are un- aware, indifferent or helpless, certain! ey do not make a great effort to as- &ist forelgners in the attempt to show that the German economic situation will be worthy of foreign credit, once political barriers are removed. Foreign Minister Stresemann, after consenting to mive an Mmportant state- ment to one correspondent, walked with it for fiye days in his pocket, and finally lost it altogether. It geems, somehow, that this characterizes Ger- man post-war statesmahship. The sit uation is muddy. Z POINCARE GIVES WARNING. ex erely on it ins Says Herriot Must Not Concede Too Much at Parley. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. By Redio to The Star and Chica News. Copyright. 1924. PARIS, July 14.—Premier Herriot will 0 to London tomorrow fully empowered by the French Parliament to represent France in the London conference, but he has\been warned mnot to make too many concessions. Such 1s the gist of Poincare’s five-hour speech Thursday.’ The Senate will give a vote of confidence to the French pre- mier, and he no longer will be able o say that the intrigues of his political op- pbnents prevent him from pleading the cause of France. Poincare's speech was mild and there was an apparent effort to spare Herriot. It was more in the form of a lecture to inexperienced officials in- trusted for the first time with an im- portant mission whom he wanted to warn to be careful to elude the “traps of British diplomacy.” Even Poincare's criticism of the new Franco-British memorandum was Daily k‘rle sums of cash from Sao Paulo to o. - Stocks of grain, meat and canned goods in Sao Paulo are getting low and prices are exorbitant. The rebels control the railroa in the Sao | Paulo district and are compelling the farmers to supply them with food. EMBASSY GETS REPORT. Government Dispatch Says Federal Troops Make Advances. The Brasilian embassy here today made public.an officlal communica- tion received at midnight last night from the Brazillan government as follows: “The ‘federal’ troops are maintain- ing their positions and have made notable advances at several points. ‘We believe that the rebels have al- ready made without results a de- oclsive effort. Great discouragement evails among them. In the prin- :{pudfluo(&onsutho Seopi: are enthusiastically o ising volun- eer Torapanics 1o sseter the treuta’ mild. He merely péinted out that in case Germany intends to evade the application of the experts' report France's freedom of action will be very much handicapped. Poincare urged the government not to allow Germany to send representatives to London to discuss the application of the experts’ plan. “Germany,” ‘he said, “should be asked to come and say definitely ves or no, because if the Germans are permitted to disouss the plan thev will never apply it. 900 Taken in Safety Drive. CHICAGO, July 14.—Nearly 300 per yons were arrested or given sum= monses to appear in court in viols- tion of traffic orginances here during the last forty-eight hours in 3’ “safety or sorrow” campaign inst! tuted by the police. The major of those to appear in court today ai. charged with speeain®