Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1924, Page 14

. 1AST SHIP OF THE FAMOU Connecticut. 450 feet long and 76 feet wi “BOB™ EVANS FLEET GOES TO SCR AP HEAP. Dismantling the U. S. i S. Connecticut, at Oakland, Calif. . was construeted in 1906, and during the World War did patrol duty in British waters. The other two The vessels of the Admiral Evaus fleet, the Rbode Island and the Georgia, have been demolished, their plzces being taken by modern oil-burning ships. UNCLE JOE CANNON HEARS DAWES NOTIFICATION ADDRESS. Gen. Dawes, Republican cand Vice President, and Uncle Joe Cannon, once Speaker of the House of Representatives, at official notification of Dawes at Evanston, 1L ENGINEERS LAUDED AS TRAINING ENDS | | Oehmann Praises Accom-| plishments of 121st Regi- 1 ment—Return Tomorrow. By a Staff Corresponds FORT HUMPHREYS, 3.—Completing at noon field trainin which . has materially improved them for field service and | which has brought forth much favor- able comment, members s Regiment of nginee! regimental formation, complimented by th officer, Col. John W. Oehmann, who held up to them the motto of the Engineer Corp, “Essayons,” or “Keep on Trying.” ' The morning playing mas: order drill, | Va., August| two weeks' | toy were highly commanding was given over to games and extended and when the bugler sounded the last drill recall of this| camp, the regiment wa E mbled on the parade ground, when the fol- lowing memorandum of Col. Ochmann was published to the command, and printed copies distributed to the per- sonnel as souvenirs: The 121st Regiment is nearing the close of its first en- campment as a regimént. » “Every officer and man* entered the training period with a full concep- tion of his duty and a determination to make it the most profitable en- campment in the history of the N tional Guard of the District of Co- Jumbia. “That this determination has been truly and conscientiously carried out is best evidenced by the expressions of praise from our instructors and the officers of the Regular Army on duty at the post. Conduet is Praised. i of ‘Engineers “The conduct of the members has| been most exemplary. There is no| court-martial to blacken our rc('nrd.‘ no A. W. O. L., sickness has been of | inconsequential character and sani-| tary conditions have testified by its| cleanlin and personal hygiene, to the high morale and character of the personnel of the regiment. “It is, therefore, my extreme pleas- ure, as regimental commander, to convey to you at this time, my deep appreciation of your co-operation and attention to duty in all things mili- tary, and your gentlemanly response to my- orders and recognition of the authority reposed in me. “With such a splendid past to build upon, and with every indication ‘of having the nucleus to make the best engineer. regiment in the National Guard of the United States, let us now resolve to not let down in our determination to improve and fulfill to its extent the meaning implied in the single word motto of the En- gineer Corps\pf the Army, ‘Essayons.’’ Eagerly Await Awards. s afternoon will be given over to athletics, and the men will be free to use their time as they see fit. There is considerable interest being shown in the expected report of the Regular Army instructors as to what outfit will win the gold medals for the highest efficiency rating for this en- campment. Maj. W. E. R. Covell, senior instructor, this afternoon is in consultation. with his assistants, and making the marks on which the medals will be awarded. The awards will be made before the entire regi- ment-tomorrow-morning, just before United States Marine Band, Wil- liam H. Santelmann, leader; Tay- lor Branson, leader, con- ducting, at today, at 5 p.m. March, “Niebelungen' Wazner Overture, “Lenore™ Beethoven Solo for saxophone, “Erica.” Wiedoeft (Musi auser) Selection an Frank Wibli "he Foree of De Characteristic, “On Tiptoe”.Hosmer Waltz, “Cagliostro” Strauss “Les Preludes” -Liszt “The Star Spangled Banne 50 MT. ALTO PATIEI;ITS ON RIVER EXCURSION| Taken Down Potomac to Indian Head as Guests of McCoy Unit of Woman’s Legion. | | | | | | More than 50 patients of Mt. Alto Hospital were entertained on an out- ing down the river to Indian Head vesterday by the Geotge Baldwin Mec- Coy Unit of the American Woman' Legion. Shortly before 3 o'clock »w left her moorings at the foot of the Eighth Strect Wharf and for five hours the veterans of the World War were entertained by musi¢ and songs. © Refreshments were given them consisting of all the delicacies that could possibly appeal to the soldier appetite. Mrs. Walter I. McCoy, president of the unit, was out of town, but a com- mittee headed by Mrs. Charles Demo- net and including Mrs. E. B. Latham, Miss Pauline Block and Miss E. P. took over the management of the Ocean “The Bradleys,” a tuneful orchestra from Bradley Heights, played con- tinuously and were ted by two girls with ukuleles Elsic Jorss | sang several selections. | TRUCK. CHILD KILED BY, Boy Starts Motor and Then Falls Under Wheels. CHARLOTTE, N. C., August Richard Sams, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sams of Augusta, Ga., was killed almost instantly late yesterday when he was run over by an electric delivery truck. While the driver left the truck in front of the residence of the child's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Campbell, whom ha was visiting, the lad climbed up on the truck and touched the elec- trical starting apparatus. As the truck started, the boy fell or jumped off and was run over by the front and rear wheels. — e the organization is entrained for the return trip to Washington. Prizes for the regimental athletic meet held last Wednesday were awarded following a parade and re- view of the regiment late yesterday afternoon. The winners were march- ed to front and center of the line and Maj. Oehmann personally pinned medals on the uniforms of the in- dividuals and awarded the other prizes. The officers of the 121st Regiment were the hosts at a dance given last | world fivers leave Wide World Fhoto UNCHARTED LAND FACES U. . FLYERS Great Tract in Labrador, Half as Big as Europe, Con- tains But 4,000 Whites. United States ‘round-the- Greenland on the last Arciic hop of their journey, they approach the no-man’s-land. of the North American Continent. From Indian Harbor, Labrador, the globe- circling airmen can look back over the most desolate and danger-ridden tracts of ocean ever conquered by intrepid pioneers, but they can also lock ahead (o a no-less desolate waste of land, the unexplored and unknown peninsula of Labrador. A vast terri- Palf as large as Europe, Labra- dor boasts of a population of only 4,000 white settlers, but of its Eskimo and Indian inhabitants there are no :ally authentic census estimates. Perhaps the most interesting fea- ture of this immense, unsettled land is that its ownership is a matter of doubt, and just now the Engl Privy Council has on its hands the task of deciding how much of Labra- dor belongs to Canada and how much to Newfoundland. The country takes its name from a Basque fisherman named Bradore, who settled in one of its numerous bays in the year 1520. A few vears later it was charted by the explorer Cartier, its wonderful fisheries became known, and it be- came a bone of contention. It has re- mained so éver since. The French stepped in there back in the latter part tof the sixteenth century, and for many years maintained garrisons at various vantage points till the sea-raiders drove them out. Shifted Many Times. In 1760 it was handed over to Canadian administration by the British crown, then it was ttansferred to Neéwfound- land, but was later handed back to Canada. Finally it became a matter of mere conjecture as to just to whom this great slice of the North American continent belonged. As a_ result of this uncertainty of ownership a sort of tacit understanding_ was entered into between the two British depen- dencies whereby Canada was to have sole rights to the interior and New- foundland similar rights to the sea- board on which extensive fishery op- erations are carried on. This agree- ment served well enough until poli- ticians saw in the undefined boundary a splendid_opportunity to reap a rich harvest. They forthwith began a dis- pute over the division of the land which has gone on for scores of years and_has been prolific of legal fees but has never seemed to approach an end until now. Newfoundland, no longer satisfied to accept. the bare coast line as her share, has been putting up a fight for a slice of the interior of the peninsula which . is, from the little that known of it, undoubtedly rich in forests and minerals, and this fight, dragged out over years, as it has been, resulted last year in Canada’s offering Newfoundland for her rights or alleged rights to the Labrador Peninsula_enough money to.pay off her national debt, a matter of $63,- 000,000. Newfoundland declined to be thus relieved of her. financial obli- the night in Harris Hall, tke bachelor officers’ quarters in the post, and it was largely attended by relatives and friends from the National Capital gations, and is fighting her case be- fore the Privy Council in England. The litlle colony has yislons of .American capital turning her share ist Wide World I This is the newest hairdress, ori nated in India, and it threatens to become popular this fall—for those who retain the long tresses. Miss Cleo Spohr exhibited the style in a Chicago fashion show a few days ago. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. of the Labrador wilderness vast wealth-producing center. iold Rush Fizzles. Very near the landing place of the United States flyers is the gold ter- ritory whose discovery last year at- tracted the attention of the whole American continent. That gold rush proved a fizzie because of the crooked work of promoters. but the predic- tion is made by explorers into this land that Labrador is destined to du- plicate the history-making achieve men of Alaska. Indeed it bears a notable resemblance to Alaska. Geo- graphically, it occupies the same re- lation to the North American contin- ent on the cast that Alaska does on the west and its geological forma- tion is identical with that of the great gold country. While the United States airmen are today merely seeking on the rugged Labrador coast a resting place in their epoch-making fight there is every probability that Ameri- cans, pioneers in so many of the world's greatest commercial and in- dustrial ventures, will in a few years be turning to practical account the vast hidden wealth of this little known land of the far north. CALLS POLICE HONESTY ONLY ENFORCEMENT NEED Gen. Butler Declares Laws Will Be Upheld if Officers Play Fair. Prosecutors Pledge Aid. into a By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., August 23— Enforcement of law is a moral, not a political issue, and the only secret of enforcement is honesty on the part of the policemen, Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, director of public safety in Philadelphla, told 60 district attor- neys of Pennsylvania, gathered here yesterday, at the call of Gov. Pin- chot to discuss methods of co-opera- tion between State and county agen- cies in enforcing the prohibition laws. The district attorneys, in resolu- tions adopted after hearing Gen. But- ler describe the activities of the Phil- adelphia police and listening to an appeal by Gov. Pinchot for co-opera- tion to bring about “speedy and vig- orous law enforcement,” pledged their assistance “to the enforcement of all laws of the commonwealth.” Declaring that as a policeman, he would make no critcism, Gen. But- ler confined himself largely to the problems of enforcetment, and the activities of the Philadelphia police force. His only reference to the question of his retention in the office another year came when he declared: “This is a great moral crusade to see whether as a nation we will en- force the laws we have made our- selves voluntarily, and we can do it if we are left alone over there for another year.” —_—e TWO DEAD IN BLAST. Fatally Hurt When Gasoline Is Poured on Coals. MAGEE, Miss, August 23.—Two persons were fatally ‘injured, one building _ destroyed and another damaged here yesterday when an ex- plosion and fire followed the pouring of gasoline on live coals in the belief that it was kerosene. The dead are: A. F. Brown, 48, and his wife, 45, both of whom succumbed shortly after they had been removed to a hospital. A child was painfully, but not seri- ously hurt. The fire originated in a restuarant operated by the Browns, which was destroyed. —e The diameter of the glant star Antares is-about- 400,000,000 ‘miles, | FOUR KILLED WHEN FAST TRAIN HITS AUTO TRUCK AT CROSSING. and Reading Railroad struck a loaded auto truck at the Lincoln avenue crossing, in Cranford, N. ] »s for a distance of 3 city blocks. over the t TRYING TO GET A WORD WITH MARS. Corp. John H. Sadler of the Signal Corps trying 1o get a signal from Mars through the War Depart- ment’s radio station in Washington. This radio receiving set was con- structed with the special idea of picking up signals from the planet. HUSBAND ABANDONED BY WIFE TRIES SUICIDE | H. W. Pardoe Awakens in Hospital After Taking Narcotic—Left Note for Woman. Because h a month ago t love and then William Pardoc day afternoon wrote him a note 1 of her waning ppeared, Homer hotel waiter, yester- went to the vicinity of the bridge over Rock Creek at Calvert street, and swallowed a fluid he thought would bring death. The potion the young man took did induce unconsciousness, but he was much surprised and disuppointed when he awoke in Garficld Hospital with nurses and attendants about him. The despondent man fully recover- ed from the effects of the narcotic and was discharzed from the hospital, When Detectives Vermilllon and Bradshaw of the Tenth Precinct ar- rived on the scene of the attempted suicide, they discovered that Pardoe had placed a picture of his wife be- neath h head with a letter left by him dated August 21, and addres: to his wife. SEE REVENGE MOTIVE Negro Building Fired as Result of Girl's Murder, Georgia Of- ficials Claim. By the Associaled Press. MOULTRIE, Ga., negro school house part of Colquity County was de- stroyed by fire late Thursday night in what county authorities said today to have been a flare-up of racial feeling aroused three years ago by the slaying of 13 ar-old white girl, for which a negro was burned at the stake by a mob. It was the second negro school building to be burned within a year at the same spot. Officers are conducting an intensiye search for the supposed incendiaries, and rewards totaling $200 have been offered for their capture. The murder of the girl, Lorena ‘Wilkes, was one of the most brutal ever perpetrated in this section. At least 3,000 persons were in the mob that seized John Henry Williams, the negro slaver, and burned him at the stake just after he had been con- victed and sentenced to hang at the earliest possible date. Shortly afterward, it was recalled, a megro church, lodee and school building were destroyed by fire. BANDITS TIE UP CASHIER. Bind Him to Doornob and Rob Cleveland Bank. CLEVELAND, August 23.—Two bandits, one of them armed with a revolver, held up Roy C. McCracken, cashier of the City Savings and Loan Company, west side branch, late yese terday, bound him to a door knol with adhesive tape, gagged him witk the same material and escaped with $6,280. August 23.—A in the southern - One Killed, One Hurt in Crash. MANSFIELD, Pa., August 23.—Mrs. Sylvester Kiziusky of Chicago was killed and her daughter Alsreda, 15, badly injured yesterday, when an au- tomobile in which they were en- route from Chicago to Philadelphia to attend a Polish convention, left the road near.here, struck a tree and overturned, Copyright by Miller Service. FLETCHER PRAISES CHILD LABOR DEFEAT Gratified by Action of North Caro- lina Legislature—Cites Wads- worth Speech. Senator Fletcher, Democrat, Florida, in a atement sterday expressed his gratification o© r the refusal of the North Carolina Senate to ratify the proposed constitutional child labor amendment. He said the action of the State House of Representatives in amending the State law to pro- hibit “gainful occupation” by chjldren under 14 vears of age, shows North rolina’s “determination to free it- self from accusations regarding the exploitations of child labor.” The "Senator’'s statement, said “There has been so much misin- formation and willful misstatement disseminated regarding the labor of miners that much error persists in the minds of many usually well in- formed persons regarding the sub- ject. The number of children under 14 employed in mechanical and manu- facturing industries in the United wtes, according to the census of was 9,473, including part-time employment. “Senator Wadsworth of New York showed in the Senate on May 29, 1924, that the total of the cotton mill operatives from 10 to 14 years of age was 622, of which 404 were employed in North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. ‘So it will be seen,’ Senator Wadsworth said, ‘that the number whittles down to almost nothing, and there is only a bare presumption that any were illegally employer.” “With exception of 66 boys above 12 years of age, who worked outside of school term in North Carolina, and 127 orphans, or children of widowed mothers, who secured snecial permits to work after becoming 12 years of age, in Georgia, no children under 14 worked in Southern factories during 1 in part, “Outside of these 193 children work- fng under special permits, any child that is employed in a Southern cotton mill could legally work in any New ingland State.” MRS. MARY MORAN DIES. Had Been Resident of Washington for 35 Years. Mrs. Mary Moran, widow of Daniel Moran of this city and herself a re: dent here for the last 35 years, died at her residence, 513 F street north- east, yesterday, following a lingering illness. Funeral services will be conducted at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Mon- day morning at 9 o'clock. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. Moran, who befpre her mar- riage was a Miss White, was a native of Ireland. She came to this country with a cousin and was married in this city. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Katherine Miller, and a brother, Peter White of this city, and another brother, Maurice White, of Galeburg, iiN Bryan Has Bruise on Head. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., August 23.— ‘William Jennings Bryan, en route to his home in Miami, was in Jackson- ville a short while yesterday. A slight bruise on the forehead and a scarcely noticeable imp _were the only visible signs of the egfects of a motor car accident in which the Commoner fig- ured a few. days ago in Illinots, Running at 60 miles an hour, an The entire PENSION OFFICE IS CHAMPION pressed and wrapped in big bundles, the 510.000 lette hundred mail bags, are sent monthly to the veterans of the Ci Spanish-American wars, their dependents and widows. vear $263,000.000 was distributed. YOUR BONUS Questions That Bother You Will Be Answered in This Column. Address: Room 7 partment, The Washington, D, 22, News De- | ening Star, | | | @ 1am 3 constant reader of your paper and, having to prep: a speech on the bonus, I would very much ap- prociate a brief definition of the fol- lowing words or things: Bonus, ad- justed compensation, credit, bene- ficlary, veteran, certificate, pension, insurance benefits, dependent, com- pensation.—M. E. G. nd adjusted compensa- are one and the sam thing. a misnomer. Adjusted com- pensation is the term used in the law and more nearly and accurately de- scribes the benefits extended. The amount of each veteran's adjusted compensation is sed upon a credit for each day of service rendered. When applying for adjusted compen- sation each veteran claimant is asked to name a beneficiary to whom the | face value of his adjusted compensa- tion will be payvable if his death should occur before the expiration of 0 years. A veteran is any person who served honorably and who en- tered the service between April 6, 1917, and November 12, 1918, If he entered the service between these two dates he is allowed a credit for all service rendered from the time of such entrance until July 1, 1919. Ad- justed service certificates are to be sued to each veteran, that will be his bonus or adjusted compensation. A pension is payment made to others than those that served in the World War. It is usually payable either for disabilities incurred in the service prior to the World War or for death of a father or husband, or on account of 0ld age. Insurance henefits as used generally this column apply to payments being made by the Vet- erans’ Bureau to persons within the permitted class of beneficiaries sur- viving men who dicd in the service, or who have died since, either from war disabilities or whose insurance became due and payable upon death not attributable to the service, A de- pendent is one who survives a vet- eran, as limited by the act, to a widow unmarried, children, mother and father. Dependency is presumed in the cases of unmarried widows and minor children. Mothers asd fathers mukt swear to dependency. Compensation is payable | to certain surviving relatives of men who died in the scrvice or have died | after discharge from the service from an injury treaceable to the military service, or where dependency arises | within a period not to exceed five years after the death of the veteran. These definitions are given as they relate_to the adjusted compensation act. They are not strictly speaking, accurate legal discriptions of the words or terms used. Q. I served oyerseas in the Army | and there is no question asked re- garding this service in the application blank for ~adjusted compensation, Should 1 mention under item of re- marks the fact that 1 served in France?—F. G. M. A. You do not need to do this be- cause the War Department has your service record and from it can ascer- tain' the exact date that you sailed and the date that you disembarked from such service. Men who served in the Marine Corps are the only per- sons who need to show on their ap- plication the fact of overseas service. Q. Please tell me what dependency is and how the departments will con- strue’this term for the benefit of a Jonus client whom I am assisting to secure A of the Philadelphia derailed, and plowed express tr. train wa The truck driver and three others were killed, while 30 passengers were injured. Copyright by P. & A. Photos “MONEY SENDER.” Tightly com- filling several and During the past Copyright by Kadel & Herbert DAVI SEEKS END OF KU KLUK ISSUE Democratic Nominee Be- lieves He Has Disposed of Klan Talk in Campaign. By the Associated Pres NEW YORK, his own ca W. Davis be the subject of August 23.- roas Jobn has dispos the Ku Klux Kl In condemning in Sea speech vesterday this any nization that scts up a standard of racial or reli prejudice in A . and in calling upon Presi- dent Coolidge to join him in Ings the topic from the field litical debate, the Democratic dential candidate sought . to the atmosphere and leave fr way for whole-hearted attention those iss upon which he be the contest is to be decided in Noveni- ber. Mr. Davis' advisers say decision to go beyond the action of the convention that nominated hinf was his own. Counsel had been dib vided on what had come to be a r¢ curring subject of discussion. Friends Urged Both Ways. ome of his closest friends hadl urged that he stand upon his der claration in his acceptance speech at Clarkesburg against all forms of big~ otry, prejudice, and intolerance, by whatever name known. Others were equally as insistent that as clear as was his language then, the sores made the New York convention could be healed only by a specific reference to the organization which the cons vention voted not to name in the na- tional platform. _In deciding to dispose of the ques- tion, once and for all, as he told the New Je Democ: Mr. Davis emphasized that he did not regard the subject as one having a proper place in this or any other campaign and that it must not be permitted to divert attention from those issues the people must settle in the forthcom- ing election. Would Dixcuss Real Issues, Mr. Davis that some of those issues already had become clear and that others would be made plain- er still as the campaign progressed In his next address, to be delivered at Columbus, Ohio, on August 26, he plans to lay further stress upon the chief questions upon which he be lieves the two nmjor political par ties are far apart. Returning to his personal head quarters here today the Democratic nominee devoted part of his time to preparation of the subject matter of lis Columbus speech. Before that, however, he conferred with Chair- man Shaver of the Democratic Na tionul Committee and other party leaders on campaign organization and related questions which he is desirous of getting out of the way before h starts on his Western tour on Au gust 51 es he his Girt or other or; ious remov- presi clarify the to that the declared the benefits of adjusted compensation —H. C. A. There has not been prepared vet a legal discription of dependenc, Your client had better file an applica- tion and it will be considered om It merits.