Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1924, Page 3

SUITS TO RESTRAIN . RENT BOARD FILED Property ' Owners Seek to Prevent Commission From Fixing Charges. Three suits seeking to vestrain the Rent Commission from attempting to determine and fix rents were filed vesterday #in the District Supreme Court. They came on the heels of an order by Justize Hitz Friday demand- ing that the Rent Commission set aside and vacate its findings in a case previously brought to the at tention of the court. i Hyman Epstein, owner ‘of the Na- tional Flats at 441 N street, asked an injunction on the ground that the emergency war condition under which the commission was set up had passed and that the law is unconsti- tutional in that it violates amend- ment V of the Constitution. Seek to Stop Hearlngs. Jacob S. Gurevich and Rose Gure- vich, owners of the Marguerite Apart- ment at 1477 Newton street, also filed suit against the commission and 31 tenants of apartments in their prop- v to enjoin them from proceeding with a hearing of a complaint filed with the Rent Commission last De- cember 12, by Annie O. Hutso. a ten- ant. This hearing was scheduled for Monday morning. The ground taken by represented by Attorney Michael M. Double, is that they w never made partners to the proceeding before t Rent Commission and that C. W. Simpson Co., Inc., and Ruby Hardell, rental agents, were named as de- fendants. The plaintiffs also declare the act of Congress creating the com- mission void and the lay unconstitu- tional. s The third suit was filed by A. P. Prioleau and five others against the the Rent Commission and eight de- fendants, seeking a restraining order in determination of the rents at 163. and 1637 .11th street. which property now is ‘occupied by a church, a store and four apartments. Order of Justice. Justice Hitz on Friday issued an order on the Rent Commission to vdcate and set aside its determi- uations respecting property at 1321 Belmont street northwest. This order was the first issued against the com- mission to nullify its own action in lowering rents. George W. Linkins, owner of the Pproperty, in bringing the petition. strived to show the court that the| findings were reached after ‘he had filed a petition asking for a blanket | injunction to restrain the Rent Con ssion from fixing any rents. Jus-| tice Stafford. at the time, denying the | Plea for a blanket injunction, never- theless, held that individual injunc- tons might be granted “CAPTAIN” VANISHES AND S0 DOES PURSE Poline the plaintiff: Seek Man Who Hints He Is Advance Agent for Prince " of Wales. Dapper and debonair. “Capt. Holt" of “His Britannic Majesty’s forces™ Paid a visit to Mrs. Catherine S. Bort, at the Mariborough apartments, yes- terday—he stole the’ time to do it in, he hinted, from a multiplicity of duties in preparing for the visit of | the Trince of Wales—and when he Jett, Mrs. Bort found her pocketbook was shy $30. Police started looking for the captain last night, to ask him some questions. 3 It seems that.Mrs. Bort cailed the | British embassy yesterday to learn if some one there could recommend a good . servant for a relative. The! “captain,” it is believed, was at the embassy at the time, and overheard enough of _the tion to furnish material for an en- tree on Mrs. Bort's apartment some- | what later: He called and told her he had learn- | ed of her desire to obtain a British servant, and since the chappie who had been orderly for him during the World War—in the Sommle, you know—want- d a job, he felt he could serve a dou- ble -purpose. _ . > Mrs. Bort went downtown shortly thereafter. When ehe returned the “captain” was waiting for her. He had lest his wallet. he -said, and he won- dered if.she would have' the goodress to permit him to take a look around a bit in her apartment. He was offered the opportunity. Mrs. Bort laid her pocketbook down rn 2 chair. Something more than $30 was in it. After she had gone to answer a cal! at the door, and returned, “Capt. Holt" discovéred he had an important telegram .to dispatch. He left. Some time later Mrs, Bort called the em- bassy again to inquire about .the “captain.” She rectived a suggestion witich - caused her to look in her pocketbook. Thirty dollars was gone. At the embassy it was said that the captain, who appears to be British, had called for a secretary who is now out of the city. Nothing definite is known of him at the embassy. Lspecially is there a paucity of in- formation relative to the report he disseminated about himself—thaj he was a sort of advance agent for the Prince of Wales and would be in the prince’s party as a secretary during his American tour. 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IRONCLAD Zahf, Anciat = Cork Floors Rubber Flooring Compositiont Flooring - Erskine R. Fisher Co. 410 Bond Bullding. CLOUDS AND STEAM ON MARS .~ . (Continued from First Page.) safety, the exhausted man dyimg as he was dragged up over the last lcy reach. . Prof. Schaer had hoped for two tangible results—signs of water or something analogous and weather signs denoting atmosphere—-both of which might denote the possible ex- istence of life on the neighbor planet. | Despite the difficulties ard discom- forts of life at this altitude in the midst of glaciers and blizzards, he built his observatory here because it put him two miles nearer Mars and gave him that much less atmosphere to look through. Observations he made at ‘Geneva during June indicated a heavy white cap of ice or snow on the Martian pole and extending down more than third of the distance to the equator. Since he came up here this cap has dwindled, leading him to belleve it is melting or evaporating. He be- lieves he has also noted clouding effects. Saw Flames of Light. Thursday night, when Mars had already drawn very close 10 the op- position point, Prof. Schaer had clear observation and was rewarded with a sight of a new phenomenon. He saw on Mars several distinct flashes of light. They looked pale yellow, showing but an instant on the tiny disk, an inch in diameter. which is all even powerful telescopes can make of the earth’s brother planet 34,000,000 miles away. hat these flashes may be. he does not know, or pretend to judge. Twice since he came to this impressive spot he has glimpsed indications of them. and under the scientific surface of the star gacer, I could detect some of the excitement of possible discovery. 1 asked him to give me an idea what they were like. Light Like Electricity. “Like electricity,” he said, “yellow green, but fugitive, appearing only for the fraction of a second on the disk. It can't be compared to any earthly light. It's too vast, too vague, and at the same time too en- veloping. Every moment Mars is visible, and no snowstorm interferes, Prof. Alfred Kollicker and I have been watching for stronger indica- tions. “Could you call Mars?” 1 asked. “I can't explain, but only record what I have seen.” he answered. “But it must be a powerful manifestation of energy, whatever it may be, to be visible across such a gulf of space.” 1 asked him about the chances that Mars might send a radio message. “That's an infantile idea,” he com- mented. “If there are beings there, what reason to believe they have mentalities like ours? And even if they were like us, what reason to be- lieve they are radio fans?" He also described as. “childish fan- cifulness” all the talk about throw ing light with reflectors on an Alpine glacier for the “Martians” to see. He hopes rather to secure some genuine scientific information, including a verification and explanation of the greeny-yellow flashes. When it becomes colder with Au- tumn, and the air undulations-are less distracting, Prof. Schaer hopes DARROW ‘DECLARES | KROHN PERJURER| (Continued from First Page.) it a signal from lows. Leopold sat tense and motionless. The boys showed no trace of emo- tionalism which on Friday sent them tremulous and tearful from the court- room. But there was little in today's proceedings to arouse such feelings in them. Proceeding with his argument that the crime was “so senseless as to be the possible product of only a diseased mind,” Mr. Darrow pointed out to Judge Caverly that each detail of the killing, the disposition of the body and the actions afterward took place under conditions that showed lack o mental balance. Followed the Crowds. He emphasized particularly that the telephone conversa- Lkidnaping and killing occurred in the very neizhborhood of the boys’ homes, where they were known to most any one that might pass. He also stressed the drive of the death car about the busy South Side boulevards and that they followed the main arteries of travel to the section where they dis- posed of the body. “If ever a death vehicle went over ‘the same kind of route driven by sane people, 1 never heard of it, and I fancy no one else ever has,” he said, and added: ““Why did they do it? For nothing. The mad act of King Lear is the only thing I know to compare it with. Yet some of the doctors here have declared it a sane act. = “And the State siys these boys are sane because they planned this crime. Why? Maniacs plan, idiots plan, ani- ‘mals plan and any brain that functions may plan. And here we have plans from the diseased minds of boy The pleader mentioned that Loeb had helped newspaper reporters who worked on the case when it was still a mystery. “Was that criminal?” he asked, and answered by saying that it was his experience that criminals shunned re- porters, “even when there was no chance of detection.” Mr. Darrow also brought up again the eftect upon the community of newspaper accounts of the crime and the ealth of the Leopold and Loeb families. He reiterated that these forced him into the position of plead- ing for the lives of his clients. Denounces Capital Punishment. the boys upon the scaffold, bound, hooded and “with some one waiting to loose the spring:” He philosophized again and again upon the barbarity of capital punishment and pleaded with the judge to decide the case by his own conscience, wisdom and cour- age, despite the pressure of news- paper and other directipg forces of public clamor. . He pictured, too, the depth of in- famy to which the boys would de- scend if forced to spend all their re- maining vears within- prison walls “checking off the days and hours and minutes.” “Would not that be a glorious satis- faction of justice,” Dhe exclaimed. “Would it not_be more so than death by hanging? Where is there a human heart that would ask for more? Where is there a human heatt that would not be satisfied? Is a lifetime for the young, spent behind prison bars, not enough punishment for this mad act? “Yet we are forced to fight that ene boy 18 and another 19 may be per- mitted to live in solitude all their lives. We are forced to plead that court and the State's’ attorney be merciful enough to allow these boys to be locked up-in the penitentiary until they die. “] sometimes wonder if I am dreaming, if I am really living in the twentieth century and if there has come back into the heart of man the lust for blood which permeated the primitive man.” Recites Death Record. Mr. Darrow hammered also on the idea that a.death sentence would be against any precedent. He repeated that 340 murderers had ~pleaded guilty in this county within 10 years and that only one 40-year-old man had been executed, he having been sent to the hangman by Robert E. ‘Crowe, State's attorney, when the lat- ter was chief justice of the criminal court. ' He alsc-'declared -that hundreds of | capabilities He painted a gruesome picture of | PROVE PLANET HAS ATMOSPHERE Thinks He Hears Chimes of Mars Over Army Radio By the Associated Press, BOSTON,. Aukust 23.—A signal re- sembling the ringing of bells or chimes, ending in an abrupt “assip” heard inthe lull.between the taking and sending of messages, today has mystified Daniel Pelletier, radio spe- cialist at the Army base here. The sounds were heard last night and again were detected early’today. To- night, further efforts were being made to pick up the signals, which the op- erator, lacking any other explanation, suggested might be from Mars, now close to the earth. Pelletier first heard the signal last night when he had tuned in ona wave length between 2,000 and 3,000 meters in a casual attempt to pick up any- thing in the air. The signals ceased between 9:15 pm. and 11 p.m., when they were again plainly discernible. Pelletier had found that they came through most clearly on a 7,000-meter wave length. They faded again to come once more at 4 am. Radio experts denied the possibil- Ity that the signals might be tests from high-powered stations. to have surer data. The sum of the scientific deductions he gave me to- day indicates increasing knowledge of Mars. The flashes he considers one of the two chief fruits of his ob- servations—the other being the ap- parent cloudiness of the surface of Mars as it approached the sun to its perihelion. Presence of Water. “The spectroscope has never made it absolutely certain” he said, “that there is water on Mars, but whatever substance it és which turns into va- por has been very noticeable during the past few days. Large sections of the surface, previously observed with clearness, have become -obscured. “If the vaporizing substance is water, this means clouds. Many canals’ known to all students from Flammarien’s globe of Mars are In- visible. If the Invisibility comes from cloudiness, it would seem to indicate intenser heat as Mars neared the sun and increased evaporation. The rapid change in the polar caps would bear out such a theory. If there is water on Mars, what we see at the poles is snow. Earller this summer the caps extefided down for 30 or .40 degrees trom the pole. Now they extend only about 15 degrees,” Among the regions affected in this way he mentioned especially the Salia Lacus, which as seen from the Jung- frau at present shows much smaller than previously, while the four canals uniting it with other landmarks are all much stronger. This is also the region where the indications of flashes were clearest. So when colder nights give better seeing, he hopes, even with Mars farther away, to get something more tangible than what he considers the present strong in dications that Mars has an atmo: phere, water and electricity. offenders have received mitigation of punishment on the recommendation of the State's attorney’s office because of pleas of gullty, that charges of felony have been reduced in degree and that many culprits have been paroled “being told to go and sin no more.” “What then are the chief reasons for this demand for hanging?"' queried Mr. Darrow. “They are first, because the families are wealthy and, second, because of the weird and un- canny murder.” = But it was on the expert testimbny of Dr. Krohn that Mr. Darrow train- ed his heaviest guns. He mentioned at one time that “the State put on three experts and Dr. Krohn" then immediately changed this to “three alienists and Dr. Krohn.” He con- tinued to make this sly distinction between ‘“expert” and ‘“alienists” at every mention of the doctor. The of the other doctors summoned by the State were extolled, and he said frankly- that if Mr. Crowe had not hired two ot them first, he would have tried to secure their services for the defense. 2 Early in his address he thunder that whereas the boys had no ade- quately explainable motive for the murder, Dr. Krohn had one for testi- tying that they were mentally sound. “That motive was cash.” he said, crashing out the last word in a voice that penetrated the corridors. In the peroration of the day he made the flat assertiop that the doctor “for sixteen years had been peddling per- jury” in_the courts, and he offered to “stake the lives of these boys on that and throw in my own for good meas- ure” - Mr. Darrowdepicted ‘the “activitles of a “real physician” in striving ever to save life, proceeding carefully and with the idea of relieving human suf- fering, despite personal sacrifices. Then he turned the canvas.: “Dr. Krohn has not been a physi- cian, but for 16 years he has used his license in going up and down the land, kanging victims by his testi- mony. He told the story of the June 1 meeting between the State alienists and these boys. That was not an investigation.. It was. an in- quest. “Two State alienists ajso told the story of that session an8 Dr. Krohn remembered almost twice as much as the two who preceded him. And how he told it! It reminded me of when, as ‘boys, we used to eat watermelon and smear ourselves with the juice. When 1 heard, him ask for the life blood of these two boys, 1 could See his, mouth water with_pieasure. Just as ‘we used to enjoy the feeling, of juicy watermelon, spread from ear to ear. I1:cannot imagine ' any real physician, dedicated.to humanity. and the alleviation of human.suffering, gloating over such testimony as did Dr. Krohn.” N5 5 _— Slogan for Success. From the Progressive Grocer. Marshall - Field, the world’s most successful retail merchant, said there were 12 things to keep in mind while working on the road to success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The: pleasure of working. 4. Thedignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. . 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom. of economy. 10. The virtue of. patience. K 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy ot originating. . s Automobile Makes 27 - - An automobile; goes 2. miles ter“than’ 57. 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Yours is the only vglid claim for the benefits, and there {8 nothing ‘eldo you can do or need to do to pro- tect your Interests. Q. Will the total amount of in- debtness on aocount of the adjusted service ocertificates to be issued to veterans be carried as part of the public debt of the United States? Several weeks ago you said that the Government had an outstanding in- debtness of over $1,000,000,000 on ac- count of term insurance payments due beneficiaries of deceased veterans of the World War. Is this sum car- ried on the.books of the 'Ireasury Department as part of the national debt of the country? A. The face value of the total amount of adjusted service certifi- cates to be issued to veterans will not be carried on the books of the Government as part of the public debt. Neither is the sum due on ac- count of War Risk Insurance ca ried on the books as part of the pub- lic debt. Both amounts due are met by yearly appropriations, and while a part of the total amount for which the nation is obligated, the sums mentioned are not part of the out- standing indebtedness of the United States. Q. I am a veteran of the Spanish- American War and the World War. I have heard it said that adjusted compensation (graveyard bonus) will prevent the payment of pensions for 20 years or more. Is theto any basis of truth in such a statement? I am one of many who believe that it would be cheaper and of greater benefit to pay the veterans a cash bonus or a pension. Does the his- tory of the passage of the adjusted compensation act indicate that it was designed to prevent or forestall pen- slon legislation? This question may be a little out of the ordinary and 1 will therefore appreciate more the answer you give it in your coiumn. —TWO WARS. A. To judge by the statement of the various proponents of the legisia- tion providing an adjustment of com- pensation for veterans of the World War, it was the hope that this law would postpone for 20 years or more the payment of pensions. It was un- doubtly the hope and desire of many of the members of Congress that this law would actually prevent future enactment of any general pen- sion legislation. What the final re- sult will be, no one can presume to say with any degree of autnority. Congress has complete jurisdiction on matters of this kind. "It was the design of or desire of Congress to compensate the veterans for the serv- ice they had rendered. The queStion of pensions does not enter into that transaction, only Insofar as individ- uals try to read the motive behind { the actual work of the Congress. Every veteran knows as much about the future action of Congress on the matter of general pension legisia- tion as I do. And that means that any one’s guess is as good as mine. As to the relative merits of compen- sation as compared with pensions or a cash bonus this column does not presume to judge, being entirely de- Voted to the service it may be able to render upon the problems of vet- erans as they exist today. SAFETY CONFERENCE TO TEST ILLITERACY Seek Effect of Ignorance of Drivers on Nation’s Traffic Mortality. A study to determine what, if any, effect illiteracy has on the nation’s trafic mortality and the’ number of illiterates who have been given per- mits to drive automobiles is being made by the Conference on Street and Highway Safety, it has been revealed in a report to Secretary of Commerce Hoover, under whose leadership a numebr of national organizations are working to reduce automobile ac- cidents. - One of .the organizations, the Dela- ware Safety Council at Wilmingtom, has asked the magistrates and clerks of city courts to help get facts about the type of trafic violator who is being brought up for traffic offenses. When enough replies have been ref ceived to give a fair representation, an analysis will be attemipted to de- termine whether the information can be used to help the conference de- velop recommendations for remfedial action. The report which tHese officials have been asked to fill out indicates the name and address of the violator, business, age, color, sex, education, and whether married or. single. If foreign born, it will show the na- tionality, length of ‘residence in the United States, whether naturalized, whether able to speak, read and write English. -Other reports to the conference have indicated the need for teaching Bnglish tp the foreign-born, to the extent, at'least, of reading the words on warning and directional signs, and to comprehend the meaning of such signs. 5 - , —_————— Admission’ of women to tie clergy in Norway is ‘being advocated as a means of relleving the shortage of pastors, and this issue will probably be discussed at the next session of the Storthing. ° | band and open hous BOOKS VLorF Bookseller MARINES TO TEST EFFICIENCY AS NATION’S FIGHTING FORCE More Than 3,000 Fully Equipped, Will Leave Quan- tico Tomorrow Morning for Annual Land Maneu- ' -vering on Antietam Batile Field. More than 3,000 marines of the marine expeditionary force, com- manded by Brig. Gen. Dion Willlams, -will leave Quantico at daylight to- mortow for the annual land maneuv- ers held to test tha efficiency of the marine fighting force. The marine force will include infantry, artillery, machine guns, automatic rifles, trench mortars, one’ pounders, tanks and all the most modern equipment of pres- ent-day war, and will be accompanied by auxiliaries, including a gas and flame company, a.siznal company, cquipped with radio wire and other signal apparatus, an engineer de- tachment, and a completely equipped medical and sanitary organization. With the force will go an aviation de- tachment. commanded by Capt. War- ren McCaughtry, comprising three squadrons made up of fast pursuit and combat planes, observation.and bombing planes, together with a num- ber of huge double-motor Martin bombers, capable of carrying more than a thousand pounds of bombs or freight. The marine maneuvers this year will include a march from Washing- ton to Sharpsburg, Md., the scene of the Civil War battle of Antetam, and return, as well as about ten days' military and historical exercises on the battlefield, together with a num- ber of parades and ceremonles in the cities along the route. About 25 days altogether will be consumed in the exercises and more than 200 miles will be covered on the march. Main Bedy Leaves by Barge. The main body of the Marine force will leave Quantico by barge on the Potomac River at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. Four barges and two tugs have been provided by the naval au- thorities for the use of the Marine force. The journey up the river to Washington of about 40 miles s ex- pected to take from five to six hours, which will ‘make the time of arrival about 1 or 2 o'clock. The Marines will be accompanied on this journey by their band of about 200 pieces, which will play during the trip and while the landing is in progress. Landing will take place at East Po- tomac Park along the Speedway and in the neighborhood of the Potomac Park golf course. It is planned to bring the barges alongside the sea wall of the Speedway., so that the Marines will be within a few hun- dred yards of their camp site in Po- tomac Park east of the railway em- bankment and close to the location of the automobile tourists’ camp. In addition to the main body there will be two columns of artillery, trucks and horse-drawn transporta- tion. The first of these columns, in- cluding the horse detachment, will leave Quantico this morning and will camp tonight near Camp Humphreys, reaching the camp of the main force Monday afternoon. The artillery and other motor unts will leave Quantico at 4:30 tomorrow morning and should arrive at Potomac Park not later than noon. Model Camp at Potomac Park. _ A model military camp will be made at Potomac Park and tomorrow evening there will be concerts by the will be held by the Marines for visitors from Wash- ington. Tuesday morning the force will start from their tamp site on the beginning of their long march to the scene of the annual maneuvers. A parade will be held through Wash- ington at the beginning ef the march | and camp for the evening will be made on the Corby estate near Rockville. ~ Next Wednesday the force will march to Gaithersburg, where the third camp will be located. Thursday the march will be from Galthersburg to Ridgeville, and Fri- day the march will be from Ridge- vilie to Frederick. At Frederick a halt of three days will be made. Saturday a parade and review will be held in Frederick in honor of the mayor and city council; in the afternoon a base ball game will be played, while on Sunday visi- tors from the city will be invited to visit the camp and liberty will be granted the Marines to visit friends in_town. The march will Sharpsburg September manent camp will be be resumed to 1, where per- made for the .. WANTED Stenographer—Office Manager $1,700 to $2,200 to start, according to applicant. Ex- cellent opportunity for advancement. This position is in our own office, involves very hard, responsible and ex- acting work. Apply in persof only to Miss Peckham, Room 213, Transportation Building. The Washington School for Secretaries “With the Unbreakable Plug™ Now |SPEECE CHILDREN FALL. duration of the "maneuvers. The Marines will remain in camp at Sharpsburg until September 13, when camp will be broken for the return journey, which will be by the same Toute as the outbound journey. Wash- ington will be reached on the return trip, September 18, where elaborate ceremonies are being planned, to in- clude a parade and review, base ball game and other. feautres. 3 The exercises planned for the pres- ent year are the fourth annual field maneuvers held by the Marine Corps force at Quantico.since the World War, with a view of keeping that force constantly in readiness to take the fleld at 24 hours’ notice.” The first of these maneuvers wi held on the Civil War battlefield. at the Wil- derness, Va., in 1921; the second -on the Gettysburg battlefield in 1922, and the third, last year, at Newmar- ket, Va. During these exercises mili- tary ‘problems have been worked out which could have been solved in no other way, and the force has justified the reputation of the Marine Corps as one of the most efficient military or- ganizations in the world. In addi- tion to.these land maheuvers, exer- cises were held in connection with the fleet on the Island of Culebra, in the Carpitan Sea, last Winter, during which a landing was conducted on an open beach under simulated war con- ditions and the defense of the island against the invading force was plan- ned and demonstrated. Periods of Intensive Training. The present maneuvers will include periods of intensive training under field conditions for units of all sizes from the squad of eight men working by themselves up to the whole: force of more than 3,000, attacking as a unit. All arms of modern war will be tried out under field conditions and invaluable lessons taught as to their proper use, and the manner in which greatest effectiveness may be at- tained. In addition the problems of handling a large force {n the field under conditions approximating those || of war will be worked out, and ex- perience gained which could be ob- tained in no other manner. A fea- ture in the annual Marine maneuvers has been the economy In which they | have been conducted, Little if an expense has been incurred in past years beyond that which would have been necessary to maintain the troops in their barracks at Quantieo. | Various savings have resulted, due to the absence of the Marines from Quantico, which have about balanced slightly greater expenditures neces- sitated in other fields, so that the cost, when finally computed, has worked out- at a factor so small as to be practically negligible. Twenty-Foot Drop at Pitcher's Home Causes No Injuries. Irene and Junior Speece, children of Byron Speece, a pitcher of the Wash- | ington base ball club, toppled 20 feet to the ground from a rear porch at their home, 5529 Seventh street. north. | west, last night, when a screen against | § which they were leaning gave way, Both were rushed to Walter Reed Hospital, where an examination failed to show any injuries. The children are 3 and 2 years old, respectiveiy. FISH BONE IS REMOVED. Et‘)spinl Doctor Restores Speech of Visiting Patient. A one-inch fish bone was extracted from the throat of Rudolph Vougler, 28, of 504 F street northeast, last night, by Dr. Stallard, who used a pair of pincers for the purpose. Vougler could not talk and he took along two friends to the hospital so that they could explain his condition to physicians there. —_— improvements for only....... e e e e ] Delivered in Your Home for 45¢ &1 If Ordered by Wednesday, Aug. 27 Gude's Flowers for Anmiversaries, birthdays and all occasions calling for a remembrance. 1212 F.—Adver- tisement. CcT C IRON selling with added $4.50 B0TH SIDES CLAIM GAINS IN HONDURAS Conflicting Reports Reach San Salvador of Success in Revolution. By the Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, August 23.—Con- flicting advicej on the revolution in Honduras have been teceived with both the Honduran government and the revolutionaries claiming suc- cesses. An official disbatch from Teguei- salpa, Honduras, reports that the rebellion is confined to western Hon- duras, and that loyal troops have in- flicted such severe losscs upon the rebels as to cause numerous deser- tions in the ranks of the rebels. The rebel line has been cut at three points by the government troops, which have begun an encircling movement. Revolutionary advices claim the re- capture of the village of Gracias after a fight with the government forces, which were, assisted by civil- ians. Numerous casualties were suf- fored by the federal forces and civil- ians defending Gracias. The rebel forces under Gen. Matute are reported to have captured San Pedro in Sula after a fierce battle, while the revo- lutionaries commanded by Gen. Gre- gorio Ferrera have taken San Marcos. The rebel generals, Maximo Vas- quez and Jeffers, the latter an Amér- | ican and chief of staff to Gen. 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