Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1924, Page 17

NAY ESLAPE CUTS THE EVENING THE PRESIDENT WEARS A of Prescott. Ariz.. and H. B. terday and presen 10-GALLON HA’ Grace M. Sparks, Watkins, secretary of the Phoenix chamber, called upon President Coolidge yes- I him with an honorary membership in the Si he. The big hat is the badge of the tribe. and the walking stick was presented by the chief of police of Phoenix. Nutional Photo retary of the Chamber of Commerce A NEW CURE FOR TiE SPEED DEMONS. judge and then taken in a pat results of “stepping on the gas. never again break the speed lass. RULES EMPLOYES Nineteen Chicago automobile speeders were fined by the ol wagon to the Home for Destitute Crippled Children, where they saw the The men returned to the court and informed the judge that they would CopsTisht by P. & A. Thotos woersoe e | JRAFFIG VIDLATIO .z || SPOTTERS SCORED A. A. A. Letter Says Plain Clothes Men Represent Constable System. Do You NI E BY Washingtonians who hope to vote by mail this year, but who are doubtful concerning the laws of their home Btates on the subject, may receive the necessary information by directing | guiries to The Evening Star as fo lows: Voting information, News Department, Evening Star. questions and answers will be publiched each day. Controller General’s Decision| Gives Hope in Realloca- tion Cases. care Controller ruled that « General McCarl yesterday ernment empioyes may be reallocated to a higher grade,| where the average provision is ex ceeded, without forcing t ary letter from the American Auto- mobile Association, denouncinz the Maryland by mail? I have|method of trapping violators of the Cumberland and voted for | traffic rules by the use of policemen am already registered: in plain clothes, was read at the monthly meeting of the Washington Chamber of Commerce at the Willard Hotel last night. Many guests who attended the National Associa- tion of Commercial Organization Secretaries convention here were present. The letter declared the association had protested to the Commissioners some weeks ago about the use of ! Q. Please advise if it is possible mi vote in lived in | five years; them to| ¥ ¥ take reductions in s by entering)| S NS e o oAy the lowest pay of the grade it B3 This supplements the . recent lariiorivoting b yimatl. called “Sutton” decision, in which it| q was ruled by the controller general t where an employe is changed transfer, reinstatement, reduction or the Maryland Myself, wife, son and sister are registered in Worcester County, Md.. Would like to know if we can vote Promo- | by mail; if so, how?—L. S. W. ever the| "4 ame as above. change may be,” to a gra which A | the average provision is violated, he| Q. My legal residence is in St. | imust enter the higher grade at the | Marys County, Md. I am in the clas- lowest salary. sified departmental service here, so, 1 Clear-cut di between the| presume, I am entitled to vote there. two decision wr by McCarl| Can I register and vote by mail?—F. in the decision, which points out|S. F. that it will not be necessary for| A. If employes to take a cut In pay when reallocated, providing the change comes through “classification of the position” on an appeal to the Person- nel Classification Board to correct the original allocation. pose of trapping motorists and that this method was still being continu- ed “with the unfortunate results that we predicted that the National Capltal you are registered you can vote the coming election in Maryland. last registration day and if you were not previously registered there is now no opportunity for you to register, and, | therefore, you would be ineligible to | vote. Q. Does Michigan permit of regis- p This decision holds out hope of raise | tration by mail? 1 registered this|by some one in plain clothes, demand- in salary to each of the 2,500 pe year for the primaries September 9.|ing money payment on the street for who have appeals for raise in class cs this carry me over until 19287 | supposed trafflc violations. The letter :ation before the Personnel Classifi-|(2) If T wish a sample ballot for | points out that the system of trap- cation Board. The old “Sutton” deci- | the November election, must the city | sion, however, still holds in the case | clerk send that to me? (3) On what | of “appointment, transfer, reinstate- |day must 1 ask for the ballot?— ment, promotion or demotion of an | 5. C. employe,” where the average provi- | a village constable system which has been dropped by practically every large city in the country.” Claims Bribery Demands. The association in its letter stutes that it has evidence that motor- are being stopped on the street Gives Hope for Raise. preventing specding and expresses he desire of the association in seeing | speeding and traflic violations- stop- Yes. (2) There is no pro- { ped, but by more modern regulations. 1 I3 exceeded. vision in the law for supplying ab- | In response to a request a commit- he case in point In the decision |sentee voters with a sample ballot.|tee will be appointed by the cham- today, rendered to the Federal Trade | (3) Application for the ballot may be |ber to confer with the local A. A. A., Commission, was tae position of J.|made any time within 30 days pre- (and the letter will be considered by W. Karsner, chief docket section of | ceding election. the committes on police and fire pro- the commission, who appealed to have tection at a meeting next Wednesday the classification board change his information will be fur-| To the visitors Isaac Gans, pre allocation from grade 7 of the Clerical [ nished those making application nl{denl of the local chamber, explained and Fiscal Service to grade 3 of the |the Republican campaign head- | the position of the people of the same serv without change in his | quarters. 1324 New York avenue, tele- | District of Columbia in respect to salary of $2,900. The lowest salary in [phone Main 9454, or at the Davis- |their right to vote. “We have no srade 8 is $2,700. If he had been |Bryan Democratic Association head-|vote, no voice, no flag; we are in a forced to enter the newer grade at|quarters. Room 220 Investment Huilld- pitiable state,” declared Mr. Gans. ing, Fifteenth and K streets, tele R SRR the lowest salary, as required of persons so changed b pro- | phone Main 502. — | The lighting system of the District was denounced by-Charles W. Darr, Further motion, transfer, etc., he would have had to suffer reduction of $200 in New | | policemen in plain clothes for the pur- | is being discredited by the use of the | ping motorists has been a failure in | STAR WASI{INIGT()I\, D. C., THURSDAY, 10 TRY FOR WORLD KRECORD: Lieut. G. T. Cuddihy and Lieut. R. A. Ofstie, Navy flyers of the Anacostia station, wht will fly high speed seaplanes at the Naval Aviation Pageant at Bay Shore Park, near Bajti- more, October 25. They expect to average 200 miles an hour. R BRINGS ANOTHER CHALLENGE WITH HIM. r Thoma: Lipton, known the world over for his sportsmanship, came to the United States vesterday for the purpose of proposing another series of yacht races next year." He still hopes to annex the cup won by the r\melri yright adel & Herbert Imbrie Beaten to Death as He Lay On Operating Table, Envoy Says Minister Kornfeld Re-‘! | turns Home With | Tragedy Details. | Fanatics Aroused by Con sul’s Effort to Take Picture. By the Assoc NEW YORK, Robert Imbrie, American consul at Teheran, was stoned to death by natives as he lay unconscious upon an operating table was related yes. terday by Joseph F. Kornfeld, United States Minister to Persia, just resign- ed, who returned on the Leviathan with a report of the tragedy which he will submit to the State Depart- ment at Washington. “In Teheran, as in most~ Persian citie: Mr. Kornfeld related, “there are numerous drinking fountains, where are stationed self-constituted attendants, who in the name of a Mohammedan ~saint, Abbas, solicit alms. At the time of the Imbrie affair, there had gained wide circula- tion the story of a miracle that was roputed to have occurred at one of these fountains only a few weeks before. “The story was that a native ap- proached this fountain to fill a gourd with water. ‘In the name of Abbas? asked the alms solicitor. ‘No, in the name of Bahai’ replied the gourd-: bearer. Straightway he was stricken | | blind for the blasphemy; then, when | he dropped to his knees and recanted with a prayer of apology directed to the saint, a Press October —How NAT. POYG. JOSEPH F. KORNFELD. alleyway where he had taken refuge and mauled him,” he continued. ‘They pursued Imbrie inta a tea shop; they clubbed and stoned him until the police rescued him and car- ried him to a hospital. Clamored for Imbrie's Life. “Even then the outraged natives were not satisfied. They clamored for Imbrie’s life in atongment to their Abbas, his sight was re-| Mohammedan saint, Abbas.. They | stored. stormed the hospital, battered down | “The fountain became the gather- | the doors and, finding Imbrie uncon- | ing place of thronged thousands, who | scious upon an operating table, tore | tied themselves to it and lapped up|the tiles from the floor and crushed | the trickling water, or fought their oyt his life with them.” i way toward it and prayed. The State Department already was | Fanatics Pursue Imbrie. in possession of evidence supporting | g X | the story he related, said Mr. Korn-| “Imbrie heard of this. One day he|feld. As for reports that Imbrie’s| strapped on a camera and, with his|gcath was the result of a long-drawn, aide, named Seymour, drove in a |gonflict between oil interests of sev-{ barouche to the miracle spot. Imbrie | eral nations, he declared it was “fa- | forced his way through the crowd to | naticism, not oil,” that lay at thé| take a photograph. The natives|pottom of the tragedy. | surged around him, clamoring, and he | After reporting at Washington, Mr. fled to the barouche and drove away.| Kornfeld* will go to Toledo, Ohio, to “Behind the carriage the Infuriated | yssume charge of a synagogue. {natives ran, shouting, ‘Stop him! The infidel has killed four of the faithful | Democratic OCTOBER THE DUKE OF ALBA VISITS WASHINGTON. E The Spanish nobleman, on a tour of th calling at the = United State. White House yesterday in company with Senor Don Juan Riano, the pan. 2 sador. ional F'hoto WALTER JOHNSON'S STATUE FOR THE PRESIDENT. U. S. J. Dunbar, Washington sculptor, calling at_the White House yesterday to present the President with a bronze statue of the Washington team’s pre- mier pitcher. Copsright by Harris & Ewing. Mre. Mary Keating. a 10l-year-oid Washingtonian, signing her applica tion for an absent voter's She was born in Ireland, came to America 80 years ago, and will vote in West Virginia. Photos. « license. DO YOU LIKE MARGOT'S NEW BONNET? Mrs. Asquith, wife of the former Premier of Great Britain. has taken up a new hobby—motor- ing. The bonnet, of course, is Margot’s own idea. v Mants & Posse and Dogs Hunt DAV CONPLETES 5. ONTAND VOTNG WESTERNINVASON = N LIQUOR S Sorern Neamitn.un wlcsea meane- | Heaviest Vote in History | Seen—Both Sides Con- fident of Victory. pyright for Candidate Cleveland Tonight, Then Goes Into New York. n Joseph Nesmith, an alleged insane” man, who escaped last evening from Sheriff Pannett and a deputy while walting for a train to be taken to a State institution. Nesmith maintained he was be- ing_ “railroaded” by relatives, and said he intended to kill them. While in a waiting room at the 3altimore and Ohio railroad sta- tion, Nesmith bolted through a crowd Word was sent to BY the Associ ABOARD DAVIS TRAIN EN ROUTLE TO CLEVELAND, | INDI POLI October 22.—With but one more for mal address—that scheduled for | veland tonight—John W. Davis Democratie candidate for President, was on his way East today, complet- ing the last les of his two-week final campaign drive in the Middle West The train passed out of Indiana IN STRIKE DEFENDED e Procs By the Associated Press TORONTO, October 23.—Ve the Province of Ontario today are ba loting in the sixth referendum on liquor question to be held o farm near Shockeysville, in the |Years. The issue in today's voting far-western section of the county, is whether the sale of intoxicants that Nesmith had escaped. Neigh. |under provincial government control boring citizens were sworn in to |shall be established or whether th guard the Nesmith house. Ontario temperance act, passed i 1916, shall remain in effect. Registration figures indicated th the poll would be one of the heav in the province's history. Leaders o both sides were confident of vict as the spirited campaigns ended the Nesmith final drive of the candidate’s per-| sonal campaign will be started Sat- urday. | Mr. Davis put the finishing touches on his Indiana tour last night at Evansville after speaking earlier in the day at Vicennes 1 for a briefer period of time at Princeton. In Evansville he replied to Secre- tary of War Weeks' address in New York Tuesday evening, characterizing the War Secretary as “one of the still unmuzzled” members of the cabinet. Administration. In Vincennes, Mr. Davis charged that the three and one-half vears of power by the Harding-Coolidge ad- ministration have produced ‘“this Two Questions Asked. The question of saloon is not the return of involved. Two Secretary Weeks Renlies to Criti-| tions are asked on the ballot L | “Are you in favor of the continu cism of Former Mayor of ance of Ontario temperance act? jand “Are vou In favor of the sale the Boston. las a beverage of beer and spiritous lquors in sealed packages and un- der government control?” The present law was enacted in 1916 as a war measure and was co firmed in a plebiscite in 1919. Two vears later an amendment was adopted making it illegal to impor liquor from wet provinces and states Today’s voting is being watche with interest throughout Canada. It is generally believed that if th temperance act Is repealed, prohibi the ques By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 23—The part taken by President Coolidge in break- ing the Boston police strike when the Tresident was Governor of Massachu- setts was defended last night in a statement by John W. Weeks, Secre- tary of War. He replied to a statement of former Blames n. radicals,” Mr. Davis said, had aroused the American people offered ‘“strange doctrines, urging them on the people as the cure-all|guard to break the strike. for their ills.” | _“Mr. Coolidge informed Mayc It was in this connection that the Peters that it was within the mayor candidate asked: | authority to call out the State troops “Will you seek to cure the patient |in the Boston district and that if more by giving him an injection of the|were needed, he, same virus that produced his disease or accept the relief 1 offer—a sane, forward-looking and progressive as State would see that they wen retary said. executivi and | Mayor Peters of Boston that Mr. Cool- idge had refused to call out the State the Sec- Mr. Coolidge would not have taken part in the strike at all, tion may » into the discard through out the Dominion. 1f the *“drys” win ! however, is expected that they wili darry their fight for similar tempci ance acts in other provinces where they have lost ground, such as Brit- ish Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and even, perhaps, ur | dertake to extend their triumph into Quebec. |laws.” liberalism that knows no clads or sec- tion, no petted favorites; but to so| administer the Government that e\'»ry‘ man, whether he be laborer, or farm | or business man, may feel that he is| an equal citizen, resting under equal Revenue Wet Argument. The “wets” based their campaig arguments for repeal of the temper ance act on the ground that reve- nues from liquor sold under govern ment control would relieve the peopl: of part of their war debts taxes. The “drys” based their principal argu- Mr. Weeks said, but for the fact that ayor Peters did not use the power at his command, but, instead, went to his country home on the night of the strike. Peters sought to deny facts which his salary The commission ze, the employe can only go into that grade at the minimum salary of such grade. But where classification of the position is being made as on appeal from that which has been made, the classification thereupon is |to be understood as mow correctly determining the grade and the em- ploye goes into that grade on the same basis with respect to excess of the average as the other employes who were placed therein by classifi- cation and not by appointment, trans- fer, reinstatement, promotion or de- motion.” . Violation of the average provision takes place when “the average of the salaries of the total number of per- sons in that grade exceed the aver- age of (he compensation rates speci- fied for the zrade,” by the classifi- cation law. asked if the Per- sonnel Classification Board could un- der the law approve an appeal of Karsner's for such a ciange in cl sification. The controller answered in the affirmative, with the proviso, “if and when the Personnel Classifica- tign Board reallocates the position held by Mr. Karsner. from grade 7 to grade §” he said Karsner, under such conditions, might be paid $2,900. Briefly summarizing the fine dis- tinction between the two closely al- lied declsions affecting changes from one grade to another, with or ‘'with- out cuts in salary, the controller in his decision today say “Where appointment, transfer, rein- statement, promotion or demotion of an _employe is made to a grade in which there is an excess of the aver- chairman of the police and fire pro- tection committee, who' pointed out Calvert Street Bridge as a menace because it is only lighted .on one side, and there inadequately. New apparatus will be recommended for the fire department at the meeting |of the gommittee Monday, and legis- lation for control of the sale of firearms throughout the United States will be discussed. “It is no use reg- ulating the sale of firearms in_ the District if they can be shipped here by mail to purchasers,” declared Mr. Darr. Indorsement of the foot ball game between the Fort Benning Infantry School and the Marines at Clark Grifith Stadium on November 1 was | P. and poisoned the waters of the foun- tain.’ " > 2 Although he was not wholly in- tormed of events that immedately followed, sald Mr. Kornfeld. the gist | of conflicting reports was that the natives believed Imbrie’s camera to| be a weapon which silently dispatch- | ed death. “They overhauled Seyméur in an Chamber of Commefce of the United States, made an address before the meeting, and stressed the importance of the American business man in his contribution to the development of the Nation, science and social orders. J. Haltigan . thanked the chamber given by the chamber in response to|for a lette! r Department. {w v on Wdie | EL its co-operation .in - connection h the recent Holy Name demon- | ation, WILL TRANSFER VESSELS. Shipping Board Authorizes Change | of Lines for Ships. The Shipping Board yesterday au- thorized President Leigh Palmer of the Fleet Corporation to enter into nego- tiations with the RooSeveit Steamship Company for the operation between New York ports and ports in India of six government vessels which have been in the service of the Kerr Steamship Com- ny. P Mhe Kerr concern will operate only foreign flag ships and has agreed to the transfer of the Shipping Board craft to the Roosevelt Company, of which Kermit Rooscve't is president. Tt will De Kuiv .7l f (e American India Line. SRAs Lo had remained unquestioned for five years, and that this denial came at a “time when the President, as Chief Executive of the Nation enter into a controversy.” Ridicules Weeks. Secretary Weeks, he said, has dis- covered a new antagonist for the Re- publican mnominee in the name of Gov. Charles W. Bryan, the Demo- cratic vice presidential candidate. | = TTT——————— The Secretary's act, he declared, was a “bit of stratégy so simple that 1=amse, think the Strategy Board of the War Department must have beeh work- ing_on it 30 days” “Mr. Weeks has solemnly -assured the American people,” Mr. Davis said, “that the real race for the presi- dency this Fall was not, as Gen. Dawes thinks, between ' President Coolidge and Senator La Follette, but between President Coolidge and Gov. ment on the merits of prohibition from the viewpoint of economy and efficiency The “wets” cited the great revenu: received by Quebec from sale of liquor. and ued that Ame: tourists, especially in Summer, were going to Quebec rather than Ontario | | The Secretary declared that Mayor | | i can hardly | Mr. Davis said. “I should not tremble for the destinies of my coun try if they "were committed to a gentleman ‘who, after having spent 20 yvears of his life in contact w public questions, received the largest majority ever given in his State for the office of chief executive and who, if the draft had not been made upon him by the Democratic party,!cial House committee Investigating would have been re-elected by his|the matter. It is understood Charles Bryan.” fellow citizens by a majprity greater | B. Brewer, investigator for the com T do not share Secretary Weeks'|than he enjoved when they first in- has compiled additional ma- horro: about thai contingency If it ducicd him into office.” teria Bond Probe Date Set. old charge concerning dupii- cated bonds and alleged irregulari- ties in the handling of Government securities will be further aired at a public hearing Saturday of the spe- The