Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1925, Page 2

D) ram RATERNITY RULING * I3 DUE TOMORROW School Board to Fix Fate in Star Chamber Ses- sion. #he’ Board of committee of afternoon to its anti-fra- which more high school Rehind closed doors. Fducation will sit as a the whole tomorrow Aetermine the fate of ternity ruling against than 200 Washington atudents have revolted. Capt. Julius I Peyser and Ernest Greenwood, the only members of the hoard who have committed them- salves as friends of the fraternities, will #64nt6 the star chamber ses- sion protest. Both contend that monunn of a public ques- tion “in executive session is a plain violation of the spiri€ of the organic| law of 1906, which says that only matters pertaining to the teaching personnel shall be discussed in secret. Moreover, they believe that by meeting behind closed doors the board will borrow a procedure from the secret societies which it con- demns. Peyner's First Move Beaten. The first move of Capt. Peyser to wipe the fraternity rule off the hoard’'s statute books met with prompt defeat at the meeting last| Wednesday, when it was decided to shunt the fraternity question into the committes of the whole for fur- ther investigation. What action he will take tomorrow to put the boys and girls who have admitted mem- bership in the disapproved organi- zations back into their former posi- tions of honor In student actlvities has not been revealed Threats of the fraternities to carry the fight into the courts to determine the validity of the anti-fraternity order have had little effect on the board. Persons in close touch with school affairs indicated last night that Jittle inclination has been shown by the board members to either re- voke or modify the rule, although they have promised to give the ques- tion fair and impartial considera- tion at tomorrow’s meeting Board Ready to Attack. Several board members as well as #chool administrative officials have been advised as to the legal aspects of the fraternity battle by Corpora- tion Counsel Francls H. Stephens and are fortified to meet any attack that may grow out of the course of action decided on after the board’s investiga- tion Edwin C. Graham, whose motion to probe into the fraternity question was adopted by the board last Wed- nesday, has been quietly investigat- ing the situation in preparation for tomorrow's session. He has held con- ferences with a number of school of- ficials, parents, traternity leaders and others interested in the present rebel- lion against the secret organizations. Among those he saw yesterday afternoon were Ira L. Ewers, coun- sel for Sifma Delta Fraternity, which has chapters in Western, Central and McKinley High Schools, and Paul Lesh, attorney. J. Milton Probey, chairman of the executive council of Sigma Delta ex- plained last night that his organiza-| tlon had planned to mark time in its fight to prevent the extermination of the high school secret societies| until the school board makes known the results of its investiXation. He made it clear, however, that the plans to take the fight into the courts| have not been abandoned. | | - = BANDITS TAKE $14,000. Get Into Bank by Ruse Just at| Closing Time. CLEVELAND, April 4.—The Graf- ton Savings and Banking Co., Graf- ton, Ohio, was robbed of $14.000 by two men who entered the place just as it was closing tonight. The men escaped. ! Two men entered the bank just as| the doors were being closed on the| piea that they wanted some change. Inside they bound John Knechtges, president, and his four children in a teller's cage. While one man guarded them with a pistol, the other rifled the cash drawers. Knechtges freed himself within a few minutes and gave the alarm. APPEAL MAY DELAY CHAPMAN’S DEATH ON GALLOWS IN JUNE (Continued from Fi st Page.) moerning. At 10:25 it had reached its vardict, having voted just once. Court was eonvened and Chapman, haggard after his long night of uncertainty, £t0od up in the prisoners dock as the | Jurors filed in. | He did not flinch at the reading of | the verdict, “Guilty as charged.” Nor 4id he glance at the jurors. When Judge Jennings in discharging the | Jurors told then that theirs had been “a just verdict, one wholly satisfac- tory to me” Chapman turned to his &uards with their waiting manacles, and he left for his basement cell with Just the shadow of a sardonic smile en_his lipe. Defense counsel motion | made and to discard the jury's verdict There ware tears in the eves of Groenl as he reached a sympathetic hand to his client “Chapple, I'm sorry.” he sald Oh, that's all right” replied the condemned man with a wan smile. | An hour later court was convened for the imposition of sentence The sherift's voice boomed hollowly | through the court as he enjoined si- | Jance “whils sentence of death is pro- nounced on the prisoner at the bar.” At the word “death” Chapman | evinced his one emotion of the day.| Hit cheeke flushed for an instant, but he held his head high and looked un- waveringly into the judge's eves In lear and distinet voice, he said Nothing to sav” and awaited sentence, Back in the prisoner's dock he still retained his seeming composure. His| guarde hurried him into a waiting motor car in which he was returned to the prison cell he has occupied since the Federal Government “loaned” him to Conneciicut to go on trial for his life. Tonlght Chapman gave out a state- | ment through Attorney Groehl, in which he said that he had “had to rombat the wealth and influsnce of the Sheans, the ambition of the State attorney of Hartford County and the prejudice of the public mind during the trial.” 5 Groehl, in another statement,’ said he dfd not believe his client guilty and he would “exhaust every ounce of anergy which I possess to try and establish his innocence befors some tribunal with power to remedy what | to me is a miscarridge of justice. “Ding” Is Getting Better. | DES MOINES, la., April 4 Physi- | cians attending J. (Ding) Darling. | rartoonist, who has been seriously. ill with peritonit announced to- night that a decided improvement | had been noticed in his condition today, following a minor operation Tost a {in order that children | $25.00; | Expresa PAPER WILL SEGREGATE CRIME NEWS FOR WEEK Plans Experiment Asked by Club to Keep Children From Reading Stories of Wrong Kind. By the Assoc'nted Press. DES MOINES, Towa, April 4. —Fol-| lowing the passage of a resolution re- | cently by the local Federation of Women's Clubs - asking that crime news be segregated on an inside page and general | readers would not have to search: through “crime to find the worth- while news of the day.” the Des Moines Register will announce tomor- row the inauguration of an “experi- | ment in the segregation of ecrimé news." Beginning Monday the paper wliil print crime news in an inside section much after the manner of sport and market news. The Initial experiment, the Register will announce, will cori- tinue for a week MIGHTY WAR CRAFT NEAR GOLDEN GATE Fleet to Unleash Planes This Morning Entering San Francisco Bay. Ry the Associated Press. ABOARD U. S, S. SEATTLE AT SEA, April 4 (via Radio).—The United States fleet, greatest concentrition of American sea power to follow the course once steered by Sir Francis Drake, will enter the Golden Gate Sunday morning, weather cenditions permitting. The battleships #nd scout eruisers will present an unusual spec- tacle of patriotic thrili when they catapult airplanes fromithe decks of the men-of-war, as thdy enter into San Francisco Bay. The battleships, ligh auxiliaries will anchor §n man-of-war row, while the destrofers and subs marines will take bertifs at the docks. | With the precisionfof a gigantic machine the formati of more than & hundred vessels off tha American Navy moved up tha -owsy from San Diego and San Pedro, Severa¥naf rhqy men-of-war left the 'ulsing columns | and darted out on é‘munnt runy The annual tests forfengineering rai- ings that go to the crews helow decks, who keep the ha!!‘%‘ craft in action, cruisers and have as much zest gnd afford as keen competition as thosé more spebtacular Runnery exercisesgrecently engaged in by the deck cfews off Southern California’s coast. - ] 3 Will' Rethrn Todnyt. All these battle craft which left the fleet were under forders to return to the fleet formatfon before 5 o'clock tomorrow mornidg. The armored gruiser Seattle, flying the blue four-sturred flag of Admiral Robert E. Copntz, commander-in- chief, is the brain center of the vast concentration of sea power. Rear Admirkl A. C. Cole, chief of staff for Admiral Coontz, is the leader of the chisfs Hf departments who co- ordinate the movements and activities of this vast formation on vessels and Wwho meet daily for a conferenca in the cabin of Admiral Cole. Strate plans and employment schedules are in the hands of Capt Sinclair Gannon, assistant chief of staff. Capt. R. M. Griswold is fleet material officer. RELIEF FUND AIDED BY GIFTS AND PARTY| All Tickets Sold for Benefit to Help Proudfoot Family—Con- tributions Acknowledged. All tickets for the benefit card party for the Proudfoot family to be held at the Northeast Masonic Tem- ple tomorrow night have been sold. and the fund has been aided appre- ciably, Mrs. A. K. Wine, chairman of the committee in charge, announced last night. The fund is being raised | for the relief of the family of the man killed two months ago in a fall. Mrs. Proudfoot, the widow has eight children. Several hundred dollars is now de- posited to the credit of the relief fund and donations are still coming in. CThecks ma be sent to Mrs. T. F. Rorke, 3768 McKinley street, or to the Northeast Savings Bank Late contributions include the fol- lowing: : Painters’ Union. Local No. 368, $50.00; International Steam and Operating Enginee T.ocal No. 177, $33.04; Carpenters and Joiners Union No. 528, $25.00; Paper Hangers Unjon Division Foreign Administra- tion and Foreign Personnel of the Department of State. $25.00: Takoma | Chapter. O. E. §., $25.00; Unity Chap- | ter. O. E. 8, §20: Trinity Chapter, O. | E. S.. $10.00; La Fayette Lodge Chap- | ter, O E. S. $10.00; Martha Chapter, 0. E. S.. $2.00: Women's Auxiliary to the Railway Mail Association, 1000; Mrs. Meyer, $1.25; Dr. D. D. B, $1.00; Mrs. C. H. Diedrich, $1.00, and Mr. Roberts, $1.00. Anonymous, $29.00. SUBMARINE WILL MAKE MYSTERY WORLD CRUISE Biggest of Undersea Craft Lies| Ready to Start Around Globe From England. Br Cable to The Star and New York Worid. | LONDON, April 4-—The Sunda understands that the X-1, tha world's largest submarine, ia| Iying off Chatham in readiness for a | mystery cruise around the world This will start within the next 10| days, 1t ix sald. The 121 members of | the crew are sworn to secrecy. The X-1. which cost £842,000 to | build, ia five (imes as large as the F. class, which bore the brunt of British submarine work during the | war. The vessel is capable of re-| majning submerged two and one- nalf days. < (Coprright, 1925.) NOON-DAY LENTEN SERVICES HOLY WEEK B. F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 O’Clock SPEAKER Bishop James E. Freeman PECIAL MUSIC EACH DAY yesterday to relieve a congestion in the pleural eavity, Every One Invited—No Collection) |NEW ORDER BANS | ent moment, WEEKS' CONBITION GREATLY IMPROVED War Secretary’s Recovery Rapid—May Return to Desk in 10 Dais. —— Secretary Weeks made Iu?flr proz- ress yesterday in his ight a%ainst th attack of cerebral thrombosis he su fered last Wednesday, and his doctors expressed the hope that he would be | back at his degk at the War Depart- ment within a week or tgn dys. Since publiction Friday &f the nacure of the Secretary's illness uis home, has been delu%ed with Inquirles rrom friends and messag of sympathy. Mr. Week's progressfoward recov- | ery from the slight stroke whieh, for | a time, deprived him -f the use of his left arm, has occcasloned surprise among his physicians. and the rapid- ity with which the effect of the clot is wearing off, coufled with the fact that the patient has not developed any cordltion of high blood pressure, have led th: doctsrs to belleve that he will not be: ISng confined to his home. . Past Dy Stage. Because of thl: hopetul aspect. the question of wheSher the War Secre- tary will be abl§ to continue at his cabinet post {s s4id not to have been taken up as yet either by Mr. Weeks himself, his medical advisers or mem- ber »f the family. Unless an unex- pected unfaverable condition de- velops it is exgected that a decision on this mattér3vill be deferred until the Secretary is ready %o take it up on his own moition, which probably will not be uniii a sufficient time h: elapsed for the full significance of the present atiack to be judged in the YIght of tfe completeness of his recovery y The doctorstana famfly were in agresment toc¢ay that Mr. Week's case had passed the stage where it either desirable or necessary that buljetins as to his condition be made puolic, & HERRIOT. PINS ALL_ OK .CAK‘ITM. LEVY | CERTAIN OF DEFEAT| “Anyinues ‘ Zee pra | I touch %ie prassing fAnancial preb- he WA taday. | irat, adéncion of the prasent budget, which s the first single| budget France has had since the war and hence the firat balanced budget. “Second. that it be accepted as a | principle that France float no_more loans, domestic or foreign. What- ever money France gets must be raised directly by the oountry, not by financial expedients. We are going ahead rapidly on the study of a financial plan.” Capital Levy Is B While Herriot did not say so di- rectly, it is known that a ecapital levy is the basis of the new financial program which he and the new finance minister, Anato'e De Monzie, will propose. The levy probably will | be 10 per cent on all accumulated oapital. It was decided upon three days ago by the Socialist party which is Herriot's principal backer. To prevent immediate shortage of money the - government also un- doubtedly will propose authorizing the Bank of France. tf mecessary. to increase the issue of francs beyond the forty-thres-billion - limit, the extra billions to be backed by com-| mercial paper and retired as soon as the capital levy brings resul All the conservative néwspapers have launched a drive against Her- riot’s capital levy even before it is definitely announced. The Temps d clares the Herriot go nment h: adopted a Secialist program of gen- eral attack on capital. The Journee Industrielle savs the capital levy will in itself force inflation. is. TAKING CASH BAIL IN TRAFFIC CASES (Continusd from First Page.) three judges working throughout the day, the cases will be disposed of more quickly, court and jury trials alike. % Provisions of the new traffic ast passed by Congress just before the inauguration will become effective Saturda May 2. Any one arrested after midnight Friday for violating| any of the néw provisions as set forth in the act will come up Satur- day under the new laws regarding it. As the new regulations call for verv severe penalties, many of them jail sentences, the few minutes before and after midnight on that date may be of the utmost importance, and for some might he regarded as the “be- witching hour.” Court Facllities Adequate. Improvements in Police Court are | practically completed. It is expected | that they will be sufficient for the present time. At any rate, Judges Schuldt, McMahon, Maodonald and Hitt seemed well satisfied at the pres- | well as minor officials | of the court. i There is no disputing that it would | be better to have & new and larger Police Court Bullding to take the place of the one erected on the site of the old Unitarian Church some 20-0dd years sgo, prior to the present population, automobila problems and prohibition. But all concerned are of the bellef to give the present arrangements a fair trial, and then, if found wanting, tell Congress. . RUM PIPED VIA TREE. | Line Leads From 8till to Top of Pine. i BRANDENTON, Fla. April 4.—A; pine tres sprouting spirits of fru- menti_and not spirits of turpentine, s discovered today by Sherift H. J. Stewart and his_deputfes, who | accumulated one of the greatest col- lections of liquid-making Mxtures ever reported captured in this terri- tory. Five atills were captured, two men were arrested and threp escaped. At one of the stills a pipe line ran up a pine tree, and at the top was the depot of distribution. 4 COL. FECHET EN ROUTE. New Assistant Air Chief Leaves for Capital. SAN ANTONIA, Tex., *April Lieut. Col. James E. Fechet, new a sistant chief of the Air Service, suo- ceeding Brig. Gen. Willlam Mitchell, left Kelly Field by automobile this afternoon for his new post at Wash- ington. An escort of 10 planee, in 2 form: i Jor furns. | appear Vetucles here must continve shraght Hhirotghy White Line Gz <« M par/n;q for s0fF Vedicles enfer here Director af TraMie Eldridge s cor right or left to turn would fail | SON MAY BLOCK DODGE CO. SALE Plea for Injunction May Pre- vent Completion of Big Deal. By the Amociated Press. DETROIT. April 4.—A legal fght revolving around the estate of a de- ceased child threatened tonight to prevent or delay consummation of a sale of Dodge Brothers, Inc., to Dil- lon, Read and Company, New York bankers. John Duval $150 monthly will of his father, founder with Horace E. Dodge of Dodge Brothers, Inc.. today filed in circult court here a bill of complaint seeking to enjoin his stepmother, Mrs. Matilda R. Dodge, from disposing of any part of the estate of Anna Mar- garet Dodge, her daughter, who died last April at the age of 4 years. Part of this estate, young Dodge's avers, is a one-eighth interest Dodge Brothers, Inc. Dodge. cut off with a allowance under the John F. Dodge, in Declares He Is Helr. John Duval Dodge contends in his action that he {s an heir-at-law of his half-sister and as such is entitled to share with his five brothers and sisters in the division of her estate, which he estimates as worth $12,500,000. In his action today Dodge prayed for a temporary and permanent injunction to restrain Mrs. Matilda Dodge from disposing of any part of the Anna Margaret Dodge estate without the ap- proval of the Wayne County probate court and without the consent of the heirs. Judge Harry Dingeman in circuit court denied the prayer for a temporary injunction, but ordered that Mrs. Dodge In court next Wednesday to show cause why such an injunction ahould not be issued. THREAT GUILT DECREED. Suspended Sentence for Writer of Letter to Miss Longfellow. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April 4 Kenneth Wiltshire of North Cam- bridge, 18 vears old, was convicted today of having written threatening letters with Intent to extort money from Miss Alice Longfellow, daugh- ter of the poet, and thrae other woman residents of this city. A reformatory sentence of one yéar was suspended Have ou t busy Intersections. There w bill | oreys sy iwyla{y o — A dnui o> /i/"ll 2213y Sy auy gm) Yo w0z [04449) 21 peIf oo QW4T 1M xnal between \Dead Baby Carried 5 Years in Trunk By Needy Mother {Coroner Frees Woman Who Abandoned Lug- gage in Boarding House. | 8pecial Dispateh to The Star. | BALTIMORE. Md. Aprll 4—Hav- |ing no money to bury her baby when lit died in 1913, and not knowing that | the city would bury the child for her. Mrs. Mary Urban today told Coroner Hennessey that she had placed the body in a trunk and had carried the trunk around with her for nearly five years., Mrs. Urban was arrested in Philadelphia yvesterday, following the finding of the body in the trunk at a boarding house here, where she had left it for a board bill. Coroner Hennessey. story, assured that the child died of natural causes, ordered her released. Her husband, Adolph, who now Is in Germany, put the body in the satchel and locked it in the trunk, she said. That was in 1919 Since then, dur- ing their frequent movings from place 10 place, she carried it with her, she Last May. however. she was forced to leave it hecause she could not pay a board bill The trunk was abandoned by Mrs. Urban, who is a ship stewardess, at a rooming house in the 700 block of Park avenue. 11 months ago. Mrs, | Mary Haas, who recently took over the ‘management of the place, called police to open the trunk Thursday. In it they found some clothes and a handbag. In the handbag was the baby. on hearing her | £ 14 TIED IN CHAIRS SEE BANDITS LOOT OFFICES Youths Work Calmly, Seizing Cus- tomers as They Enter Place During Robbery. By the Associated Prass NEW YOPK, April 4 —Five vouth- ful bandits today entered the offices of Weltzmer, Trupkin & Co., spent ¥n hour collecting and neatly wrapping loot consisting of $10,000 worth of furs, then, leaving 14 persons tisd in chairs in the rooms they had robhed. | descended by elevator and drove away in an automobile. An argumeént with the elevator operator over a tip for handling the bundles delaved the robbers’ escape several minutes. On entering the officas thay bound the five persons found thare. includ- ing one of tha partners. Nine others 0 entered during the hour the rob- were bound. Nothing wase tims, taken from tha vie- Voted? An Easter Referendum Now in Progress QUESTION: Do you f YES | X NO wigde, non. CHARITIES for the restorative care and relief of families in real need, with special regard to the welfare of their chil, ‘avor the support of our city- ectarian ASSOCIATED dren? 3,548 Washingtonians, Men and women, have voted “YES” on this question up to noon today by sending a the ASSOCIATED CHA contributing membership to RITIES. If you have not voted, you are earnestly requested to do so today by cutting out, signing and mailing the form printed below with check representing the membership cl sire. you de- 10,000 Members Our Goal! ASSOCIATED CHARITIES (Including Citizens’ Ord Preston, Treasurer, Joint Finance Relief Associat ittee, 1022 Eleventh Street N.W. Inclosed find § (Indioat Memberships Associate ..$ 32 E 5. Special .... 10.00 Supporting . 25.08 Sustaining . 50.0 Addicss Name . tion, accompanied the chief's car as far as New Braunfels e Membership er Centributien) (Payment may be made in installments.) of having a separate Interval for \PRESIDENT SENDS - DUES TO CHARITIES bérs were preparing their booty alse | Curb /e machines tarning to the the red sreen. Vehlcles line mear the curb and walt for the yellow algnal te tarm. Retains Membership in Fam- ily Welfare Organizations of Washington. President Coolidge has voted in the popular referendum now b conducted by the Associated Charities and Citizens' Rellaf Association by sending his parsonal membership con- tribution to the joint finance commit- tee of these family welfare agencies, thus becoming one of the 10,000 mem- bers needed to maintain this char- itable work. With the President's name included, the total number of contributing memberships recorded by Treasurér Ord Preston up to and including yesterday's mail was 3,548, The President's willingness to do this doubtless expresses his personal interest in the work, but it is a fact of general interest at this time that both the President and Mrs. Coolidge have had frequént occasion to call on the staff of workers at the Associated Charities office to deal with various problems of maiadjustment that have come to their attention in the form of letters from persons in all parts of the country. UNea Out-ef-Town Serviee. This use of the out-of-tawn service by the White House draws attention 10 only one of the many organized walfare services maintained by the Associated Charities. It is a fact of record that in the past vear and a half there have been 532 such in- quiries from other cities received by our own Associated Charities, and that these have required the sending of no less than 834 reports in that time, all of which means a vast sa ing of trouble and suffering not only to individuals involved, but to inno- cent children connected with such families in trouble. Runaways of both sexes and varl- Ous ages are included in this long list, most of whom are safely returned to their homes. Also ‘this department, which is mainly in the hands of a highly efficient volunteer woman worker, deals with a great number of family desertions, with stranded indi- viduals and tin-can tourists, and with just homeless men and women. Getting Res Yesterda y for Summer. William F. Mengert, who with Mrs. Mengert, has been engaged again to take charga of Camp Good Will for mothers and children during the aoming heated season, called at Social Service House to make the pre- liminary arrangements. One of the big improvements hoped for at that camp this year is the erection of a ! suitable bathing and swimming pool | for the youngsters. This will be all the greater an attraction in visw of the closing of the public swimming privileges at the Tidal Basin. Al- though the provision for this camp and for Camp Pleasant is not included in the $55,000 budget, but is raised by a special appeal through the Summer outing committee, the planning and the management are all under the general supervision of the Associated Charities staff. Ministers Ald C The various ministers of the city have been asked to glve some friend- ly or helptyl message to their people at church services today referring to the Easter appeal of the Associated Charities and telling of the family and home-saving work done by this association. All who have not yet sent In their membership contribu- tions are to be asked to do 20 before Easter if posaible. Walter S. Ufford, general secratary of the Associated Charities, Is to oc- cupy the pulpit of the Methodist M. . Church at Langdon this morning on Invitation of its regular minister, Rev. W. Clark Main. In the remaining Easter it is hoped that | ships will roll in more rapidly so as | to bring the total much nearer to the goal of 10,000 and theraby assure the | eftective completion of the current vear of this welfare work. All per- sons wishing to vote in this referen- dum by sending in & check for any amount possible can do so by ad- dressing Ord Preston, treasurer, 1022 Eleventh street. DEFIEé RATTLERS’ BITES. Aged Prospector Refuses Medical Aid for Snake Poison. { . GOLDFIELD, Nev., April 4—Thomas Toner, aged prospector of Klondyke, a mining camp 12 miles north of here, has refused opportunity cagerly sought by many. Aftter being bitten by several rattiesnakes, Toner refused to come to Goldfield to be treated by Dr. J. C. Cherry, county physiclan. He said he could " treat himself better than any doctor. Toner told the physician that 15 days ago he stepped into & nest of rattlers. The snakes wrapped themselves around one leg, bitting-him severely. He killed | four of them with a ahovel. Toner is in_a precarious condition. Sheriff's of- ficers said they lacked authority o res meve Tener &5 & hespital weaek before | { \ ) LIMIT DUE T0 GO, Reckless Driving Clause Likely Will Make This Un- necessary in Code. The definite limitation of 12 miles &n hour on vehiclés at ali street in- tersections probably will he omitted | from the revised set of traffic regu- lations, in view of the enactment of the reckless driving clause, it was indicated at the District Building ves- terdayv. . It was pointed out by officials in the office of the director of traffic that under a reckless driving regula- tion conditions prevailing at inter- asctions at a particular time control the question of how fast a driver should proceed If the crossing is clear there is no occasion for slowing down, it was pointed cut. On the other hand, if pedestrians are crossing at an inter- section, a vehicle would he required to slow down to a pace consistert with safety Reatriction Planned. It is understood the traffic officials are considering, however, incorporat- ing in the revised code a definite re- striction for vehicles driving throvzh allevs or crossing a sidewalk in smerging from an allav. “Pirector Eldridge announced yester- day that he proposes to do all in his power 1o reduce fatalities among chil- dren by discouraging plaving in the streets. In this connection it wa learned last night that consideration also will ba given to the possibility of closing certain blocks at speci- fied hours to permit children to an- gage in such recreation as roller skating in safety May Bar Turas. Another feature of regulation heing | ‘looked into is the advisability of pro- hibiting vehicles from making left- hand turns in getting off of certain congested thoroughfares. One official of the traMc office said there might also be some few busy intersections where elimination of the right-hand turi would be considered because of the heavy flow of pedestrian travel All of these qusstions, as well as the more important problems of speed, brakes, headlights and park- ing, are heing carefully gone over by the director and his staff in consulta- tion with the advisory committee ap- pointed for the purpose This committes has been mesting for several nights with the trafic officials and it is expected that some time this week Mr. Eldridge will be ready to be- | gin drafting the revised rules When the draft has baen completed and carefully gone over it will be trans- mitted to the Commissioners for ap- proval PLAN TO REVITALIZE DEMOCRACY FAILS | | | | Party Leaders Refuse to En-i thuse Over Roosevelt- | Walsh Suggestion. The movement to revitalize the Demo- [ cratic party organization. launched recently by Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Senator Thomas J. ;| Walsh of Montana, has éncountered | serious obstacles. | Most party leaders, hoth in and out | of Congress, have frowned upon the plan outlined by Mr. Roosevelt and | indorsed by Senator Walsh for an | early gathering of the chieftains of | Democracy to set up a brilliant na- | tional organization to function in and out of season. While both Mr. Roosevelt and Senator Walsh expressed the opinion in letters they interchanged on the subject that Chalrman Shaver of the Democratic national committee would | call such a conference of leaders, he ! has not done so yet and his friends say he has no intention of doing so. The national chairman is occupied just now in seeking to wipe out the| deficit incurred in the last campaign and meanwhile thinks the party ma- chinery should be curtailed in this oft year. National headquarters here has been contracted from a full floor in_an uptown office building to a| suite of two or three rooms and the force maintained is sufficient only to bandle the usual correspondence. Shaver Has Other Views. While having thus put inte ope tion a rigid economy program, Chair- man Shaver is giving attention to the 1926 congressional compaign and his plan as outlimed here is for a very thorough going co-opération with the congressional committees and the State organizations. He already had been in conference on thic subject with Representative Ofdfield of Arkansas, chairman of the congres- sional committee, and othérs. Many of the party leaders are of the opinion that no barticular good could come from a gathering in the | near future. They hold that tima will furnish the best cure for the sores of Madison Square Garden and that any reorganization gathering should be deterred until such time as it will be necessary 1o conduct a vigorous cam- paign’ for the recapturing of a ma- jority in the House of Representa- tives and the increase of the party representation in the Senate. . | $800 REWARD OFFERED | IN MUTILATING CASE | given,” | desertion* and 1 £ FORMER PREACHER ELOPES ONCE MORE Father of 10 Chiidren Quits Home, and Sister-in-Law Also Is Missing. By the Associated Press XENIA, Ohio, April 4—W. W. ¢ 40-year-old father of 10 children former pastor of the Methodist copal Church at Spring Valley two vears ago eloped with the year-old choir leader of his church has eloped again, according to infor- mation received here by Proba Judge 8. C. Wright This time, according to Judge Wright's information, the form preacher chose his sister-in-law, Mrs Dorothy Culp, 22. mother of two chil dren, who resided at Nappannee, Ind Culp and his wife and children ha been living at South Bend. Ind Culp and his sister-in-law first dis appeared simuitaneously, and after being absent a short period turned to their homes and were Judge Wright was informed Later, during Fabruary, they disa peared again and have not been heard from since, although Indiana authori ties have been seeking them Culp and his choir leader peared from the Spring Valles sonage late one night. Several later, they were discovered in a Mich- igan city. Returned to Greene County Ohio, the girl was turned over fo parents and Culp was charged w fined $500, and tenced to a vear in the workhouse He served only a few davs hecauss of an error in commitment papers With his family he then moved Nappannee, Ind., and later Bend. Since they left Ohio child was born HAINS POINT BUSSES BEGIN SERVICE TODAY Schedule Starts at 11 AM. and Continues Until 8 P.M., Col. Sherrill Announces. nl and E for re disap par- weeks her to South another Park a1tomo- Easier access to East Potomac for thosa who do not have a biles will he provided by the inaugu- ratien of a bus servica which wil start today, according to an announce ment of Lieut. Col. Clarence 0. Sherrtll, diractor of pubiic buildings and public parks the National Capital The charge o tor the round trip will be thirty-five cents. with stopover privilexe at Hains Point, the picnic grounds. The route will be the south side of the Treasury Building around the Ellipse, west on B street to Twenty-third street. then around the Lincoin Memorial, then following the speedway to Hains Point and back to the starting point. a distance of approximately ten miles “A motor bus for the accomodat of persons who desire to visit E Potomac Park,” sald Col. Sherrill's announcement, “will operate from this time until further notice, leaving the south side of the Treasury every hour on the hour from 11 am. until § oclock pm., leaving Haing Point every hour on the half from 11:30 o'clock a.m. until o'clock p.m “Busses to the field houses Potomae Park leave ihe south the Treatury starting at evary half hour en howr mnd half hour until 12 noon Commehcing ‘at 12 noon until dark the busses run every fifteen minutes HOLD-UP FRUSTRATED BY MARYLAND CASHIER Three Bandits Flee in Car From Keedysville When Alarm Is Sounded. Br the Associated Press KEEDYSVILLE. Md.. April 4—Thres armed bandits attempted to hold up the Keedyaville Bank during banking hours tonight but fled empty-handed when the cashier pressed a button that sounded a burglar alarm. The bandits escaped in an automobile through the Saturday night crowds that filled the streets. The men jumped into a waiting auto- mobile and sped away before the alarm could be spread. Word of the attempted hold-up was flashed to Richard Duffy deputy sheriff of Washington County, who lives in Hagerstown. Sheriff Duffy organized a posse and set out At once for Keedysville. The police of towns in the vicinity and the State police wers ordered to be on the lookout for the bandit cas. East Salvador Feels Quake. SAN SALVADOR. Salvador, April 4 Republic of -Four earth shorke were registered by the seismological observatory here today. the tremors being felt in San Salvador City and in the western section of tha repub- lic. No damage has been reported March Circulation Daily ... 104,063 Sunday..] 08,32 1 District of Columbla. ss. FRANK B. NOYES, President of THE DAY STAR, does solemnly 1 number of copies of the papers named. sold and distributed during the month of March, A.D. 1825, DA Copien 103.405 19,4 131,112 120,280 104,151 105,361 103,573 9,859 | Give Money for Any Mem- ber of Gang. By the Associated Prem. RALEIGH. N. C. April 4—A ward of $800 for each person appre- hended and found gullty of assisting in the unlawful removal of Joseph A. Needleman from the Martin County Jail or af mutilating him has been offered by the Governor of North Carolina and the courty commission- ers of Martin County. Of this amount the county will pay $400 and the State $400. Gov. McLean, oftering the reward, makes the un- usual stipulation that the captors, in order ‘'to be eligible to receive the re- ward, must deliver their prisoners to the warden of the State prison, rather than to the sherlft or jaller of Martin County. Special officers have been sworn in by Solicitor Gillam, who is conduct- ing the investigation of the case. b lelp;n-Gemn Pact Made. BERLIN, Wpril 4.—A German-Bel- gian commercial agresment was signed at Berlih today. It is based on the favoréd nation principle and | Governor and County Offcial to! the member- | re- | in hi& proclamation | 101,022 104,374 103,582 103, 103,662 103,878 9,852 103,080 103,201 102,945 102,815 102,791 101,876 9,592 102,520 102,572 3,738,781 31,137 Less adjustments ®otal daily net circulation Total average net paid circy T R Daily average number copies for service, etc. 2,705,644 103,166 of 897 Daily average net circulation 104,063 SUNDAY (opies. Da. 100004 22.. ... 113,326 29.. . 108,649 Copies. 108,407 108,205 546,681 5,075 541,604 aEeiiy oy Less adjustments ........... Total Sunday net circulation. Average net paid Sunday cir- CulREIOn 5% +s Verins G | Average number of copies for {7 service, ete. ...... { Average Sunday nat circula- tlon ... .. 1083 NOYER Prosident Subscribed and sworn to befors me ihis 4th "FRANK B aftects particularly Garman trade in the Belgian Congo and Belgian man- dated territory, (Beal.) ELMER F. YOUN: "fily of Apeil, A.D. 1825 Natary