Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1925, Page 2

SITES FOR SCHOOLS WILL BE INSPECTED Locations Recommended for | Playgrounds Also to Be Visited Tomorrow. Budget Bureau, District government and school officials will make an in- spection tomorrow of school building and playground recommen for inclusion in the gchool budget for the next fiscal yvear. The party will bé composed of F. J. Bailey and George B. Kennedy of the Budget reau, Assistant District Eng Commissioner Holcombe, Supt Schools Frank W. Ballou, Asst. Supt Robert L. Hayeock and several mem bers of the Board of Education. The survey of school sites will mark another preliminary step in the prep- aration of the school estimates. The properties to be inspected have been ded for purchase by supe vising principals of the several divi- #ions in reports to Dr. Ballou Draft Budget Next Week. sites week, nual confere . civic schedule at the the school board's with repr: s and Monday night Franklin School. delegz At this me rganiz be given portunity to out needs of the school the communi ties they repre: The school boz jons w in rd has not vet placed any definite limitation on its budget the .fiscal year of 1927, but indi hat it will exceed the rec- s e prepared for totale new budg about $4,000,000 for carry cond installment of the ear building prog which has been authorized by gress. This $4,000,00 c6me out of the sur District in the Tre The school and piay spected tomorrow, if a inserted in the bu ed to the five-year program The. inspection party is scheduled to leave the office of Supt. Ballou at 9 o'clock. LIVE WIRE KILL?TWO IN STORM IN MIDWEST Freak Tornado Does Much Prop- erty Damage in Indiana and the fiscal about $12 will include ing out $19,000,0 Michigan Towns. the Associated Pre INDIANAPOLIS, IM., April - A windstorm that almost attained the destructive proporations of a tornado hopped about over Indiana last night, leaving in its wake damaged homes, uprooted trees and leveled power and communication lines, Apparently entering the State from the West, the storm passed over Sul livan, in the Southwestern section only a few miles north of the territory hit by ‘last month’s disastrous tornado; then moved northwest, through dianapolis, Kokomo, South Bend, finally veering e ward to Wayne. No fatalities or_serious i Juries were reported, but the material damage will aggregate thousands of dollars. BENTON HARBOR, Mich., April 14—A high wind and electric storm, accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain, caused two deaths, wrecked a partly completed factory building and snapped off numerous telephone poles in Berrien County last night. Two men were killed when they came in contact with a high tension wire that had been blown down. BABOON CAUSES PANIC IN 200 AT NEW YORK| ‘Breaks Bars and Holds Keepers at | Bay for Six Hours—Is Finally Shot. sociated Press. W YORK, April 14.—Joe, a_90- pound baboon in the Central Park Zoo ran amuck vesterday in the monk house and kept a score of keepe and a handful of police reserves at bay for more than six hours until he was shot dead. Several hundred persons were in the monkey house ‘when_Joe ripped off two of his cell’s iron bars and leaped at the crowd. Screaming men, women and children trampled on one another in fighting for the two exit A vigilant keeper shut the monkey house doors before the baboon cou get through. Efforts to coax Joe back to his cage with sweetmeats failed. He skilfully avoided 5 to so him and dodg is pursuers for six hours. Finally aped to a \\n\.i dow, raised the s nd was about io leap to freedom when Patrolman David Berger fired. Joe dropped, shot through the heart DRIVER OF LIQUOR CAR WOUNDED WHILE FLEEING Dry Agents Capture 1,000 Cases and Make Four Arrests in Running Fight. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORE April 14.—When the driver of a truck, on which they said £ of liquor, ition agents fire, near the inning fight driver. Two trucks, each containing 500 cases of liquor, and a pleasure car were confiscated and four men were arrested Three Federal agents drove to Glen- eove, Long Island, at midnight in an effort to shipment of liquor they were informed was to come in a 15-ton speed boat. Failing to arrive in time, they returned to New York and stationed themselves at the Man- hattan end of the Williamsburg Bridge. Soon two trucks appeared. One heeded a command to stop. The other kept on. The shooting caused such excite- ment that it was necessary to call out police reserves. The pleasure car seized was t. the trucks today Bowery, and wounded the opened in a ailing DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE ILL. Condition of Canadian Governor Causes Anxiety. WATERFORD, Ireland, April 14.— The condition of the Duke of Devon- shire, former governor general of Canada, who suffered a slight stroke of paralysis at his Irish estate, Lis- more Castle, near here, on Sunday, continues to cause anxiety, although he is better than he was Immediately after he became ill. The duke’s eldest son and helr, the Marquis of Hartington, has arrived at the bedside from Derbyshire. Doc- tors from Lismore, Dungarvan and Cork are in attendance on the Duke & Devonshigt, who Is in his 57th y, Former of | ting the | ailed to stop | | | 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1925. MISS AUDREY BURLEIGH. By the Associated Press. MANILA, April 14.—A court-mar- tial, consisting of 13 officers, to try Lieut. J. S. Thompson for Killing Miss Audrey Burleigh, who was to death April will meet at McKinley, April 15. Brig. harles J. Symmonds heads the court. Thompson has never denied killing the girl, who was a step daughter of Capt. H. P. Calmes, United States MeMZcal Corps, but has said he com- mitted the act while suffering from mental aberration due to uncon trollable jealously. Maj. Thomas nch has been selected to prosecute Thompson and Maj. Edward J. Sher- burne to act as defense counsel FORESTS CREATED Camp Meade and Fort Humphreys Among Mili- tary Sites Converted. President executive or for Coolidge ety has signed an shing national reservations, ar Department nnounced to- Camp Meade, Md., and Fort phreys, Va., are among the ignated sites The other r tions on which national forests are to be established re Pines Plains and Camp Upton, Y.; Camp Dix, N. J.; Tobyhan Artillery Range, Pa., and Forts Eustis and Lee, Va. National forests already have been established on three other militar: reservations — Fort Benning, Ga.; Camp McClellan, Ala., and Camp Jackson, S. C. The action is in legislation approved authorizing the establishment of national forests by the War and Agriculture departments under executive orders. Secretary Weeks inaugurated the policy of creating forests on military reserva- tions, and it was largely through his efforts that the legislation was ob- tained Investigation by War and Agricul- ture Department officers is now in progress to determine the selection of additional military reservations for national forestation. ccordance with W. V. LEWIS NAMED CITIZENS’ BODY HEAD Brookland Association Records Satisfaction With Five-Year School Building Program. W. V. Lewis was elected president of the Brookland Citi Association at a meeting in the Brookland School last night. Marvin McLean was elected vice president and Lee R. Wil- son was chosen as secretary. Other officers elected were: Noel Parks, financial secretary, while the retiring president, Arthur H. Fast, was elected a delegate to the Federa- tion of Citizens’ itions, to serve along with the newly elected presi- dent, Mr. Lewis. Mr. Fast was also appointed chairman of the school committee. Satisfaction was expressed with the five-year school building program in the Brookland sectior It was voted to invite the co-oper- ation of the Michigan Park and Dahl- gren Terrace Citizens' Associations and the John Burroughs and Brook and Parent-Teacher oclations, in presenting to the Board of Education, at a special meeting April 20, the school needs of these . communities, which include the purchase of sites at Michigan avenue and Twelith street and at Rhode Island avenue and Twelfth street; the acquiring of a tract adjoining the Brookland School for playground purposes, and | for the erection of a junior high school in the vicinity of the John Burroughs School $110,000 IS SUBSCRIBED FOR WILSON MEMORIAL National Appeal Memorial Now Will Start From Staunton. for Funds *for By the Associated Press. STAUNTON, Va., April 14—With n over-subscription of $10,000 a_citi- zens committee here last night closed a campaign for $100,000 to go toward establishing a birthplace memorial to ‘Woodrow Wilson here. In announcing the result of the campaign, William A. Pratt, chairman of the committee, said a national ap- peal for funds for the shrine soon will be made by a committee of dis- tinguished Ameficans headed by President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia. Asks $299 as Price Of a Single Drink Of Genuine W hisky By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 14— Suit for the recovery of one drink of whisky was filed yesterday by Jacob Jung, a baker, against Dis- trict Attorney Matthew Brady and Chief of Police Daniel O'Brien. In his complaint Jung alleged that Po- liceman James Giffen last January entered his bakery without war- rants, and therefore unlawfully selzed the drink of whisky. Jung said that in lieu of the liquor he would accept $299. A demurrer to the sult was en- tered before a justice of the peace, who held Jung had sufficlent cause for action. and ordered Brady and O'Brien tv proceed with the case. BNEWNATIONAL ! ceed $100.00, NEW POSTAL RATES START TOMORROW New Issues Last Warning of Changes on Certain Classes of Matter. Postmaster General New today sounded the last warning to the pub- lic that, effective tomorrow, additional postage rates on certain classes of mail matter will be imposed by the Government “So 5 the rates on first-class mail are concerned,” he sald, “there are no changes whatever except in the case of private malling cards, in- cluding souvenir postcards, on which the rate is increased from 1 to 2 cents each. Postcards issued by the Gov ernment, however, will continue to be sent for 1 cent each.” The other changes in the scheduie follow: Second-class mail—Newspa- pers, magazines and other periodicals ontaining notice of second-class en- try. The rate for the public is 2 cents for each 2 ounces up to 8 ounces, and the fourth-class zone rate, plus a 2.cent service charge on each par- cel over 8 ounces. This does not in clude certain increases in rates for publishers and news agents. Third Class Rates. Third-class mail — Circulars and aneous printed matter as andise. The rate is 1% each 2 ounces up to 8 it the rate on books, in- atalogues, of 24 pages or seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, nd plants, is 1 cent for each s or farction therof up to § mer for ounces. [ cluding more, scion, 2 ouncy ounces. Fourth-class The same than 8 ounce class mail. mali- more (parcel post) matter, weighing s, as handled in third- Limit of weight, 70 pounds in first, second and third zones, and 50 pounds in all other zones. The present pound rates in the various zones have not been changed. A service charge of 2 cents stamps, to be affixed to pack addition to the postage, has been im- posed for each parcel, except those collected on rural delivery routes. Plans Speedier Servcie. A new and speedier service for par- cel post which mailers may or may not purchase, at their own option, is designated a “special handling” serv- ice. Practically speaking, this serv- ice means that parcel post is to be handled, not as parcel post custom- arily is handled, but as first-cla: mail. For this special handling of mail a charge of 25 cents will be imposed, in addition to the regular postage and 2-cent service charge. ew rates for domestic money ders effective April 15 are as follo; Not exceeding $2.50, fee 5 cents, for- merly 3 cents; exceeding $2.50 and not exceeding $5, 7 cents, formerly 5 cents; exceeding $5 and not exceed- ing $10, fee 10 cents, formerly 8 cent exceeding $10 and not exceeding $20, fee 12 cents, formerly 10 cents; e ceeding $20 and not exceeding $40. fee 15 cents, formerly $20 to $30, 12 cents, $30 to $40, 15 cents; exceeding $40 and not exceeding $60, fee 18 cents, formerly $40 to $50, 18 cents; $50 to $60, 20 cents; exceeding $60 and not exceeding $80, fee 20 cents, for- merly $60 to $75, 25 cents; $75 to $80, 30 cents: exceeding $80 and not ex- ceeding $100, fee 22 cents, formerly 30 cents, in or Limit on Money Orders. Money orders are not issued for more than $100. The minimum registry fee under the new law is increased from 10 cents to 15 cents on all domestic reg- istered mail, including that to island possessions of the United States and the Canal Zone. For the present the increased rate does not apply to reg- istered mail to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, the Republic of Panama or other for- eign countrie: A return receipt for any registered mail matter will, upon request of the sender, and payment of a 3-cent fee at the time of registration, be taken on delivery and returned to the send- er. Heretofore, receipts have been taken upon request and returned free to the sender. Under the new law domestic class and fourth-class (parcel post) mail may be insured against loss, rifling or damage in an amount equiy- alent to its actual value, as follows: For indemnification not to exceed $5, fee increased from 3 cents to 5 cents; for indemnification not to ex- ceed $25.00, fee increased from & cents to 8 cents; for indemnification not to exceed $50.00, fee unchanged at 10 cents; indemnification not to ex- fee unchanged at 25 third- for cents. Upon request and payment of a fee of 3 cents the sender of an insured article will receive a return receipt showing to whom and when the arti- cle was delivered. Domestic third-class and fourth- class (parcel post) mail may be sent collect-on-delivery, the price of the article and the charges thereon, in- cluding, if desired, postage and fee prepaid, being returned to the sender for the following fees Collections of not to exceed $10, fee increased from 10 cents to 12 cents; collections not to exceed $50, fee in- creased from 10 cents to 15 cent: collections not to exceed $100, fee un. changed at 25 cents. Under the new law there will be no change from the present 10-cent charge for special delivery of letters and for packages of less than two pounds. Mail weighing more than two pounds and not more than 10 pounds will require a special delivery stamp of 15 cents instead of 10 cents. A charge of 20 cents for a special de- livery stamp on mail weighing more than 10 pounds instead of 10 cents be imposed under the law effec- tive tomorrow. TREASURY TO PROBE. Will Act on Swiss Complaints Against Customs Agents. The Treasury Department will look into the cause of Swiss protests against alleged activities of American customs attaches in connection with enforcement of the tariff law pro- visions under which price informa- tion is sought. Officials of the department are of the opinfon that recent developments in Switzerland, which approached the character of a diplomatic convention with the American legation in Berne, had arisen more from the activities of representatives of the Department of Commerce and the Tariff Commission than from those of customs attaches. Secretary Mellon, it was indicated to- day, will talk over the situation with the State Department. DOGS BRING MAIL FAR. EDMONTON, Alberta, April 14. Mail from Aklavik and other points in the Far North arrived Sunday at Fort McMurray, 300 miles northeast of here, and is to reach Edmonton Friday on the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway from Waterways, Alta, having covered approximately 1,800 miles by dog team relays, it was learned here today. The mail iz the first of the year from - trappers, traders and pros. pectors of the Far North for g points in nearly six n CITIZENS® ADVISORY COUNCIL ELECTION PRELIMINARIES OVER Reports of Nominations Indicate There Will Be Thirty or More Competitors in Field, With Only Eight Positions Available. With nominations scheduled to close today for the first election to the Citizens’ Advisory Council, reports from the various citizens' organiza- tions indicate there will be 30 or more candidates in the field for the § posi- tions on the council. A number of new names were added to the list as the result of meetings of meighborhood ecivie bodies in all sections of the District last night. Of the eight members to be elected, six will be chosen by the Federation of Citizens' Associations and two by the Iederation of Civic Associations, the latter representing the colored organizations. The secretaries of the respective federations will now prepare formal ballot sheets. The Federation of Citi- zens’ Associations will elect its six members on the night of Saturday, May 2. George H. Richardson, presi- dent of the Federation of Civic Asso- ciations, sald his organization would decide, at a meeting on April 24, when its two members will be elected. Three Candidates Named. Three women nominated by their assoclations last night today said they would accept and would be in the running. All have been prominent in association actlvities. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, put forward by the Kalorama Citizens’ Association, 18 chairman of its committee on law and legislation. Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, chairman of the law and legislation committee of the District chapter of the League of Woman Voters, was nominee of that organization. Mrs. Alcena Lamond was named by the Takoma FPark Association, of which body she is vice president. 'She was for many years president of the board of directors of the Masonic and Jastern Star Home, resigning a year ago. Charles A. Baker Indorsed. Charles A. Baker, past president of the Federation of Citizens' Associa tions, who previously had been nomi- nated by the Conduit Road associa tion, was named last night by the Northwest Suburban Association. He was also indorsed by the Takoma Park Association, which instructed its delegates to the federation to vote for both him and Mrs. Lamond, its own nominee. George A. Finch, vice president of the federation, and long active in civic affairs, was nominated by the Piney Branch Association, on motion by Edgar B. Henderson, president of the association. Henry K. Bush-Brown, sculptor, was nominated by the Washington | chapter of the American Institute of | ‘Architects, and was indorsed by the Arts Club, of which he also is a mem- ber. William, S. Torbert, chairman of the EMPLOYERS SCORE INOPEN-SHOP FIGHT Supreme Court Upholds San Francisco Group in Buy- ing of Materials. When labor strikes or lockouts do not result in any material restraint of interstate commerce, the Supreme Court held yesterday, the Federal Government is powerless to Inter- vene. The decision was handed down in a case from San Francisco, where the Industrial Association of that city, the California Industrial Council and other organizations of employers had been found guilty of violating the Sherpan anti-trust law in a fight for the adoption of the open shop. as op- posed to the closed shop which labor unions had enforced up to 1921. Adopted Permit System. As a part of their campaign, the employers adopted a permit system under which supplies could be ob- tained only by builders who would agree to join the open-shop move- ment. The lower court finding that these permits were required for the purchase of bullding materials and cupplies produced in and brought from other States into California, held that there had been an unlawful re- straint of interstate commerce. The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Sutherland, declared, how- ever, that it did.not find that there had been a substantial obstruction of interstate commerce sufficient to con- stitute a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Interference Not Shown. Asserting that the evidence showed that interference with _interstate trade was neither desired nor intend- ed, Justice Sutherland declared that such building materials as had been brought into the State during the la- bor dispute had come to rest within the State and had ceased to be a part of interstate commerce. Considering that the aggregate value of the ma- terial brought into the State did not exceed a few thousand dollars, in comparison with the expenditure of $100,000,000 for the construction of buildings during the controversy, he said, a showing had not been made to satisfy the court that there had been a conspiracy to restrain inter- state commerce. ‘“To extend a statute intended to reach and suppress real interference with the free flow of com- merce among the States to a situa- tion so equivocal and so lacking in substance,” he added, “would be to cast doubt upon the serious purpose with which it was framed.” BIG NOTES ARE CALLED IN. 100-Billion Mark Paper Declared Void After April 20. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 14 —The last issues of German notes of huge denomina- tions, the product of the era of in- flation, are being withdrawn from circulation. Holders of 100-billion mark notes, designated as the first issue, and bearing the date of October 26, 1923, and holders of 10-billion mark notes, dated November 1, 1923, have been warned to turn them in for redemp- tion before April 20, 1925. The Relchs- bank’'s obligation for these notes ex- pires upon_that date. The time for redeeming -billion_mark notes, dated November 1 and November 7, 1923, expired on April 5. Helium Used as Starter. Hellum, the non-combustible gas used in filling the lighter-than-air craft, has found another use. It has always been impossible on the Los Angeles to carry enough compressed air intact for the purpose of “kicking over” the engines in starting. Ex- periments conducted at Lakehurst, the Naval air station, have developed the fact that this gas can be used successfully in starting the big motors ( the craft. committee which drafted the council plan, already nominated by the Rhode Island Avenue Association, with which he is identified, selected by the Brookland Association as its candi date. John Thlder, prominent in the work for improvements for Georgetown in hearings before the District Commis- sioners and the Zoning Commis and an official of the United Si Chamber of Commerce, Wwas nomi- nated by the Georgetown Association George C. Havenor, previously put up for the council by the Anacostia assoclation, of which he is a member, was also named last night by the Randle Highlands and the Eas ‘Washington assoclations. George R. Wales Nomince. George R. Wales, United States Civil Service Commissioner, a dele- gate to the federation for the Cath dral Helghts association, was named by that body as its nominee. John A. Saul, an attorney, was se- lected by the Brightwood association’s executive council as its candidate. Z. Lewis Dalby was placed in the running by the Sixteenth Street High lands association. Rev. D. E. Wiseman, p the Howard Park Citizen: ed with the Federation of ssoclations, which will have two representatives on the council, was nominated by his association. The Georgetown Clvic Assoclat also named {its pi ident, Geo! Beason, for the advisory council sident of Associa Colored Association’s Choic The Northwest Citizens’ Association, formed last night by 15 colored per sons at the Twelfth street branch of the Y. M. C. A., named its president, Shelby J. Davidson, candidate for the council. The association also selected C. Campbell Johnson, Y. M. C. A secretary, as its vice president; Alex and reaud, secretary, and Mrs. | Marie Jumper, treasurer. Will Name > Two more End and the & bodies, decided not to name candi- dates. Willlam P. Herbst, president of the West End group, said members of his association opposed the council plan because they could see “no ad vantage” to be gained by it, and be- cause of the ill-feeling that had been generated by not allowing the trade bodies to have representatives on the council. Dr. Phillip Sidney Smith, nom by the Cleveland Park School and Community Association last week, has announced he could not serve, if elected, because his work takes him away from the city so often. The as- sociation will not name another can- didate, it is said HOOVER GRATIFIED o Candidates. the West Washington sciations, uth ated BY TRADE BALANCE Exports Best in 45 Months, With Two Exceptions. Gold Outflow Keeps Up. Exports from the United States in March were valued at $452,000.000 and imports were $385,000,000, leaving a balance favorable to the United States of £67,000,000. The outflow of gold which began last December was shown to be still in progress, the exports of the metal rch amounting to $25.104,- arel with imports of $7 net loss of $17. Hoover Points to Records. Secretary Hoover, commenting upon | the figures, said that the imports were the largest experienced by the United States, with one exception, during any month in the last four years, and that the exports were larger for the month than for any other month, with the exception of two, in the past 45 months. ““The reports on the character of the imports have interested me particu- larly,” Mr. Hoover said, ‘because it appears that the intake of commodi- ties during March was largely in the form of raw materfals. The fact will be disclosed later when the details have @een anal; d more accurately, but it is quite apparent that American industry is proceeding at a high rate of production. Totals Indicate Prosperity. _ “When the large total of exports is taken into consideration these figures constitute a fairly sufficient answer to people who believe that the country might be entering a period of industrial depression. Such a prospect is not tenable in the face of trade figures such as these The months in the last four vears, during which the United States has merchandise exports greater than those during March, were those of October, 1924, when the exports were valued at $527,171,781, and November, 1924, when the values were $493, 921. In March, 1914, the ex from the United States were valued at $187,499,234. Recent Gold Exports Heavy. The silver exports amounted to $7,- 916,717 during March, and were bal- anced by imports of $6,660,750 during the same period. The gold movement since last July, when the fiscal year pegan, has re. sulted in the export of $207,023,306 worth of the metal, while the imports haven been $109,456,281, so that the net loss for the period is approximately $98,000,000. The amount is still small, as compared both with the monetary stock of the metal now in the country and with the imports, balances which the United States has experienced in recent years. In the fiscal year ended last July the country imported $417,- 025,638 in gold and exported only $10,206,941. INCOME TAX DECISION. Court of Claims Action May Have Wide Scope. The United States Court of Claims yesterday handed down a decision re- garding the income tax reductions of a Marine Corps officer, which may af- fect officers of the Army, Navy, Ma- rine Corps and other branches of the Government service. The opinion involved only $21.89, in the case of Clifford Jones, a Marine Corps officer, who during part of a taxable period lived in quarters pro- vided at Fort Monroe, Va., and also in Washington under an allowance. He paid his income tax under protest and sued to recover the amount of the tax on his allowance. The court held that such officers may deduct from their incomes in making returns allowances for quar- ters or the value of quarters provided by the Government in lieu of allow- ances. FORD DA BURSTS SCORES FLEEFLODD 12-Foot Wall of Water Sweeps Michigan Valley. Troopers Save Many. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., April 14—Scores of families in the Valley of the Huron River hetween Flat Rock and Lake Erfe were driven from their homes early today when the dam at the power plant of the Ford Motor Co. at Flat Rock burst and released millions of gallons of water into the valley. More than 5,000 acres is reported under water, which 18 said to be 12 feet deep in some places and stead- ily rising. The valley's inhabitants were warned of the flood by troopers from the South Rockwood station of the Michigan State police, who started |along the river to rouse persons living nearby as soon as guards at the dam had telephoned the station of the dis- |aster. So rapidly did the water rise that the officers were soon forced to | take to boats, going thus from house | to house with their warning, ferrving scores of families to places of safety and sending the men ahead in com mandeered boats to aid in the rescue w 3 Live Stock on Floating Debris. No lives have been lost, so far as could be learned, although many houses built below the level of the dam were fnundated. Reports from various places along 7 miles from Flat Rock to Lake e indicate that the entire valley, at some places a mile wide, is under water. Hundreds of small houses, many of which are set on atilts, line the river at its banks, but State troopers be- lieve no lives were lost, because of the ample warning given. Although the water was high around the bridges of the Michigan | Central and the Detroit, Toledo and | Shore Line Railroads = below Flat { Rock, traffic was not interrupted. | Small barns, boathouses, wooden {farm implements, trees, bushes and furniture were drifting down the val- ley on a current running 10 miles an hour. The troopers reported see- ing chickens clinging to drifting sheds and once a dog, marooned atop a small barn, howled in fear as the |waves rocked and puffeted his raft through the wreckage. th | | Dam Partly of Earth. | The break in the Ford Co. dam fol lowed the crumbling of the earth em- Lankments that flank the new Detroit ison Co. dam at French Landing, several miles above Flat Rock, yester- !day. The impounded water of the |8-mile artificial lake rushed through {the break. % The dam. which is 32 feet high, is | i r Engineers estimated today already 10,000 cubic feet of | th have been washed away. while | the river today is eating into the re- maining earth works, and engineers | believe more will be swept out. The new power station of the Edi- son Co. was to have been opened May 1. The cost of the plant was $750,000. JARDINE TO CONFER ON COLLEGE FUNDS thH See Presidents on Disposal of | Money Provided by { Purnell Law. Secretary Jardine of the Depart- ment of Agriculture will leave Wash- ington this week to go to St. Louis for a conference with the heads of the State agricultural colleges and agri | cultural experiment stations with re- igard to the operation of the Purnelll law, providing increased funds for| the use of the experiment stations | __Under the terms of the law, $960,000 | will be avatlable for use of the experi-| ment stations in 1926—8$20,000 for| each of the 48 States. This appro- priation will be increased $10,000 a year per State until 1930, when it be- | comes $60,000. That will be the amount_avallable thereafter each year. | The Purnell law is in line with the recommendations of the President's agricultural conference, of which Sec- retary Jardine is a member. In its) report the conference said: “It is of |the utmost importance that knowl- edge concerning the business and soclal aspects of agriculture keep pace with that concerning its produc- tion problems if a well-balanced agri- cultural program is to be maintained. It is the new field of investization which will be undertaken by the ex- periment stations and for which the additional funds will be used. BUTLER TO REMAIN HEAD OF G. 0. P. BODY Massachusetts Senator Has No In-, tention of Resigning, Says White House Spokesman. A report to the effect that Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts was planning to resign as chairman of the Republican national committee next December was declared to be without foundation by & spokesman for the President at the White House. Senator Butler, who left here Satur- day to go to Massachusetts, is+to make the race for the Senate next vear. But it is not believed that will interfere in the slightest with his holding the chairmanship of the national commit- tee, particularly as next year is an “off year” nationally, and only con- gressional_and State elections are to be held. Furthermore, it is belleved that Senator Butler’s retention of the chairmanship will materially benefit him in the contest for his own elec- tion. Senator Butler was selected by the President to_ manage his campaign last year, and there has been nothing $10,000 Will Found InShoeof Dead Son After Four Years | By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGE pril 14— The will of Frank Caito, the where abouts of which had been unknown since he scrawled it on a slip of paper four years ago, was found vesterday in the shoe of a dead son, where Caito had placed it. The will, disposing of a $10,000 estate to Mrs. Caito, was filed for probate today. “If T should die without explain ing this paper to you I hope ou beloved son in Heaven will hel you find it,” the will said, in part It was executed soon after the son’s death and placed in a shoe that was retained as a keepsake. STREETS SELECTED FORNEW LIGHTING Work on Sixteenth and Other | Arteries to Be Pushed, Says Engineer. Improved street lighting will be installed on several of the main thor oughfares of the city between r and the end of the calen: Warren B. Hadley, electriical neer, announced to Mr. Hadley stated that he will every effort to inc the v light on the following arteries idly as possible H street, from Second streets northeast; with the possibil of extending the improvement Massachusetts avenue and H stree northwest. ar ye to Fifteenth Sixteenth Street Plans. Sixteenth street, from H to Alaska avenue. This project wiil mean re placement of existing lights on the lower part of Sixteenth street, with stronger illumination and new mental posts, and the installation of | THOMAN INQURY DROPPED BY POLICE Slight Trace of Poison Found, But No Indications of Any Foul Play Indicated. Althot ing some evidence of poisor utopsy over other lights on the northern extremity | } where there are of Sixteenth street, no lights at present Connecticut avenue, to the District lin Massachusetts Station to Wisconsin Rhode Island avenu Circle northwest to northeast. Pernsylvania avenue from Fifteenth street to Seventeenth se Mr. Had ntly designed 20. posts with a double incandescent fix ture. from H street venue, from Uni venue. trom Fourth Towa street Will Rush New Work. The Commissioners are desirous improving street lighting througho the District within the r t few vears and will do so as rapidly 4s approp tions can be obtained. Last year committee of District officials work out a comprehensive plan, in whic specific type of lighting for every ¢ of street was decided upon. The various types of treatments based on the character of the st | to which they will be applied example, there will be appropriate fix- tures for primary business street secondary business streets, primary traffic ateries and secondary trafflc ar- terie: There will be other types for resi- dential streets and for outlying high ways. . gineer Commissioner Beil already has indicated that he will advocate a liberal allotment in the next Distri budget for the carrying on of a pro gram for improved street lighting SITE IS SELECTED FOR ATHLETIC FIELD Condemnation Proceedings to Be| Instituted for Western High Playground. The property bounded by Thirty- eighth, Thirty-ninth, Reservoir and S streets northwest has been decided upon as the site for an athletic field for Western High School, En neer Commissioner Bell announced today. Col. Bell said that condemnation proceedings would be instituted soon to acquire the propert which is within a short distance of the 28 acres of land given to the city a short time ago for park puarposes by Mrs. Anne Archbold. The proposed athletic field also is in vicinity of Glover Parkway, donated by Charles C. Glover. The available appropriation for pur chase of the athletic field is $125,000 In discussing this project today Commissioner Bell took occasion to lay emphasis upon the need for more playground sites in other outlying sections of the District dential developments are going for ward rapidly. “In some of these neighborhoods it will be necessary to tear down houses in order to get a playground space unless we can buy sites while there are still vacant pieces of ground to be had,” Col. Bell said. The Engineer Commissioner de- clared he is keenly interested in ob taining an adequate number of play- grounds in order that the youth of ‘Washington may be able to play in safety. MORGANTOW . April 14. —State police who investigated an explosion of dynamite near the Con- tinental #Coal Company’s mine at Scott’s Park here late last night found that no damage had been done and that no one was injured. sion occurred in an open field. Five men were arrested for ques- tioning concerning the blast. Air pll;ries to Bear to indicate that he will be superseded by another. The report that Senator Butler was contemplating getting out of the chairmanship was coupled with the suggestion that Joseph B. Kealing of Indiana, national committeeman for that State, would succeed him. Such an arrangement probably would be en- tirely satisfactory to Senator Watson of Indiana, who also must make the race for re-election to the Senate next year. ASSAILANT IS HUNTED. BRISTOL, Va., April 14—Blood- hounds last night failed to pick up a scent when taken to the scene of an alleged attack by & negro man upon a 1l-year-old white girl, and were dls- carded by a pcsse of armed civilians and police officers, who continued search for the assailant. | Two negroes were detained, one at Blountville, Tenn., and the other at Bluff City, but were released when the girl failed to identify them. 16,000 Post Cards Over North Pole By Cable (o The Star- TROMSO, Norway, April 14.—Six- teen thousand postcards sent by Americans and Europeans for trans- mission to the North Pole will be carried in the two airplanes of the Norweglan Aero Club expedition that will hop off from Spitzbergen for the world’s summit next month. Upon the return of the expedition the cards will be mailed to the senders. Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, who will be an cbserver in one of the planes, said prior to the departure of the expedition from Tromso: “Bvery ome who bought the cards may be assured that they will be carried, without exception, across the North Pole. Every precaution is be- ing taken that they receive the pole 'Imx’!fln( They will be unusual sou venirs the general| where resi- | | | 1 ( The explo- | Ch: i Delegation JEWS TO ASK SECOND TERM FOR COMMISSIONER Wi Retention “KING BASE .BALL" BEGINS RULE TODAY: GRIFFS PLAY AT 2:30 P.M. nnoved by | trades, 1 the top of are generail stiffest f But wk will be It alway ions of t ave nothing e of the HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. FIRST RAGE pdale dom’s” Call New Beauts Alex Woodl Muskear g Croxier. $1 200: - matden r . Carlton THIRD RAC 2-year-old fill a-Indian M Julia O. . Taps ima W c-Golden_Haze! o 118 Murie! 116 116 116 Meridian” " Hi Edith Cavell Also ellgible- e aHAS cossion Etfioreal | H. P. Whitaey Ral Parr and Mr. Snd Mrs. FOURTH RACE $1.200; for 3-ye Sunny Mao a-The Bat . Jefiords entry. TipTop parse urlongs. 108 101 Nicholas ... Flery Flight . Gold Piece a-H. P. Whitne FIFTH RAC! $5.000 added; furlongs. Wilderness Sunny Man Diogones .. .. a-Wild Aster . Modest Sun Altos handieap: ] b-Candy Kid .., 110 Tester 106 Ensign 3 Single Foot ..l 110 Nicholas 103 a-The Vintner.. 111 Joy _Smoks 56 a-Greentre Stabls entry. b-H. P. Whitney entry SIXTH RACE—Ths Chester purse. $1.500 for 3-year-olds and up; 1 mile and 70 yards Ten Minutes ... 112 Bonaparts Tarnberry ..... 103 Dr. O'Mara Lieutenart 2d. . Prince James . . a-Faddisi . 8o a-W. J. Salmon-R. T, Wilson entry. SEVENTH RACE—Purse, $1.200; 4-year- olds and up; 1 mile and a furlong. Westwood 112 *Van Patrick . *Overfiro 105 Dancing Fool Pete tha 107 *Sir Leonid *Kirk Cal 131 *Fair Light .ol 108 *Apprentica allowance clatmad. Weather clear: track fast, i