Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1925, Page 2

> * CIENCE RECEIVES RESEARCH REPORT Photos of Emotion and Data on Banana’s Birthplace Laid Before Savants. Subjects from the graphic measurement of the artistic emotions of famous singers and the birthplace of bananas to the degree of man’s blood circulation under ried conditions and a study of respiration occupied att ranging photo. va cell THE EVENING STAR, Meets Tragic Death ntion at the opening session of the annual meeting | of .the National Academy of Science here tod Attending the me are prominent scientists from all sec tions of the country. There is a decided difference in the | of such Welies, emotionalism soloists Bispham mack, Homer, Farrar 1d Mellb Dr. C. E shore of the State Uni versity of Towa showed tnis morning’s He exhibited photographic of the rendition of by each of these artist to illustrate his point artistic MeCor session. records Laurie othe rec: the sound waves from each singe: “These records,” Dr. Seashore said “permit us to express quantitatively and in fine detail the exp: artistic emotion in sin; variations in pitch, time Volume and other v factors. may also be determined by extension of the same principle measurement The the voice of in terms and in ing of tensity co an Where Banana Was Born , The original home of the banana has always been a disputed question to botanists. most authors inclining to the belief that it was in the south western region of Asia that this fruit was evolved in forgotten ages afternoon, however, Dr. Edward W Berry of Johns Hopkins University will exhibit at the National Academy of Selences some fossil seeds of a ha nana that were deposited in Colombia Central America, probably in the early olizocene age. Almost without exception have held that the banana w indigenous to this hemisphere, or was cultivated here prior to its introduc- tion in the West Indies from the Can- ary Islands in 1516 covery of these seeds, however. is held 1o show that the banana was 2 mem her of the American floras in the ter- tiary age, and lends belief to the new theory that this fruit was cultivated hy the American aborigines long be- fore it was known by white men Measuring Blood Flow. Dr. Handell Henderson. assisted by ~Howard W. Haggard of the Sheflield Scientific School of Yale Universit submitted some interesting recent measurements relating to the circula tion of blood in man. of the volume of its flow per minute. under different conditions, will contrib- ute much to the treatment of disorders of the human body. Dr Henderson cited wide diffierences be tween the flow through the body of a person suffering from heart disease through the body of a normal person and through the body of an athlete. FREEDMAN’S RADIO FUND NEARS $500 not | ehampionship to Central noted | *Annie | and | is are obtained by photographing | nor Walter L. This | | mght botanists | The present dis- | | | A knowledge | various | Ular | wax ! the Ten-Times That Amount Needed to | Equip Hospital With Sufficient Sets. Additional contributions tn the fund being raised hy a committee, headed by Lerov Mark. to install radio re- ceiving sets in Freedman's Hospital, have brought the total to $472.40, was announced today. It is estimated that $5,000 wiJl be needed to equip the institution with radio apparatus. The contributions received week follow William Andrew Freeman Lodge, ( O.of O. F.. £5: Miss M. L. Brax $5: Henry Wilson School teach- $8.85: People’s Congregational Church and C. E. Society, $18; Reno school teachers, $10.40: Bruce school teachers. $10: Garrison school teach- ers, $4.10: Slater-Langston teacher $8: Wormley school teachers, $4 Miss Marion P. Shadd Miss 8. E Schooler, $2.50. Miss S. E. Brown, $1 Miss Gertrude E. Tibbs. $1: People’s Seventh-day Adventist Church, $5.25 Prince Hall Lodge. F. A. A. AL, $10 James H. Hill Lodge, No. 16, F. A. A M.. $7; Golden Lodge, G. U. 0. of O F. $3:J. M. C. C. Crummill Lodge, G . 0. of O. F.. $2: Potomac Union Lodge, G. U. 0. of O. F., $3; Bloom of Youth Lodge. G. U. O. of O. F.. Queen Rebekah Honsehold of Ruth G. U. 0. of O. F., $5: Bethel House- hold of Ruth, G. I". 0. of O. F., $3 Palestine Lodge Household Ruth, G. U. 0. of O. F.. $3: Union Wesley E. Z. Varick C. E. Society Third Baptist C. E. Society $4.75: Galbraith A. M. E E. Society (additional), | Tast $80,359 MORE PLEDGED FOR MASONIC TEMPLE Five hundred members of campaign committees in the United Temple drive reported a total of $80. 359.25 {n subscriptions at the lunch don meeting held today at the City Ciuh. This brings the grand total of pledges to $654 in the drive to raise $1,000,000 campaign The campaign nesday. MAJ. GEN. RUSSELL DIES. Masonic | | the Southwest division of a | er company | Tau it | 5 | by his grandfather, Capt WALTER LA TOUR MILSTE. D. D.C. MAN S SLA BY TEXAS BANDIT Pflilstead. Former x| Star Athlete at Central, Killed Fighting Foe. Walter La old, a School George Tour graduate and Milstead, Central former Washington 29 vears High student at University, was and instantly killed Saturday at Dallas, Tex., when he was attacked by a negro bandit, according to received here vesterday by his relatives and friends Mr. Milstead ‘exas from W, n as the mana ger of the Southwestern division a typewriter compan, home from a country urday evening. He youns woman to her home, messages received here state, when a colored a shot word who recently went shingt club early Sat {man jumped on the running bhoard of | his automobile. Mr. Milstead struck at him and the man fired point blank Milstead was killed instantly and his assailant escaped. This is the second murder of its kind in Dallas within the week, it is stated, and a large reward has been offered for capture of the murderer. Prominent as Athlete. Mr. Milstead was president of the class of 1917 of Central High School and regarded as one of the most pop. men in school at the time. He prominent in interscholastic athletics here, was captain of the track team and swimming team and was a member of the relay team of Central which brought the world in 19166 a Immediately afte he enlisted in the commissioned a second lieutenant in Air Service. After the war he attended George Washington Univer- and entered the real estate busi- upon leaving colloge. Until a 3 ago he was associated with the real estate firm of Shannon Luchs, Inc., and he left his position with that company to take charge of typewrit with headquarters in Dal He was a member of the Delta Delta Fraternity and was con nected with several civic organiza tions in Dallas. He was a Mason. Mr. Millstead is survived by h mother, Mrs. Mary Milstead of Manor House. this city: by a sister, Richard Dear of Round Hill, Va H. €. his my and was later Sar las. and Whit h Funeral services will be held here ! Thursday $15,644 IS PLEDGED - INEPISCOPAL DRIVE Fine Start Reported in Cam- | paign for $100,000 for | th 1 | | =alicit |is for | that during the present | f will be closed Wed. |ness of the dic Japanese Church Work. Subseriptions totaling $15.644.50 for the .Japan regonstruction campaign of he Episcop@® Church of the diocese shington were anounced at the luncheon meeting of drive n and workers at the Church of the Epiphanv this afternoon. Of this amount $5.809.50 was raised by the 40 teams and $9,835 credited special contributions. Washington's goal in the campaign which closes Saturady ix $100,000. The Washington quota will be used to reconstruct the St. School, at Tokyo, Japan: the St. Luke's Hospital and the residence for Ameri- can nurses and woman doctors there Right Rev. James E. Freeman, bish. op the Episcopal diocese of aWshing ton, told the campaign workers that what they needed was greater en thusiasm for the spiritual ideal. Make vour prayer: he said not a sum of money, but for a great wakening of the spiritual conscious ese of Washington is obvious that vou are going to money. But I want you to pray the money out 'of the pockets of the people. What I am praying for od to give me a great vision may see the value of things Chief Signal Officer of A. E. F. | spiritvally, and I want you to think Retired in 1922. Maj. Gen. Edgar Russell, a distin nished signal officer of the United states Army, on the retired list, died in New York City vesterday after- noon, aceording to War Department advices Gen. Russell was chief signal of- ficer of the American Expeditionary Forces during the World War and .was awarded the distinguished er:- ice medal for exceptional and me: torious services. He also was awa ed the Companion of the Bath by Great Rritain and the Legion of Honor by France. He had previously been breveted for distinguished gallantry in action at Manila and Caloocan, P. I He was a native of Missouri and was graduated from the West Point Millitary Academy In 1887. In Decem- ber, 1922, he was promoted to the grade of a major gzeneral in the regu- lar Army and retired at his own quest. Colombian Cabinet Quits. BOGOTA. Colombia. April 27.— ("olombian cabinet resigned today. the ministerial situation having heen brought to a crisis by the resignation of Forelgn Minister Velez, who sur rendered his portfolio hecanse, despite his protest, the ronzres¢ adiourned witheut acting on the Peruvian-Co- The re-| | of this campaign in spiritual | | ing | American institutions destroved b; terms Stresses Need of Fund. tev. Robert Johnston. pastor of St. John's Church, _presided at the meet He pointed out that unle: the the Japan are re will be thrown earthquake in Christianity great stored |back a hundred vears. lomblan treaty. ¢ 1 $220, Leaders of the teams reporting the largest contributions and their cap- tains follow: Miss McGowan, $1,520; the team in chargé of Mrs. C. M. Wilkes, $673; team of Mrs. Cresson Newbold. $610: team of Miss Mary Ingle, $236: team of Lynch Luquer, and the team captained by Miss Mulliken, $205. One of the special subscriptions, amounting to $236, came from St. Thomas' parish, in Prince Georges Commty, Md. Daily luncheon meet- ings, at which the progress of the campaign will.be reported, will be held throughout the week. H. B Japan Reconstruction Fund Amount asked for, $100,000.00 Amount received. today, $15644.50 to] of| was retarning | was escorting | graduation | i Mrs | Paul's Middle | (CITY PLAN EXPERTS - VISIT NT. VERNON Delegates to Here Lay Wreath on Tomb of Washington. Preliminary features incident to the convening here tonight and tomorrow of the pan-American conference on capital cities got under way today when the vanguard of delegates jour- neved to Mount Vernon to lay wreath on the tomb of America's pioneer capital planner, George Washington. The approximately 60 members of the party, most of them just arrived from list week's city planning and architectural international ences in New ork City, under aus- pices of the American’ Civic Asso ciation. seized the opportunity, inc dentally, - of inspecting one of the country’s finest examples of colonial architectures as presented in the old manor house. Following their return to the city | this afternoon the delegates, repre senting Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Ar- gentina and other pan-American countries, together with half a hun- dred European delegates, will be given an informal luncheon at Mavflower Hotel as guests of the Washington committee on the Fed- eral Ci of the American Civic A sociation, under whose auspices the present conference is being held. Will Tour City Tod: remainder of the time vening until the formal opening of the conference tonight o'clock at the Mayflower will be de \An(e‘d to viewing the sights in th National Capital from the architect's and city-planner’s point of view. The delegation was conducted fo Mount Vernon this morning by Mrs. | Eleanor Thurman. extension secre. itary of the Washington committee. [ The group made the trip in busse carrying with them the beautiful | wreath prepared for the tribute. The {laving of the wreath was effected wit little ceremony, but not without n impresstveness that bespoke the rev erence with which the foreign dig nitaries present regard the memory of America’s first great leader. Return Made hy Boat. The return te Washington ymade by hoat this afternoon | Among those making the pilgrimage {were: Dr. Cornelius Gurlitt, Germany | Dr. Hildebrand Gurlitt, Dresden, Ger- {meny: Karl Barth, Germany: Prof. Huge Wach. Germany: H Armund, Berlin, Germany: Prof. Heinz Wetzel Germany: H. W. Loth, Germany: Ber. ford Pite, 1. Takaki, Japan; D. Dahl. oulan Cauchon Ottawa Canada; Aton H. Classen. Oklahoma a.; Alderman Howell. Cardiff, : Mr. and Mrs, C. F. ) ngne J. Brix Charlottenburg, Ger- Prof. Herman Stubben, Ger Mrs. Caroline Foote Marsh; r Howard Weswyn Garden 3 ngland: Germany | Germany The din at § | ner | | | was | | | | Dr. Daniel Sigloch and wife, Dr. E. Neuman and wife, jermany: R. Bruce, Manchester, Eng- | {land: Miss Felicia R. Scatcherd. Lon- { don: Herr- Walter Virus; Danzig, Ges many: Max Feuchtinger, Ulm | many; Ludwig Lemmer. Germany | Kurt_Hager. Dresden, Germany: B. | W. Kissan. London, England; Dr. Arie Keppler, Amsterdam, Holland: Barry | Parker. Letchworth, England: Prof and Mrs. A. Muesmann. Germany | Franz Schenck. Germany Franz Roeckle, Germany: H. Chapman, Lon | don. England: €. B. Purdom, Welwyn . London: Paul F. Hopper. . Germany; Fritz Lehmann, Co- logne, Germany: Wilhelm Arntz, Co. {logne, Germany: Ernst May and wife, Breslau, Germany: Dr. Stephan Pra- ger. Merseburg, Germany; Albert Lil ienberg, Gothenburg. Sweden: Her- [ mann Schneider, Karlsruhe, Germany {Otto Berger, Breslau, Germany: Dr. *. Behrendt, Berlin, Paul Brandt, Hamburg, Germany Dr. R. Heiligenthal, Oberbaurat, Ber: lin: Prof. Bruggeman, Paris. France; Paul Dr. Rutte, Parix, France; Joseph Bassompierre, Paris: Dr. Schmidt, Ger- many The conference launched with the when an imposing array of speaker will discuss the architectural natural beauties of many pan-Amer- ican capitals. Frederic A. Delano, president of the American Civic Association and chair- man of the Committee on One Hun- dred on the Federal City, will be the presiding officer at the hanquet, and in ening the discussion will tell of Washington's development, and future, as a world capital. Dr. Leo H. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, will be toast- master. ‘The speakers will - include James Franklin Bell, Engineer missioner of the District of Colum- bia: Senor Don Manuel . Tellez, Ambassador of Mexico: Senod Don Francisco Sanchez Latour, Minister of Guatemala: Senor Don Ricarde J. Alfaro, Minister of Panama: John Barton Payne, chairman, of the Amer- |ican Red Cross, and Dr.James Brown | Scott of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. IW. ¢ Dr, proper will be dinner tonight ol | Musical Program. Incidental music will feature a spe- cially arranged program of selections by South American composers, v |ed by the Arsenic Ralon O {and with Leopoldo Gutierrez, South | American baritone, as soloist. The compositions are from a collection of works by South American composers { made by Franklin P. Adams. counse lor of the Pan-American Union. Tomorrow will be a busy one for the delegates. Registration at 10:30 a.m., will be followed by a private in- spection of “city beautiful” exhibits from Pan-American capitals at the | Pan-American Union Building. The >xhibits, which include photographs, | irawings, maps, etc.. of noted capl. tals of Latin American countries, will be open to the public beginning May 1. i1 At 12:45 p.m. tomorrow the delegates will go to the White House to be re- ceived by the President and Mrs. Cool idge. and at 1:30 p.m. an ‘“interna tional luncheon” will be given at the Mayflower, at which leading architects and city planners of this and foreign | nations will speak on the general topic: “World Capitals.” At 3:30 p.m. there will be another sight-seeing trip, and the conference will close tomor- | row night with a conference at the | Pan-American [Union Building, mark- SUSPEND DRY EMPLOYE. Officials to File Charges Against Syracuse Stenographer. NEW YORK, April 27.—Miss Cecily Murray, stenographer in the prohibi- tion enforcement office in_Syracuse, was suspended today by R. Q. Merrick, divisional enforcement chief of New telegraphic orders from Commissioner Blair at Washington. Miss Murray, unlike agents in the prohibition service, is employed under civil service regulations. Formal charges will be filed against her, Mr. Merrick said, but declined to state the specific nature of the charges. Miss Murray's suspension brings the ’disml!un and suspension= in - the yracuse investigation to five, Conference | Herr and Frau Sieben, | Wilmersdorf: | and Com- | ed by motion pictures and appropriate ! York and northern New Jersey, on | i | | | confer- | ( i | i the | inter-! The award of Distinguished Service Medals to round-the-world fiyers was made today Assistant Postmaster General Lient Arnold and Maj. Gen. M. M. resentatives of the | ing Secretary of War Davis, Maj. Ma EARTHQUAKE FELT - THROUGH 4 STATES | ! Dishes Broken in Louisville, Ky.—Indiana, Iifinois and Ohio Record Tremors. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, { s | shocks | | April Earthquake felt through parts of | Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois last night tremors. But slight damage was done. wire service was interrupted. a few doors were swung open and some dishes were broken. The heaviest shock was reported from the region around Louisville and Owensboro. Ky | -According to seismograph records the first shock lasted 6 seconds. be |&inning at 1006 o'clock. The second, |8 minutes later. was of like duration. ibut the third. beginning at {Tasted half a minute. The disturbance was the most wide- spread of any recorded in this region |for manv vears. No reports of the { shock were received from points north | of central Tliinois and apparently the {belt did not reach south of the Ohio {River to any distance | Small articles were upset at Spring {field; N1, while only slight tremors were felt in and near Cincinnati. At Hindianapolis slight damage was done {to bric-a-brac. but in most places within the seismic zone the disturh. {ance was so slight that it was not {even noticed by most of the inhab- |itants. In many places only the third | quake was felt. while in others {of the three tremors were felt Springfleld Houses Shaken. SPRINGFIELD, .. April Three distinct earth shocks were felt in this city shortly after 10 o'clock {last night. All parts of the city re- |ported houses shaken and small ar- [ticles knocked over. were There were three distinct Tremors Felt in Peoria. PEORIA I, A Earth tremors were felt here about 1008 p.m. | DISHES ARE BROKEN. | Louisville Feels Four to Seven i Shocks in Short Time. LOUISVILLE, Kv.. April 27.—Doors present | qwung open, dishes were broken and | {houses shaken four to seven times Ihere at 10:05 and 10:10 o'clock last night when Louisville was shaken by |an earthquake. | Owenshore Phones Hit. OWENSBORO, Ky.. April 27.—Tele. phone service was disrupted for a |short time here last night when earth tremors at 10:06 broke the connec. tions. Shocks Last 30 Seconds. HENDERSON, Ky.. April 26.—Farth tremora were felt here last night at 10:06 p.m.. lasting nearly 30 seconds. ST. LOUIS RECORDS SHOCKS. | Three Earth Tremors Noted, But No Damage Done. . LOUIS, Mo, April distinet earth tremors were registered here last night, Father George Reuppel, St. Louis University seismologist, re- ported. The first shock was of six seconds’ duration, from 10:06:06 to 10:12:12. The second, at 10 also lasted six seconds, and the 30 seconds’ duration, began at 10:30, he said. INDIANA TOWNS SHAKEN. {Tremom Coincidental With Shocks in Nearby States. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April | Houses were shaken and several per- sons are reported to have felt the earth tremble ht 10:06 o'clock Jast night. So far as could he ascertained no damage was cansed. Severe Shocks Recorded. WASHINGTON, Ind.. April 7. Severe earth tremors lasting nearly half a minute were feit at 10 o'clock last night. Terre Haute Feels Quake. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. April Earthquake tri 10:06 o'clock night. Evansville Is Shaken. EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 27.—An earth tremor lasting approximately 30 seconds was felt here at 10:06 jo'elock last night. Cincinnati Faintly Affected. CINCINNATI, Ohlo, April 26.—Sev- eral reports of minor earth tremors in the vicinity of Cineinnati were re- celved by. mewspapers shortly after 10 o'clock last night. CANADA IN QUAKE BELT. ! | 27. Seismograph Gets Shocks Same Time U. S. Feels Them. OTTAWA, April 27.—A slight earth shock ‘was regfstered lats night” by the seismograph of the Dominion Ob- WASHINGTON, sovernment departments. 10:30, —Three | D. C, MONDAY, Leit to right: rtin, Lieut. Wade, YALE MAN DIES IN CRASH. Fellow Student and Two Smith |Many Veterans' Bureau Workers College Girls Injured. SPRINGFIELD. Mass., April John Speed Murphy. 1. of Chicago Yale student, was killed. Edward De Peyster of Portland. another Yale student, was injured hadlv, and two Smith College girls were slightly in- jured when an automobile driven hy Murphy, - struck an underpass at South Deerfield last night. The ma- chine W speeding and failed to make a turn, striking an abutment, when it tipped over . FIVE WORKMEN DIE "IN MINE EXPLOSION | Gas Accumulation Caused Blast in Pennsylvania Working, Rescuers Believe. Br the Associated Press. WEST NEWTO) April Large Stock of Explosives | Seized—Aid of Russians De- APRIL 27, WORLD FLYERS RECEIVE THEIR D. S. M. | |of the Veterans ve construction workmen were killed in an explosion at the Humphrey mine | | of the Westmoreland Coal Company |-mear here last nizht. One man on the tipple was blown to hits and the hodies of four others were found early today about 00 feet inside the mine The men killed wers emploved hy the H. F. Stark’ Construction Co. in sinking the shaft and slope at the mine The work was nea g completion and 1t had heen expected that the would be turned over to the coal gom- pany in a few da The explosion occurred while four of the victims were inside the slope preparing forms into which concrete was to Have heen poured today. | “The presence of “after damp™ handi jcapped the early efforts of rescue crews. Before the arrival of the res- cue crew from the United States Bu- reau of Mines at Pittgsburgh. crews equipped with oxygen helmets pushed their way into the wreckage slope for a considerable distance using fire hose 10 blow air into the slope as they pro gressed. ‘With the arrival the Bureau of Mines crew the work wis speeded up and members of the crew | emerged from the mine shortly after 4 o'clock this morning, with the an- nouncement that the bodies had been located With of rescue the recover: mine | | of the bodies|the plans were made to conduct an incee |A%rarian party, Thomoff. Omarevesky | tigation into the cause of the explo-| sion. Rescue men at the sceng ad anced the opinion that it had ‘heen | PArtY deplores the subversive activities cansed hy an acenmulation of gas. Paris-New York PARIS, April attempting a Flight Planned. With a from flight view Parie to [try out in June a hydroairplane of 0 horsepower. The craft will carry 6,000 liters of gasoline (about 1,500 gallons). servatory here, it ‘was day. The tremors were registered about the same time that shocks were being felt in the Central United | States. The first tremors occurred at 11:10 p.m. The record was not sufficiently well marked to determine the dis- |tance. SHOCK NOT RECORDED HERE. Seismograph at G. U., However, Notes Quake 8,000 Miles Away. The earth tremors reported last | night at various points in Illinois and Indiana failed to make any record on {the seismographs at Georgetown University. | Father Torndorf. director {laboratory, made a careful examina- [tion of the extremely sensitive instru- |ments as soon as he learned of the |disturbance. but like several others | reported recently in the United States, all of its vibrations seem to have heen | confined to a limited section. Another Quake Recorded. However, earth tremors of unusual intensity and duration. centering of | probably more than £.000 miles from panied by | Washington. were recorded early yes- | cluding her mother. Mrs. Grace Had- ors were felt here at|terday on the seismograph of George- ley, of Chester, Vi, who had been |town University. Director Torndorf of the univer- |sity’s Seismograph Observatory, said the disturbance was of very unusual violence, and almost continuously in| progress from 3:45 a.m. to 6 am. Neither the direction from Wash- ington nor the distance of the sec- tion of the earth crust affected could be determined with any accuracy, Father Torndorf exp*iined, since the factors which ordinarily help out with !such calculations become unreliable when the instruments’ recording needle is brought into action by jehocks originating more than 6,000 or 7.000 miles awa | Presumably a series of earthquakes have taken place, he said. though |accurate information about them | must await reports from the spot, or Imay- never he obtained if they af’ |fecied uninhabited country or sub- iterranean zones, the | | martial law 10| movement New York the French air service will agrarians or any announced to-|constituted authorities. | I | Representative F | Washington, died jabout a year and during the last few | months had heen under the care of a | 1925. ‘ | n the office of the Secretary of W the presence of rep- | H. Bartlett, Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Grew, Act- cweomes \EINE N TONIG BEGHS I COURT Experts, Defending Regula- tions, Declare Public Health Is Involved. 1,550 ARE VACCINATED. Still Seek to Take Precaution. 1,550 officials and clerks Bureau had heen vac smallpox noon More than einated today The walting list continued at the special office where this work is being done by the burean for all emploves who desire vaccination So far as known this is the largest number of persons in any tablishment vaccinated in ton since the smallpox started BULGAR POLICE NP NEW BOMBING PLOT rinst up to single es. W hing eptdemic Hearing 1stice Jenn be P was today hefore dity of the E t i adoy the Commissioners Aministrat Mrs. Annie premises socke by W. Oehmann, i and the District her Supreme Court the vaii regulations Distr in Steerman, owner 8-60 Columbi Cls manndamus 1 spector o sue to a t <0 th permit repair purposes. The i the permit iocated in property husiness n ficials refu operty is ntial zone. Arguments torneys Edwin . Morzun. whe Attornevs Dou as counsel for o ¥ clared Proven by Letter. will D made Campbell and re ated lass, Obear & Do the property owners who claims she is deprived of the 1. ful use of her property by of the Commissioners 1o is: mit and that the zoning law because it infrinzes he rights Corporation By the Associated Pros SOFIA, Bulgaria ~The authorities at Varna to have seized 200 kilograms of explosives co) lected by conspirators 1o blow up the police headquarters. the town hall and other public building It is stated that a document w. seized proving that the Bulgarian |Stephens and Communists responsible for the re- {Counsel James (' cent receiving money |fending the constitutionality of ¥ e 7oning law, are being assisted by torney Edward M. Basseit of York. a legal expert e of zoning In defense of trict that public | Ap; im w plotting property Counsel Assistant Wilkes, who are de outrages Russia. were the At New quest 1. Communist coni- plicity in the Bulzarian outrages have been repeatedly made by the Bulgarian autherities since the attack on King = Boris and the homb tragedy in the | oo "y, i1 Sveti Kral Cathedral. where 160 lives [y WG 0, were lost. An official communication | o (C* G0 0 S8 given out in Sofia vesterday said it | g} iomew of St had been established that several addi- | 40 SUOTCR O 0 outrages had been planned, both | LoTRET 00 EH in the capital and the provinces. et b A ed with public health and ness houses cause the collectior | debris, increase traffic and the lives of the children Asked by Attorney J for the property owner parlor would adversely harhood. the witne: places frequently | places for persons |acter. He also banned fraternity houses because of the increased traf fic and because they kely cause breaches of the peace. Mr. tholomew also declared a small florist shop was a detriment to a neighbor hood, but could not explain why a hot house or sand pit_permitted by the regulations: would net be a detriment Fowler Upholds Zoning. Health Offcer William C. Fowler was- the next witnese. - He asserted that the existence of a_business house in a residential neighborhood affects the health of the residents The chief objections, he said, are the noises, noxious odors, increased traffic. He especially objected to stores handling food products hecause the attract rodenis, flies and I pointed out that the med; profes sion is agreed that rats carry the bu- bonic plague, and while Washingion thus far has been saved from such an n the claim of health an the zoning Corporation number witness was Harlan Louis, who was an Commissic in pre- | he Dis. safety propo Counsel a of wit-} & regulations. 5 SUPPORT IS PLEDGED. Agrarian Leaders Assure Premier of Party’'s Loyalty. By the Associated P ROME, April from a say executive V. Morgan how 2 beau affect a neigh declared such rved for meeting f low moral char Press dispatches that four members of committee of the Markoff Premier and Tzankoff and Dimitroff, called declared on their were to of fr members of nt’ parties. They said that the fact that mem bers of all political parties are includ- ed among the persons arrested after the recent outrages show that the wasg not caused by the; certain party. | The committeemen urged all good citizens to rally to the Bulgarian gov- | ernment and said that acquiescence | of the agrarians to the declaration of showed their good faith and willingness to co-operate with the | the so-calied “‘united Thomofl said that members of the | united front” parties were fighting | against the life of the nation and that the agrarian party intended to remove | all such persons from its ranks and | already had commenced party trials | ePidemic there was no assu tha of individuals who had been affected |1t would continue to escape it. I by subversive propaganda. i declared flies are frequently responsi- ble for the spread of tuberculosis and ¥ @ - other diseases MRS. GRACE H "Tha came will probably e conduded DIES IN VERMONT HOME Wife of Representative Had Been tomorrow and will likely be taken under consideration by the court. Il for Year—Did Much Red Cross Work. nce 'LANGLEY TRIAL SET FOR MAY 25 IN D. C. W. Gibsen of ‘,‘,F_;Kentucky Representative Already who had many friends in| Appealing = One ~ Conviction. at her home in : Brattleboro, Vt.. vesterday. according Others in Case Here. to_word, received here today i Mrs. Gibson had been in Mrs. G mont, and ill-health John W. Langley, ‘Representative ‘h‘nm Kentucky, and ‘others indicted with him will be called for trial be fore Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Division 2 of the District Supreme Court May 25 to answer an indiot ment charging conspiracy in connec- tion with alleged illegal whisky with drawals. The indictment was returned | March 27, 1924, shortly before Lang-| ley's trial in_Kentucky on a similar charge. The Kentucky ftrial ended May 12 last with a verdict of guilty, and Langley has appealed from a sen Attorneya Henry E. Davis, John W Price, Otto i Koegel, William F Leahy and William Horgan will repre- sent the defendant§.while one of the special assistants frowm the Depart- ment of Justice is expected to con duct the prosecution. here accom- members of her family, in-| specialist of this ci She left ¥riday for her Vermont home, spending the Winter In Washington, During the World War Mrs. Gibson devoted much of her time to assisting families of soldiers and to Red Cross work. Representative Gibson was a captain with the American expedi- tionary forces and was later a colonal of the 172d Infantry here, while the eldest son, Hadley Gibson, now de. ceased, also was in the military ser ice. The latter was an honor siudert while attending Harvard University. Mrs. Gibson was 50 yvears old: wis, born at Chester, Vt., and was mar- ried in November, 1896. Besides her mother and husband, she leaves three children, Krnest W. Gibson, jr., with the Coast and Geodetic Survey here: Miss Doris Gibson, who lived with her | parents, and Preston F. Gibson. a| senior_in the Braitleboro. High School. | She had devoted much of her time to the study ef classics and' modern tanguages, \ | { | | | Shepherd Trial May 18, | CHICAGO, Aprl 27.—William 1s charged with the murder of liam Nelson McClintock, his foster | I from whom he inherited a $1.000 estate, will be tried May 18 before ige Lynch. =0, 0 J | tAea_Kanin RULES SUGGESTED FOR TIOAL BASH Commissioner 0’Malley for Closed Season and Catch Limit. O Malle r has Henry of Fisheries to Col. Sherrill. direc. blic buildings and parks of al Capital, asking that cer inor restrictions be placed in the Tidal Basin. He mit of three bass, three crap three sunfish be put fishing, and_also that closed iglers from n the fishinz sea 15. Mr. O'Mai with Col. Sherrill the ng objectionable fish onimissianer the the Bureau trans mitted tor of the N tain n fishing that a pie ar one da basin until June 1 son be closed Octo ley also took 1 matter of remo from the i P asks on an Commissioner’s Letter. After careful of proposal T from the T the visable to during the ta 11d be gained and other idal conclusion hau pring ve come to No advan before » DPlac and seins duri the bass nesting b recommend nndesir This sh Spring. prefera March growth of gr ruary o The bther hanling 1 aquatic plants ders seine impracticable at he pleased enced fish handlin other other 1 3 bhe 1 man present the when o bass, crappie species, whic ed Open June 1. With regard te proper fi closed t tted in After permit b m or sun the Tidal hat one he three fish te ke more three crapp three bre one aa should n hass under inches he re minimum length for crappie A ir 4 tted from the she hes sunfish per shor close Ot “Th ing rn the f ied of be bhasin main ning cost of fish astocking the Kk this ad the m nd Fund Box in Store vise wil Star his seribed The another siuhseriptior nd. This the che ers of mizk heck N Washingtor vard sent time ret received Washir lawy as Acknowle Misc. shop. Total RICH MERCHANT’S KILLING ON HEARING IN BOMBAY Nine Alleged Slayers of Moham- medan, Nautch Girl's Protector, Arraigned in Court. the Associated Pross. B April 27.—-Another of Mumtaz Be- the high court Nine men ac- the nautch BOMBAY. India chapter in the story zum began today in before a_special jur cused of the murder irI's protector, the rich Moha erc Abdul Kadir F Hill Bombay vere formal arraigned vhen will be here hecause girl the The trial the dancing favorite Indore. the Viceroy of India 1o a_transfer Madras. She that she feared for her personal (y outside of Bombay of Maharaja of 1HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES TUESDAY. FOR FIRST RACE » Confiden Busi SECOND RACE— Southern Melody Pheasant trshurg Aible Man *Loz Fire *Roya! giss R, W. Carter ent + Woods Garth and THIRD RACE 2.vewr-olds and up Weiliinder s Exalted Ruler 0 Wraith 103 *Lady Giassen .. 101 *Antiquanan a8 John & Moshy. 111 Strut Mise Lizzia 108 F.F. Whitney ent FOURTH RACE—The Paze Bro $1.500: A-year-olds. 1 mile and mpfire Tales 113 Overall rlan 106 Chink Flazshin 101 Perman Wave Crest 03 tBackhons Sir Ronald 101 Lady Am ador H. P, Whifnes entry FIFTH RACE cap, $2.500° 3-vea a furlone : *Harlewhall Spondulix P H Claiming: purse. Big furlones IMonday M *iGymkhana Prudence . Leatherwood Faulconer entrs ¥ 103 1 Preliminary Handi and up: 1 mile and The tThe Bat iTransmute 102 112 Joy Smoke 113 Dr. _O'Mara i In Memoriam . | 11 + Belair stud entry $H. P. Whitney entry. SIXTH RAC] vear-olds: 1 _Claiming: purse. $1.200 mile_and 70 yards *Dor'thy Ampol bert *French Adame Cook v Lady £ — Claimil R-year-olds and_up 112 <El Jesmar 110 *johnny dewell 103 Play On 107+ Oragense L Also eligible— 110 *Royden 107 Rec 103 Pon 100 *Sal Miiskes “North Vitamin Vaient Gipsy “Pusk Trajanus Te Chairmin *Roller a3 . Mudkaflonze 110 { James Arthur and C. Ferraro enbey. Apprentice allowance claimead. Weather clear, track fast. 103 28 a0 Biveze. Fyler able 5 Flower # Demijohn