Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1925, Page 2

* PEYSER 10 LEAVE EDUCATION BOARD 9 Requests Judges Not to Con-I sider Him for Reappoint- ment July 1. Capt. Julius I. Peyser formally re- quested the justices of the District Supreme Court today not to consider him for reappointment as a_member of the Board of Education. The term of Capt. Peyser expires June 30 along with the terms of Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins and Dr. J. Hayden Johnson. The latter two, it is believed in school quarters, will be reappointed. ‘My term of office as a member of the Board of FEducation expires on June 30, 1925, and 1 m taking this opportunity of requesting that my name be not considerd for reappoint ment," Capt. Peyser wrote the Su preme Court judgzes, who hold the ap pointive power for the school board. T want you to have my adsurance that the honor of having been ap-| pointed and served as a member of | the Board of Education of the District | of Columbia is one that I will always cherish.” Capt. Peyser is understaod, supporting Brig. Gen. Samuel Ansell, formér president of the trict Public School Association, for appointment as his successor. Gen. Ansell, according to Mr. Peyser, is a “Liberal” like himself and will op pose the “rubber stamping” methods of transacting school board business. is P Di 1t Appointed in 1923. Appointed a member of the board in December, 1523, to fill the vacancy | eaused by the resignation of Daniel J. Callahan, Capt. Pevser has often been described as the “bucking bron cho™ of the board because of his as | He has worked untir-| higher renumeration for teachers, a more liberal policy toward the high schools and the artificial illu- | mination of all school buildings | He also joined with Ernest Green wood, vice president of the board, in supporting the high school fraternities | in their clash with the.board, and has agreed with the contentions in the | suit against the board now before the | District Supreme Court. Capt. Peyser was the first president of the Public chool Association and will leave the board as chairman of its committee on athletics and playgrounds Prize Pla ) Author Accused in Suit Of Plot Stealing Howard’s *“They Knew What They Wanted” Claimed Plagiarism. By the Associated Press. i NEW YORK, June In a suit| filed yesterday by three Californians, | Sidney Howard, playwright, is charged | with plagiarism in_his drama, “They i hat With only a few swimming pools avaflable on playgrounds to afford relief to the chillren of Washington during hot weather, District Com- missioners early next week will con- sider at board meeting a recommend ation made today by Mrs. Sasie Root Rhodes that sprinklers be attached to fire hydrants in the vicinity of 17 playgrounds for the youhgsters to splash in Meanwhile. Maj. Raymond Wheeler, acting engineer commissioner. has arranged with J. S. Garland, super- intendent of the water department, to make one sprinkler for trial pur: poses by perforating a 20-foot piece of pipe. The plan is to attach this pipe to a fire hydrant and mount it on tripods so that it will throw off a spray of water under which large groups of children could cool off. The tentative plan is to divert traf- fic from the streets on which the ssprinklers would be located for one or two hours in the late afternoon. Acting Supt. of Police Charles Evans stated today that he was in favor of the plan, provided it is tried out between the hours of 5 and 8 o'clock, which is the period in which the police regulations permit the use of water during hot weather for sprinkling lawns. Inspector Evans said that If water is used at that time for sprinkling lawns he could see no objection to using It at the same for the children CHINESE CIVIL WAR EXPECTED TO FLARE DURING WEEK END (Continued from First Page) Tokio, seeking financial but a Japanese forsign office spoke; man declared that none was being furnished Chang. Denial also was made that the Japanese had sent an “ltimatum fo Peking fo halt Shang disturbances or Japanese troops would enter China Tokio advices said it wz that Chang and Russian cigls were negottating regarding a dispute over the Chinese Fastern Raflway, and that Russia had concen (rated troops at the Russian end of the raflwny, but hostilities were not looked for. Feng was said to have recelved a supply of arms from Rus Sia. but Japanese officials. did mot by lieve he was strong enough to com bat Chang The Washington reports. indicated that Feng had a of 175000, not far below men commanded by Chang tions and arms were repor through Mongalia to Feng Chang's control of the Chinese E atlroad. Soviet' Propaganda Seen. While the two Chinese leaders have had no open clash, recent direct re ports indicated that it could not be long delayed. These circumstances, it admitted Soviet offi however, following despite Knew What They Wanted,” which re- cently was awarded the Pulitizer prize | as the best American play of 1924 The plaintiff: ph Grubb Alexan der. Ernest and ord North, all of at the Howard play, which is a Theater | Guild production and is still running, | is a steal from a play entitled “The Full of the Moon,” of which they are the joint authors The action sps ifically names as de- | fendants the Theater Guild, Inc.; Sid ney Howard and Richard Bennett Pauline Lord and Glenn Anders, prin eipals, and Philip Moeller, director of the play. The plaintiff ciaim that they com pleted “The Full of the Moon™ in 1923, | and, after_copyrighting it, submitted it to the Theater Guild, by whom it | was rejected. They charge that soon | afterward “They Knew What They | Wanted” was produced by the guild, and that it was almost identical in plot, characters and situations with the rejected pla The action seeks an injunction stop ping further productions of “They Knew What They Wanted" and an ac- counting of the protfis of the play to date. CADDIES DROWNED IN CONGRESSIONAL COUNTRY CLUB LAKE | | i (Continued from First Page.) over the hearts of the boys and “pro nounced” them dead. Capt. J. Robert Groves, in churge of the squad, asked “Whe are you, a doctor?” The undertaker replied undertaker.” “Then give us a little vou. There may be vet for these boy Tescue chief. A short verbal tilt ensued. tors awarding the decision to oves Sheriff Clay Plummer and two deputies of the Montgomery County police force took charge of the bo for the coroner, who could not located early this afternoon. According to companions of the caddles, Carter and Jones decided to | run the r of the club management's ire in order to cool off. Jones could not swim and went down in about 7 feet of water. Carter is said to have attempted to rescue him. Both boys were about 15 vears old. Carter re- sided on Q street near Wisc n ave- nue, in Georgetown. Other members of the rescue squad, in addition to Capt oves were Sergt. E. J. Carroll and Pvts. R. E. 8. Boss, V. M. Crawford. J. G. How- ard, D. B. Leahy and L. F. Price. Drowned in River. The body recovered by the harbor police this morninz was that of Au gustus Grey, colored. 19 years old, of 345 street southwest, found in the Washington channel at the foot of Half street. Grey had been in swim ming Thursday and drowned while trying to negotiate the chan This afternoon police were still dragging for the body of Levi M. Mc Cauley, 35 years old. patient of St Elizabeth's Hospital, bellieved to have drowned at the foot of Giesboro Point. BRIDGE PACT BREACH Security Treaty Differences Being Ironed Out—Chamberlain Goes to Geme®a Parley. By the Assoclated Press PARIS, June 6.—The French and British foreign offices are making sat- & Jsfactory progress in ironing out the differences over their replies to Ger- many’s securlty pact proposal, it is said in official quurters. France expects to send her reply to Berlin either next week or after the return of Foreign Minister Briand, who left for Geneva this morning to sttend the League of Nations council, opening on Monday. While in Geneva he will discuss the question with the Rritish foreign secretary, Austen Chamberlain. “No, I'm an time, won't little_hope snapped the specta Capt be | the city. was said at Washington, gave signifi- nce to the student outbreaks at Shanghai and elsewhere. The student demands were said to synchronize ex- ctly with Soviet propaganda broad- cast in China_since the arrival in Peking of the Soviet Ambassador. President Coolidge, who is being ad vised of the Chinese situation, intends that American naval craft in Chinese | waters and marines landed at Shang hai and other detachments shall be utilized for the protection of Amer jcan lives and property. The Wash ngton Government does not intend to | become involved unless actual neces itv to protect Americans prompts ac ion. Should future developments make necessary a change in its pol fcy, however, it was indicated that concerted action by all to protect their citizens upon. e he Clash at Canton the Can- tonese drove Yunnanese troops from A general strike was threat- ened there. Trouble has been brew ing In Canton for weeks, the chief d pute being between the People’s party. would be of which Dr. Sun Yat-Sen was leader, | and the Yunnanese troops over the distribution of fax Meanwhile, the strike situation at the international settlement at Shang- hal. where 25,000 foreigners live. was unchanged, but shops in the neighbor- ing French concession were reopen ing. The financial system of the city s reported disorganized. with ex bange rates fluctuating wildly. Demonstrations of sympathy the vietims of the Shanghai with strike riots were reported at Amoy. OFFICIAL BOARD QUITS. Advisory Committee Aroused by Apa- thy in Shanghal. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. SHANGHAI, June 6.—The Chinese advisory committee, which advises the municipal council on Chinese affairs, has resigned, stating its action is tak en “in view of the absence of any de. |sire on the part of the council o pun ish the culprits and do justice to the Chinese.” The strike has spread to chauffeurs and a few house boys. include Stu- S| dents are continuing demonstration on Chinese territory near the settlement boundary in sight of the guards in or der to incite them. \Copyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co.) PEKING STUDENTS PARADE. Noisy But Peaceable Demonstrations Are Staged. PEKING, June & (P).—Student parades and demonstrations, noisy but peaceable, continued here today. The expression of anti-foreign feeling was confined to the wrecking of several foreign-owned rickshas and to shout- ing “Fight for liberty! Boycott Jap- anese goods?” The parading students carried banners inscribed with that Jogan and shouted it in unison under the direction of cheer leaders. 1t was decided that a delegation of five secretaries of Iorelgp IFKH‘!QII” will proceed Monday to Shanghai to veport regarding the recent shooting of members of mobs there. SHANGHAI STRIKE GROW! 0,000 Now Out; 1.500 United States Marines in City. SHANGHALI, June 6 (®).—The strike 250 ivities of the foreign powers in con- B on With the recent rioting here is spreading to the French conces: sion. It was estimated today that 0.000 were on strike throughout the althougn several staffs had re- sumed work. Approximately 1,500 marines and bluejackets have been landed. Advices from Hankow say 50.000 students there are conducting agitation and snrea@lng anti-foreign propaganda. The Chinese authorities, however, are preventing any large demonstrations. Strike demonstrations by Chinese students were also reported from many cities throughout the country. However, the on! destruction of property reported was at Chin-Kiang. There were no casualties. A foreign warship has been ordered there. Tuan Chi-fui, President nf China, has sent from Peking a circular tele- governments | of Chinese in_ protest against the ac-| where the police station was wrecked. | assistance, | A0 s | cruiser ‘the 200,000 | position Muni. | governor ported filtering | nese s | | | | NING _STAR, WASHINGTON, FIRE HYDRANTS MAY SPRINKLE CHILDREN IN CITY’S STREETS District Commissioners Are Urged to Provide Cool- ing Showers at 17 Points Near Playgrounds. One Is Tried Out Today. 1f Mr. Garland has the first spray ing pipe ready this afternoon he will give It a try-out at the Bryan street pumping station. which adjoins the Bloomingdale plavground. Whether the plan will be generally adopted will not be decided until the board meeting next week, The 17 points recommended by Mrs. Rhodes are: Bloomingdale, Bryan street between First and Second streets;Chevy Chase, Livingston street, Thirty-ninth to Forty-first _streets; Columbia Height Columbia road be tween Georgia avenue and Sherman avenue: Happy Hollow, Kalorama road between Champlain and [fght eenth streets; Hoover, N street, First and Second streets southwest: lowa avenue between Varnum and Webster streets: Mitchell Park, Twenty-third street between § street and Bancroft place; New York avenue. First street between New York street; Park View, Otis street between Warder street and Georgia avenue Phillips. Longfellow street between ghth and Ninth streets: Plaza, B street between First and Second streets northeast; Twin Oaks. Taylor street between Thirteenth and Four- teenth streets; Van Ness, Third street between L and M streets southeast: Cardozo, I street between FKirst and Second streets northwest; Logan, G street between Third and Fourth streets northeast, and Rose Park, O street between Twenty-sixth and centy gram to the provinces saving the Chinese government has protested the sction of foreign powers regarding the | Shanghai trouble. and advising mer chants and students fto remain quiet awaiting a settlement Japanese Cruiser Sails. TOKIO. June & (). ~Accordinz to official announcement foday the Tatsuta, with 200 marines sailed for Shanghal this aft aboard. Sazebo naval station ernoon from CHANG ORDERS QUIET. Joins Forces Attempting to Restore Calm in China TIENTSIN, June § (). —Chang Tso lin, the war lord of Northern China, 1o day advised the civil governor here 1o ignore the Peking government if at tempts were made by those in author- ity through mob influence to modify local precautions against violence Chang has headquarters here at pres ent This significant move by Gen. Chang aligns his forces with those attempting to maintain order in China. Chang's s made clear when the civil here sought his aid as Chi tudents were marching through native sections of the city carrying on ast. | peaceful demonstrations ations were the result Tientsin stu The demons of a visit to Peking by dents. After the procession speeches were delivered and ywds thronged the sidewalks. Troops and police guarded ma reets, and while there were no disorders the schools were ordered closed for three days. The parade of students was led by girls carrying inscribed banners. While the deepest feelings been aroused among Chinese of all ages by the rioting and deaths at Shanghai and there is no disposi tion to listen to the foreign view- point, the straint shown by the Chinese hitherto. coupled with the precautions taken by authorities, arouses hope that < wil' re- sult locally. A demonstration was made here today by about 1.000 Chinese stu- dents, who were joined by their pro- fessore. The police. reinforced by Manchurian soldiers, maintained or- der. have no ex AMOY AGITATORS BU Attempt to Excite Population Against Foreigners. AMOY, China, June 6 (#).—Demon strations of sympathy with the vic tims of the Shanghai strike riots are taking place here. Agitators and propagandists are endeavoring to pro mote excitement Every precaution |1s being taken and the situation is well | |in hand | PARLEY VALUE DOUBLED. By the Associated Press The question of the stability of the Peking provisional government mav be considered by the powers which signed the nine-power treaty at the Washington arms conference before they give instructions to the commis- sioners they will send to China to par- ticipate in the customs conference ex pected to be held in Peking this fall. A feeling persists here that little if any good would result from the cus toms conference as long as China lacks stable central government While France is expected to ratify the treaty in time for the customs conference to convene. Anti-foreign disturbances. threats of new civil war in China and lack of a government with sufficient strength to control a situation. menacing to Chinese and foreign interests alike, has given rise to thought of extending the scope of the customs conference to include the larger issues. Secretary Kellogg is not certain that the customs discussions should be ex tended beyond treaty lines. He is giv- ing consideration to that question, however. and will make his declsion a part of the instructions he will give to Silas Strawn of Chicago and Minister John Van A. MacMurray, appointed as American delegates to the customs conference. Mr. MacMurray left Washington to- day to take over the Peking legation, but Mr. Strawn will remain in this country until the formal conference call is made. MRS. MARY B. DOVE DIES. B. Dove, for the past 12 urer of the District of Co- lumbia Chapter, United Society of Daughters of 1512, died at her resi- dence, 1910 G street northwest, last evening. Death was due to acute indigestion. Mrs. Dove was tonian and. besides with fhe Daughters of 1812 member of the Society of Colonial Dames. She is survived by her hus band, William M. Dove, vice president of the J. Maury Dove Co. former president of the West End Citizens’ Association and a long-time resident of the National Capital. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at the resi- dence. The officiating clergyman will be Rev. Dr. Z. B. Phillips, rector of the Church of the Epiphany. In- terment will be in the family lot in Oak Hill Cemetery. bearers is not vet completed. Mrs. Mary years trea: a native Washing her connection LS . Batted Ball Kills Baby. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June § (P).— Margaret Rudar, 15 months old, t= dead today, having been struck and almost instantly killed by a batted ball while Iving in her mother's arms on the froni steps of their home. The ball was battered in a hoys’ game which was In progress across the strest from the Rydar home. avenue and N | The list of pall-| 'SLEEPING IN PARKS HERE IS UNDER BAN | Police Ordered to Eject All Pers.ons Regardless of Hot Weather. ing been relief from the intense heat had ejected from different parks around Washington by park police- men because they were found asleep on the grass, Maj. Joseph C. Mehat fey, acting director of the office of public buildings und public parks of the National Capital, and Lieut. Car roll. chief of park police, announced today that they would not change or overlook rules governing the parks of the city during the hot spell, and sleeping in the parks would not be countenanced These officials pointed out that while been ordered to let tha people of the clty get the fullest anjoyment out of the parks in an orderiy way, extend ing the privileges unduly would re sult in the parks being filled with vagrants who would selze on the op portunity to sleep in them. Leniency Expected. The police are expected 1o be most lenlent not only in this hot spell but in other times in allowing (o the citi- zens the greatest possible uses of the parks. In not issuing an order which would permit eeping in the parks, it was said, the public generally is being protected from the possible acts of tramps and others Lieut. Carroll said that tour of Potomac and other ling the early part of last ht and even .after midnight and there were scores of people, xome of them with | their families. lving out on the grass |and neither he nor the members of his Jcommand disturbed them in any WAY {There were also scores of people in | Potomac Park around midnight, and {they were not being disturbed by the police while Iying on the grass. There {have been some complaints of people lying on the Potomac Park golf courses, and the police have orders to request people found there to move to some other spot in the park Driven From Park. The following by The Star: ‘'l am a duty he made a parks dur letier Star has been re working being from 4 fnight, and weather | disagreeably man, hours af p.m. to 12 mid has been so very hot that, like thousands of others. I have found it mighty hard to get required rest at home and. while passing through Pension Park vesterday p.m., 4th inst., I was {unfortunate enough to lle Ylown un der one of many shade trees, but not |for a very long period. because park policeman sounded my reville in_ this {way: ‘Come on, get up out of here’ [ If vou want to sleep go home and sleep,’ and this in a real top kicker | voice. Perhaps you understand how that_ sounds. Y »w, I am writing this knowing | how fair you are to the public and {its welfare. and if this be a sample | of park regulations won't vou please {use vour just influence again in behalt of some of the unfortunates who have | given their ghare of duty to flag and {country. It will make us better and {happy, because surely this officer was ! not carrying out orders It an't be possible. Please help us: we are all some good and not so many fsuch treatment will make {bad and the bad. verv bad ‘DAVID TURNER HELD IN THE DEATH OF NEGRO CONVIT Road Foreman and Guard Accused of Fatally Whip- ping a Prisoner. the good | i I | | | ated Preas MOUNT, N. C.. June 6.—A coroner’s _jury _yesterday formally | charged W. C. Gulley. road foreman {and R. V. Tyler, guard of Joe Armstrong, negro convict, who died following a whipping adminis tered by the two men “We find that Joe to his death as the result of blow: flicted on his body and head by sticks and a whip in the hands of W. ( Gulley and R. V.Tyler,” read the ver- dict. The coroner’s jury was composed of C. L. Bonney, George T. Burnett J. H. Higgins. J. P. Koch. R. C. Gurth rie and J. P. Spefght, all of this city. Accused Men Held in Jail. The two men charged with the crime are being held in jail, pending a preliminary hearing Witnesses testifying this afternoon stated that the whip. ping administered the negro lasted fully 30 minutes, and thht the rea offered for the whipping was that wasn't working fast enough.’ The testimony was (o the effect that Gulley first beat the negro with what was described as a hickory stick. four or five feet long and one inch in di- ameter at the butt and tapering down. Tyler came along. it was testified, and {took up the beating of the prostrate negro. using what was described as a plaited lash on a stick two or three feet long. Witnesses further stated that he whipped the negro with the lash, and then struck him over the head with the staff, breaking it in balf. The negro offered no resistance, they said | ROCKY c | | Further Testimony of Witnesses. “They,” testified the witnesses “then hitched the negro to a pair of mules and dragged him for about 7o yards to where another gang of con Viets was at work, and that when he failed to get up when ordered one of the men struck him with his fist. The negro died in about 30 minutes.” The dead negro had been in camp for several days prior to the flogging, baving been sent to the roads from the local Recorder’s Court for 30 days on a hoboing charge. ANGLERS PLAN OUTING. Prizes to Be Awarded for Biggest Fish Landed on Thread. The Potomac Anglers’ Association will visit Fairhaven. Herring Bay. Md., tomorrow for its annual cotton- thread fishing excursion. The outing is primartly for members of the as- sociation, but all those who would like to try their hand in landing a fish on a cotton thread are cordially invited. The start will be made tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock from 742 Ninth street, the home of the National Mili- tary and Sport Shop. All those who have machines are asked to use them, but those who have not will be placed in machines for the trip down and back. There will be two prizes for the first and: next largest hardheads caught on a No. 24 cotton thread. Needless to sav. it will take a pretty good angler ‘1o land a big hardhead. Following reports that people seek- | the police under their command have | bad, but | with the death ! the inquest | D, 0 SA C.1.C0.VALUATIO GASE ACTION NEAR Company and Utilities Body Expected to Report Next Week. mission and for the Capital Traction Co. probably will be ready early next week to present to Justice Hoehling, in the District Supreme Court, recom- mendations as to the amount that should be added to that company valuation in making allowance for the increase in price levels since the original value was fixed in 1914. The original value of the Capital Traction property. plus additions made to the property since 1914, is now car- ried on the books of the commission as approximately §17,500,000 Sharp Increase Seen. | It was indicated at the Distriet |Building today that the increased value to be recommended to the court by the commission and the company will be somewhere between $23,000,000 and $26,000,000, to be arrived at by following the principles laid down by the District Court of Appeals in de ciding the Potomac Electric Power Co. valuation. The court several weeks ago asked counsel for each side to prepare a recommendation of the amount by which the valuation would be in creased by following the decision of the Court of Appeals as to allowance jfor increased price levels since the original value was fixed in 1914 | Commission fo Act Soon. It ix reported that the commission land the company are not far apart as to the increase that should be recom imended to cover the change in price {levels, and it is possible that both |sides may present the same figure 1o the court. The commission. it is ex pected, will take up the matter at a meeting Monday morning Besides this question of increase in | value due to the change in price levels, there is before the court the com- pany’s claim to the addition of ap proximately $5,150,000 to cover fran- | chises, going concern and other intan- gibles purchased from the Washing. | ton and Georgetown Railway ( COUNTERFET PLOT 1S BARED BY SONG Agent Learns Russian Ditty Countersign and Arrests | Pair in $1,000.000 Case. | By the Amsociated Press NEW YORK. June 6.—Anna Sim. mon and Joseph Rodchis of Brooklyn { who said they were Lithuanians, were | arrested today on charges of manu facturing 100,000 counterfelt $10 bill on the Chase National, Federal Re. serve and National Park Banks of | New York | The trail of the counterfeiters, which began two months ago, was picked up in Newark, N. J ‘ederal agents said | Fraudulent bills circulated there were jtraced. and the trail led to the New | York Public Library, where Rodchis, {well dressed and well spoken. was {found studying photo-engraving proc | esmes He was shadowed to the home of Anna Simmon in Brooklyn, to which he wa: admitted upon giving the countersign, which was the singing of a Russian folk song. By constantly keeping on the trail of his quarry one of the agents mastered the ditty and upon rendering it was admitted to the counterfeiters’ den. Several sets of copper and zinc plates, 500 sheets of paper manufac- tured by the couple and what w said 10 be a display of silk Aiber almo: as good as that used by the govern ment were found. | | { | | | MRS. ANNA S. LOEHL IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Armstrong mn\p:Had Been Resident of District 40| in- Years, Coming Here at Time of Her Wedding. Mrs. Anna Sabina Loehl, 62 years | old. died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas W. O'Brien, | 1845 Calvert street. Mrs. Loehl was the | widow of Adolph Loehl, well known | Washington restaurateur, who WO vears ago. Mrs. Loehl was a native of Connect- icut, but had lived in Washington the last 40 vears of her life, having come here following her marriage. Funeral services will be conducted from the home of Mrs. O'Brien Mon day morning at 8 o'clock, and will be followed by mass at Thomas’ Church at 9 o'clock. Rev. Thomas A. Walsh will officiate. Mrs. Loehl leaves. besides her daughter, Mrs. O'Brien. three other children: Mrs. Charles W. Frederick, 1819 Jackson street northeast: Miss Bertha L. Loehl. 1845 Calvert street, and a son, Adlai G. Loehl, 1812 K street. | MRS. H. B. HOLBRO(;K DIES i | Wife of Assistant Boy Scout Execu- tive Succumbs, Mrs. Madge Lyon years old, wife of Scont Executive I, during childbirth pital vesterday. A native of Baltimore, Mrs. Hol- brook was the daughter of the late Ralph Lyon. She was a member of the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church and resided at 202 Maple avenue, Takoma Park, Md. Funeral services will‘be conducted the Takoma Park Preshyterian | Church tomorrow afternoon at lo'clock. Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Clark, pastor, assisted by Rev. Dr. Charles K. Swartz of Baltimore, will officiate. Interment will be in Loudon Park Cemetery. Bailtimore, Monday after- noon at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. Holbrook is survived by her husband, her mother, Mrs. Mae J. Lyon; & brother, Robert McKee Lyon, and her infant daughter, who was born yesterday. Holbrook, Assistant Boy B. Holbrook, died at Columbia Hos WEEKS SLEPT WELL. BOSTON, June 6 UP)—John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, “'is progress- ing satisfactorily,” according to a bul- letin issued today at the Massachu- getts General Hospital, where he has been since an operation for gall stones last week. “He had a comfortable night. with much sleep,” it wag added. with “tem * perature normal” and “pulse $5.” died | | | | | | | | | | | | { | | | slightly Counsel for the Public Utilities Com- | Forecaster Mitchell this morning. | quickly a | ment URDAY, JUNE 6, 1925 DEATH TOLL FROM HEAT NOW 239;! RELIEF MONDAY ; OFFICES QUITTED (Continued from First . Page) which the breaking-up process will procved could be more accurately pre- dicted, it was said, if there were meteorological stations farther north in Canada. In the absence of such Atations, however, the observers here can only base their predictions on con- ditions along the Canadian boundary It is barely possible that the promised relief may touch the National Capital ahead of the time fixed Water Use Increases. No department is watching the slow fall of the barometer with more hope for greater speed than the Water De- partment of the District government. Despite warnings against a possible famine and pleas for strict conserva tions, the consumption of water has continued 1o increase with leaps and bounds, according to J. 8. Garland. supertntendent of the department. He fears that unless the ‘relief comes breakdown in the system might occur at any minute. The cosumption for the past 24 hours was 79,167,000 gallons. Mr. Ga: land today corrected yesterda port, which was given at. 79,228.000, to read, 78,228.000. With this correction the reported consumption at 8 o’clock this morning was about 900,000 gal lons in excess of that reported at % o'clock yesterday morning. The Water Department is continuing to urge peo- pie not to waste water and to sprinkle lawns sparingly between the hours of 5 and 8 o'clock, morning and evening The move to close the Government departments originated with the Treasury Department. It notifled its employes that they would be dis. missed at 1 o'clock with the exception of a few who had very pressing busi ness. They were to be excused im mediately after completing that busi ness. The other departments quick Iv followed similar action, the Depart ment of Justica moving the closing hour 1o noon instead of 1 o'clock Evervwhere only a handful of clerks were detained to finish matters that needed immediate atiention TOTAL DEATH TOLIL 239, CHICAGO, June 6 (®). Tha toll of the heat wave and its accompanying storme #tood at 238 today, 98 persons having died throughout the country yesterday from causes traceable to the torrid weather. The East suffered the greatest Fri dav in the matter of victims of the air blockade,” there being 70 east of Ohlo and only 29 in the Buckeve State and westward In addition., there was one death from the heat at Mon treal, Canada. The eighth day of the heat wave recorded one death in Chicago before 9 a.m.. when the temperature stood at 57. one degree higher than at the same hour vesterday, when the maxi mum was 96, ercury Reaches 102, Marqu Mich ture of 102 degrees, city in the Central Record temperatures of 101 were corded in Ohio, while it was 100 in Paducah, Ky, and 100 at some In diana points. Other high mercury marks were Chicago, 96 Milwaukee Minneapolis, 92: § Louisville, 92. Des Kansas City, 8 North Dakota and Minnesota were hit last night by terrific windstorms and electrical storms such as have been frequent in the North Central area this week A storm lasting only a few minutes did heavy damage nea Crosby. Minn., and another disturb ance, of short duggtion. but great fury caused great damage at Fargo. N. D. and Moorehead, Minn. And again the far is invarfably cool at night no matter how hot the day may have been grinned at the sweating ““East.” There was snow at Yellowstone Park. and a tempe Tonopah, e, with a tempera was the hottest West yesterday 99: Cleveland 94 93; Detroit Indianapolis, 98 Louis, Omaha, 93 Moines, 89, and West, where it in southern Nevada. Toll by States. Yesterday's death list. by principal cities and States in the Middle West follows Kentucky, 6. Michigan, 5. Ohio, § Chicago, 4. Indiana, ¢ Wisconsin, Minnesota St. Louis, FAST FACES NEW YORK. June 6 (). -The worst of six successive davs of torrid heat has added 69 victims to the East- ern States’ heat death list, bringing the total to 140, New York City, gasping for breath in a temperature of 96 degrees, re- corded 15 deaths due to heat vester- day. Hospitals were crowded. Am bulance staffs worked unceasingly throughout the night. Eighty cases of prostration required medical atten- tion. More than 15.000 persons slept in parks last night, many using sheets and pillows. Thirteen more persons died in Phil- adelphia when the mercury broke all high records for June, with a tem- perature of 100. Numerous cities exceeded the 100 mark. The Govern observation station at ville, Md., recorded 104 degrees. Four more dled at Baitimore in a tempera ture of 101. Other highs noted. in Jersey City, 101: Middletown, N. Y.. 102; Poughkeepsie, 100. Toronto. Can ada, registered 94, the hottest June 5 in 85 vears. Some Relief Reported. Cool breezes brought relief to a few sections. Stroudsburg. Pa.. reported the mercury varying between 6% and 85 degrees. Yesterdav's deaths summarized by principal cities and the States were as follows: New York City, 15; New York State, 6; Philadelphia, 18 Balti- more, 4: Pittsburgh, 5: Montreal, 1: Boston, 4; ew Jersey, 13 Princess Hermine Ill. AMSTERDAM, Holland, June § (#). ~—Frincess Hermine, wife of the for- mer German Kalser, has gone to Wildbad, Wuerttemberg, in the Black Iorest, 10 undergo treatment for u serfous attack of rheumati: Hot Spell iébsen Pursestrings of Loe¢al Policemen 3 1 WORST DAY, The hot weather -has brought members of the Traffic Bureau of the Police Department to one realization—they would rather spend a little money for uniform shirts ~ than swelter in serge blouses any longer. Last year those policemen sta- tioned at crossings were given their choice of buying uniform shirts and removing their coats, or saving the money and wearing their coats. They elected the latter. But it was mnot so hot then,..and now it is different. The same offer was made by Inspector Evans and there was little lagging in the acceptance of the offer. Those men who st prefer to wear thelr coats. how- ever, will be permitied to leave their stations and seek relief be. neath. shade trees at 15-minute intervals, ture of 38 was registered at | Keedys.- | 100" IN THE SHADE New York traffic officers have been supplied with wooden standing plat forms after one officer narrowly es caped being run down by a truck when from the melted asphait Passengers sailing for Europe are advised to take overcoats. Liners Arabic and Lapland report a maximum temperature of 0 degrees on the ocean Two Mitchel Field, N. Y., Army pri vates on French leave surrendered after walking 10 miles because heat blistered their feet Civil War veteran, &1 vears old, dies at Union City ... after being over come while marching in Memorial day parade. Girl models parade in new fur coats at Cleveland style show while rity | swelters New York AMerchantsz' Association voted to close stores all day today. Metropolitan Life Insurance | ives 5,000 emploves the day off | er business houses do likewise. A bevy strenuous Co Oth of chorus heauties after a rehearsal donned one-piece bathing suits and dashed into the pool at Columbus Circle, in New York's busy uptown district. Police dispersed a big crowd that gathered in w few minutes and arrested one mermaid on charge of disorderly conduct. The heat has made Chicago a heavy drinker—of water. John Ericson, city engineer, estimated the city's big drink yesterday at 1.100,000.000 gal lons, and said only a rainstorm would relieve the shortage. Chicago’s 10 sta tions normally pump 800,000,000 gal lons every 24 hours. Two men died at | drinking fced lquor. | Judge L¥nch. presiding at the Shep | herd trial in Chicago. allowed all the lawyers and jurors to remove their coats, but denied this privilege 1o newspaper men and photographers On the, hottest. day of the vear in Chicagofihe prohibition officers order | ed a drive on here. Three cars, con | taining more than 300 barrels, shipped | from Philadelphia. were seized on the Nickel Plate tracks Four municipal bathing heaches were | opened in Chicago today—three weeks | in advance of the usual op Lake Michigan off (‘hicago was per fectly calm vesterday. Hardly a ripple showed on itx surface, and there were no breezes from the water until night fall 10 cool Chicagoans. South Bend after TORESIGN HIS POST Howard Alumni Declare Uni- | versity President Has “Qut- lived His Usefulness.” A resolution demanding the resigna tion of Dr. J. Stanley Durkee dent of Howard University adopted by the alumni assoc | was ation of in the university cha sense of the alumni, {resolution, “that Dr. Durkee has out |lived his usefulness. and that his | tention as president would be inimical | o the best interests of the institutio: | Reason Back of Complaint. | The action of the alumn sequel to the announcement junior college and the Finance of the university |abolished. The alumni | objection to this policy | Dr. Durkee. however, said | Mo intention of resigning and pointed out that the board of (rustees at recent meeting had unanimously ap- proved the faculty’s management and {that no mention was of any change in the administrs It is the declared the were 10 be voiced strong he had made ation Declared of Little Significance. Emory B. Smith. alumni and field secretary of the university. answered the association’s resolution today with |a comprehensive statement {out 1aat the organizaion is not repre sentative. and its action, therefore, has littla significance. The statement als joutlirad the growth and achievements |of the university under Dr. Durkee's jadministration. It read in part “The General Alumni Association of Howard University, which fs repre- sented as having demanded the resig- nation of President Durkee, representative hody consistin 172 members, the great m whom are residents of the D) Columbia. This so-called Alumni Association is divided 1 factions, the &roup now in control of |the association number ess 100 graduates HEpe i “The great hody of the Howard Alumni scattered throughout the country of more than 6,000 graduates jare In hearty accord ‘with the ad ministration of President Durkee and the present board of trustees and have voted their indorsement a( vari {ous times. | ““The statement of Dr. |in his commencement June 5 that President Durkee's place Is at Howard University provoked s great applause, both from members of the graduating class and students." | | | is a non- of only jority of istrict of General nto two E. Shepard address of |W'CUMBER IS NAMED T0 JOINT COMMISSION Former Senator From North Da- kota to Get Townsend Va- o cancy on Body. President Coolidge today appointed former Senator Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota as a member of the Joint International Comimission to fill the vacancy caused several months ago by the death of Charles K. | Townsend. | Former Senator MeCumber chairman of the finance commitiees of the Senatqy when his term expired March. 1923, he having been defeated for re-nomination by Senator Frazier Since that time former Senator Me. | Cumber has made his home in Wash ington. where he has practiced law. | The Joint International Commission |is for the purpose of settling all dis. {putes between this country and Canada and members of the commi I'ston receive a salary of $7.500 a vear | COL. SHERRILL BETTER. Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, “didector of public bulldings and public parks in the National Capital, has im- ‘proved to such an extent that he was permitted to leave Walter Reed Hos pital today and is expected (o return to duty on Monda Col. ‘Sherrill was ordered to Walter Reed Hospital in the early pari of the | week for a rest | mant after the sirennons his direction. he was unable to pml loose his feet | ning date. | DEMAND ONDURKEE. presi- | the institution at a meeting yvesterday | re- | pointing | was | h he had put in in handling the .‘} pumerous projects which come under FAMILY ROW HIT STINNES FORTUNE {Eldest Son Withdraws as German Banks Act to Save Colossal Interests. Associated Press YORK, J built ern ine 6-—The great the late Hugo strial and finan has shown sign [tottering. Carried on by his heirs, | through the famous “family cou { Which he organized 1o familiarize tt | with all the his widespre: | | Stinnes, jcial ma 1 th | nevertheless felt the Jack of the mas- and Fearin | patch hanks hank ts col Berlin die S Geriman = apse headed ha. by Great Reichs decided 1o come 1o the con 1e 1o the 000 - hankers pelled tn act fect which collapse of chine would have on 1 of the country | In addition | tief, centr nnes i The through fear of the ef Yo th alizatior enterprises Frau Sti measure n of the has upon by es widow, and thi under the direc is said to h the business father carri Hug inherited acumen in n ed to ha Discord The conditions measures are ont of a conflict varfous members of these. according 1o an communique,” have heen the withdrawal of Edmund Stinnes he German financia Family oo in ews o m removed h he eldest Pr devote h hlame the St overloading of the « of fnancia few exceptions thes ing the decisior of rigid centraliz The general impression is | withstanding the diffic ing the banker's cred fortune is intact and tha | holdings will the ity when the ! operati the family's - desired liquid { Europe as the n thing 1 | spread wer interested newspap tion. paper businesses “BACK TO COAL” SLOGAN nnes Heirs Will Sell Flung 1 BERLIN, June ¢ the Stinnes Back The family etreat from iis variegated business heim on the F great fortune Hugo Stinnes Leadinz Berlin ing the situation ests concurred families more than ample to meet o obligations. The present flurry {due to the expiration of certain of short-time ¢ Many of Fui- terests » wil The hencefor of be family h virtually has far-flung inderta ivities shed decided lines ngs ar Al Mue dle of the ba kers in Atscuss nes inte that the ired ar standing assets are unin 1 lines Stinnes d liquidate suck closely d bus eresis however, no all ' was stated hat these | holdings will only be disposed of un der favorable conditions and that there | will be no haste in making the saies |Swimming Danger Is Cited in Order To Capital Police |River, Creeks and Other Places to Be Watched to Avoid Deaths Realizing that with heach el his vear even grown-ups w the rivers and o ington. Acting Su today issued ar tains to have their attention 1o dange precincts. The order ou will instruc your command to give speciz tion to places along the branches and places are liable » swinumi of advi them whether immediate ds he ed to bathe do possible to “The bathin wantin he swimmi bhathi wsed bovs and be men give 18 places in lows the specia their members of vhere with th persons o swim opportuniiy every far this season drawnings. two of wh terday in the southe sections SPANISH AND FRENCH PLAN RIFF BLOCKADE | Joint Scheme to Be Devised to Keep i War Contraband From Tribesmen. the Assocfated Press PARIS, June 6 French |ish diplomats and military |experts are to meet soon. either here or at Madrid, to isider & Joint plan |for preventing contrabaud of ‘war trom reaching the RIff. It is probubie {that British experts will also be in vited to participate. s & blockade of the RIff is deemed impossible without supervision of all ports along the panish coast, including Gibraltar | By and Span and nava ALUMNI ENJOY OUTING. More than 30 members and friends of the Washington chapter of the Ohio State University Alumni Asso ciation held the second annual asso ciation picnie vesterday evening at | the home of the presizent, 0. M. Kile | at Glen Echo Heights. !" Among those present were Acting | Secretary of Agriculture Renick W Dunlap, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Goddard | My, and Mrs. F. M. Surface. Mr. and Mrs. . R. De Long. Dr. and Mis tambaugh aud their dangh- a and Josephine: Mr. wnod Mrs. £. Seeds and their datgher and son, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lowe and their children, Mr. and Mrs. G. N Dagger and their children, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Houck, O. M. Kile and | his family, Mr. and Mrs. H. G, Albery Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marvin and Miss Helen Marvin, Donald Hughes, the Misses Ellen and Katherine Corhert Miss Dorothy Pyle, Miss K. Louise Johnson, -Miss Flora Clinten, Miss Flizabath Casad. Colven Hill, John 0. Willlams and Willard Kiplinger. «